article thumbnail

How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

This is going to be BIG.

It needs to go house to house--founders and employees getting matched through individual e-mail intros, deals happening over handshakes, and startups getting recruited into your ecosystem one at a time. If you want to connect to an innovation community, there isn't a better place to start than someone who invests in it.

article thumbnail

Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

TechCrunch

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to get a digital nomad visa for spain in 2023 and the best cities to be a digital nomad

Founder Bounty

To qualify, you must have a solid business plan and sufficient financial resources to support your venture. It is home to many coworking spaces, cafes, and other work-friendly environments. It also has a growing startup scene and plenty of coworking spaces.

article thumbnail

Squire Co-Founder and CEO Songe LaRon: Powering Barbershops of the Future

Y Combinator

Though they didn’t have a tech or startup background, LaRon and his co-founder, Dave Salvant, did have the keen ability to recognize an underserved market. “I We would literally haul this heavy barber chair to different coworking spaces, and bring the barber to the customers because we couldn’t get the barbershops to use it,” he says.

founder 105
article thumbnail

Colabs gets $3 million seed to expand across Pakistan, launch back-office SaaS solution

TechCrunch

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance.

SaaS 99
article thumbnail

Deskimo, the on-demand desk booking app, raises $3M and expands to Jakarta

TechCrunch

Participants in the round included Y Combinator (Deskimo was part of its summer 2021 cohort ), Global Founders Capital, Pioneer Fund, Seed X, Starling Ventures and TSVC. It partners with coworking spaces, including WeWork, The Hive, Executive Centre and Garage Society, giving them additional streams of revenue.

article thumbnail

Bitwise Industries lands $80M to expand its sprawling software dev business

TechCrunch

As Fast Company notes , Bitwise made headlines in 2019 when it raised $27 million — one of the largest Series A rounds ever secured by a company with a female Latinx founder. Historically, female founders have received just 12% of venture capital investment for their businesses.