American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The next wave of products will be able to straddle the line of comfort to successfully get adoption, and cultural shift to successfully deliver a truly collaborative cash experience. A triple-hitter Demo Day. TechCrunch covered favorites from Techstars’ three Demo Days, which were focused on Chicago, Boston and workforce development.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

all together) combined with the culture of “demo days,” in-person gatherings where angels and professional investors collide with entrepreneurs. Yesterday, I tweeted this: I get emails from friends @ accelerators, asking me what kind of co’s I’m interested in, or to watch online demo day (no), etc.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Once the demos and presentations are done, the judges need to think quickly and ask probing questions about each startup. At GV, she’s invested in high school social app HAGS and social audio app Locker Room. ” New GV partner Terri Burns has a simple investment thesis: Gen Z.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

We believe that growth marketing will become more effective when you also invest time and effort in channels and spaces you can’t necessarily measure. For instance, we recently helped a B2B SaaS platform increase demo requests by 350%. Every experiment we ran increased the demo request metric to some extent.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The demo facility at least won’t have major energy requirements to run. . Then you must get a good [energy supply] contract and if we were investing into that factory now it might be postponed because of the turbulence.” ” Some of the demo foods the startup has cooked up in its labs (Image credits: Solar Foods).

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Haystack

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A few years ago, during a YC cohort (before Demo Day), a few sources told me about a SaaS founder in the batch who was on a mission. On this blog, I want to simply highlight that in my five-plus years of investing, Oleg is simply one of the most driven, most aggressive, most focused founders I’ve had the pleasure of backing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Honorable mentions: Australia’s Fertilis raised $2M to automate IVF embryo culturing. Has Y Combinator’s new deal changed the early-stage investing game? 5 essential factors for attracting angel investment . The disconnect between Y Combinator Demo Day and due diligence. Harry’s files paperwork for fresh $139.9M

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

YC invested in Whalesync in the Summer 2021 batch. Some specific things we were highly aligned on were: Team culture: We both wanted to build a fun, collaborative, and focused culture. Toward the end of the batch, there was a moment when it became clear we weren’t going to hit our ambitious Demo Day goal.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 14, 2021

from YC’s Winter 2015 batch, is YC’s first open-source company to go public, the first alum of the YC Growth Program to go public, and one of the earliest investments made by the YC Continuity Fund. We were so impressed that YC Continuity made a major investment in GitLab Inc. team on today’s IPO! GitLab Inc., GitLab Inc.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The roughly 15-year-old firm has just around $500 million in assets under management — including a $150 million fund that it quietly closed in January — and it makes just a handful of new investments each year. Somewhat relatedly, Y Combinator just wrapped up its latest Demo Day. But it is a SAFE note.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 18, 2022

months accelerator period, a demo day will be held where the top 10 teams will get prizes and after the demo day top 30 teams will get settlement supporting fee of $11,136 through a settlement program. Additional Investments : The accelerators may make equity investments in the most promising startups.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

billion) invested by the South Korean government. Additionally, the top 30 startups selected will be eligible to receive an additional US$11,136 per team to settle down in Korea based on their “Demo Day” and settlement evaluation results. trillion won (around US$4.2 Who can apply for KSGC 2022?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

I’ve been among the group of TechCrunchers watching pitch after pitch at Y Combinator’s Demo Day. Honeycomb grabs a $50 million investment as the company’s observability platform thrives, Ron writes. : Honeycomb grabs a $50 million investment as the company’s observability platform thrives, Ron writes. On with the news!

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

At the end of the program in December 2016, a demo day was organized in which 20 promising startups received funding of $33,000 from the government, with the top four getting an additional $6,000 to $100,000. The top 10 teams got monetary awards worth $10,000 to $120,000 on the demo day of KSGC 2021. Manufacturing in Asia is huge.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Venture capital investments have also poured into Korean startups and grew 78% year-on-year in 2021, surpassing 7.7 South Korea invested almost US$83 billion in R&D last year, making it the fifth-largest spender among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). trillion won (US$6.4

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Impact Hub

MARCH 13, 2020

This is part of broader efforts to contribute to the creation of a paying-it-forward culture. A Demo Day with a star-studded jury and an investor pitch with international business Angel Investors with our Impact Hub Milan partners. We have made an Impact Hub Mentor Fund and gave out the first prize at our Demo day in December 2019.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

open-source mindset, not just in technology, but in culture and. Demo Day for both batches remained completely virtual of course, but it was remarkably successful as more than 3,000 investors attended and YC companies raised record amounts of seed funding. Coinbase and Gitlab, key investments in YCC’s portfolio, went public in 2021.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

month support, the top startup teams can also look forward to getting further assistance to expand to Asia and investment from prominent VCs. The top 10 teams got monetary awards worth $10,000 to $120,000 on the demo day of KSGC 2021. Also, Accelerator helped a lot about understanding business culture in Korea,” Ekici said.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Earlier this week, in the wake of Y Combinator’s Demo Day, I saw a tweet go viral and generate lots of chatter. If you have conviction : invest and help the founder finish their round with good intros to other investors. For any investor raising their own funds, you may have to chase down capital calls for each investment.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

We’re focused on growing our company and building strategic partnerships that will fuel future growth and investment opportunities. Each company involved in Leap received an investment of up to $200,000, and we presented to investors, industry leaders and the startup community during a virtual Demo Day on April 28.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Most of my experience is in B2B SaaS, so this advice is tailored to founders in a similar space: #1 Hire an experienced leadership team to define the culture and vision A brand new startup only has one asset?—?the This cultural interview is critical. the people in the room.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Grab your calendar and add these two: We’re doing a Data and Culture Transformation event on April 26 for the big data aficionados, and now is your last chance to buy discounted tickets for our in-person TC Sessions: Mobility event on May 18 and 19, as well as the virtual event on the 20th. Stay tuned. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Expo Hall & Demo Booths. So we’ll get the latest from All Raise CEO, Mandela SH Dixon, Techstars Head of Portfolio Capital and Investments, Kevin Liu and Black Operator Ventures General Partner, James Norman on term sheets, negotiations and terms to help founders navigate the current climate. Buy your pass right here.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. So the first is, as a leader, your biggest investment is people and particularly in a hyper growth company. So I’m a fan. Tomasz Tunguz: Yeah.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Not the successful companies themselves but the entire b t culture of swash-buckling startups who define themselves by hitting some magical $1 billion valuation number and the financiers who back them irrespective of metrics that justify it. Few like to say so publicly. And I blame unicorns. Our firm has funded many of them. I like that.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

We shared details that show the team at GitLab embodies the open-source mindset, not just in technology, but in culture and spirit. Demo Day for both batches remained completely virtual of course, but it was remarkably successful as more than 3,000 investors attended and YC companies raised record amounts of seed funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’ve just completed an investment in Ryan Carson’s new company, TreeHouse. I’m investing heavily in Internet video. I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

These people who never had the opportunity to start a store came onto our platform and became entrepreneurs for the first time, because we do not need them to invest any money in working capital or setting up an offline shop. We were one of the few companies after YC who did not raise a lot of money on demo day. Here we were not.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

With its Demo Day still a ways out, IndieBio gave us a peek at the teams currently going through the program. It’s worth noting that IndieBio deliberately invests very early — in many cases, even before it’s entirely clear whether or not the scientific concepts behind a company are fully feasible.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Khosla said that a good analogy was biotech/pharma investing, where it takes 10-15 years from concept to a drug approved on market. As Mateo Jaramillo, a former Tesla VP and now CEO of Form Energy , explained , “[Energy storage can be a] new asset class to invest in, like coal or natural gas.” Things are already in motion.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

” Yet, this topic has become increasingly interesting in a world where tech startups are mainstream, Shark Tank is popular nationwide, where Y Combinator has opened Demo Day to more and more investors, where new funds sprout up every year, more and more.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

This round brings the total investment in Aurora Labs to about $100 million. Xpeng Robotics , a bionic robot maker affiliated with Xpeng , raised $100 million in a Series A round led by IDG Capital, at a time when venture investments are slowing in China. Existing investor Porsche Automobil Holding SE and Colmobil Corp.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

For instance, Dunkin Donuts’ slogan “America Runs on Dunkin” makes people feel part of American culture. You can also use Automation Tools to automate sending image-driven personalized messages, scheduling demos or closing deals to shorten the sales cycle. . The most catchy slogans are short, easy, and relatable.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Amos said that when a company is accepted into YC, the founders must sign investment documents, one of which is its founder ethics policy. That meant he was being removed not just from Bookface, says Biggar, but he is no longer invited to Demo Day or allowed on YC Slack. It’s more than a polite request.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

Well, let me show you a demo of our software. Kevin Hale [21:36] – There’s an argument to be made that for a lot of young companies that like to do inbound right, it’s actually a good long-term investment. It’s really hard to have that investment and sort of hold off on outbound stuff.

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