TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day. The truth is, you don’t raise a round based on a 5-minute, highly scripted, polished and practiced on-stage pitch,” Feinzaig continued. “The

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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

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Honorable mentions: Australia’s Fertilis raised $2M to automate IVF embryo culturing. The disconnect between Y Combinator Demo Day and due diligence. Even for the nerdiest of us, though, the decentralization of regulation, money and culture is hard to keep up with — which makes our upcoming event even more exciting.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As a commenter on Hacker News put it: “Gitlab is one of the pioneers of ‘ remote-first ’ and ‘ building in public ,’ to the extent of sometimes even live-streaming CEO meetings and sales pitches. is an embodiment of the open-source mindset, not just in technology, but in culture and spirit. Congratulations Gitlab.

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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. Fresh catch : Alternative seafood startup Aqua Cultured Foods reeled in $5.5 Pitch Deck Teardown : Haje takes apart Smalls’ $19 million Series B deck. Well, hello there! On with the news!

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Red Rocket

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

By simulating various sales scenarios, AI-driven tools can help your sales reps practice their pitch, objection handling, and closing techniques before they ever step foot in a real sales call. This can help them fine-tune their approach, resulting in more effective sales calls and, ultimately, higher close rates.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The dinner was a coming out party for Orbillion Bio , a new startup pitching today in Y Combinator’s latest demo day, that’s looking to take lab-grown meats from the supermarket to high-end, bespoke butcher shops.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

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. The Demo Day will be part of the largest startup event in South Korea – “COMEUP 2022.” Who can apply for KSGC 2022?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

But over the years, it has forced Floodgate’s small team to sort through many thousands of pitches and identify those it thinks have the most potential. I remember talking to a 19-year-old Stanford student, probably 10 years ago now, who said he felt pressured to become a founder because of the culture at the school.

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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. Once a year, we create an event called ‘Recap’ to bring our Impact Hub family closer together.

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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. TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. You’re definitely late to the party, but you can still benefit from what Disrupt has to offer. Buy your pass right here. Ready for day three?

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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. ” There’s a quick guide to Stripes culture that you can find on our job site. But we’re so thrilled to have her join with Tomasz.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I felt the same way after seeing Murray pitch his company during Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 demo day. “I didn’t originally want to start a business — I just had a Google form and was matching people, over a hundred, with culturally sensitive therapists. ” The $1.3M

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

And my pitch used to be that, “Hey, I’m going to take you online.” We were one of the few companies after YC who did not raise a lot of money on demo day. I think as a whole company, it’s not just me, as a whole company, we have built a culture which is very, very user-focused. Here we were not.

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Y Combinator

JUNE 12, 2024

What was the pitch? When Ralph pitched me the idea of TigerEye, he said, “Remember all of those spreadsheets we’d have people make [when building PlanGrid], and they’d never actually answer our questions? To get inserted into a 40+ year old public company… there’s a cultural difference.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Airbnb, DoorDash and Coinbase each debuted at past Y Combinator Demo Days; as of this writing, they employ a combined 10,000 people. Today and tomorrow, TechCrunch reporters will cover the proceedings at YC’s Summer 20201 Demo Day. In addition to writing up founder pitches, they’ll also rank their favorites.

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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. Pitched as “pesticide protection for bees,” Beemmunity is working on a “micro-sponge” that, after being ingested by a bee, captures these neurotoxins and eliminates them as waste. San Francisco.

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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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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

We’d meet once or twice a week, and work on the idea, and pitch it to law firms. What was your pitch even like? Well, let me show you a demo of our software. Maybe it was a cultural thing. We kind of zigged and zagged a couple times. There’s a lot more mere mortals out there than technologists.

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