Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 2, 2023

Establishing a network: Language barriers, cultural differences, and a disorganized startup ecosystem can make networking in Vietnam seem impossible. As a founder and CEO, where can you learn business skills while simultaneously hustling to grow your company? In the Entrepreneurs’ Organization.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. Paulo Rogério Nunes.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 29, 2019

While entrepreneurs can be found everywhere, some startup ecosystems are thriving more than others. Building a startup community, or startup ecosystem, is no easy task and requires a lot of intentional work. Moderator Jeff Engell , founder of Blue Oceans Group. What is a startup community?

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 10, 2023

Bridging the Gap Between Imagination and Reality: An Interview with the Visionary Behind Plantech Industries I had the pleasure of interviewing Djordje Planincic, the founder and CEO of Plantech Industries , a visionary technologist with a deep passion for robotics, AI & ML, and IoT. What are your future plans for your company?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Series B round brings its total raised to over $17 million and values TamatemGames at around $80 million, Hussam Hammo, CEO and founder of Tamatem Games told TechCrunch. . Tamatem publishes games relevant to Arabic users and customizes its games to fit the culture. .

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 5, 2022

Register Korea Startup Forum (KSF) is calling for startups from all around the world to join COMEUP Stars at COMEUP 2022. COMEUP Stars are promising startups that are bound to lead the global startup ecosystem and are hand-picked annually by professional judges consisting of well-known VCs and founders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Diet ID competed against other Detroit-area startups, including Rivet Work , Plain Sight and FixMyCar. Local investors acted as judges: Jim Tenzillo, VP at Invest Michigan ; Dawn Batts, Capital Strategist at TechTown and co-founder of Commune Angels ; and Ben Bernstein, principal at Invest Detroit Ventures. That video is found below.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Sesie Bonsi.

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StartupNation

MAY 18, 2021

Driving the formation and growth of a significant percentage of new company startups, arguably those that touch our lives most broadly, are the angel and venture funding fueling them. How important is angel funding to the startup ecosystem? In addition, angels are more diverse than venture capitalists.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Co-founder Jenny Fielding, who is also managing director at Techstars New York, said The Fund decides on new areas for expansion based on demand from the local startup ecosystem, and earlier this year, it heard from a group of founders and operators who wanted to launch it in Australia, too.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

Meet the five winning founders from Rise of the Rest 8.0 At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Tampa is a city of talented individuals focused on building out this startup ecosystem.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

His journey, transitioning from a driven professional to a successful entrepreneur, encapsulates both the challenges and rewards of the startup ecosystem. What motivated you to launch your startup? What are your future plans for your startup? Embrace the journey, not just the destination.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

“We were able to purchase 10% of [business-to-business commerce startup] InfraMarket for $8 million. But the country’s burgeoning startup ecosystem has seen very few exits and many consumer internet startups that listed in the past two years are trading significantly below their listing prices.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Plenty of good funding rounds, a highly skilled workforce and a strong entrepreneurial culture have given Amsterdam a booming startup ecosystem. based tech founders are welcomed with open arms. In 2020, the venture industry continued to invest in startups, despite the COVID-19 crisis. A great team. Very positive.

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This is obviously a huge milestone for the founders, not to mention the 1,600+ employees who have joined them along the way. Today I’m feeling both lucky and grateful to have met the founders of Remitly when I did. The world of software investing has changed dramatically since we started Founders’ Co-op back in 2008.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

.” Sectors where New Zealand startups are poised to win. The fund is also supported by over 270 individual investors, many of whom are tech founders and operators that Blackbird backed through earlier funds, according to the firm. Around 40% of Blackbird’s portfolio companies are actually headquartered in the U.S.,

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Dan Gilbert has made FinTech a specific focus in the growing Detroit technology and startup ecosystem, even launching a trade association known as the Detroit FinTech Association, a nonprofit trade organization formed to highlight the existing culture of technology-driven financial services in Detroit.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Startups and VC. Meta Platforms is looking at India’s burgeoning startup ecosystem as it bolsters its bet on the metaverse. “You may wonder if the acquirer truly understands your products, values, culture or the customer needs that drive the business,” she writes. You’ve sold your company. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

spending billions of dollars on virtual reality tech every fiscal quarter, the wider VR startup ecosystem has been having a tough few years coming down from the highs of 2016, when investors dumped money into the sector expecting Oculus-sized returns only to see most of their investments slowly wilt away. Despite Zuckerberg & Co.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2022

Now, as competition heats up among investors to work with the most promising startups earlier, and the field of the founders hoping to build and launch companies gets wider and wider, the firm is taking a new approach. So many founders that I’ve been privileged enough to work with started in non-typical technology hubs.”

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

When they return, young people like Morrison are finding that Atlantic Canadians have quietly built a robust startup ecosystem that has resulted in a dozen acquisitions to companies like IBM and Salesforce, the sum of which likely surpasses $5 million in cash and stock. Soon, the region’s hard-luck narrative stuck.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A map can also be an effective guide for all of the actors in the ecosystem. It can be used as a storytelling tool to enable ecosystem organizations to see the different onramps and paths that different founders take, and identify what’s working as well as gaps that need to be addressed. There are a lot of other ways.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. It’s a city of unicorns and tech giants.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Felix Williams is the founder and managing director of Lagomaj Capital. It wasn’t unusual for founders to take calls mid-pitch or check their messages when it was my turn to ask questions. Since starting the St. At the time, our path forward wasn’t always clear.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

It’s a decent metaphor for our startup ecosystem: Just as there aren’t enough sandbags in San Francisco to keep everyone’s house dry, rising interest rates, skittish investors and looming economic uncertainty are poised to bring valuations down even further in 2023. Happy new year! Walter Thompson.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. Spellbound has gone from bootstrapped XR startup to award-winning company with a growing team. The company was founded by Jamie Begin, founder of the AWS Michigan User Group. Spellbound AR.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

It’s too simplistic to believe that cities can leave our lives, disappear from culture or bid away relevance. Like, yes, there’s a huge hype cycle around AI and I think people are flocking to Hayes Valley for some reason, but from the smattering of founders I’ve had coffee with lately? TechCrunch is coming to Boston on April 20.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity , an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital. But who’s talking about the power of exits to change the playing field for diverse founders?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Part 4: The future of remote work is text (remote work culture). So far, 2021 seems like a golden era for raising startup funding, but deep tech startups still face challenges, as few VCs have the patience or risk appetite to experiment — or wait for their investment to show returns. acquisitions and future strategy).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Global startup funding has soared this year, but a number of exits and large funding rounds are drawing new attention to India’s startup ecosystem. Founders should use predictive modeling to fundraise smarter. Founders should use predictive modeling to fundraise smarter.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. A successful seed investor once remarked to me that he views “the traditional seed round” today for a good or proven founder to be akin to having a “ free first move on the chess board.” Dreams can be fueled here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 19, 2021

Han Dirkx , CEO and co-founder, AlphaBeats. Daniel den Boer , CEO and co-founder, Vaulut. What industry sectors is your tech ecosystem strong in? Who are the key startup people in your city (e.g., investors, founders, lawyers, designers, etc.)? What industry sectors is your tech ecosystem strong in?

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Shin is now part of our Advisory Board,” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda, the top winner of KSGC 2021. “The KSGC provides you with the connections that will help you build your company and develop a strong network in Korea,” said Chea Srun, CEO of XQuant, a startup from Hong Kong.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

In the fourth industrial revolution era, having succeeded as an economic powerhouse with a technological edge in manufacturing and industries led by large corporations, South Korea is now fostering disruptive innovation through startups. The country strives to create a balance between industrial conglomerates and the startup ecosystem.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Founder, and former President and CEO. Oklahoma’s startup ecosystem is disproportionately male, how can we improve the number of women-led startups in our region? Increasing the diversity in our start-up ecosystem also requires a strategic focus. Q&A with Meg Salyer. of Accel Financial Staffing.

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