TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The grant was from the Reboot Representation Tech Coalition , a group of 21 tech companies which aims to double the number of Black, Latina, and Native American women receiving computing degrees by 2025, by making philanthropic investments in relevant programs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Incubators such as the one Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh started a few years ago are also a great way to jump-start your innovative ideas, receive mentoring, network, etc. Zappos also offers opportunities to learn about its company culture, which you can apply to your business. Boulder, Colorado.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. Changing your meeting culture is difficult, but given that 26% of workers plan to look for a new job when the pandemic ends, startups need to do all they can to retain talent.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. They recently exited their investment in Gaikai for $380 million while their rival OnLive (who had raised > $200 million) just went through bankruptcy. I’ve laid out my policy on seed investing pretty clearly and publicly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Tara Sabre Collier is an early-stage impact investor with more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of economic development, social entrepreneurship and impact investment. She is a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University where she teaches and writes about impact investing, diversity and equity.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Global investment group Eurazeo invested $53 million in Pangaea Holdings for a minority investment in the Los Angeles e-commerce company rooted in creating premium men’s personal care brands. Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques invested in both Pangaea’s seed round in 2019 and Series A in 2020.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Its startup ecosystem is active and well designed, attracting the attention of investors, accelerators, and incubators worldwide. Venture capital investments have also poured into Korean startups and grew 78% year-on-year in 2021, surpassing 7.7 Startups may have access to other VCs and investors who may choose to invest.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. billion raised in capital markets in Israel and abroad in 2019, as IPOs became an attractive exit alternative.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. Success begets success, and before you know it, a startup scene is born.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. For background, Rocket Internet has helped launch some very successful businesses internationally, including HelloFresh ($12.9

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

When CFE was founded by famed NASA administrator and former U-M professor Thomas Zurbuchan in 2008, its aim was to evangelize entrepreneurship in Ann Arbor and to help instill the entrepreneurial mindset into the regional culture. Sam, a U-M alum, is the founder and chairman of Equity Group Investments , a private investment firm.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. city for tech investment. We are most excited by the step change in activity we have seen in the past two years and culture shift towards innovation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

There is truth to the idea that the newly wealthy founders (and employees) first buy a house — and then start investing in startups themselves. And third, venture capital flows to those who have shown successful innovation in the past — a halo effect that is as evident in Israel as it is in San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As well as traditional software engineering startups, Switzerland’s largest city boasts a startup culture that emphasizes life sciences, mechanical engineering and robotics. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. A CHF 1-2 million Series A or a CHF 5 million Series B investment is common.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She is also principal of Broadway Realty, investing in, and repurposing, historic properties. While the State is not known as a hub for venture capital, we have frequently been recognized by national sources as a great place to start a new business. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Talk of buildings and incubators reminded me of the story of Building 20 from "Where Good Ideas Come From". ".Legendary The "meetup" culture of NYC, where there are three great educational events to go to every night is how the community bootstrapped itself. But sometimes you need to move a wall.". Information spillover.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. So it will be something of a milestone. So that’s our job.” France and Germany.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

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. This ambitious challenge creates a camaraderie that is not seen in other more mature markets, which leads to a culture of more inclusivity and commitment.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

And one of the sources of that flow are the new accelerators (I’m lumping incubators, accelerators, etc. all together) combined with the culture of “demo days,” in-person gatherings where angels and professional investors collide with entrepreneurs. ” And, surely, it “can” work.

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Haystack

APRIL 27, 2018

Too many investors subscribe to the Patek Phillipe school of investing “you don’t own the companies’ problems, you merely hold onto them [until you] can get the company to the next round of investors. Historically, startups have by default relied on venture capital as financing source.

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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. Were you incubating companies together? Our chat has been edited for length. How did the whole thing work?

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OurCrowd

JULY 19, 2021

It has also been a record-breaking year for venture capital investing, and overall growth in the tech industry. Other big players in this field include indoor vertical-farming company Plenty, cell-based seafood products company BlueNalu, alternative dairy products-maker Ripple, and cultured meat startup Aleph Farms.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. Tal Slobodkin , partner, StageOne Ventures . Boaz Dinte, Qumra Capital. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? Oh, and one more thing. More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Main investors include TMT Investments, TLF Ventures, Flyer One and others. Ahrefs claims to have become a $100 million company in annual revenue without venture capital. Recently closed a new funding round of €1M from SMOK Ventures, a US-Polish venture capital fund. It has raised $14.7

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. could become even more attractive regions for investment.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Top carmaker invests in Connected Energy. OurCrowd is investing in this Series B round alongside energy, banking and equipment manufacturing giants. Israeli startup ProFuse aims to cut the production price of lab-cultured protein. Learn Mo re. Learn More. Affordable lab-grown meat gets closer to your plate. Top Tech News.

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OurCrowd

MAY 5, 2019

Though still not cost-effective, there have been real breakthroughs in lab- grown or “cultured” meat. While some Big Meat companies are investing in their soon-to-be competitors (Tyson Foods purchased a 5% stake in Beyond Meat), others are looking to use their multi- billion-dollar platforms to crush upstarts under the weight of regulation.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I tell people regularly that I only invest in companies where the DNA is software. If you want to go into investment banking above a certain level you’ll need one.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 24, 2015

According to a recent USA Today survey , more than 50% of today’s college students want to be entrepreneurs, and more than 1,200 startup incubators have sprouted up around America like dandelions in summer to assist the legions of hopefuls. Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

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OurCrowd

JULY 31, 2019

Israel has the highest concentration of startups (one company for every 1,400 people), the highest percentage of R&D spending per GDP at 4.5%, and the highest level of VC investments per capita at $674. Which stage of maturity is preferable when investing in a startup? Multinationals Should Pay Attention. Making Innovation Work.

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