TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

“Who do I think is going to be an investment with such velocity that getting in early is going to be more than worth it as they grow.”. Pregame Y Combinator Demo Day with Equity. Secondly, we are already well into planning TechCrunch Disrupt 2021! The lightning-fast Series A (that was 3 years in the making).

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

With Boulevard Capital, we developed a unique offering based on our deep understanding of the industry, making funding more equitable and accessible to self-care business owners from diverse backgrounds so they can invest in their continued growth.” to book more than 1 million appointments every month.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

began demoing an accelerator chipset that combines “traditional compute IP” from Arm with a custom machine learning accelerator and dedicated vision accelerator, linked via a proprietary interconnect, To lay the groundwork for future growth, Sima.ai After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai “I founded Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Instead, Cloudflare just got dozens of venture firms to offer to invest up to $1.25 It’s a little softer than a traditional investment vehicle, given that we don’t know how formal those offers of support are, and the fact that Cloudflare is not providing any funding or making any funding decisions. A few notes.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. The program contains events focused on specific topics and concludes with a final demo day with investors. There are multiple phases from September to March, including team forming, workshops, and demo days.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s the 33rd Demo Day of the well-known accelerator and holds the largest cohort yet. While the Demo Day for this year’s winter batch was held in a day, it’s two days for this summer batch. Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Plug and Play invest in Odiggo’s $2.2M include India, with 33 startups; the U.K., seed round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Out of the 12, eight startups focused on the continent have been selected to participate in the three-month program (culminating in a Demo Day) slated to start today. Y Combinator remains the most strategic global accelerator for African startups and has invested in about 60 of them in the last six years.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Fixing a foundation after the superstructure is built is a costly, disruptive and sometimes impossible task,” Bechtel said. But the firm will commit to investing up to 25% of the next round of qualified funding. Put simply, the group aims for the program to become the “YC of construction tech,” said Bechtel. trillion-dollar industry.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? I have a demo and I can show off some stuff. Jambot demo Dylan: If you haven’t seen FigJam, this is our whiteboarding and brainstorming product. The demo is a good example of that.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 3, 2014

If nothing else, it serves as a good reminder that every thing you do now is an investment in the future. After seeing my ability to bring a big community together, she wound up introducing me to TK because he was running a hackathon of his own around the first Techcrunch Disrupt in NYC in 2010. More detail from Tarikh below.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

We work with B2B and B2C SaaS companies, as well as more traditional businesses who are looking to disrupt the way things are done in their industry. Highlights from Berkeley SkyDeck’s virtual demo day. We would much prefer to see those resources invested into building their product and talking to their customers.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 5, 2023

The round builds upon previous or continuing investments from the founders and executives of several industry-leading tech companies including FreightWaves founder Craig Fuller, Project44 founder Jett McCandless, Convoy founder Dan Lewis, and Stord founder Sean Henry, among others. The raise brings GoodShip’s total funding to $7.4M

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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 top 10 teams got monetary awards worth $10,000 to $120,000 on the demo day of KSGC 2021.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. coupled with the distribution power of the Internet, radically transformed a large and profitable industry in a matter of years. Sounds familiar?

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Gust

JUNE 4, 2014

For example, the most recent investment I’ve led, Social Bicycles, I saw when they demoed at NY Tech Meetup last summer. Demo Days from the NYC-based accelerators. University-affiliated demo events from NYU, Columbia, Pace and others. Major industry conferences like Business Insider’s Startup.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. For those of you who might be interested in tracking emerging themes or actual investment opportunities, here’s a quick rundown of who pitched what (with the Pear-backed companies at the end of this list). Note that we did not write the descriptions below.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And while the accelerator says it only looks at founders when investing in startups, not sector, category or idea, more money in the pipeline may be empowering enough to attract a different cohort of founders. Our 11 favorite companies from YC’s S22 Demo Day: Part 1. So why is this a moonshot?

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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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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

If you want outside capital, VCs will chase after you to invest. . At my prior firm, ff Venture Capital, we invested in a company co-founded by Nate Jenkins , who had a successful exit, but not quite enough to buy a private plane. Angel Investing, Venture Capital, and Mentoring. I suggest you have 6 main options: . Consulting.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Disrupt is turning 12 years old. We’ll have the new Discovery Stage featuring in-depth demos and speaker Q&As, roundtables, networking, breakout sessions and more. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. Disrupt Stage Agenda.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 — our flagship global event — takes over the internet on September 21-23. More than 10,000 people will attend to learn about the latest tech and investment trends from iconic leaders, founders and VCs. Time to get on board: It costs less than $100 to attend TechCrunch Disrupt until this Monday.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The interactive demo company, which launched to the public today, is making it easier for companies to create demonstration videos, called “arcades,” that walk people through how their tools work. Historically, selling involved hiding behind the demo, and once the company got the person’s information, it was more of a “gotcha” moment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

The next Battlefield takes place at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Oh, and Forethought scored a $9 million Series A investment after it won. Each startup team gets six minutes to pitch and present their demo — and then they’ll answer probing questions from the judges. Food for thought. You’ll find them here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Case in point: competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in September. Sean Huang, co-founder of Matidor, competed in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2020. By pitching in the finals, we booked a demo with one of the final panelists. By pitching in the finals, we booked a demo with one of the final panelists.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

A little startup by the name of Dropbox competed in the Battlefield at TC50 (the precursor to Disrupt) way back in 2008. TechCrunch is on the hunt for innovative, game-changing startups to take the Startup Battlefield challenge and wrangle with the best-of-the-best at TC Disrupt 2021 in September. The investment: Your time.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One of the best parts of TechCrunch Disrupt is the Startup Battlefield competition, and one of the most important pieces of the Startup Battlefield is our lineup of expert judges — they’re the ones the founders are trying to impress. And then, of course, they choose the winner who gets to take home $100k and the Disrupt Cup.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In June 2019, it raised a pre-seed investment of $350,000 from private investors — arguably the largest round at this stage in the Francophone region. With so many untapped opportunities, underrepresented regions like Francophone Africa are ripe for disruption. However, with the World Bank stating that the region will have 62.5%

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Your narrative can miss the mark if it’s not about change in the external world and only internal to the company, or if you are investing in a change that is not happening that you are failing to make sound credible. In my sales demo, I talk about the narrative before going into the demo. How do you test that?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as was) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology that pioneered ultrasound to replicate the sense of touch. It was quite the demo (see the video below). The impressive ‘Star Wars’ demonstration took the crowd by storm.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Canaan’s Maha Ibrahim told me during Disrupt 2020 that it was a time when VCs had to “play the game” and pay up for startups, so long as companies were being “rewarded in the public markets for high growth the way that Snowflake” was at the time. Here are 10 favorites from recent Techstars demo days.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Angel investors and venture capitalists have also learned to expect a standard pitch deck as the first filter when evaluating a company to invest in. We are presented with a universe that we can believe in and invest in, as long as it’s realistic and consistent with our own experience. Demo Day pitch. What are the flaws?

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Felt, co-founded by Sam Hashemi and Can Duruk , wants to disrupt the role of maps in society, and rethink how we think about the medium. million investment announced in August 2021 , Felt has grown its team from seven people to 15 people across Hawaii, California, Missouri, Vermont, Canada and Spain. Since its seed round, a $4.5

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OurCrowd

MARCH 18, 2020

The Power Of Purpose: How Lemonade Is Disrupting Insurance With Goodness (And A New Foundation). Watch: World famous hacker Kevin Mitnick demos passwordless logins , featuring Trusona. We are proud to have six OurCrowd portfolio companies represented in Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies lists. Read more here.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

It’s not that I’m anti innovation or a disbeliever in disruption or calling it a full-scale bubble or saying every darling startup is going to fail. On average they have taken 9-11 years to reach this status and most of our investments have never gotten there. Something is rotten in tech startup land. None of those.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Day one of TechCrunch Disrupt is in the rearview mirror, and what a great day it was! You’ll find all the day’s programs, stage locations and times listed in the Disrupt agenda — and in your handy event app. Expo Hall & Demo Booths. Women of Disrupt Breakfast . Disrupt Stage | 10:55 am & 2:40 pm.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 25, 2011

I was sitting at lunch at Techcrunch Disrupt in the middle of a bunch of people. We're going to be demoing all afternoon in this location. I want to invest in it if it is. I've been thinking about bread for the last couple of days. No, not bread. I'll send you a calendar invite as a reminder. hopefully you can come by.".

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