TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

A big area where this exists prominently is in finance, he argues, leaving consumers in a spot where they need a financial platform that helps them when they have a fever (overspend) instead of when they’re feeling ambitious (after their New Year’s resolution). Activation edtech.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

There are incubators to help you out on the financing side, too. New York will feature five this summer alone--Techstars, DreamIt, Startl and the NYC Seed/EDC Media and Finance incubators. If you've got an idea good enough to get accepted to Sprout Box, the team there will actually build your app.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Thousand Faces , a web3 community-based investment group, hosted its demo day on Wednesday with the top 10 startups from its Female Founder Accelerator program. The demo day coincided with International Women’s Day and featured women-led businesses focused on sustainable development goals (SDGs).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. One is reminded of the famous quote often attributed Mark Twain.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. With PemPem, micro-enterprises can discover prices, access supply chain financing for inputs, and soon, it says, be able to trade their commodities through PemPem’s marketplace. A few things have remained true since that time.

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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. 5/ Who Is On The Hook?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 18, 2024

On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, the second cohort of Bridge2 founders took the stage at Tulsa’s Agora Event Center for Demo Day. Balynce: A New Approach to Financial Wellness Ryan Dudley’s Balynce is set to change the way Americans manage their finances. “The talent and innovation we witnessed at Demo Day were truly inspiring.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 24, 2014

Accelerators, on the other hand, put entrepreneurs through a three week to three month intensive program closely monitored by accelerator management and volunteers, teaching, coaching, aiding and building the fledgling business to make it ready for its next round of financing upon graduation.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 11, 2021

YC is hiring across many of our teams, including Admissions, Continuity, Software, People Ops and Finance. Given the number of YC companies raising Series As every year, you’ll have an unparalleled understanding of how these financings happen and the early-stage funding ecosystem. Find out more about the open roles here.

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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. Lemonade Finance (Nigeria). Y Combinator’s summer batch of 2021 features 377 startups from 47 countries.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The financial institution recently organized the ‘2023 HUB Day,’ a startup demo day held at the KB Innovation Hub Center in Seocho-gu, Seoul. Register KB Financial Group has collaborated with startups to support emerging ventures proactively.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

VC Financings: 1. It seems the focus on “virtual&# goods has been both the demo of the consumer as well as the fact that by definition virtual goods have almost no marginal costs to the seller so giving a huge slice to the carrier (and Zong) isn’t a problem since actual costs are ~ $0.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 2, 2015

One time, I spoke at a meetup that was divided into my talk and demos--and the organizer assumed I wanted to go on before the demos. I didn''t understand why it would matter, but she told me that most of the investors like going before so they could skip out after the demos and not get bombared at the end of the event.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. The program contains events focused on specific topics and concludes with a final demo day with investors. We also recommend, at a minimum, learn the basics of coding. Some schools run their own (e.g.,

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

According to a Small Business Credit Survey conducted by the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, Black and Latino-owned firms are less than half as likely as white-owned firms to be approved for financing. Request a demo Request a demo today to see how Boulevard’s salon and spa software transforms the client experience.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

The SaaS-friendly fintech platform emerged from stealth this week with $150 million in debt financing and $11 million in seed funding with a Stripe partnership. The disconnect between Y Combinator Demo Day and due diligence. If you’re like me, you chat about the future of finance at least twice a day. RIP Y Combinator.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

They also build sales collateral, such as demo videos, pitch decks and one-pagers, to more effectively reach and build long-term relationships with these prospects. Marketers work with finance and product teams to formulate projections as the company moves into the clinical phase. Forecasting.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

Let’s start out with the basic functions of a tech company: 1) Engineering 2) Marketing 3) Sales 4) Business development 5) PR 6) Design 7) Product Management 8) HR 9) Operations 10) Finance Ok, that's just overwhelming. Ready to start simplifying? The last two are pretty basic.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

That conversation hasn’t disappeared, but it has certainly gotten quieter, with many investors now telling me that there’s a super surge of financing on the way. billion in financing for startups that use its own platform. Demo days will still happen biannually, but startups can choose which demo day they want to be a part of.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

Pregame Y Combinator Demo Day with Equity. Use code “TCARTICLE” to get 20% off your ticket so you can attend super cool events like how to bootstrap with Calendly’s Tope Awotona and OpenView’s Blake Bartlett, how to pitch your Series A fundraise with Kleiner Perkins’ Bucky Moore, and finance for founders with Alexa von Tobel.

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

When things like fundraising, hiring, finances, etc. The commitment and finance pieces were important to me to be aligned on from the get-go. 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. What were some good questions to weed people out?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

I also got a demo from CTO and co-founder Ilan Twig of just how Navan is using ChatGPT within its new offering, which is essentially a CFO dashboard, the company says. It’ll lead us into the larger trend that’s happening in what we call the ‘revenue front office and finance back office,’” Sharma said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr saw a limited demo and said he “could see where it will be of value in the area of world creation at modest budgets. They seem to have both felt that the opportunity was there to democratize the tools that they had access to in big studio films.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it.

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JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Preqin (free demo). Grey House (free demo). Tatum Executive Services provides “CFOs, CIOs and senior finance professionals [to help] lead [companies] through any challenge”. Private Equity. Thomson One.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

headquartered edtech startup that teaches children through a game-based curriculum, has raised $18 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more markets. In a demo, Jain showed an adventure game that was riddled with hurdles. SplashLearn, a 10-year-old U.S.-headquartered

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As with most companies raising a round of finance, the company is going on a hiring spree, both on the engineering and the sales/operations side of the company. I kept going down to LA for PORTL demos, and each time, I would bring someone new with me to see it. So, I did, and I knew I was staring into the future.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

During the program, industry “experts” and past founders in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) space will provide participants with “strategic guidance” on product and go-to-market strategy, “while preparing the company for success and future financing from top-tier venture capital firms,” say the organizers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors. ” Founders : Tobi Ololade, the CEO, was the chief technological officer of TradeBuza, a data and API infrastructure for agriculture finance. Robert Nyangate is the company’s CTO.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

“This is completely grounds up; there is no Zoom, Google Meets or Microsoft Teams anywhere in the vicinity,” said Dan Avida , co-founder of Engageli, just a few minutes into the demo of his product. Earlier this month, Class announced it had raised $30 million in Series A financing , just 10 weeks after raising a $16 million seed round.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

require payment financing, invoicing/approvals, inventory management) and requirements differ from vertical to vertical. As a result, B2B buyers are looking for online platforms to help with the discovery, purchase, and financing of new products. There is no one way to build a B2B commerce company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Expo Hall & Demo Booths. Regardless of where you are on your company’s journey, from a startup seeking financing to a late-stage business seeking valuation, your revenue model should be an important part of any business strategy. Latecomers always welcome: Buy a pass right here. Investor Reception. Receptions | 12:00 pm .

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

For the early stage community, the amendments include a very useful provision that excludes “Demo Days” from being considered general solicitations provided certain conditions are met. The amendments retain the same “menu” of exemptions but make incremental improvements. Dror Futter is a partner in the Rimon, PC law firm.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. Meghan Cross Breeden, Cofounder of Amplifyher Ventures , observes, “Personal customer attachment shouldn’t be a factor in investing; the early investors in Snapchat and Facebook weren’t the Gen Z target demo.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Fund raising assistance (aka Demo Day) - These events are designed to build auction pressure in financings by generating simultaneous investor interest. 500Startups, among others, offers mentor networks. Ramen funds - Most programs offer between $10k to $150k in ramen money. It’s just enough to get someone started.

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