TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

SparkLabs Korea , a Seoul-based seed to early-stage accelerator, held a demo Day on Thursday for its 19th cohort of companies. The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. Not all teams end up pitching at demo day.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. The company combines high-quality information about genetics, with tools that use family health history to help identify personal disease risk.

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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. tbd health : Founded by Stephanie Estey, Daphne Chen, and Sherwin Lu, tbd health is an at-home, STI screening platform made for women.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 25, 2010

7:00PM Moble Monday Brooklyn (MoMoBK) Inaugural Event: NY Apps, So Hot Right Now Mobile Monday Brooklyn demo night of awesome apps created by local NYC and Brooklyn developers. We're kicking off 2010 with demos from four exciting new local startups. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Violators will be prosecuted.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Back in August during Y Combinator’s two-day demo extravaganza , TechCrunch noted a number of startups from India that stood out from the batch. Data shows that India’s venture capital scene has grown sharply in recent years. In 2020, the third quarter brought the country’s venture capital scene back to form. Market Notes.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The entire way in which people and goods move around has changed,” Machluf said in the second episode of the Pandemic Venture Investment Series , co-sponsored by OurCrowd and Anthony Scaramucci’s SALT. For more information on the SALT Talks-OurCrowd Pandemic Venture Investment Series click here. And some would say for the better.”.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. The CMU Venture Challenge is an international startup competition open to undergraduates from across the United States. Participants have a chance to win more than $250,000 in cash and other support.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

For this ambitious venture this year, Asan Voyager has meticulously selected promising Korean startup teams that have been operational for less than five years and express a strong interest in entering the US market. Billion Opportunity SoftBank Ventures Asia invests in Korean startup Sketchsoft’s $3.2m

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

However , some venture firms have taken this up a notch by bringing founders to create a fund and invest together. In 2017, Olubusi’s current startup Helium Health got accepted into Y Combinator. Each founder wanted to invest in other companies during YC’s Demo Day. The interesting bit? Olubusi gives two answers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The startup announced today it has raised a $5 million Series A led by Monk’s Hill Venture. All 59 startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2. Other backers include SeaX, XA Network and SG Innovate, and angel investors Yoh-Chie Lu, Jean-Luc Butel and Steve Blank.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. If you are paying attention to Y Combinator’s demo day this week, our primer is here. million for a new fund , and Aldea Ventures has raised a €60 million investment vehicle. Remember Dispo?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

And while the pitches are diverse, some concentrations show key ways that a group of vetted entrepreneurs are thinking about the landscape’s shift in light of finicky venture markets, a downturn, and some public market meltdowns. International fintech remains a key focus at YC Demo Day. And this batch supports that realization.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

This provides an interesting, if incomplete, picture of the company’s health. That’s precisely the sort of top-line expansion that venture backers want to see from a startup in its investing cycle. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. This will be fun. million in 2021 from $2.4 million in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

This year, we’re pleased to share hosting honors with Mayfield — a global venture capital firm with a people-first philosophy. It has a 50-plus-year history of investing at the inception stage in iconic enterprise, consumer, and human and planetary health companies. Each demo table includes four Summer Party tickets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

We initially wrote about Quell back in August , and named it as one of our top startups from the Y Combinator S20 Demo Day. Our 12 favorite startups from Y Combinator’s S20 Demo Day: Part 2.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Expo Hall & Demo Booths. Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is the largest and one of the best-known funding sources for web3 startups. How do you build a health-tech startup that can achieve high growth? Latecomers always welcome: Buy a pass right here. Investor Reception. Receptions | 12:00 pm .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In a show of confidence from investors, PolyAI today closed a $40 million Series B funding round led by Georgian with participation from Twilio Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Point72 Ventures and Amadeus Capital Partners. for health insurance). CEO Nikola Mrkši?

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Sutton was told by a venture capitalist that raising capital can be a full-time job for months, “So be prepared to make 40 to 100 presentations.”. A live demo of the product is essential. You may have to give up to 100 presentations – so condense your message. Tell stories, but back up the narrative with numbers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

There’s also been an increase in syndicates and investment groups consisting of Africans at home and in the diaspora, as well as an increase in the number of founders of later-stage companies who are now investing in other founders,” said Kola Aina, general partner at Ventures Platform. For global venture capital, 2021 was an outlier.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The round, led by Blackbird, also included participation from Shasta Ventures, Icehouse Ventures, Ascential and brand consultant Mark Ritson. “The magic of Tracksuit is giving companies across every industry a common language for measuring, talking about and investing in brand health.”

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

Ideal company exit, which helped me determine who actually wants to build a venture-backed business. But he wanted a 50/50 equity split for the health of the business, and I loved that he was thinking about it that way. This time around, I didn’t care how uncomfortable it was, I knew I was going to avoid that.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

million at a $12 million valuation by investors including Litani Ventures, Gaingels, Amino Capital, Morning Brew’s Alex Lieberman, Republic Venture partner Namrata Banerjee and others. The startup also recently graduated from the Pear accelerator , a program put together by the 2013-founded seed-stage venture firm.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The company empowers hives with IoT tech, making it possible to track the movements and health of their bees practically in real time and catch things like mite infestations before they go too far. The BeeHero app on a smartphone showing hive health metrics. But you have to be careful. they’re currently the fourth largest).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The world’s second largest internet market has delivered 43 startups in the new batch, another record figure in the history of the storied venture firm. Our 11 favorite companies from Y Combinator’s S20 Demo Day: Part 1. Our 12 favorite startups from Y Combinator’s S20 Demo Day: Part 2.

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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. Venture firms like Sequoia have also released pitch deck templates of their own and, well, you ought to listen to them. Mainly the demo day deck, the email deck and the meeting deck.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In 2019, Harvard Innovation Labs was tracking 93 concurrent ventures at the school. Edtech, climate, digital health and biotech, and enterprise have also seen a big uptick.” We are seeing an explosion of entrepreneurs applying bioengineering technology to public health, climate biotech, food, agriculture, and sustainability.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

According to Anastasiia Kuzmenko, head of talent acquisition at Flyer One Ventures, “the biggest difference between hiring in a healthy economy and hiring now is that there’s no room for mistakes.” “Pipeline generation at early-stage companies is expensive and time consuming, often more so than the sales process itself. .”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Vinehealth , a 2018-founded, London-based digital health startup that’s built an app which offers personalized support for cancer patients while also making it easier to gather patient-reported outcome (PRO) data, including for drug development and clinical trials, has closed a $5.5 4 strategies for building a digital health unicorn.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Throughout the batch, they take on a variety of responsibilities, including application reading, interviews, group office hours, individual office hours, demo day prep, and more. Most recently, she was Chief Product Officer at Virta Health where she led Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Design through a period of rapid scaling.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The startup helps physicians assess and track the mental health of their patients. BrainCheck , a 20-person, Houston-based startup whose cognitive healthcare product aims to help physicians assess and track the mental health of their patients, is among the latter. BrainCheck (Dreamit Healthtech Fall 2016) raised $8M in funding.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

In February, Lucira Health (W15), a company focused on the. Modern Fertility (S17) was acquired by Roman Health Ventures. Demo Day for both batches remained completely virtual of course, but it was remarkably successful as more than 3,000 investors attended and YC companies raised record amounts of seed funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. He teamed up with John Dada two years later to build Curacel, a fraud detection system for health companies at the time. Remedial Health. Website: [link]. Team size: 10.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

Earlier this year, we were one of six pet care companies selected to participate in the fifth cohort of the Leap Venture Studio , the first pet care-specific startup accelerator. The 12-week program was created by Kinship (Mars Petcare), Michelson Found Animals and R/GA Ventures to nurture innovation in the fast-growing pet industry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

million in Series A angel investment, the first Shrimpbox prototypes are currently being assembled in Guapinole, Oaxaca, Mexico and a farm for training and demo purposes is expected to open later this year in partnership with the Indiana Economic Development Corp. Now armed with $3.9 For example, South Korea-based CellMEAT raised $8.1

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Image Credits: 123 Baby Box Along with other preferences they provide, members are sent a box with products from among six categories: health and wellness; development; playtime; useful items, like clothes and beds; “Mama’s goodies,” like a lipstick, face mask or bath balm; and special spotlights, which might be baby technology.

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Y Combinator

JUNE 25, 2021

People often believe that YC’s raison d’etre is Demo Day and fundraising — and that founders’ singular goal in applying to YC and completing our program is to increase their probability of executing a successful fundraise. Health : How to stay sane and strong while building a startup.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 18, 2020

Alongside governments around the globe, Israel is taking strict social distancing measures in the face of the COVID-19 global health emergency. Watch: World famous hacker Kevin Mitnick demos passwordless logins , featuring Trusona. News from the industry .

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