TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Medical and biotech had a strong showing at Y Combinator’s latest demo day , with nearly a dozen companies in the space catching my eye. The things a startup can accomplish in this space are astonishing these days, so don’t be surprised if a few of these companies are headline news in the next year.

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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. and Asia. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

These groups are easy to find and fairly inexpensive to join.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

5 metrics Series A investors look for at dev-tools startups. 5 metrics Series A investors look for at dev-tools startups. In 2000, many high-flying internet startups turned into smoking craters. Our 11 favorite companies from YC’s S22 Demo Day. ” Our 11 favorite companies from YC’s S22 Demo Day: Part 1.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Startup Alley is the place to be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. The sold-out expo area is the virtual home to hundreds of innovative startups ready to demo their tech and talent. John and Jade will help each cohort founder produce a Lean Startup transformation for one current business situation.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

A Canadian startup working at the cutting edge of satellite imaging has raised $4.5 I’ve covered Wyvern in the past, including when the startup participated in incubator Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)’s academic conference-like demo day back in 2019. million across a combination of a $2.25

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Watch/listen to the Interview: In this interview Richard Liew talks with James Burnes , Chief Executive at Ministry of Awesome , a Christchurch New Zealand based startup hub helping high growth startups throughout New Zealand to start, grow and scale up. And today we are a national organisation.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 24, 2014

Accelerators are organizations that selectively accept entrepreneurs into a program of intense coaching in a physical environment sponsored by the accelerator that also provides seed funds for the startup to begin its business. Others have a more local flavor, catering to single audiences, such as students or graduates of a nearby university.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Alchemist Accelerator , the enterprise-focused startup incubator, is hosting a demo day today for its 31st batch of companies. Ian Bergman, previously global managing director for Microsoft’s “Microsoft for Startups” program before joining Alchemist in early 2021, will now head up AlchemistX. .”

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Note we are not including here most of the freebies offered by corporates for founders in general (as opposed to students in particular), which we list in Free Money from the Global 500 for Tech Startups. For a more detailed list for founders in general, not just students, see Startup contests and Startup grants.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

Additionally, the program requires that the business enter into a collaborative relationship with a New Jersey-based public or private research university, technology startup, incubator, accelerator, or similar entity. For more information, including additional eligibility requirements, click here.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

We had a conversation about the role of incubators and accelerators (or the moniker of your choice) within the startup ecosystem. Education - Examples include General Assembly runs a substantial education program and YCombinator operates Startup School and First Growth’s Venture Network. It’s just enough to get someone started.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This morning, Y Combinator (YC) hosted a demo day for its 2022 Summer Cohort — the 35th demo day in the incubator’s history. Featuring founders from 30 countries and startups across sectors including developer tools, fintech and healthcare, the day saw no shortage of compelling pitches. billion in 2019. Monterey AI.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Those of us in the early-stage tech ecosystem by now well know that saying “there are a LOT of seed and new startups” is a gross understatement. And one of the sources of that flow are the new accelerators (I’m lumping incubators, accelerators, etc. ” Startups, don’t outsource your BD.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Disruption favors the small startup, and the pandemic has most certainly been disruptive. So it’s no surprise that accelerators and incubators are pumping out new startups that are ready to tackle the problems of 2020. Meet the 13 startups graduating out of Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator.

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Y Combinator

JUNE 8, 2021

Work on everything from our Demo Day experience, internal financial systems and tools to help founders connect with one another for advice, intros, deals, networking and more. Product Engineer – Y Combinator : Join a small-but-mighty software team that builds the OS that runs all of YC. Learn more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Investing in artificial intelligence (AI) startups is the latest bandwagon VCs are piling onto. “It’s so easy to throw together a vertical AI demo,” Winfield told TechCrunch. ” Ascend raises $25 million for pre-seed AI startups in the Pacific Northwest by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Last year was a good 12 months of firsts for African tech startups. In Africa, incubators, accelerators, angels and seed investors easily outnumber larger funds — simply because it’s much harder to raise a large fund here. billion, according to data from Partech. We are slowly building a more durable capital base for African tech.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In March, two Nigerian startups, Treepz ( formerly Plentywaka ) and TalentQL got into the Techstars Toronto accelerator program alongside eight other companies. The program , held virtually , provided these startups with funding ($100,000 convertible note and $20,000 stipend), mentorship and access to its network.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Startup founders set up hacker homes to recreate Silicon Valley synergy. Womxn Ignite is organized as a live-in incubator. The community of women, many of whom plan to return to school, aren’t focused on classic accelerator tropes like Demo Days or first checks simply because of the stage of life they are in. A team photo.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders 5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem The startup economy has grown and shifted since the turn of the century, and universities — stocked with a never-ending supply smart, ambitious young people — have increasingly taken part.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Early-stage startup founders and investors need to keep their fingers on the sector’s very rapid pulse and the best place to do that is, you guessed it, TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 on June 9. Buy your Startup Exhibitor Package before the deadline hits and save 35 percent. Talk about a rapt audience.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

The idea for this so-called robotic pill came out of a research project around eight years ago from InCube Labs —a life sciences lab operated by Rani Therapeutics Chairman and CEO Mir Imran, who has degrees in electrical and biomedical engineering from Rutgers University. Synthetic biology startups are giving investors an appetite.

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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. You raise it by being able to pitch your startup to any person, at any time, in any context, and get them excited enough to want to participate in your journey.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Supabase , a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by Coatue, with participation from YC, Mozilla and a group of about 20 angel investors.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Estonia-based Membo — which is backed by Y Combinator and will be presenting at the incubator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day next week — is aiming to take a slice of the premium end of grocery shopping in Europe and a bite out of supermarket giants’ continued dominance of the traditional weekly food shop. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Construction tech is one of those sectors that has not historically been considered “sexy” in a startup world that often favors glitzier technology. Procore and Autodesk are two examples of ventures in the construction space that went from startup to publicly traded companies today worth $6.2 billion and $40.5 billion , respectively.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Countless tech giants and startups have thrown their tech at the automated call handling problem, from Google (and Google’s Area 120 incubator ), Microsoft and Amazon to Got It AI , Replicant and Tenyx. Now, a newer startup called PolyAI claims to be doing it more effectively — and points to its uptake as proof. .”

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Register South Korea’s leading accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , considered ‘a gateway’ to do business in Asia, invites global startups to participate. Furthermore, Korea has an established patent law system so that startups can safely bring their creative ideas under government protection.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Indeed, this past summer, 10 teams showed up at Floodgate’s offices for 10 weeks to built and test startups and, in some cases, ditch it all. To get more details about the program — and also to hear Miura-Ko’s current perspective on the seed-stage startup scene right now — we talked with her earlier this week.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By: Dror Futter, Legal and Business Adviser to Startups, Venture Capital Firms and Technology Companies The SEC announced a series of amendments (likely to be effective early next year) to the rules governing private offering exemptions – by far the most frequent path for venture fundraising.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

L earn more Federal Grants are available to startups and small businesses through the various federal agencies. Business Incubators and Accelerators : Incubators offer entrepreneurs and startups workspaces that are typically below market rates.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. But, no matter how smart we think we are at avoiding risky startups, we can miss on surprising “unicorn” winners too.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Preqin (free demo). Grey House (free demo). connects startups to experts in building new businesses. Particularly relevant is Startups.com , which help tech startups identify consultants with relevant domain expertise. Startup board meetings template presentation. Private Equity. Venture Capital. Pratt’s Guide .

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