StartupNation

MAY 16, 2025

Angel Investors An angel investor invests in a business using their own money. They may also provide guidance and mentorship, while taking the firm’s equity in return for the investment. Your ability to get funding depends on your landing page and how well you publicize it. It’s always more challenging to raise larger amounts.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

Next NJ Program and AI Innovation Challenge Administration Grant Program will increase AI investment and catalyze groundbreaking research TRENTON, N.J. New Jerseys continued investment in the sectors of the future will pay dividends for generations to come, setting the Garden State on a path of economic strength and prosperity.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 7, 2025

The company is actively investing in research and development to enhance its proprietary large language model (LLM) and deepen the capabilities of its platform. Initiatives such as AI Demo Days and open-source contributions are helping foster collaboration among researchers, builders, and infrastructure teams.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Homebrew makes investments by consensus – it works because there’s just two of us. Second, it matters to us externally that founders know it’s always Homebrew making the investment – never a situation where one of us was excited and the other one didn’t block it. Thanks Alex!

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

Sales forecasting becomes much more accurate when based on real pipeline data, and marketing analytics help you understand which campaigns generate the best return on investment. Additionally, most CRMs offer free trials or demos. How do you choose the right CRM for your business? What specific problems do you want the CRM to solve?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

That's why, in addition to my own research, I've relied heavily on the expertise of seasoned VoIP users, product demos, industry professionals, and reputable third-party reviews to paint a complete picture. There's also the occasional concern about Google's history of killing off services without much notice. and Canada.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

To find the best platforms, I dove deep into product demos, meticulously reviewed user feedback on trusted sites, and analyzed how each system grappled with common AP headaches. Now, an important note before we dive into the specific tools: expect a real investment for a comprehensive solution. Not only financially.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In a daring feat of economic analysis, I asked it to calculate if the after-tax returns of two ETFs were statistically significant & to compare the energy portfolios using the 13-Fs of a few hedge funds for investment ideas. Instead of diving into code and wrestling with JavaScript, I screenshotted my current blog and showed it to an AI.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

I looked into dozens of options, read approximately a million reviews, watched demos narrated by people way too cheerful for 9 a.m., Overall, CINC is a solid contender suited for those willing to invest heavily in a turnkey solution without the need for total control. Just make sure your wallet can handle it before you commit.

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500

JUNE 9, 2020

From taking all aspects of our accelerators digital (including our Demo Day) to rethinking the opportunities of the future, we’ve taken this moment to analyze what innovations can come from this time and new opportunities that arise from our changing environment.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. They want you to attend demo days. start-ups are overvalued… The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups. It’s exhausting.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

Sun's space was for it's customer assistance unit and Cornell just had a demo space patched into a supercomputer back on campus. VCs and fulltime angels bring a lot more than just money to the communities they invest in. I'm sure their Summer Camp demo day will be the first time a lot of VCs have set foot in the thriving outer borough.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). But they are also a tax on your time with portfolio companies, looking for new investments, running your shop and honestly they are a tax on your family life.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

On Wednesday, January 24, the inaugural cohort of startups from i2E’s Bridge2 Pre-Accelerator program presented their groundbreaking innovations during the Bridge2 Demo Day at Sailor & The Dock in Oklahoma City. During Demo Day, attendees heard pitch presentations from five founders who participated in the initial Bridge2 cohort.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 19, 2013

Paul''s point is all about being upfront and honest, which is ironic, because Demo Days seem to be one giant dog and pony show where the flashiest, biggest talking companies seem to get the most attention. I go into this investment eyes wide open, we work on the issues together, and if it doesn''t work, I''ve got no one to blame but myself.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The disruptive technology-enabled startups are being showcased at its Demo Day, following their five-month participation in the Labs’ accelerator program. “At Today’s Demo Day showcases the Inclusive Ventures Lab’s largest and most global cohort to date, underscoring our mission to advance a more equitable investment landscape worldwide.”’

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Most associates need some entrepreneurial experience before actually making investments. Jordan joined us a couple of years ago from Fox Filmed Entertainment where he worked in corporate strategy and he previously had worked for GCA Savvian in investment banking. I think there are two reasons for this: 1.

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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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Gust

JULY 25, 2023

Most, but not all, will offer networking opportunities (with the exception of programs that focus heavily on one-on-one mentorship) and most, but not all, will offer some form of funding opportunities, either through direct investment or by leveraging their network of investors for targeted introductions or a demo day-style event.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2025

An analysis of their investment patterns since 2020 doesn’t just reveal the accelerator’s strategy—it provides a map to the entire startup ecosystem’s next chapter. Crypto/web3 remains around 5% of investments. And for more than a decade, few faucets have been watched more closely than Y Combinator.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

YC CEO Garry Tan wrote in the memo that the accelerator, which is largely focused on early-stage investing, found late-stage investing to be a “distraction from our core mission.” Y Combinator cuts nearly 20% of staff, scales back growth stage investments by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

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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. I think this is the best framing I’ve seen about how to drum up excitement for a startup as a founder.

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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

Lay the groundwork before the event and apply to become a speaker or invest in a tradeshow booth. I suggest they may be found at higher-level industry conferences and trade shows. If this is the right fishing hole for you, don’t just show up. In addition to high-level conferences, where else can you meet CEOs? None in your area?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. In fact, the headline of one read, “How Putting $10m into uBeam illustrates everything that is wrong with tech investing today.” But “what is wrong with tech investing today?” ” **. We checked safety.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about the new career path to CEO, our favorite startups from Techstars Demo Day and the latest SPAC you should probably know about. A triple-hitter Demo Day. TechCrunch covered favorites from Techstars’ three Demo Days, which were focused on Chicago, Boston and workforce development.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As it is, I’m a paid Canva user and you definitely wouldn’t have counted me in that target demo as narrowly defined by Adobe’s core audience ten years ago. Any investor that isn’t asking ethical and safety questions about the AI they’re investing in is not only dropping the ball as an investor but as a person as well.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 19, 2023

Register Seven innovative companies have been selected for Cohort IV of ScaleUp Malaysia’s accelerator program, with upfront investments provided for the first time. They will receive $100,000 investment each. The seventh company, fintech firm Sonicboom, will receive an undisclosed strategic investment.

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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.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2022

The famed accelerator, which has seeded the likes of Instacart, Coinbase, OpenSea and Dropbox, invites users to vote for newly launched startups “to help them climb up the leaderboard, try out product demos and learn about the founding team,” it said in a blog post. The overlap isn’t isolated. Meanwhile, a16z is making its own Y Combinator.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

This annual gathering brings together a dynamic mix of entrepreneurs, angel investors, and venture capitalists from the surrounding states, creating a fertile ground for innovation, networking, and investment opportunities. The Seed Stage Pitch competition winner will be awarded a $500,000 investment.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

German food tech startup Koralo won the coveted ‘2022 K-Startup Grand Challenge’ as the best foreign startup team at the Demo Day. The startup has attracted over $100 million in investments since 2017, with an $81 million Series B round in 2022. “We believe that Korea has excellent technology as well as opportunities.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

The XRPL Accelerator program is the first of its kind in the Asia Pacific region and will launch in August 2023, concluding with a Demo Day event in November 2023. The first cohort will begin in June 2023 in New York, with a hybrid approach combining virtual and in-person components, including a Demo Day event in early November.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

We believe that growth marketing will become more effective when you also invest time and effort in channels and spaces you can’t necessarily measure. For instance, we recently helped a B2B SaaS platform increase demo requests by 350%. Every experiment we ran increased the demo request metric to some extent.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

There’s also a Demo Day in San Francisco at the end of the program. AWS will not invest in startups and does not yet have an AI/ML investment arm. Generative AI startup founders within the cohort can expect to have access to AI models and tools as well as machine learning stack optimization and custom go-to-market advice.

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