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APRIL 17, 2013

Today, at Demo, SocialSignIn launched to "solve the problem of businesses knowing more about their online visitors than those standing in their physical location." Apple bought WifiSlam to help triangulate your location and Floored (one of my investments) is scanning indoor spaces with cutting edge 3D tech. And they''re not alone.

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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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MARCH 1, 2010

Back to demos. The event will feature a panel that brings together the nation's most prominent advocates for both early stage investment and social enterprise--Fred Wilson, Jacqueline Novogratz, Roger Ehrenberg, and Jacob Gray. 9AM: ArtsTech Presents: SMartCAMP - A Symposium on Social Media Use in the Arts. Tuesday, March 2nd.

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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. Let’s not make the same mistakes we made with social media. There are a lot of parallels here to Web 2.0 and the earliest emergence of UGC.

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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. Smaller businesses may be attracted to blogs, social media posts, and email marketing. 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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Today is the 28th Demo Day for Alchemist , an accelerator that primarily focuses on enterprise companies — or those that sell to other companies, primarily, rather than directly to consumers. Some of those updates: Alchemist has raised another $4 million in funds to invest, backed by NEC, Johnson Controls and Nornickel.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Because you have multiple forces at work.

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JUNE 16, 2014

I went back across the 21 investments I''ve made both at First Round and at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --a period that dates back to January 28, 2010, when I closed on Backupify. My social media streams actually do more to keep existing connections warm than they do to create new ones. Venture Capital & Technology'

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

More recently, Jim and Vinny the founders of Yipit taught themselves how to code to get their service up and running, after working in investment banking. New York will feature five this summer alone--Techstars, DreamIt, Startl and the NYC Seed/EDC Media and Finance incubators. Don't want to learn code? That's right--Indiana.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

However, the pandemic has shown an increased need for investment and focus on solutions that work on human and planetary health. Today and tomorrow, the biotech accelerator is hosting its twice-annual demo day. It also doubled the amount of companies it invested in, bringing this cohort to 20 companies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Software product marketers typically are charged with creating demos for potential customers. Arcade , a startup launched by two former Atlassian employees, decided to attack this problem with a simple Chrome extension to build demos quickly that product people can make use of in various settings. million in total seed investment.

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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. I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

” Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media. Given the intent with TIC is to hosts all sorts of decentralized apps it’s possible — indeed, likely — that a bunch of decentralized social media plays will emerge. Polychain Capital outted its Beacon Fund last September.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

If you want to see how this works come check out our Nov 10th event in LA and you can see TextPlus demo their iOS5 integration and how they think about the importance of working hand-in-hand with Twitter for their free text messaging apps. It should be no surprise why I invested alongside IA Ventures in the big data company DataSift.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. The investment will be used for product development initiatives.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

How to attract large investors to your direct investing platform. However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. A BCG study of 121 investments found that operational improvement drives 48% of value creation in PE-backed companies. Preqin (free demo).

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Register Venture investment is a high-stakes game that demands vision, persistence, and adaptability. One such luminary is Yongmin Kim, whose journey through the ups and downs of the investment industry is nothing short of inspiring. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Blanchard/O’Reilly Media. Most investors wait to see who else is investing. &# Social Proof&# weighs heavily on investors in making their decisions. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.&#. Photo credit: D. Here’s where I feel common ground : 1. Perhaps it shouldn’t. Maybe one day it won’t.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

These include shared demo days, affording these startups an invaluable platform to exhibit their projects to a broader audience. Additionally, they benefit from exclusive discounts on Cointelegraph’s media products, adding substantial value to their growth journey within the Web3 ecosystem.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

from Fortitude Investment Partners. That’s where we’ll be spending this funding, while also investing heavily in our product to keep Shorthand at the cutting edge of storytelling innovation for the web.”

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 19, 2015

I’ve been to many YC Demo Days and I always look forward to them. This trend opposes the broader VC market’s investment patterns. Surprisingly, media companies spiked this year, driven by a Twitch for X phenomenon. Last the decline of social media investment is consistent with the rest of the market.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Friction in Sales : The traditional sales process involved cold calls and lengthy demos, which were less appealing to modern customers who valued a frictionless experience. We tried to compete, investing a million dollars in enabling self-serve products and revamping our GTM playbook. But it wasn’t enough.

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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

MARCH 7, 2023

Most business leaders today learn about AI from the media, which often describes the value of AI as magic or as something that can be put into production with just a few sprinkles. However, for the project to get put into production and be used daily, it must transition the single-camera demo to 500 cameras operating 24/7.

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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. Additionally, state-run investment agencies actively participated, indicating a concerted effort to explore further collaborations that could contribute to the growth of promising startups.

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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. This includes access to software in areas such as product design & manufacturing, architecture, engineering, media, and more. The firm has made seven investments since 2017 with check sizes between 25k and 100k euros.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Experts such as Lee Seung-yoon, former CEO of Radish, Claire Jang from IgniteXL Ventures, Brian Jang from Collaborative Fund, and Bumsoo Kim from Translink Investment will provide insights, engage in discussions, and address questions related to business growth.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We’re excited about the Apple event, and Y Combinator has its demo day. Data dilemma : Instagram was handed “a fat fine” by the European Union after it was determined Meta’s social media platform was not properly handling children’s data, Natasha L writes. PDT, subscribe here. Hey, hey, hey!

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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. 2019 was the country’s biggest ever in terms of venture dollars invested, with Bain counting $10 billion during the year. billion invested into Indian startups during the three-month period.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

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. Not a bad return for a small investment of your time and energy, amirite? Food for thought. You’ll find them here.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2023

in Series A investment from Sequoia Capital India, Tencent, SGInnovate, Pappas Capital, and Expeditions Fund. At the Q2B conference in Silicon Valley in December 2022, Horizon demoed its integrated development environment and announced it would be launching an early access program this year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Mike passed up an offer from Ross Levinsohn of Fox Interactive Media ( around $175 Million ). He is also an active angel investor in companies like Klout and Meetup. His time at Quigo was a very difficult 5.5 years that left him thoroughly exhausted.

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Jason Malki

JULY 18, 2022

Chris has invested over $1 million of his own funds to create Planet Theta and get ahead of that transition. Similarly, instead of sharing social media or other information to set up first dates, users on Planet Theta only share personal information after going on dates they enjoyed. How can our readers follow you on social media?

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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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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

WeMade Demo Zone (Image credit: WeMade) Game companies of all sizes, including indie, small, and large game developers within Pangyo Techno Valley , will participate in the domestic game festival. The MMORPG game ‘THRONE AND LIBERTY’ (hereinafter TL), scheduled for release in December 2023, will showcase demo gameplay at G-STAR.

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