American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 14, 2023

This disruptive platform enables the detection of crop health faster and easier than legacy practices, resulting in improved crop quality and yield providing better financial returns for farmers. We’re eager to add nutrient testing to our suite of solutions for in-field assessment of crop health to our customers.”

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2024

SDAC engages angel investors and provides coaching, education, and connections to founders. Co-founder, CEO Devon Ke a DeAngelo TadHealth – Suite of enterprise tools to deliver and manage school-based mental health care. The fund’s portfolio companies have raised about $191 million so far as they scale and disrupt industries.”

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

Israel’s largest crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has launched a Pandemic Innovation Fund, the company announced Tuesday. The fund plans to raise $100 million for investment in urgent technological solutions for medical, business, educational, and social needs triggered by global pandemics and other health emergencies.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

Today, OurCrowd announces the launch of its Pandemic Innovation Fund. We plan to raise $100 million for investment in urgent technological solutions for the medical, business, educational and social needs triggered by global pandemics and other health emergencies. Other entirely new industries will appear.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Eflex Intelligent digital energy for homes and small business 2020 Lumme Lumme Health is a digital behavioral health company with a radically superior approach to facilitating success with weight management and problematic eating patterns. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

The region had seen “lots of innovation for patients through a proliferation of telemedicine apps and even innovations for doctors, but the pharmacy and its workforce were largely unaddressed,” SwipeRx CEO Farouk Meralli said. The app also helps pharmacists search for new job opportunities or to post job offers. “Our ”

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 22, 2020

Faced with a health threat and choosing between taking sick leave and paying your rent, I think the country is going to take a dramatic turn left—realizing that no one should have to make those decisions. They’re feeling the direct effects of a fragile economic system and an underprepared health system, run by an incompetent administration.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

I think, historically speaking, in health care, the patient did whatever the doctor did, whatever the doctor told them to do, and at Kindbody the patient is in charge, not necessarily the doctor.”. Dr. Fahimeh Sasan, Kindbody’s chief innovation officer. The majority of patients need flexibility in their calendars,” Bartasi said. “I

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

welcomes powerful women of color to hold monthly conversations on topics like innovation, networking and self-care. After graduating from the program, participants become a partner in the “Innovation Network”, a network of social impact partners that seek to drive forward change within their communities and organizations.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 18, 2020

And that is just one of the pandemic challenges that State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister and the Oklahoma State Department of Education have been managing through since spring. “We The global pandemic has accelerated a shift in education that was already occurring,” she said.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and change-makers working on innovative startups, social enterprises and SME’s around Aotearoa New Zealand. Sasha’s family experienced unexpected deaths, bankruptcy (hiding from debt collectors), alcoholism and addiction, and mental health challenges.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. Lawrence Kosick is the co-founder of GetSetUp , the largest online learning community designed specifically for older adults.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Both ventures showcase how creative thinking and disruptive solutions can bring positive change to longstanding issues while fostering community collaboration. MAF is also committed to education. Impact Hub Network Global team Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp At the heart of the CirculUP! They operate an internal project called Sr.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Sebastian led Innovation Management in 3 verticals before becoming a corporate intrapreneur in the automotive industry in 2017, where he created numerous in-house startups, going through ideation to scale-up stages. What major trends do you expect to see in technology innovation over the next 5 years that excites you?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Check out some of the Ann Arbor companies with the biggest growth, best funding and most innovative products to watch into 2022. EverActive has won multiple awards, including a recent 2021 IDEA Innovation Award. Clients including Google, Coursera, Promedica, Duke Health and the University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

Our fund is committed to backing fintech pioneers and innovators that yield improved experiences and outcomes for financial institutions and their customers. Today and for far too long, the loan application process has been lengthy, manual, and ripe for disruption. Learn more at www.zealvc.co.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2019

We are a state that seems ready to seize the moment and leverage the quality of life and business-friendly advantages here to add innovation and technology-based economic development to Oklahoma’s list of “greats.”. The Oklahoma Innovation Model attracts and unites scientific researchers, inventors, entrepreneurs and manufactures.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Banking: disruption of in-person banking, website and in-app chat for faster customer resolution using Conversational AI, more advanced IVR menus to intelligently route calls and reduce handling time or give callers the option of receiving either a callback, switch to chat, or text, rather than wait in line.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Based in Detroit, Autobooks offers a number of wellness benefits, plus great financial and educational benefits. Top Detroit startup Guardhat raised nearly $42 million in funding in early 2021 to create innovative safety solutions for industrial IoT. They are committed to diversity and invest in the education of their employees.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Friendly, smart, innovative, and ready to lend a helping hand. Workit Health. Founded by two of the top female founders in the Midwest , Workit Health is a health startup that’s providing digital tools for people recovering from addiction. So they created Workit Health. Just last month they raised $11.8

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OurCrowd

JULY 25, 2021

DouxMatok’s low-sugar sugar’s sweet spot on Netflix’s ‘Explained’ Sweetch raises $20M for app that helps boost health outcomes. Microsoft picks MagniLearn for education initiative. Sweetch raises $20M for app that helps boost health outcomes. Superpedestrian acquires Navmatic to enhance e-scooter safety.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Climate change, growing financial inequality, lack of access to education for billions and lack of food and water security are among the problems that plague society. Between 2000 and 2015, for example, spending on education in the US grew 15%, but test scores have been stagnating. Spending on medical care reached an astounding $3.5

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

If we want to feed, clothe and house 8 billion people, address the host of health, environmental and other issues, good old fashioned elbow grease isn’t going to do it. But if we become effective at commercializing innovative solutions of passionate entrepreneurs, we stand a chance. were made in 2022.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Cross Culture Ventures we take a thematic approach to investing that we have coined 'cultural investing' - the impact of the convergence of global popular culture and consumer behavior on technology and innovation. Healthcare in this country has been broken for a long time and is in desperate need of disruption.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 15, 2021

First of all, a completely different way of evaluating digital personalities and their education is discussed and the right character of the person who carries out the evaluation itself. There are unique contextual factors that the digital talents will be exposed to in terms of strategic disruption that lead to organizational transformation.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. Helps daring companies with innovative consumer-facing solutions expand to new markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

So our investors are some of are our [limited partners], but the vast majority are long-only funds, alternative investment managers and people who are really excited about technology as a long-term disrupter and want to be aligned with this next generation of iconic companies. Check out the whole thing on TechCrunch. Across the week.

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OurCrowd

JULY 1, 2022

As concerns grow about the sustainability of dairy farming and the impact on health and climate of dairy products, consumers are switching in large numbers to plant-based milk alternatives. He points to three OurCrowd startups, DouxMatok , Plantish and Remilk , who are setting an example with their innovative technologies. Learn More.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A lot of these challenges became grossly apparent in 2020: social instability, climate crisis, public health crises, national security crises, disinformation. Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. They were sold to Albertson’s for over $300m. Think Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). At at time where nearly all advertising was purchased on a CPM (cost per thousand) basis and not very measurable this was a huge innovation that should be credited to Bill Gross, the founder of IdeaLab.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A lot of these challenges became grossly apparent in 2020: social instability, climate crisis, public health crises, national security crises, disinformation. Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. They were sold to Albertson’s for over $300m. Think Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

driving change from the ground up with a focus on mental health.” We’ve seen commerce continue to disrupt our world. One of the hardest-hit communities was the health and wellness category. I also enjoyed learning how some of the larger health club chains met their customers where they were. Commerce ?? It shouldn’t be.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

“We can improve both outcomes and costs by moving care from the hospital back to the place it started — at home,” they write in a post that explores five innovations enabling at-home care and identifies investment opportunities like acute care and infrastructure development. Image Credits: Cowboy Ventures / Guild Education.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

As far as green shoots, COVID-19 has “played a role of an accelerator for innovation in many business areas and even e-government and other rigid/conservative industries,” said one. Innovative. I miss a more innovative approach. Steady rapid growth, innovative mind. Patrik Juránek from Startup Disrupt community.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We will fund businesses that meet our criteria in categories we like such as health and wellness, consumerization of healthcare, food and beverage, beauty, and other consumer and techsumer areas. We invest in software companies disrupting traditional industries, Health tech, fintech, mobility, cybersecurity and jobs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all.

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