TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

We’re looking for motivated early-stage founders who want to take advantage of every possible opportunity to launch their startups to new levels of success. Historically, one of the most effective ways to do that is to exhibit in Startup Alley , at TechCrunch Disrupt. 11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2024

Angel investment fund selects six companies to pitch live on USD campus on May 9. Tickets for live pitch event now available. SDAC engages angel investors and provides coaching, education, and connections to founders. The fund’s portfolio companies have raised about $191 million so far as they scale and disrupt industries.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. As a result, I began meticulously cataloging the pitch conversations I listened to and ended up with nearly four hundred thousand words in transcript data.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield is one of the most popular parts of our annual TechCrunch Disrupt conference which is happening on September 21-23 this year. Garvey herself currently sits on the boards of Riipen, FourthRev, Holberton School and Ellevation Education. Startups: You can apply to be a part of the action here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Throughout the program, you’ll be going through the steps of building a pitch deck. With this new online program, Station F is focusing on online education. There’s the Founders Program, which was announced back in 2016 when Varza unveiled Station F at TechCrunch Disrupt. Launch costs €9.90

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

From these proposals, 15 candidates will be selected to attend and present at Pitch Day during the Charmalot Annual User Conference, to be held Aug. It provides access to resources, educational materials, and workshops focused on EHR-related topics, helping entrepreneurs refine their product offerings and enhance their market readiness.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

March 3 is your opportunity to hear from and engage with the people who, through entrepreneurship, venture capital, labor organizing and advocacy, are both using and challenging tech to disrupt the status quo for the betterment of all. Tune in a get ready to take notes — the advice you hear could help you improve your pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

According to JME Ventures partner Samuel Gil, the opportunities in longevity are “endless.” Health span versus life span, longevity for pets versus humans, biotech versus wellness, seniors versus young people, dependency versus autonomy, prevention versus treatment, analytics, education, infrastructure.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Ready to place your early stage startup in orbit with industry movers and shakers — and pitch your startup to attendees during the event? I could attend without disrupting my customer work by moving between the main stage and breakout presentations knowing I could catch anything I missed later.” That was the most exciting part.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The first event, TC Early Stage Operations & Fundraising , happens on April 1-2 — that’s two program packed days of education, connection and opportunity. Much like an accelerator (compacted into two days), you’ll learn about legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, tech stack, pitch decks and recruiting.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. Student teams pitch and compete for more than $1.5 Many universities (e.g.,

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

And like many other industries, “business as usual” has been completely disrupted by the coronavirus. So the oft-elusive “elevator pitch” is instead replaced with a shorthand: “we are the Uber for X.” “We the way in which Miami’s entrepreneurs, investors, and elected officials are publicly embracing and activating this opportunity.

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Gust

JUNE 4, 2014

The New York Angels Education Meetup. Somewhat to my surprise, I’ve found that most VCs and angels attend few, if any, events unless they are participating as a speaker. Major industry conferences like Business Insider’s Startup. Demo Days from the NYC-based accelerators. NY Tech Meetup (first Tuesday of each month).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Aileen Lee and Rachel Carlson walk through Guild Education’s early pitch deck. Image Credits: Guild Education. Aileen Lee and Rachel Carlson walk through Guild Education’s early pitch deck. Expensify CEO David Barrett discusses going public and why expense management is a $1T opportunity.

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Gust

AUGUST 17, 2014

Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Later in the pitch, you can show that you are not a one-trick pony by prioritizing related solutions in your long-term plan. Segment the opportunity.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

An disruptive idea marks the start of a startup. This validation often requires the startup to pitch in some money. However, for some startups, it’s a essential inflow of capital just to set base for something big that can disrupt the industry. But not all ideas convert into real businesses. Purpose of Pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Its big pitch is that it has built the tools to make it easy for companies to build their own training and learning materials, incorporating tests, videos, slide shows and more, and by making it easier for companies to build these themselves, the materials themselves become more engaging and less stiff.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 15, 2018

He has worked with several startups, invested in companies like Mayvenn, Gimlet Media, Blavity, Airspace Technologies, Codeverse, and many others Pitch your startup for a chance to meet with Cross Culture VC Q&A: What is your / your fund's mission? Three companies in our portfolio are addressing this from different angles.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

20 Tips for Pitching New Business Ideas to Potential Investors To provide you with the best advice on pitching new business ideas to investors, we asked twenty CEOs, Founders, and other professionals for their top tips. You should highlight the potential future earnings while pitching your proposal.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

In a few months, TC Disrupt will kick off at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This annual flagship event, in which hundreds of founders have pitched their startups on our stage, is back in person. Listen up founders! So, here is a chance to participate. Startup Battlefield 200 applications are closing soon. Apply today.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Having worked in entrepreneurial ecosystem building ourselves, we were not surprised that the main challenges in our field arise around a typical old-school mindset and a severe lack of equal opportunities for entrepreneurs of ALL ethnicities, backgrounds and gender. Eric Parker. Our biggest challenge is continual impostor syndrome.

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Gust

DECEMBER 5, 2011

These are usually called ‘disruptive’ technologies. Disruptive technologies and grand new solutions can ultimately change the world, and create a large opportunity, but they are not exciting to early-stage investors for the following reasons: Fundamental changes take a long time to happen.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I found GroupMe at the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon. You can usually count on high net worth folks to be curious about a good opportunity, but it’s hard to convince someone that you’re a better opportunity than the public market when anyone who had been sitting on Tesla for the past two years was up about 8x.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

The year 2020 threw online education into the spotlight, but this Ann Arbor tech company has known the value of it since it was founded in 2017. Amesite , founded by top Midwest female founder Ann Marie Sastry, uses AI to improve the online education experience. Just last month they raised $11.8 In 2020, they raised $5.5 Groundspeed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

In January, the startup announced a strategic deal with Swiss real-estate firm Stoneweg , which pitched in €100 million ($117 million) to co-develop a number of “dark stores” in areas where Glovo already operates to improve its distribution networks and help speed up its delivery times. Why wouldn’t I do this?” ”

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Supply chains have become front-page news since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global networks of everything from furniture makers to grocery suppliers. LoanSense helps you find a repayment plan for your student loans so you don’t miss out on opportunities for forgiveness, consolidation and repayment. FreightVerify. Workit Health.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

Look for a group that connects angel investors with promising early-stage companies and that provides the education and information for both groups to lead to a healthy pipeline of deal flow. Aim, instead, to assess opportunities objectively. Not having an appropriate framework by which to evaluate the opportunity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

However, our research indicated that the investment landscape is growing increasingly competitive as venture capitalists become more educated and less skeptical. Please give us your web3 elevator pitch: What is it, and what role does it play in today’s internet framework? . Mercedes Bent , partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Disrupting the traditional MBA may be the most tried, tested and tweaked edtech startup pitch out there. And rightfully so: Business school is damn expensive and largely reserved for a select group of people who have the time and money to invest in elite education. The startup’s initial raise, a $1.5

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. Unruly Studios Unruly Splats are the only STEM education tool that combines high-quality coding learning with a social and active play experience. Jaia Robotics Inc. Lenoss Medical Lenoss Medical Inc.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Jan Lynn-Matern, Emerge Education. Education = knowledge transfer + social + signaling. I’ve always found the concept of total addressable market (TAM) hard to embrace fully — the arrival of a single disruptive company could change an industry’s TAM in a week. ” Ian Chiu, Owl Ventures. David Eichler, TCV.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 18, 2021

“While all startups are certainly not focused on being disruptive, they often rely on cutting-edge technology and processes to give their customers something truly new,” Zeile writes. Somasegar reveal what sings in Coda’s pitch doc. Somasegar joined Extra Crunch Live to go through Coda’s pitch doc (not deck.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Decoding the vaginal microbiome is thus seen as an opportunity to support a broad range of women’s health goals. Education is a key goal for the startup, per CMO Laine Bruzek. “We give users back a full understanding of everything that’s present.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

For this survey, TechCrunch spoke to a number of investors about the area’s potential, opportunities and key players. They see a huge opportunity for the region to become a major startup hub by utilizing its diverse workforce and wonderful quality of life. In this survey, these investors agree on several aspects of Miami.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

That leaves a wide opportunity for cybersecurity specialists to build tools aimed at smaller organizations that still face the same security issues — and as some have argued , perhaps even more — as their larger counterparts but don’t have the same resources to fight them. “We are basically the Dropbox of security.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Connecting consumers with products they need through channels they already know and trust is both a massive revenue opportunity and a social good, providing financial resilience to families at a time when they need it most. In simpler terms, Zeta helps companies pitch customers in varied manners depending on their own characteristics.

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