Dream It

APRIL 2, 2019

Press Release The venture fund and growth-focused accelerator accepted the cohort from a field of nearly 2,000 pre-Series A companies NEW YORK CITY, NY — April 2, 2019 — Dreamit Ventures, an early stage venture fund and growth-focused accelerator, announced its latest batch of startups this week.

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Venture Well

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Pitch competitions offer early-stage startups the opportunity to share their innovations, network with potential mentors and funders, and possibly gain access to funding and expert. The post pitch competitions: tips for success from winning teams appeared first on VentureWell.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The basic components are obvious: talented founders, great engineers, angel money, venture capital, access to larger corporates (for business, funding & talent), great education / research (for IP breakthroughs) and a sufficient ecosystem of mentors, advisors, executive coaches and mavens. Welcome to the future.

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Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

According to OpenAI, “plugins can be ‘eyes and ears’ for language models, giving them access to information that is too recent, too personal, or too specific to be included in the training data.” Companies that receive early access, or developers who make it off the growing waitlist, have a chance to establish early market dominance.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

Dreamit Ventures , an early-stage venture fund and growth-focused program for startups with early product-market fit, announced its latest batch of startups and kicked off its completely virtual Securetech, Urbantech, and Healthtech programs.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The companys technology uses non-invasive screenings for early detection based on over one million personalized health insights across its member base. Prenuvo, a trailblazer in whole-body MRI screenings, is shifting the paradigm toward early detection, empowering people to take charge of their health before symptoms arise.

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The Seraf Compass

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Investing in early-stage companies is investing in entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship has come a long way toward being a better-understood and accessible way of life. Understanding how they measure up is partly a function of understanding how they think, or should think.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

They have achieved production of 2,000 liters of methane daily in pilot testing and are now setting up commercial deployments for early 2025. Those areas are where carbon reduction requirements and long-term capital investments demand consistent access to low-emission, high-density fuels.

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Source Link

OCTOBER 26, 2021

New ways of doing things had to be created and implemented, and we found in those early months the value in having an entrepreneurial mindset in everything we do, not just business. However, microbusiness owners need access to the information, expertise, and capital to grow and succeed.”. Entrepreneurship-led job creation.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Access to the partner. Depending on the minimum investment size, if you think about what hiring an actual analyst, or someone more senior, might cost you to look at deals you’re serious about, an investment in a fund could may for itself in access. Access to other investors. Look for ones that communicate early and often.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Median valuations for early-stage valuations tripled from around $20m pre-money valuations to $60m with plenty of deals being prices above $100m. They say that investors in any market need “edge” … knowing something (thesis) or somebody (access) better than almost any other investor. but we give you the ++ of also having access in LA.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

Traditional browsers were not designed with enterprise needs in mind, leaving companies to cobble together complex solutions for compliance, data protection, and secure access. Since emerging from stealth mode in early 2022, Island has scaled rapidly.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Matt and many members of his leadership team got the band back together early this year and started a new company called Bolster in partnership with Silicon Valley Bank and the early-stage VC firm High Alpha. A few months later, USV joined that investor group along with our friends at Costanoa.

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The Seraf Compass

JULY 19, 2023

I subscribe to the belief that as an angel investor I should be open to a variety of investment opportunities as I build a successful, early stage company portfolio. 25+% IRR sustained over many years) if you don’t have access to a steady stream of potential unicorn-sized exits?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 2, 2023

From navigating complex regulations and securing funding to connecting with and growing a network, entrepreneurs in Vietnam face a unique set of challenges as they build their businesses: Access to capital: Securing funding for a new business can be elusive, particularly for startups. But it doesn’t have to be.

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Dream It

MARCH 28, 2020

TrekIT’s secure, collaborative, patient-centered platform enables clinicians to share and assign tasks to anyone on the care team and quickly access real-time clinical data to make more informed decisions at the point of care. Kaizen improves community access to healthcare by providing a logistics hub for both provider and patient.

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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

While Camber Creek has a beta lab, founders should have these proof points ready to show investors from the outset, whether that is revenue data, anecdotes from customers, case studies of successful pilots, are other evidence of early product-market fit. For some startups, proving demand can be more difficult.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

More and more it means access to various forms of transit—not just highways for cars—good walkability, affordable housing, a clean environment, etc. That’s why you also need super early stage investors who can lead rounds, being willing to place bets when there isn’t much there there. Angels can’t do it alone.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

If you are a super young, well-connected, Stanford CS or EE, worked at Facebook early, have a bit o’ dosh and have VCs chasing you … you are exempt. My VC told me that if we monetize too early we will scare away our nascent marketplace and not grow as fast. Or anybody who remotely resembles you. Wait, a second, Suster.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Early Stage. Historically we were near Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and throughout the 1990s and early 2000s this was fine since there was not strong locus in LA with some great deals in Pasadena, downtown, San Fernando Valley as well as on the Westside in Santa Monica. We wanted to be more accessible. Transparent.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 6, 2020

They also encouraged Janese to experience entrepreneurship from an early age by working with her mother selling clothing to supplement their income. I have access to a wealth of knowledge and resources and a huge network of entrepreneurs and other professionals,” she says.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. I watched Ophir Tanz achieve much in his early days at the Founder & CEO at GumGum, which has now become quite a large business. I hit publish so you can read an early version.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Being too early is the same as being wrong. I’ve sometimes been right about the market value but too early. In short: Access to great deals, ability to be invited to invest in these deals, ability to see where value in a market will be created and the luck to back the right team with the right market at the right time all matter.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

What if the early investors—some of whom had decades long reputations for being on the forefront of social issues—had made all of their companies sign diversity pledges and been active and public from day one instead of quiet for seven years? Everyone could have done more and until we acknowledge that, this will keep happening.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 3, 2025

The following business solutions will give you the essentials of implementing AI in your small business, answering common questions, while focusing on no-code solutions to daily tasks and complex issues that make the process accessible and straightforward. You have access to in-house technical talent or can justify the investment.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

At the turn of the 20th century, any number of American municipalities with similar access to talent, materials, investment, and transportation might have emerged as the beating heart of the automobile industry. Today, cities around the country are entering a period not unlike early-stage Detroit.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 7, 2015

If you're doing that many companies at such an early stage, you're bound to be choosing from a wider audience. Be Accessible I think the biggest unnecessary speed bump in the world is the requirement for a warm intro to an investor. Brooklyn Bridge Ventures hosts multiple dinners a month across neighborhoods all over NYC.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 11, 2021

She was born 10 weeks early, on Labor Day, and like startups never are, has performed up and to the right nearly every single day that she’s been alive. How can we fix the healthcare system to make it better, cheaper, and accessible to more people—so that she and everyone else can afford to be healthy over the long term?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Seed investors are aplenty and of course they need downstream money to fuel their early-stage bets. I have a strong belief that the magic of being an early-stage investor is that you get a ringside seat to make investments in companies with great potential. And we live in public so many people are able just to reach out.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Coinbase’s early innovation was creating a secure, easy-to-use, regulated bridge from fiat currencies to crypto and a safe place to store crypto assets. These breakthroughs are still in the early stages of deployment among a small subset of developers. But it is these developments that are preparing web3 for the mainstream.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This could mean proximity to key customers, suppliers, or talent, as well as favorable regulatory environments, or access to essential infrastructure. Rail Network : Atlanta offers access to both Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation. This is where we lean in as we look beyond established startup hubs.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

Other key investors include Superguts founding investor, Dave Friedberg, through The Production Board, along with Cultivian Sandbox, Strand Equity, Access Capital, Alpha Edison, LivWell Ventures, and Rocana Ventures. She brings a deep understanding of brand-building, consumer engagement, and scaling health-focused products.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In those early internet days, there seemed to be an innocence, a strong sense of community, and a willingness to share. If you’re new to Clubhouse and want to access all it has to offer, go to www.join.club on your iPhone browser to download the app, and set up an account. Talk to you in Clubhouse!

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 10, 2020

A good way to explain this is to go back to the architecture that Twitter used in its early days when there were many third-party Twitter clients. In mobile, a good first step is to open up the app stores and allow the browsers to have the same access to the operating system as native mobile apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our core skill is being able to identify talent and how to persuade the most talented people with whom we have access that we would be valuable to work with. It’s the executives who trust you to join the early-stage startups you’ve funded. So I tell people we’re fundamentally in the people business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

The early years were grueling. Contributed to EO by Jordan Gillissie , the founder and CEO of Equifund , an alternative investment platform that provides retail investors with access to emerging companies. Registered with both FINRA and SEC, Equifund is dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs and educating investors.

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