This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. Step #2: Pitch investors. With overhead like that, it’s going to be impossible for the local schools to educate good startup talent at the rate that the community can educate itself.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Last week, I covered the company’s $7 million seed funding round , and the company’s CEO, On Freund, was gracious enough to let me use the deck the company created to close that round for my Pitch Deck Teardown series. Oh, yeah, pitch decks and the tearing down thereof. Where were we?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. . In the rest of this teardown, we’ll take a look at three things Supliful could have improved or done differently, along with its full pitch deck! Let’s dive right in. Slides in this deck.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decks for education-based startups are pretty rare. Here's how Tomorrow University landed that $10 million.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 10, 2024

The National Day Calendar honored Dave’s diligent work to educate the public about living organ donation by featuring Dave as the guest on Episode 1 of its National Day Podcast , which debuted on 10 April 2024. So, where will this streamlined effort to educate, inform, and inspire lead?

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 1, 2022

Some entrepreneurs are born salespeople, others find it more awkward but ultimately realize getting comfortable pitching — to investors, to the team, to potential employees, and so on — is part of the job. With a bunch of education and corporate logos underneath. Hopefully every startup finds the right investors!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. And the CEO adds that honestly, not much changed aesthetically between that first pitch and the Series A deck. “It I thought that was a really wild idea.

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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. Each year, the program culminates in a live final funding event.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 13, 2024

Over 50 teams from seven Oklahoma higher education institutions vied for top honors and a share of $158,000 in cash prizes and scholarships in this year’s competition. In addition to the main awards, standout students were recognized for their 90-second pitches, each receiving a $1,000 cash prize.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

computer vision startup that’s sharpened its business pitch to sell an AI service for quickly anonymizing video — automating the blurring of faces or licence plates, along with a suite of other visual search services — has grabbed another chunk of seed funding: announcing a raise of $7.5 Pimloc , a U.K.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 30, 2020

The problem is that your pitch is a combination of a bunch of individual components, each of whom an investor is going to have particular reactions to and sometimes a great reaction to one is enough to push you over the top—or sink your pitch. What gives?

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The Startup Blog Market Brief

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Swing Education has raised $23 million in venture capital funding to-date. The ed-tech company's co-founder shares the secrets of his pitch. The post 5 Elements of a Pitch Deck That Will Lead Your Company to New VC Investment appeared first on Market Brief.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Guild Education CEO Rachel Carlson did just that. Aileen Lee, founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures, led a $2 million seed round in 2015 before Guild Education even had a real product. For those who aren’t familiar with Guild Education, it’s an education and upskilling platform that started by focusing on the 99%.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 14, 2021

Costantini: “As adults, it’s our job to encourage self-starters and creative thinking in education. As business owners, we constantly have new ideas for films we’d like to make–so we’re out there pitching, much like the GSEA competitors. We took notes during the competition to help improve our pitch!”.

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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. But the most powerful peer-to-peer component is that you have to give feedback to people when you’re going through the program. Launch costs €9.90

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2015

I went through eight years of Jesuit education, both at Regis High School and Fordham University--and one of the tenets they tried to convey was to be "Men and Women for Others". People always tell me how smart they are or how much experience they have--or why they have a passion for startups. That's largely how I think about my job.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Three of the four pitching finalists were women entrepreneurs focusing on health and wellness issues. They introduced “Startup Showcase Live”, a pitch contest for seed and pre-seed startups, competing for a $500,000 investment. The sold-out event also featured two additional pitching tracks: Early-stage and Growth Stage companies.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Besides, there were a limited number of places where I could do my job in venture capital anyway—and while I might be a go to for a pitch from super early stage pre-seed and seed founders looking for quick answers and decisive term sheets in New York City, the reality is that I would be pretty far down the list in the Valley.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Are you Ready 2 Pitch? 48 start-ups were carefully selected from the total number of applicants to present their commercial or investment pitch at the final event on the 27 th & 28 th of February 2019. The post Are you Ready 2 Pitch? R2P): Where Start-Ups meet investors, business partners, and customers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

From how Retail Zipline’s Series A pitch deck ticked every box for Emergence Capital to how Coda perfected the growth fly wheel, much to the delight of Madrona’s S. Check out the Startup Alley companies that will exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in an episode dedicated to the art of the pitch. We do that by (duh!)

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2021

Contributed by Hao Lam, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Seattle, Washington, and founder and CEO of Best in Class Education. MyEO Education. The MyEO Education group is championed by Joyce Lasecke of EO Minnesota, with support and encouragement from Peter Fan of EO Dallas. MyEO Angels.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 20, 2019

On March 14, 2019, they each made a graduation “pitch” to a team of judges from the surrounding area. The winners, Mark Albert Barbera and his company Mark Albert Boots, and Timothy Kretchman with Action Driven Education each took home $5,000! The post TWO SOMERSET ENTREPRENEURS WON $5,000 IN PITCH COMPETITION!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

All while raising over tens of millions in venture capital from elite Silicon Valley investors and eyeing a big mission: become the brand families can turn to when they think about a child’s education. Today, ClassDojo has raised more than $200 million in venture capital. On this episode of TechCrunch Live taking place on April 26 at 12 p.m.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2023

All while raising over tens of millions in venture capital from elite Silicon Valley investors and eyeing a big mission: become the brand families can turn to when they think about a child’s education. We’d love to have you participate in Pitch Practice , where you’ll have 2 minutes to pitch the show’s guests and get 4 minutes of feedback.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

STATE COLLEGE, PA – On December 6, 2018, six emerging tech entrepreneurs will compete for up to $10,000 at the BF TechCelerator’s graduation “pitch” event. Jason Moore with Medulate developed a suite of medical simulators geared at increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of medical education. You Won’t Want to Miss This! .

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 30, 2024

Their high-light projector stimulates cognitive responses, increasing engagement and retention, thus offering a valuable resource for parents and educators alike. We’re excited to hear more from each finalist at the final pitch event on June 30.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Tensions between educators and NYC officials grew over the past few weeks, as school openings were delayed twice and staffing shortages continue. The startups all have different versions of the same pitch: they can offer teachers more money, and flexibility, than the status quo. Honestly, I have no confidence in the city,” she says.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The MidAmerica Cup is a business plan competition organized by MidAmerica in collaboration with i2E (Innovation to Enterprise) and tailored for local school districts engaged with MidAmerica’s STEM education programs. The team also cinched first place in the Best Business Plan and Best Pitch Presentation categories.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

AUGUST 23, 2019

ERIE, PA – At a standing room only event on August 21, 2019 in Knowledge Park at Penn State Erie, five entrepreneurs, who had been participating in an intensive, ten-week startup program, made pitches to a panel of local judges in hopes of taking home a cash prize of $10,000. appeared first on BFTP/CNP.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

The startup’s goal is to create “small Silicon Valleys” across Vietnam, with educational centers that help prepare students of all ages for careers in tech. The startup claims to be the largest coding educator in the region. Founded in 2015, MindX was created to address the lack of coding in Vietnamese school curriculums.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

The startup’s goal is to create “small Silicon Valleys” across Vietnam, with educational centers that help prepare students of all ages for careers in tech. The startup claims to be the largest coding educator in the region. Founded in 2015, MindX was created to address the lack of coding in Vietnamese school curriculums.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The platforms, which mix entertainment and education, have an unconventional value proposition. The belief that employers will invest in edutainment benefit platforms is a departure from the traditional pitch that edtech has used to break into this market. When the struggle is more obvious.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

I covered one demo day in person, spending most of my time backstage where founder teams practiced their pitches. Deep tech founders face special challenges when pitching investors: they usually don’t have a product, customers or revenue. Full disclosure: In 2016, I was 500 Startups’ Journalist-in-residence.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Of the 200 companies, 20 will be selected to pitch their company on the huge Disrupt stage in front of thousands of attendees for a chance to win $100,000 and the Disrupt Cup. Education, HR + Future of Work. From across the globe, these 200 companies are the top in their respective industries. Tickets are still available to the show.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

So it should come as no surprise that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Lee join us alongside one of her portfolio company founders, Guild Education’s Rachel Carlson, on an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live. Rachel Carlson founded Guild Education in 2015 and has led the company since. Click to register for free!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

So it should come as no surprise that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Lee join us alongside one of her portfolio company founders, Guild Education’s Rachel Carlson, on an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live. Rachel Carlson founded Guild Education in 2015 and has led the company since. Click to register for free!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

So it should come as no surprise that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Lee join us alongside one of her portfolio company founders, Guild Education’s Rachel Carlson, on an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live. Rachel Carlson founded Guild Education in 2015 and has led the company since. Click to register for free!

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