TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Amsterdam has tech industry “schools” such as Growth Tribe , The Talent Institute and THNK for educational courses, as well as accelerators like Rockstart, Startupbootcamp and Fashion for Good. In Amsterdam, rich people take public transport, not private buses. Janneke Niessen, partner, CapitalT VC.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Supported sectors for financial assistance under SG Tech include advanced manufacturing, biomedical sciences, clean technology, information and communications technologies, precision engineering, transportation technology, and food science and technology.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. VC Funding was steadily growing before the war and there are more than 50 VC firms continuing to operating in the country. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. Other startup support players include the new Science Creates VC fund , set up by entrepreneur Harry Destecroix, and TechSPARK Engine Shed. Kiran Krishnamurthy , CEO, AI Labs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Startups/VC. From the mobility front: Beam raises $93M, proves that the e-scooter market is not kaput : Beam, a Singapore-based company, rents out e-scooters and other electric personal transport machines. And it’s not a shared history of not finishing higher education.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2021

At the heart of Duolingo is its mission: to scale free education and increase income potential through language learning. How do you design a startup that isn’t too hard to lose people, but isn’t too easy to compromise education? How do you balance monetization goals while also keeping education as a product free?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

Will you get the TechCrunch bump, the tier-1 VC anointment, followed by great PR firm support and then the NY Times or WSJ story that follows? Or the way Uber is shaking up the cozy, static world of taxi transportation. Not every problem has to be a huge VC-fundable business. But what about education? Financial Services?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

It uses metrics such as credit score, income, marital status and education to figure out insurance rates, which eventually disproportionately hurts low-income individuals through high rates and low protection. VC firms rushed to support Black founders , and Henry saw a gap in solutions committed to change. Image Credits: Loop.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Consumer services investments have boomed because of the growth of smartphones enabling innovation in transportation and the rise of socially enabled services built on Facebook and Twitter’s distribution mechanisms.

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Unvalidated Learnings

MAY 26, 2015

Broadly defined as any service provided by a human in less than an hour and ordered through a mobile interface, the on-demand model is being applied to every imaginable vertical , from food delivery and transportation to healthcare, education or home improvements. Healthcare (doctors consultation, prescription drug delivery, etc.)

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Online education. There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. Almost nobody believed and now look at it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

But I have been in close contact with the NVCA, many of the major law firms and many of the major VC firms. Am I ineligible since I’m VC-backed? There is nothing in the rules that state that VC-backed businesses are ineligible. I am not claiming to be the world expert on this. shouldn’t I? The short answer is “no.”

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Last year was a big year for these leaders—even if the VC funding numbers don’t show it—and we’re excited to see what these entrepreneurs do in 2021. She founded TransTech Social Enterprises , based in Chicago , to provide education, support and tech jobs for trans people. Angelica Ross is working to change that.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A combination of university talent pipelines, top-rated quality of life, growing startup ecosystem, and growing VC funding has Tree Town topping lists as one of the best places to start a tech company or find a top tech job. With Movatic’s app, you can rent a bike, scooter or bike locker from Movatic’s network of 300+ local operators.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Getting to Yes and What Happens Next: An Unfiltered Chat with a Top VC , with Mayfield. BF 200 Fast-Pitch Sessions — Education, HR and Future of Work. BF 200 Fast-Pitch Sessions — Clean Tech, Climate, Mobility and Transportation. . – 1:50 p.m.: How to Evolve Your Business Through Recurring Revenue , with Chargebee. 2:00 p.m. –

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

From Onayemi’s point of view, the growth of Africa’s digital economy revolves around gains in six segments: education, payments, logistics, transport, identity, and trade. Trade has the least startup activity in a market that received $5 billion in VC funding last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Image Credits: Cowboy Ventures / Guild Education. Tomorrow’s episode of Extra Crunch Live will feature guests VC Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and Rachel Carlson, CEO and co-founder of Guild Education. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin. Since then, Z?m

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TechCrunch

JUNE 18, 2021

Evette Ellis and Ben Schippers took to the main stage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 to share how their companies capitalized on the new opportunities presented by the electric transportation revolution. Investors Clara Brenner, Quin Garcia and Rachel Holt on SPACs, micromobility and how COVID-19 shaped VC. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Three companies from the Studiomates community-- Sherpaa , Tinybop , and Editorially --received VC dollars in 2012. I have a special relationship with Etsy, because I was at Union Square Ventures, the VC firm that backed the company, back in 2006. via Brownstoner.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

In just a year, OurCrowd has moved from an initial license to an established market player, with its new investment center and tech hub bringing additional VC and tech specialism to Abu Dhabi and expanding the availability of solutions and technology to companies,” he added. OurCrowd is leading a SAFE for NetOp. Learn More. Top Tech News.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. As in other countries in “COVID 2020”, VC tended to focus on existing portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Sara Mauskopf is the CEO and co-founder of Winnie , a child care and education marketplace helping millions of parents across the United States. Moreover, government investment, via tax credits for electric vehicle purchases, made it more affordable for consumers to buy the green transportation they needed. Sara Mauskopf. Contributor.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Side note: I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the world hasn’t quite changed yet just because a few more cars, which are a horribly inefficient mode of transportation to begin with, are electric and *questionably* better for the environment when waste and disposal is taken into consideration. VC David Sacks tweeted “??

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