American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Magnetar, a global multi-strategy alternative asset manager, with additional support from Pulse Fund and strategic partner Pritchard Auto Company, made a $36 million equity contribution to the five-year-old company. But Enderas commitment to innovation goes beyond just the buses themselves.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We tried to compete, investing a million dollars in enabling self-serve products and revamping our GTM playbook. Our vision emphasizes that while vertical SaaS can quickly attract a few customers, horizontal SaaS is a long-term strategy. This requires a delicate balance between short-term customer demands and long-term innovation.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

This article presents key strategies, backed by expert insights, to help you showcase your startup’s value and growth potential. Leveraging before-and-after scenarios may help, enabling you to showcase how your solutions solved specific customer problems. You shouldn’t be tunnel-visioned by raw data. The outcome?

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This principle is a core part of how the best companies innovate. They don’t just set a strategy and hope for the best. In the next post, we’ll explore how staying adaptable in the face of setbacks enables long-term success. Instead, they test, refine, and improve constantly evolving until they find what truly works.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

Creator Ventures, founded in 2022 by cousins Sasha Kaletsky and Caspar Lee , is uniquely positioned to invest in the next wave of AI-enabled consumer applications, marketplaces, creative tools, and SaaS platforms reshaping the digital landscape. As a creator, Ive lived through the digital evolution firsthand, said Lee. Thats what we bring.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 18, 2025

The two companies collaborated on a technical paper co-authored with experts from the semiconductor and quantum computing industries that lays out a strategy for achieving large-scale quantum computing. Qolab, Inc., Martinis is a renowned physicist and one of the worlds foremost experts in superconducting qubits.

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HPA

JUNE 24, 2025

Moonnox is an AI-native platform designed for professional services firms to streamline their delivery processes by enabling the creation of custom AI agents. This investment leverages HPA’s operating expertise in AI to support Moonnox. said Robert Ong , CEO and Co-Founder of Moonnox.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 3, 2025

These platforms provide intuitive interfaces, such as drag-and-drop AI-powered tools, enabling business owners to create custom AI solutions tailored to their needs. Social Media Management: Use Generative AI for content creation, enabling you to schedule posts and analyze engagement metrics to optimize content strategy.

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StartupNation

JUNE 23, 2025

Drawing on insights from these resilient entrepreneurs, readers will discover practical strategies for navigating setbacks and emerging stronger in the face of adversity. The current circumstances demanded immediate adjustment and innovative approach development.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 14, 2024

After years of working in strategy and marketing, I realized that I wanted to channel my skills into a venture that aligned with my values. Collaboration builds innovation and helps navigate obstacles more effectively. These qualities align with current trends emphasizing ethical business practices and innovation.

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Jason Malki

MAY 4, 2025

With over 20 years of experience across regulatory compliance, risk management, and financial innovation, Hourad has become a leading voice in turning compliance from a burdensome cost center into a powerful enabler of trust andgrowth. We had to prove that innovation and dependability werent mutually exclusive.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2025

As a publicist and brand strategist, I had always viewed management through a lens of campaigns, messaging and market strategies. The Journey of Leadership: Practice Making Mistakes Creativity Meets Business: How Today’s Innovators are Living Drucker’s Principles Apple is a great example of this approach.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With a background in entrepreneurship, product strategy, and AI-driven innovation , Kashyap has built multiple ventures across AI, EdTech, and analytics. His current work focuses on reducing networking noise and cognitive overload while enabling startups to scale efficiently with AI-powered talent discovery.

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StartupNation

JULY 12, 2025

Hiring freelancers is a smart move for startups that feel conventional recruitment strategies have reached a dead end. How to Leverage the Gig Economy for Startup Success 8 Strategies to Secure High-Caliber Freelancers for Startup Growth Yes, freelancers bring flexibility. A simple way to prevent bias is to anonymize applications.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 7, 2025

billion, Liftoff enables mobile developers to build, discover, and monetize apps using powerful AI-driven solutions tailored to maximize user acquisition and revenue. Liftoff directly addresses these needs with a comprehensive suite of AI-enabled marketing and monetization tools. Valued at $4.3

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 11, 2025

From Search to Strategy: A Platform Built on Context At the heart of Glean’s mission is contextual intelligence. This context-aware design enables users to search intelligently, generate content accurately, and automate workflows confidently, all while preserving enterprise-level data governance and security.

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Jason Malki

JULY 8, 2025

We don’t just deliver growth strategies — we create momentum that reshapes the future of a company. At the same time, we’re staying ahead of the curve by integrating the latest in AI and operational innovation, both internally and for our clients. What is it that excites you about what you’re building?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

How to kickstart your AI automation strategy Automate intelligently with Zapier What is AI automation? Drives innovation: AI automation is a powerful R&D assistant. These learning capabilities are crucial for AI automation, enabling systems to adapt and get smarter. Let's look at some examples.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Being part of a team that fosters innovation and growth in the business community keeps us motivated and inspired every day. Craig highlighted the significant impact of technology, which has enabled faster and more efficient assessments for business financing. What recent news and highlights can you share about your work and impact?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

The best way to translate all those different data streams coming at you from Sales, Customer Service, Marketing, and the intern's experimental TikTok strategy into something that resembles coherent business information is with CRM technology. Unless your business model involves avoiding customers, which would be weird but innovative.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I've been thinking a lot about what an innovation-friendly school looks like and have a few thoughts--and it doesn't just mean building labs or creating more flexible IP licensing schemes. More and more startups are getting built without relying on University research--because hard technology is rarely the barrier to innovation these days.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 27, 2024

Have you seen the new study in Nature that “conclusively proves” remote work harms innovation and creativity? The narrative that traditional, in-person work environments are the sole breeding grounds for innovation and collaborative breakthroughs has dominated the discourse.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One of our biggest strategies is collaboration. Through years of innovative research and intentional transparency about our process, we have created a name for ourselves. This enables us to highlight and amplify the efforts of all parties involved and creates increased awareness.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

The funding comes from the European Innovation Council Fund (EIC Fund), the EU’s innovation agency, which has a €278 million Innovation Fund. The EIC co-invested with an innovation credit provided by the Dutch government and existing shareholders. Steven Kroonsberg joins as CFO. Roel Jansen joins as CCO.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Increasing one’s imagination creates possibilities and can enable a person to pursue and accomplish many great goals. Goal board: create a board where you have goals or strategies that your company is striving for and each week you can focus on one goal or problem to solve or work on. It opens up the mind to unexplored paths.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Notable institutional investors supporting Monderne Ventures include GCM Grosvenor, the Illinois Growth and Innovation Fund, and some of the world’s largest strategic partners like AvalonBay, Essent, and leading real estate companies. Moderne’s Core Funds invest in technology companies with between $2-20 million in revenue.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

19 Strategies for Managing Risk in a Startup In this article, we explore nineteen different strategies for managing risk in startups, shared by founders, CEOs, and other industry professionals. This way, we made more informed decisions and reduced the risk of failure.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 1, 2023

Consumer frustration with their existing healthcare has spurred innovation, in particular, emerging health focused digital platforms such as Lifeforce that have received investor funding. Lifeforce is a telehealth driven model that lowers cost, reduces friction, and makes personalized health optimization more accessible.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Two firms stuck out in recent days, including Urban Innovation Fund , which closed with commitments of $101 million for its Fund III and $20 million Opportunity Fund, and VMG Catalyst ‘s $400 million Fund II. Both firms are led by women, Clara Brenner and Julie Lein at Urban Innovation Fund, and Brooke Kiley over at VMG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 18, 2021

Successful entrepreneurs know that they will face fierce competition in the market and must stay up-to-date with the latest innovations and ideas to keep their businesses thriving. The PPP enabled me to keep a small but scrappy team; we dug deep to become the experts on virtual and hybrid events.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Vincent Peters, the CEO (the three co-founders are Johannis Hatt, Kai Seefeldt, and chief innovation officer Marcel Hollerbach), told TechCrunch that the valuation was not being disclosed with this round, but given how little it’s raised in the last 12 years, that is a strong sign that the company has been growing well on its own steam.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 31, 2022

These varied interactions create a well-rounded team with innovative thought processes driven by a greater volume of inputs. This enables a transfer of resources, including technology and knowledge, that significantly increases the productivity and efficiency of the workforce. Create a strategy.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Overall, we are very optimistic about construction robotics and hope to see more companies attempt to solve the issues in productivity with breakthrough technologies, as well as innovative business models. Innovative new startups are continually entering the space. How much time are you spending on construction robotics right now?

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Revolution

MARCH 7, 2024

In Their Own Words: Female Founders and CEOs Discuss the Discourse That’s Missing (and Hitting) the Mark This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “ Inspire Inclusion ” — a call to recognize the unique perspectives and contributions of women from all walks of life, in all facets of life, including the innovation economy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software. Other prominent use cases include AML checks, customer onboarding and fraud prevention.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 11, 2024

There is a wealth of online marketing research resources to help a small business or startup to establish a marketing plan and strategy to achieve its marketing goals. With the right information, small businesses can formulate a strategy to move forward more confidently, by understanding their target customers and related market segment.

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Revolution

MAY 5, 2023

Today, legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) stands to mobilize a new generation of innovation within this space. It remains to be seen how that amount of accountability will impact sustainable strategies on a micro and macro scale, but, as they say, sunlight is often the best disinfectant.

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