Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 25, 2025

Earlier this month, ten dynamic Oklahoma startups took the stage at Bridge2 Demo Day, marking the conclusion of the third cohort of i2E’s Bridge2 Pre-Accelerator. Bridge2 is Oklahoma’s premier pre-accelerator for scalable, tech-enabled, early-stage startups. Bridge2 helped us get laser focused.

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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. Its Fund I (20222025) already shows 0.3x DPI and 3x MOIC, exceptional for its vintage.

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The Seraf Compass

JULY 21, 2025

Early-stage investing is a high-context, low-resources game. Some teams streamline investor onboarding using Passthrough or Allocations Post-Investment Ops : This is where Seraf becomes the quiet engine, tracking IRR, KPIs, and cash positions, organizing documents, managing deadlines, and generating stakeholder-ready updates.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

Effectively communicating your startup’s impact metrics to investors can make or break your funding opportunities. This article presents key strategies, backed by expert insights, to help you showcase your startup’s value and growth potential. You shouldn’t be tunnel-visioned by raw data.

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StartupNation

JUNE 16, 2025

Why should you learn inbound marketing tips for growing startups? And building awareness around your startup can be a tough task. In fact, more than 20% of startups don’t survive past the first year. Of the startups that fail, 38% state lack of cash as the top reason whereas 20% got outcompeted. What does this mean?

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The two-year-old startup having served approximately 40,000 customers announced the closing of a $21 million Seed funding round to support its AI speech models and an AI voice agent platform. The company’s latest model uses a conversation’s historical context to facilitate natural, human-like conversational experiences.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

million pre-A funding round, the FinTech startup aims to expand its regional footprint while laying the groundwork for future global growth. Notably, the round saw participation from Jason Gardner, founder and former CEO of Marqeta, who made this investment his first in the MEA region. With its just closed $5.2

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Gururaj shared valuable insights from his experiences on having his previous startup getting acquired by a large public company, rapid growth with large-xLarge customers, and challenges in capturing SMBs and medium-sized enterprises. What motivated you to launch your startup? What has been your top challenges when growing your startup?

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 10, 2025

I’m a believer in the ‘ software eats the world ‘ thesis, although I often change it to ‘software enables the world,’ which is not nearly as evocative but also not as consumptive. I’ve said before this is one reason why we are very very careful about investing in addiction or mental health startups.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 21, 2025

And thats a more important goal than never having a cavity, investing in seven unicorns, or IPOing a companyall things that result a little from your own effort and a lot from things you cant always control, like the efforts of others and a whole lot of luck. Everyone knew the risks going in.

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StartupNation

JUNE 4, 2025

For example, when pitching a renewable energy startup, I used a visual timeline to showcase the growth of the clean energy market, highlighting the potential for exponential returns. This slide listed potential obstacles we may face as a startup, along with our strategies to mitigate them and ultimately succeed.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 6, 2025

David, the rapidly growing health and nutrition startup, raised $75 million in Series A funding, led by Greenoaks with participation from Valor Equity Partners. This investment allows us to scale faster and stay focused on our goal of helping people eat well without compromise.” Peter and his team are building something special.”

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2025

Example: A growing startup can use AI recruitment tools to filter through hundreds of job applications, identifying the most suitable candidates based on skills and experience. Despite these challenges, the benefits of AI agents far outweigh the drawbacks, making them a worthwhile investment for small businesses looking to scale.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2025

Empowering Student Entrepreneurship The $50,000 donation from Chegg will be instrumental in supporting student-led startups, providing funding for materials, supplies, and essential technological resources. million, the total external investment in the program is expected to reach $17.5 With anticipated matching gifts totaling $7.5

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Swayam Doshi, Founder, Suspire Swayam, welcome to Startup Blog Post! Could you tell our readers a little about yourself and your journey in the startup world? My journey in the startup world began with a strong passion for sustainability and a desire to make a meaningful impact. Thank you for the warm welcome!

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

We wanted to create a modern payment solution that would address both hygienic concerns and provide an adaptable solution for small businesses to be competitive without the need for high capital investments in their own online platforms. As a startup, we face many challenges when it comes to growing our business. What is KadePay ?

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StartupNation

JUNE 23, 2025

We continued with transparent and empathetic customer communication and recognized the importance of investing in technology to help with effective shipping and preventing disruptions. A well-trained, reliable staff and strong supplier relationships enabled us to ride out the storm.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In 2025, startups beyond the coasts and outside of the traditional tech hubs will face new challenges and, with customary resourcefulness, also seize new opportunities. startups in Q1-Q2 of 2024. Exit optionality is indeed essential to the startup and venture capital lifecycle, as acquisitions make up 90% ofexits.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 16, 2025

The funds from Blackstone Infrastructure and Blackstone Real Estate are expected to draw in an additional $60 billion in private investment, accelerating the State’s Innovation Ecosystem. We’re excited to work with our partners at PPL to invest in the generation needed to support this critical digital infrastructure.”

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StartupNation

MAY 21, 2025

Choosing the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system is a critical decision for any startup. Their insights offer practical guidance to help your startup make smarter, more informed decisions that support long-term growth. Missteps during the selection process can lead to wasted resources and missed opportunities.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 27, 2025

The startup uses AI automation to streamline specialty therapy approvals for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. Mandolin, an innovative AI healthcare startup, has secured $40 million in funding to transform how patients gain access to life-saving specialty therapies.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (6000+ reviews) Brevo Budget-conscious startups Generous free tier Free plan, paid plan starts at $9/month 4.5/5 While the AI tools are impressive, many are restricted to higher-tier plans, requiring significant investment to access the most innovative features.

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A Smart Bear: Longform

JUNE 7, 2025

The answer for a funded startup is “Bid as much as possible, to get as many customers—and data!—as You don’t have that budget, and you’re keen on getting a reasonable return on investment reasonably quickly. A surprising number of startups have CAC > LTV. Here’s my way. So how big can CAC be before it’s “too big?”

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

As a fast-growing recruiting software company serving customers from startups to enterprises, Ashby needed clarity on whether its LinkedIn ad investments were truly paying off. This data-driven approach enables faster, more confident decisions across their ad strategy. And the beauty?

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

It’s about not just being more efficient, but fundamentally changing how one operates and leads, enabling the team to get significantly more done and overcome the previous limitations imposed by older ways of thinking or doing things. Within a few years, I became Chief Investment Officer. We were in four cities.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 8, 2025

Led by True Ventures and Offline Ventures, with participation from Goodwater Capital and Marketplace Capital, the investment underscores the need for flexible, accessible, and high-quality child care solutions. This funding empowers us to scale our operations and broaden our reach into new markets.”

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2024

the designated broker/owner of Venture REI , an award-winning, Arizona-based real estate brokerage and advisory firm specializing in the purchase, sale, rental, and marketing of select residential developments and commercial investment properties. He began personally investing in real estate at the age of 18. Buckle up!

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2025

Its superconducting architecture enables order-of-magnitude improvements in processing speed and energy efficiency, making it a powerful alternative to today’s conventional silicon-based compute platforms. billion under management, Playground has built a reputation for identifying startups capable of delivering transformational outcomes.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Homebrew makes investments by consensus – it works because there’s just two of us. Second, it matters to us externally that founders know it’s always Homebrew making the investment – never a situation where one of us was excited and the other one didn’t block it.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 6, 2025

Singapore-based startup BridgePort has secured $3.2 The company develops middleware that links trading firms, exchanges, and custodians, enabling […] million in seed funding to expand its platform and strengthen its team.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 17, 2025

trillion in investments by 2034 which has been trending toward overseas suppliers. This investment positions Ultion as a key player in the national effort to reduce reliance on foreign battery supply chains. Torus’s investment in Ultion builds the case for building vertically integrated energy solutions in America.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 9, 2025

The investment underscores strong investor confidence in Plexāā’s innovative surgical technology and its mission to revolutionize surgical prehabilitation through Supraphysiological Preconditioning. With the support of this latest startup funding round, Plexāā will expand its clinical partnerships, scale its U.S.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

So Why Did We Invest? The backend services to enable scrolling, click-and-watch, scroll forward with minimal buffering, etc. Otherwise known as a tech startup. The post Why We Invested in @FerrisApp – A New Kind of Video Sharing App appeared first on Bothsides of the Table. That’s where Shaheen did his magic.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fractal has raised $360 million from TPG in a new financing round and entered the unicorn club as the Mumbai and New York-based AI startup, which counts Google and Wells Fargo among its customers, scales its offerings and begins preparation for an IPO. helps firms improve investment decisions, Eugenie.ai ”

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 6, 2024

Identify and access management company Okta will award up to $500K as an investment to the winner of its inaugural SaaS startup competition. The company seeks the latest application innovations underway using identity, privacy, and security-enabled workflows. The submission period for the Competition ends August 31, 2024.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

If your US-based business is adversely affected by Covid-19 such that you would need to lay off employees imminently and having access to capital would enable you to keep more employees on the payroll then you might be eligible. When the $350 billion is fully invested will more be made available? Am I eligible for the PPP Loan?

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