Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 25, 2025

Held at Gradient, Tulsa’s Innovation Hub, the event spotlighted founders who have spent the past 16 weeks refining their ventures through tailored curriculum, expert mentorship, and strategic preparation for the next stage of investment and growth. Bridge2 is Oklahoma’s premier pre-accelerator for scalable, tech-enabled, early-stage startups.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

Effectively communicating your startup’s impact metrics to investors can make or break your funding opportunities. You must demonstrate how your venture helps solve certain problems. Leveraging before-and-after scenarios may help, enabling you to showcase how your solutions solved specific customer problems.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2025

The funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners included Kleiner Perkins, WestBridge Capital, Battery Ventures, and Emergent Ventures. This disruptive model enables cloud companies to build the most cost- and power-efficient AI solutions. Filling a Critical Market Gap The market opportunity is enormous.

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StartupNation

JUNE 4, 2025

This visual representation not only conveyed the market opportunity effectively but also made the pitch deck more memorable and engaging. Rather than dumping numbers on a slide and hoping investors connected the dots, we gave them a narrative arc that made the opportunity feel real and urgent. This made it tangible and less abstract.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

A diverse founding team finds an opportunity to address fragmented services in these two major regions. These issues often transform payments from a growth enabler into a cost and risk center for businesses. Now, with Flourish Ventures on board, we are laying the foundation for global expansion. With its just closed $5.2

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2025

At the same time, Launchpad@Stevens supports student innovation by providing mentorship, funding, and networking opportunities. Through a curriculum centered on hands-on learning and real-world application, students in the iSTEM program gain the opportunity to turn their ideas into viable businesses.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Two Bear Capital, with notable participation from Accenture Ventures, led the funding round. In response to this imminent threat, QuSecure is providing solutions that enable businesses to transition seamlessly to post-quantum cryptographic standards. It is expected to grow exponentially.

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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. I’m excited to share insights from my journey and encourage others to embrace sustainability in their own ventures. Together, we can make a difference!

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StartupNation

JUNE 23, 2025

It became clear that we needed to enter new markets quickly and look for new opportunities. This experience taught me that—especially in new ventures—you may not get it right the first time. A well-trained, reliable staff and strong supplier relationships enabled us to ride out the storm. A few weeks later, we began to adapt.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 29, 2025

Gavin Andresen, one of my partners in my first venture, taught me something I’ve never forgotten: “You can teach skills, you can’t teach work ethic and compatibility.” In my experience, this is where the opportunity for impact is greatest. What Does Greatness Look Like?

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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. Headwinds Liquidity crunch: While venture-backed IPOs ticked up in 2024 , public market entrances still fell short of expectations and historical levels.

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StartupNation

JUNE 9, 2025

Starting a new business is an exciting venture, but it’s fraught with potential pitfalls. Maintaining distinct bank accounts and credit cards protects your assets, simplifies accounting, enables accurate financial tracking, and demonstrates professional credibility to investors and lenders.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 16, 2025

QTS also plans to issue a Request for Information (RFI) to expand development opportunities into other regions across the state. economy, Blackstone has also formed a joint venture with PPL , a leading Allentown-based utility company. Tag Greason, Co-CEO of QTS, emphasized the Commonwealth’s attractiveness.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 6, 2025

Snorkel and Accenture are seizing the opportunity when enterprises are moving toward “agentic AI” and autonomous decision-making AI Systems that require high-quality, domain-specific data critical. Snorkel addresses this gap by enabling organizations to embed expert knowledge directly into the AI development process.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2025

Superconducting Compute Platform Unlocks Ultra-Efficient, High-Performance Infrastructure for Next-Gen Workloads A bold new entrant in the compute infrastructure landscape, Snowcap Compute has officially launched with $23 million in seed funding led by Playground Global, alongside participation from Cambium Capital and Vsquared Ventures.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Also, theres more opportunity, and you really feel like if youre not there one day the project doesnt move forward. Looking ahead, I hope my story is one where I continue to take on challenging opportunities, create something where nothing existed before, and build companies that truly change their markets. billion in revenue at Angi.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 17, 2025

The funding round also includes participation from mission-aligned investors such as Battle Born Venture, Nevada’s state-sponsored venture capital program which the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) has oversight, and is a key driver of Nevad a’s innovation ecosystem. In a decisive step toward U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 22, 2025

Led by Playground Global , with participation from Boardman Bay Capital Management , Morpheus Ventures , and other investors, the funding marks a major milestone for xLight’s vision to deliver a next-generation light source that could redefine semiconductor lithography and reestablish U.S. leadership in chip manufacturing.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2014

The biggest opportunity to innovate is probably on the consumer facing side of things--the medium of creation. It''s also the same bet that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures made with Makr --that enabling more people to be more creative could be revolutionary. Venture Capital & Technology'

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 10, 2015

When you''ve already got tens and hundreds of millions of dollars, a whole world of moneymaking opportunities are available to you that the rest of the world can''t access. Take venture capital, for example. Below that and they need to keep you from investing in really risky stuff, like venture capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Startups, early-stage and growth-stage companies present their models to a gathering of angel investors and venture capital firms The Venture Atlanta Conference, set to take place on October 8-9, 2024, at The Woodruff Arts Center and Atlanta Symphony Hall, is one of the most anticipated entrepreneurial events in the southeast U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab. These technology-enabled startups are in the seed to Series A funding round stage, tackling a wide range of global challenges and needing access to resources. Twelve U.S.-based

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Strategic investment fund BankTech Ventures invests in companies that are developing innovative technologies that enhance the ability of community banks to serve their customers. When Bank Tech tapped Carey Ransom as its first Managing Director, the firm valued his extensive 25-year career in software and venture capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Partnering organizations advance regional health innovation ecosystems To advance healthcare access, quality, and equity, the Ohio -headquartered managed care organization CareSource is partnering with Indiana -based Boomerang Ventures, an early-stage venture studio, specializing in connected health solutions. Overall, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. hit nearly $1.8

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

The round was led by Forge Ventures , and also saw participation from DS/X Ventures, Sketchnote Partners, Prasetia Ventures, and other notable regional and global angel investors. in Forge Ventures-led pre-Seed funding first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform. in pre-seed funding.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. billion of total venture capital.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Dozens of healthcare-focused voice tech startups have popped up in the last few years which are backed by top tier venture funds. Healthymize ’s product enables passive, ambient remote monitoring of people with conditions like COPD, asthma, and pneumonia to identify potential flare ups and prevent hospitalizations.

hospitality

Revolution

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For years, tech companies, talent, and venture capital were concentrated on the coasts — a precedent the pandemic tipped, if not flipped. Dynamism creates vitality and job opportunities that are key to a city’s success. Zoning impacts everything — collaboration, economic opportunity, climate, and long-term resilience.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The venture capital firm just announced the final closing of its inaugural fund of $186 million, oversubscribed at 55% above their target. “This successful fundraise enables us to back additional founders and provide even greater assistance to our current portfolio.”

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Register Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, SoGal Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage investments in diverse founding teams, operating in both the United States and Asia. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Twenty-three members of the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab cohort are pitching today to an audience of over 300 investors, potential partners, and customers. The disruptive technology-enabled startups are being showcased at its Demo Day, following their five-month participation in the Labs’ accelerator program. “At

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Sharon Lou, venture partner at Indelible Ventures , considers this as one of the top mistakes that founders commit when raising funds. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally. Edited excerpts below: What background and domain expertise do you have?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work. Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Register Startup founders need to be authentic and prepared when they get the chance to meet prospective investors, according to Rex Fong, founding partner at investment and advisory group Capitale Ventures. Fong’s Capitale Ventures is an investment and advisory group with expertise in complex, cross-border transactions.

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