TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

When mHub opened its doors in Chicago seven years ago, the vision was to create a traditional incubator for people making things. Now, it is moving into a newly acquired , freshly refurbished space in a Chicago opportunity zone to help it incubate, accelerate and support more startups that can have a positive impact on humanity.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Every time I talk to someone about the work we do at Founders’ Co-op , I have to first explain that we don’t really care about technology or business ideas per se.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The company was co-founded by CEO Sujay Tyle, co-founder and former CEO of Frontier Car Group; Felipe Delgado, previously CEO of Beetmann Energy; Olivier Scialom, co-founder and former COO of Petsy; Renato Andrade, previously associate partner at McKinsey; and Guilherme Nosralla, former head of growth at Wildlife Studios.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. To help our founders in transition , some of which are interested in becoming scouts. Our goal is to invest in, coinvest with, and/or recruit founders in transition. Just confusing minority founders even more.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It’s these twin problems that Samir Ibrahim and his co-founder at SunCulture , Charlie Nichols, have spent the last eight years trying to solve. The two began a friendship and discussed potential business opportunities stemming from a paper Nichols had read about renewable energy applications in the agriculture industry.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The way Incooling CEO Helena Samodurova sees it, the IT world is experiencing two major crises: an energy crisis and a supply chain crisis. For IT teams, satisfying new climate-friendly energy budgets is presenting a challenge, particularly when dealing with older computer hardware. It’s hardly a new technology.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It’s like “a guard standing next to the pole, listening to it, watching over it,” Tim Barat, CEO and co-founder, said, likening the box to a Fitbit for a power pole. What makes the founding team compelling here is the backgrounds of some of the company’s founders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Labrie is the CEO and founder of the pre-seed startup GreenForges , an underground farming company founded in 2019 looking to take vertical farming technology underneath buildings. Energy costs have made vertical farming more costly in terms of both emissions and dollars in some locations when compared to traditional farming.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

More than 3,700 startups — from 92 countries — applied across XTC’s competition tracks: Agtech, Food & Water, Cleantech & Energy, Edtech, Enabling Tech, Fintech, Healthtech and Mobility & Smart Cities. Female Founder Award: The Live Green Co. The competition just to reach the finals was fierce. Learn more about XTC here.

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OurCrowd

JULY 19, 2021

“It’s extremely important this year given the unprecedented growth of the tech investment scene driven by the unbelievable digital transformation that has affected all of our lives,” said Jon Medved, the founder and CEO of OurCrowd, as he opened the event. We are in a continuous process of a climate crisis that negatively affects crop yields.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Industrial delivery and drone applications in settings where human crews need to be safe such as scenes of accidents or fire are just a couple of the possible near-term uses for this cutting-edge technology. AdAdapted creates technology that helps you add advertised products to your grocery list with one click. EverActive.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Startup founders just don’t stop. A special thanks goes out to the entrepreneurs, dedicated staff and community partners of ACT Tulsa, a unique joint venture between i2E and ACT House aimed at cultivating and driving innovation of minority-led technology startups located in Tulsa. That is not the case in entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

“We are seeing an explosion in what customers are doing using PubNub,” PubNub’s CEO and co-founder Todd Greene said in an interview. They include Ably out of London, Techstars-incubated Cometchat and Google’s Firebase.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Consider coworking if there’s interest in flexible options outside the home, or a need for greater collaboration,” Amanda Lewan, founder and CEO of coworking space Bamboo Detroit, said. We’re designed for hybrid work with complementary sound-proof spaces for taking calls and meeting rooms with hybrid meeting technology.”

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 8, 2021

Incubated at OurCrowd’s Labs/02, QuantLR provides quantum encryption at low cost with easy installation and no special hardware. QuantLR’s quantum key distribution (QKD) technology is embedded into its partners’ products, making it easier to integrate and less expensive to install.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

Event Chair Angela Jackson, Portland Seed Fund Angela has 15 years of experience as a venture capitalist, angel investor, and as an advisor to startups in the technology, consumer products, cleantech, and mobile service industries. ACA 2021 - The Summit of Angel Investing: Say Hello to Your Programming Team.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Chat to local founders and there’s a litany of administrative, tax-based and fundraising pain-points they’ll quickly point to as frustrations. 5G, AI, cybersecurity and renewable energy set for investment boost under EU coronavirus recovery plan. This would really drive innovation,” co-founder Sacha Michaud tells us.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Around 7,000 tech workers have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces or Territorial Defense Only last month, OneUkraine sprang up from a host of major European tech founders and investors, who plan to provide sustainable humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people. billion in research and innovation it has to spend this year.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sanjay is a Technology Leader with 10+ Years of Experience in Wireless, IOT, Consumer Electronics, Data Science and Analytics. He is building an Incubator at Venture Bay Labs for underprivileged founders. The entrepreneur’s energy and the idea itself drive me. He is a Fellow at the Royal School of Arts.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

I ran a technology startup and a fintech startup through these times, respectively, and as such I have experienced the impact that such events can have. It is more important than ever for founders to remain calm and be strategic. Founders must consider a new timeline for the investment process. Valuations and dilution.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Our freshly squeezed startup BlueTree Technologies has figured out a way to naturally and dramatically reduce the amount of sugar in fruit juice and it still tastes great, Joy Pincus writes in the Times of Israel. The company is teaming up with US company ShotSpotter which produces gunshot detection technology, Inceptive Mind reports.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 9, 2018

The leaders follow the normal human tendency of focusing on what they understand, and spending less energy on the domains in which they are less competent. – Incubating companies. – Technology stack. I have published a series of research papers on how VCs are using technology to improve returns.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Among them are Wenjing Zhao, a fashion industry veteran who uses her expertise to recycle plastic waste into high-quality products, and Stéphane Vernede, a Shanghai-based French engineer who is converting organic waste into highly efficient and affordable renewable energy and fertilizers.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

We need the kind of technology and innovation that will be on display at the Summit this week more than ever to help solve the challenges that face the planet. We need to bring together the smartest founders, entrepreneurs, investors and multinational partners to discuss the problems and build solutions together.

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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. Dandelion Energy raises $70M Series B1. Top Tech News.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 28, 2023

Among the speakers announced so far: Isaac Herzog, President of the State of Israel Amnon Shashua, founder of Mobileye and One Zero Bank Thomas R. CropX also relies on AWS technology to support rising traffic from web and mobile devices, and to transfer messages between services.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitalists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I wish the small business ecosystem had something equivalent to the angel investor networks that support technology startups. In an ecosystem, there should be multiple entrepreneurial support organizations, coworking spaces, incubators/accelerators, investors, etc.communicating about the resources they have to support entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2020

If you want to follow two great Black executives who work at the intersection of technology and venture capital make sure to click on those links and follow them on Twitter. Venture firms wanted to meet talented Black founders but didn’t know where to start to find them. So what exactly is Valence and why does it matter?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. As with most of Biden’s big infrastructure initiatives, there are startups tackling these issues.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

Startup 302’s mission to support founders from underrepresented backgrounds is such an important one, and this year’s finalists not only further enhance the wellspring of innovation developing in Delaware but offer technologies and solutions that truly will make the world a better place.” Morgan Chase & Co. ,

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OurCrowd

MARCH 14, 2022

We also heard from the Nexa3D CEO and 3D printing industry pioneer Avi Reichenthal, Ofek Ron, Co-founder and CEO of Plantish, Geert Denutte, Founder of CGK Group, Noga Sela Shalev, VP Business Development at the Fresh Start FoodTech Incubator, and Nir Zook, an Executive Chef. W atch Here. Introductions.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 6, 2021

IXDen has created the world’s best technology to protect our water, electricity, gas, oil and other critical infrastructure systems against attack, tampering and failure. Its software-only technology predicts and rapidly detects cyberattacks and sensor problems, allowing network operators to take timely corrective action.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

It’s a lens through which we attempt to view technology at large. One of the things that makes my beat a bit tricky is how difficult it is to convey many of these technologies in an email. That’s doubly the case if you’re a founder who can see the end of the runway looming on the horizon. Will we see more closures?

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Top carmaker invests in Connected Energy. A top European carmaker has joined the funding round for Connected Energy , which transforms depleted EV batteries into storage systems for alternative energy. OurCrowd is investing in this Series B round alongside energy, banking and equipment manufacturing giants. Learn More.

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