TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Husk Power Systems , a clean energy company that has been at the forefront of fueling rural electrification since 2008, is planning to launch 500 solar mini-grids in Nigeria over the next five years. The company plans to have additional technological and business model innovations, and the use of AI and IoT to remotely manage its fleet.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 20, 2025

Washingtons Premier Connector of Tech and Policy Leaders Welcomes the Next Generation of Innovators that includes Delta Force, an annual cohort designed to support 6-10 of DCs most promising startup founders. Additionally, STATION DC is launching Delta Force, an annual cohort designed to support 6-10 of DCs most promising startup founders.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 29, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm TRIREC and Thai energy innovations company INNOPOWER announced today the formation of Energy Ignition Ventures, a $100-million growth-stage fund aimed at promoting decarbonisation initiatives.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

The soundbite: “The way to go fishing is by going where the fish are — we need to open source where federal funding is headed and how to get a piece of the clean energy and infrastructure pie.” Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2020

We are seeing structural declines in the importance of massive sectors like carbon based energy, commercial real estate, retail, and more. And technology based products and services are benefitting from these losses. Capital and talent are the heart and soul of startups and both are now available to a founder from anywhere.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

Written by Ruchir Punjabi , the co-founder and chief digital officer of Distributed Energy , a company that matches investors with renewable energy projects across Africa, Middle East and India, and the founder of Langoor, which was sold to Havas Group in 2019. Fundamentally, the change is about delivering value.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. Right here.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In a statement, VFlowTech that it will use the funds to set-up a 200 MWh production line capacity and scale up the manufacturing of its 250 kWh modular vanadium-based long duration energy storage solutions. Kumar said that conventional energy storage technologies such as lithium-ion and lead acid batteries have limited functionality.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 23, 2024

on Innovation & Technology Policy with a focus on artificial intelligence. After graduating from the University of Antioquia, witnessing the innovations in science, technology, and strategy in this community only increased Jonathan’s curiosity.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This interview is with Swayam Doshi , Founder at Suspire. Swayam Doshi, Founder, Suspire Swayam, welcome to Startup Blog Post! I’m Swayam Doshi, the founder of Suspire. Many of our readers are aspiring founders. Staying ahead in the dynamic world of technology and business requires a proactive approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

I’m sure you know, but Elon was the co-founder (and largest shareholder) of PayPal, the most important payment transfer technology of its era and still the most instrumental to date. Energy independence (so he founded Tesla and Solar City). But Elon Musk stole the show. He was interested in a few other big ideas.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Shanea Leven is co-founder and CEO of CodeSee , a developer platform that helps developers and development teams better understand codebases. Raising money is catastrophically challenging for female founders, and even harder for Black female founders.”. Shanea Leven. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Women are still behind.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The past two-and-a-half years have been a roller-coaster ride for the founders of VAE Labs , but today the pre-revenue CPG company has some good news: a $2 million seed round that will help boost its sprayable caffeine device into the commercial market. million post-money valuation, according to co-founder Orri Bogdan.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2021

As the founder and CEO of AmberMedia —a media company based in Berlin, Germany—Karsten has been working toward carbon neutrality for a decade. We started 10 years ago by using only alternative energy in our offices. The first step was to switch to alternate energy 10 years ago. The screens also run on green energy.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 26, 2012

In today's world, the democratization of technology means that the next big thing could literally come from anywhere. There was a pretty major theme I saw from a founder's perspective: VCs are jerks because they don't follow up. I know that a startup at the early stages is the founder's baby. Isn't that what I get paid to do?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 5, 2024

” Other Learn Arounds focused on practical leadership topics such as succession planning in a family business, challenges and solutions in local manufacturing, operational efficiency and resource management, and innovative technologies. The energy is high, and great ideas arise during the session.”

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

With a newly secured $100 million in Series B funding, the company is changing the landscape of AI computing with a revolutionary approach to reduce the energy consumption of AI workloads. Verma, a Princeton University professor since 2009, has conducted pioneering research in next-generation computing technologies.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

These changes will create opportunities for founders across the entire stack of computer-aided design tools for architects, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, and finally integration with 3-D environmental models to understand and design the lifetime impact of the buildings. USA News ).Labor

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Register Philippine telecom giant Globe’s 917Ventures and Ayala Corporation are set to bring global two-wheel electric vehicle and battery-swapping technology leader Gogoro to the country. Hopefully, this technology will encourage more Filipinos to switch to EV,” Yamat said. Remember Me. No account yet?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Sun King, a provider of off-grid solar energy products in Africa and Asia, has secured a $70 million equity investment led by LeapFrog Investments. The solar energy company has also provided more than $500 million in solar purchase finance through a network of over 20,000 field agents, 36% of whom are women. “We

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He is the founder of La Escombrera, the founder of Surcos Argentinos and the co-founder of Digital Footprint. Digital Footprint taught people the basics of digital devices, and how to use technology such as Microsoft Office and Google, and social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube. Pursue your goals and work hard.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Google has selected 30 startups to receive a share of its $2 million Black Founders Fund in Europe, providing these companies with a spot of cash, some valuable cloud services and a bit of good old-fashioned networking among the Google crew. All the startups are led by Black founders, and 40% by women of color.

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Dream It

AUGUST 29, 2019

For this reason, it would be ridiculous for a founder to ever tell a venture investor that they want to keep the company private. The exit strategy conversation should be nuanced, and founders should use it as a way to show investors you can think about things from different angles. In reality, exits are an outcome, not a strategy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Comcast Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Real Estate Technology (RET) Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to $32 million since its 2019 inception. Image Credits: From left to right: Chester Chipperfield, co-founder and advisor Jonathan Scherr, co-founder and CEO BJ Siegel, co-founder and Head of Design / Juno.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 18, 2022

Since 2010, I’ve worked as a media relations troubleshooter for some of the world’s leading organizations (NHS, HERE Technologies, Virgin). Lightbulb, HARO, ResponseSource), there’s no better time for business founders and leaders to generate their own coverage. Why does this starting point matter so much for founders?

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Do you think when the founder of Spanx wants to raise money for her next consumer product, investors are going to ask her for a PDF? Founders are often convinced if they just got a little face time, they''d be able to impress or explain better. They''re doing that so you pump out heat energy to power their machine ways.".

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

I was introduced to Apoorva , the founder of Instacart, in the spring of 2013 by my close friend/business school neighbor Rafael Corrales. Apoorva was looking to bring on a non-technical co-founder as he entered YC, and my epic bad decision was not to jump at the opportunity to join Instacart at that moment.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 24, 2022

YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with Mutiny co-founder and CEO Jaleh Rezaei to talk about their recent acquisition of Intellipse, an AI marketing platform, as well as how AI will impact the next era of growth. Jaleh and her co-founder decided to create a no code platform and serve as the world’s growth team.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

A Strong Pool of Tech Founders – Stating the obvious. Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. Think Fred Wilson, Tony Hsieh or Brad Feld. Here are mine: 1. San Diego has Qualcomm.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

Tim Hamilton, an EO member in Austin, is founder and CEO of Praxent , a custom software and web app development firm that has been named for three consecutive years to the Inc. To create an innovative product that generates a high return on investment, B2B companies will need to make strategic choices on where to focus their energy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Nancy Pfund is founder and managing partner of DBL Partners , a venture capital firm whose goal is to combine top-tier financial returns with meaningful social, environmental and economic returns in the regions and sectors in which it invests. I believe that agriculture can be a leading climate solution while feeding a growing population.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 24, 2025

Originally from the United States and now based in Arusha, Tanzania, Kevin is the founder of iRideArusha , a motorcycle rental and tour company that offers immersive adventures throughout East Africa. The business utilized technology that allowed the entire fitting process to happen online without visiting a store.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Co-founder of Owned Outcomes Krupa Srinivas explores the value of fear in an entrepreneur’s journey as she describes partnering with a US healthcare intermediary to solve the problem of cataloguing hospital supplies. We started with the easiest problem that technology could attempt to solve. Tight timeline, undefined goals.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 1, 2021

It could be an early exit where the founders got a great offer they could not refuse. So that is where most people in venture capital focus their time and energy and rightly so. Of course you have to be smart about what you recycle and what do you not recycle. Or it could be an investment that only sort of worked.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 27, 2023

Bevon is the CEO and founder of Akata Farms , a company that builds sustainable farms and employs climate-smart agriculture to raise poultry, grow crops and create value-added products for hotels, supermarkets, restaurants and households across Grenada. We’re excited to highlight 2022 YLAI Fellowship alum Bevon Charles , from Grenada.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 12, 2023

Register Leading entrepreneurs and investors gathered at the ORIGIN Conference, a side event of the BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) 2023, to discuss and emphasize the importance of balancing a sustainable future with business profitability in Southeast Asia. ” said Carrie.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It proved to be fortuitous because it allowed me the time & space I needed to get to know tons of founders and VCs and to hone my craft. Ownership Matters At Upfront we focus our energy on fewer companies where we take meaningful ownership and we continue to invest throughout the lifecycle of the company.

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