TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Tara Sabre Collier is an early-stage impact investor with more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of economic development, social entrepreneurship and impact investment. Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2022

Notable existing investors that joined this round of funding included the International Finance Corporation (IFC), KKR, which led the Series C round, and Pavilion Capital of the Temasek Group, along with almost all existing investors. The post B2B ecommerce startup GrowSari raises $77.5m

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StartupNation

JANUARY 31, 2022

That’s according to the State of Latino Entrepreneurship 2020 study from the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative. Now Marlene Orozco, lead research analyst for the study, indicates that not only are we seeing this torrid pace of growth in Latino startups, it’s broad based across industry sectors in geography.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 4: Startup founders are white.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

While at Pinterest she helped it expand internationally, close its Series C financing and led three acquisitions. Tavel is also a founding member of All Raise, the nonprofit organization focused on women in the venture capital and VC-backed startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Filling out the round has been its own challenge for Curry, who has struggled at times to find opportunity, even among historic levels of capital flowing into the startup ecosystem, a distinction that has been less noticeable for black founders that still make up just a small percentage of VC allocation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

We believe that in order to increase diversity in the startup ecosystem, one thing that we must do is increase diversity — whether it be in regard to gender, race or geography — amongst angel investors,” said Hustle Fund co-founder and general partner Elizabeth Yin. To more people like Colorado-based Penn. “

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

6 VCs talk the future of Austin’s exploding startup ecosystem. While building a company here between 1994 and 2003, I saw the Texas ecosystem firsthand and was excited about what it offered,” Smith told TechCrunch. “It We are here to help early-stage companies finance their assets,” she said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

Regardless of how groundbreaking their product idea might be, immigrant Americans will always be more wary of putting their eggs into the entrepreneurship basket, at least as long as 93% of all VC money continues to be controlled by white men. When a foreign entrepreneur raises money from U.S. firms and sells to a U.S.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

That summer sparked a revelation that would ignite my passion for entrepreneurship. Along with founding multiple angel investment networks and venture funds, my experience in the world of VC has allowed me to work with hundreds of global companies to inject millions of dollars of capital into the startup ecosystem.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. How did you get into the accounting and finance staffing industry? Increasing the diversity in our start-up ecosystem also requires a strategic focus.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The startup ecosystem is unique. Those that do succeed graduate to other levels of financing, including angel or venture capital. At the beginning, young businesses use capital from friends, family or even outside investors to help them get started. Not all are successful, and that’s OK.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

We had a conversation about the role of incubators and accelerators (or the moniker of your choice) within the startup ecosystem. Given the volume of first time entrepreneurs and the broad growth of interest in entrepreneurship, I think these programs are invaluable. Yesterday, I spoke at Columbia Business School.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 4: Startup founders are white.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Investors explained that while the whole startup ecosystem is slower this year, edtech hasn’t escaped that trend. Surprisingly, my takeaway was simple: Edtech isn’t special anymore, and that’s a good thing. Edtech is facing a reality check in the form of discipline.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

At TechCrunch, it often seems as if every other startup story is about yet another fun company raising satchels full of venture capital. One truth is that successfully raising capital from a VC firm is a huge milestone in the life of a startup.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network. Smart growth tactics can put account-based marketing within reach for startups and SMBs. Global startup funding has soared this year, but a number of exits and large funding rounds are drawing new attention to India’s startup ecosystem.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. It’s a perfect system for collections attorneys, legal, auto finance, health care and property management companies who need to keep on top of payments in a particular way. Bedestrian. Workit Health.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 1, 2021

For Monica and Joe it’s a matter of extending the runway to keep the company onboard, and get enough commercial momentum to advance their next round of financing. They see such failure as part of their learning process and they hope you also get a valuable take-away, other than their cash!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem. Meanwhile, remote-working — which comes naturally to Israeli entrepreneurs — is “flattening” the world, giving a great advantage to normally distant startup ecosystems like Israel’s. And in 2019, Bay Area investors put $1.4

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Where do you see Miami’s startup scene five years from now? Miami’s startup scene has been growing and evolving over the past 5+ years thanks to local organizations supporting entrepreneurship including, but not limited to Endeavor Miami, The Knight Foundation, The Lab, Rokk3r Labs, eMerge Americas, Miami Angels and Wyncode.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

TechCrunch spoke to Francisco Polo, Spain’s high commissioner overseeing delivery of the entrepreneurial strategy, to get the inside track on the plan to grow the startup ecosystem and find out which bits entrepreneurs are likely to see in action first. “We are not only focusing on innovative entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Startups and VC. The startup ecosystem has traditionally been less-than-friendly to women founders and investors, but Mimi Aboubaker argues things aren’t as dire as the common narrative seems to indicate. Given that internet access restrictions and authoritarianism go hand-in-hand, the news is not a massive surprise.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Despite many distractions in our first full week of the new year, we published a full slate of stories exploring different aspects of entrepreneurship, fundraising and investing. Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. Image Credits: Hiraman (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Fintech (specifically embedded finance or financial SaaS), synthetic bio. I’m not saying anything new, but Israel is known as the startup nation for a reason. Yonatan Mandelbaum, TLV Partners.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

ACA, along with our Public Policy team, is working diligently to continue to protect our members and angels in the startup ecosystem. We are also working with a coalition of other innovation and entrepreneurship advocates to speak in a unified voice against this provision. Reconciliation).

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

. – Indiegogo.com is a crowd-funding platform allowing contributors to empower hundreds of thousands of inventors, musicians, do-gooders, filmmakers – and many more – to bring their dreams to life. – Clarity.com proactively advises you on managing your personal finances efficiently. Goldman Sachs bought Clarity for ~$100m. .

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

. – Indiegogo.com is a crowd-funding platform allowing contributors to empower hundreds of thousands of inventors, musicians, do-gooders, filmmakers – and many more – to bring their dreams to life. – Clarity.com proactively advises you on managing your personal finances efficiently. Goldman Sachs bought Clarity for ~$100m. .

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