Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

At the same time, many investors are being more cautious with making new investments, preferring to focus on their existing portfolio before investing in new companies. A startup is not a lone adventure. It’s important to enlist the ideas of others that are invested in your venture. Join a CEO peer group.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

A clutch of the world’s largest consumer products and food companies are joining Budweiser’s parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev in backing an investment program to support early-stage companies focused on making supply chains more sustainable. Those startups have gone on to raise more than $200 million in follow-on financing.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

The two entities will oversee NJ FAST’s accelerator program with an opportunity to make equity investments into select participating companies. Equity investments of up to $1 million will be made in at least 15 percent of participating companies. Pending approval by its Board, the NJEDA intends to invest up to $17.5

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 8, 2023

Register Antler , a business incubator and startup accelerator based in Singapore, has successfully raised $285 million for its emerging growth fund, Antler Elevate. These investments highlight the fund’s commitment to supporting innovative solutions across diverse industries. .

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Gust

JANUARY 22, 2014

Gust is the infrastructure that underlies much of the professional world of early stage finance. As a very active angel investor myself, I frankly can’t imagine how I could keep track of all the pieces without Gust. Above is a screen shot I just took of my Gust investor dashboard.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

After the pandemic drove students at every level into remote learning, edtech saw record levels of investment — until the public markets began to cool off several months ago. Show, don’t tell: Tips for robotics startups raising a Series B during a downturn. 500 Global’s take on the rising competition among startup accelerators.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

The first two MyEO DealExchange conferences in 2018 and 2019 made a significant impact on the members who attended—including a 7-figure investment in Scott Mesh (EO New York)’s company. Each person gets 90 seconds to share the details of the investment opportunity or the “deal need” they’re presenting or seeking.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Startup accelerators are increasingly putting the brakes on demo days. The often flashy events reserved for founders to connect with investors have long been part of the likes of Y Combinator’s program, seen as the “graduation” of startups’ journey. Olympic team. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

For starters, Formwork Labs will select five pre-seed companies to participate as a cohort in its immersive, 10-week startup accelerator program. But the firm will commit to investing up to 25% of the next round of qualified funding. investors,” he said. “So

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Today’s financing puts Pave’s valuation at $400 million, up from $75 million one year ago. Pave launched with an ambitious goal: Can it measure pay across venture-backed tech companies in real time, and help startups move their comp table off of spreadsheets? The round comes eight months after Pave closed a $16 million Series A round.

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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. She is a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University where she teaches and writes about impact investing, diversity and equity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

The options for financing are seemingly endless: syndicates, public crowdfunding, VC firms, accelerators, debt financing, rolling funds, and, for the profitable few, bootstrapping. Dear Sophie, I do recruitment for tech startups. With a surge of VC investing, many startups are urgently hiring.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

A startup requires seed funding to convert the idea into actual business and start its operations. Investors Usually self-financed or from friends, family, and other non-institutional investors. Institutional investors like accelerators, angel capitalists, venture capitalists may invest during seed round. Accelerators.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Today it’s Acorns, a consumer fintech service that blends saving and investing into a freemium product. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. . By now this is old news, but we haven’t had a clear picture of the economics of consumer fintech startups accelerated by the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

It looks like French accelerator The Family is going through a bitter family feud, suing one of its co-founders for alleged forgery and “diverting €3 million that was supposed to be invested in several startups”. million round of financing to do so. Lantum got a $15 million injection to help ease that particular pain.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Founded in 2020, the Nigeria-based startup claims to have distributed over 140,000 goods to retail customers in Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Senegal and fielded over 20,000 orders. Recently, BetaStore began offering financing to retailers and plans to launch a buy now, pay later product in the coming months. One year after the rebrand.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Thousand Faces , a web3 community-based investment group, hosted its demo day on Wednesday with the top 10 startups from its Female Founder Accelerator program. The accelerator program’s first cohort accepted 30 startups from a pool of over 220 applicants across 76 countries.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. city for tech investment. The city also has the most fintech startups per head in the U.K. Bristol is also home to an important startup accelerator, SETsquared.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2016

When Ohanian and Huffman first pitched Paul Graham of startup accelerator Y Combinator in Boston in June 2005, their idea–for a site called “Mmm”–was rejected. Great founders don’t quit, but do adapt. But as they were on a train out of town, dejected, Graham called Ohanian back. But we like you two.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

. + This post unpacks offers an insiders’ view of some of the key strategic decisions that led to Techstars’ decline. ————– Techstars is – or was – one of the world’s best startup accelerator programs. It’s fair to say that the Seattle startup community would not be where it is today without Techstars.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. The venture capitalists who run these firms decide which startups today will develop the new platforms and technologies that will shape our lives tomorrow. We all live in a world shaped by venture capital.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Most of them lose, but sometimes you invest in a “unicorn” and make 100 times your money or even more. Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 18, 2023

Venture capital (VC) is a type of financing that provides funding to early-stage companies with high growth potential. VC firms invest in these companies in exchange for equity and help them grow by providing strategic guidance, access to their network, and expertise. Y Combinator :(seed stage?

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In the finance, insurance and legal industry, our AI can check and analyze contracts and terms to detect poisonous clauses. Currently, the company’s QA (Question Answering) and TA (Text Analytics) solutions are helping to monitor and manage risks in advance in finance, legal, and heavy industry field.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Congratulations!

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Congratulations!

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $10 million in Series A investment. Appzone is a fintech software provider.

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