Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2023

You need a solid business plan, traction to demonstrate market fit, and the skills to pitch effectively. Evaluate investors thoroughly, not just based on the size of their check, but whether they can provide strategic advice and introductions that support your vision. “Too many founders focus on pitching, pitching, pitching.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

GSEA delivers on its vision to empower student entrepreneurs to become the world’s most influential change-makers by supporting them with mentorship, recognition and connections to take their businesses to the next level of success. I scrambled to get my application done and worked on my pitch. What are your plans for the future?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2022

I’m a straight white dude who grew up in NYC and worked in finance. An investor who doesn’t support a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions isn’t likely to trust women with incredibly difficult decisions in general. I’d argue that the answer is no, but that’s easy for me to say, right? It permeates everything about them.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. Participants have a chance to win more than $250,000 in cash and other support.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

The 10 startups are pitching for a spot in the top five to be eligible for one-on-one mentorship and up to €50,000 in cash rewards and prizes that will be awarded next month, the group said. The application provides personalized educational content and emotional support with a virtual assistant or “pocket” version of a doula.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

So when you pitch, be sure to point out what makes your company/news stand out. So while we’re still getting pitched (a whole bunch), we more than ever are reviewing pitches with a bigger-picture lens and hope you’ll do the same when you’re doing the pitching. Hence its recent debt financing. Why is it unique?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

London-based Divido , a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at the point of sale, has bagged a $30 million Series B to fund international expansion. Making sense of Klarna.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Amid market volatility, decentralized finance, or DeFi, is an area that continues to be in focus in both the crypto VC world and across the community as new use cases, protocols and projects arise. Anywhere from 20% to 50% of crypto-related pitches today are DeFi-focused, several investors we surveyed said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

About three-fourths of the teams are focusing on NFTs, infrastructure or decentralized finance (DeFi), while the majority of the teams are building on layer-1 blockchains Ethereum, Polygon and Solana. The pitch: The NFT market has exploded and the communities surrounding them have flourished, co-founder Chris Tam said. Stage: Pre-seed.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

Cloverleaf will use the new financing to further support organizations by extending its core automated coaching solution into even more areas of professional development for everyone in the enterprise. Since 1992, the firm has invested more than $4 billion in more than 900 companies to support more than 67,000 quality jobs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Silicon Valley law firm Cooley recently reported that it “handled 298 disclosable venture capital financings for Q3 2022, representing $8.1 ” The firm said that deal volume, dollar volume and deal size for financings of life sciences companies also continued to decline in Q3 2022 compared to Q2 2022 and 2021.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 16, 2021

Use these resources to understand how your company will look when you pitch a VC or angel. In addition, ensure scalability by incorporating junior staff for tactical sales support and bringing on middle-to-high level sales leaders who can further and expand the customer relationship. and see how your company compares.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I’m surprised at how many funding pitches I get which lack some of the basic information which investors require before funding. 50% of these meetings led to pitches to individual partners. About 30% of partner pitches led to full partnership pitches. I suggest use the Founder Institute Mad Libs elevator pitch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

AEye, a lidar startup that developed its technology for use in autonomous vehicles as well as to support advanced driver assistance systems in passenger cars, is going public through a merger with CF Finance Acquisition Corp. III that will value the company at $2 billion. Other undisclosed investors also participated.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2020 report by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) revealed that despite women constituting 30 percent of the region’s entrepreneurs, they receive a mere eight percent of venture capital funding. The five most promising teams will be able to secure up to S$80,000 in funding to fuel their ventures and drive social impact.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

There, they share pitch materials and information about their business. The founder gets a detailed assessment with feedback on their pitch materials, the underlying metrics that they can use to develop their business and, their ability to raise capital down the line. The CEO who studied finance and investment banking in the U.S.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Although veteran-owned businesses are often more successful than the average startup, they still need mentorship, funding and support to take their idea from concept to market. Before you can pitch your idea to investors or apply for a loan from a financial institution, you should draft a business plan. and overall, 6.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This should come as no surprise, given that fintech combines two sectors traditionally dominated by men: finance and technology. So, if you’re a female founder faced with the prospect of pitching to VCs — what steps can you take to set yourself up for success? Latin America takes the global lead in VC directed to female co-founders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

She supports early-stage international founders working in the U.K. Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe is associate professor in finance at the London School of Economics. Instead of the usual pitch format, the meetings were informal conversations that aimed to help founders build up this essential — and for immigrants, missing — social capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

Move on, keep looking and find people who are truly supportive, on your terms. What about pitch competitions that sound like Ancient Roman death matches? They do, and I'll join these events, but when you name your pitch event after something violent, you shouldn't be surprised when you've gotten way more men to apply.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

These companies didn''t announce their financings right away, and for good reason. They''re building up their PR plans to make the financing announcements part of a larger story arc. If your announcement has goals, you need to make sure you do what it takes to support those goals. Is it to get on the radar of future investors?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2015

You don’t have the revenue or profit to support that valuation.” Many entrepreneurs pitching err on the side of too much information. ” The report also notes that 75% of mega financings are led by non-VCs. How will you stand out from the masses of other people pitching. No, I take that back.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

CEO and co-founder Alex Wang credits their success since founding, which includes raising over $277 million and achieving break-even status in terms of revenue, to early support from investors including Accel’s Dan Levine. In fact, Levine wrote one of the company’s very first checks.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 9, 2024

Salto Aceleradora: empowering Black women entrepreneurs The impactful journey of Salto Aceleradora, a programme dedicated to accelerating and supporting small businesses, particularly those led by Black women in Florianópolis and São Paulo.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 21, 2021

They are found across all industries and are useful for entrepreneurs who are beyond the seed stages of financing but are not yet ready to seek out venture capital. Once their application is approved, lenders can then determine the businesses they wish to support. Perfect your pitch. Peer-to-peer lenders. Venture capitalists.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Corporate management startup Ramp confirmed that it has secured $550 million in debt and $200 million in equity in a new financing that doubles its valuation to $8.1 Notably, Founders Fund led the latest equity financing, marking the firm’s fourth time leading a round for Ramp. It then raised $300 million at a $3.9

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Jason Malki

MARCH 9, 2023

She is also a Finance Director at Visa and has previously worked for PepsiCo and American Airlines. Karen holds a double degree in Finance and Economics from Texas Christian University (TCU) and an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin. Shortly after, I started making small angel investments — that was 3 years ago.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Most of the companies we have seen have an AI component to support the discovery or development processes,” Francisco Dopazo, a general partner at Humboldt Fund told TechCrunch recently. Clearly, CFIUS continues to have important implications on venture financing across all sectors. Are you open to cold pitches?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Getting together with other entrepreneurs, learning about what they are doing, and voicing ideas builds the habit of pitching the company and explaining it to people.”. Awardees have gone on to raise more than $519 million in additional private capital to support their business. There is community in Oklahoma,” Elliott told me.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

It concludes with a Pitch Showcase awarding at least $25,000 in prize money. If any of these businesses need further legal assistance or one-on-one support, the Verizon Pro Bono Program team has agreed to work directly with these businesses to identify additional legal services.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Datanomik’s goal is to connect financial institutions across LatAm through its B2B open finance API, which gathers a company’s banking information on one platform, Strauss told TechCrunch. The financing marks a16z’s first investment in Uruguay, and one of its biggest seed rounds in Latin America.

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Haystack

JULY 4, 2019

I don’t think it matters what the obligation is — but rather — it’s an opportunity for the founders to supply their most passionate early supporters with information and ammunition to infuse into our conversations with downstream investors, potential candidates, and potential angels and BD prospects. Yes, of course.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2021

The latest financing brings the company’s total funding raised to over $158 million since its 2017 inception. Pilot’s pitch is about more than just software. The company combines its software with accountants to do things such as provide “CFO Services” to SMBs without a full-stack finance team.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As a startup entrepreneur who is actively growing his business, Peter recently attended the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference in Denver, Colorado, where he pitched Table and Desk in EO’s first DX Angel-Shark Experience and received a US$250,000 investment in his company. . Did you conduct any practice sessions? This helped a lot.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. And now, with Silver Lake’s investment and support, we can accelerate our growth investing even more into our strategic roadmap, and placing some new bets on ideas we’ve had but haven’t been able to find the space to explore.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

While access to opportunities, funding and support has improved for women in the startup space over the last couple of decades, there is still a long way to go. As the world embraces a new way of working and strategizes for a post-pandemic world, it’s vital to investigate new ways of supporting women’s entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

They also build sales collateral, such as demo videos, pitch decks and one-pagers, to more effectively reach and build long-term relationships with these prospects. Marketers work with finance and product teams to formulate projections as the company moves into the clinical phase. Forecasting.

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