TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Topics range from accessible product design and fighting algorithmic bias to the justice system, workplace organizing and support for underrepresented founders — and that’s just for starters. Don’t miss your chance to meet some founders currently participating in TechCrunch’s Include program. Founded by Denise Umubyeyi.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. VCs need to go to 20 cities and pitch one firm in each location!” We raised $280 million.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 28, 2022

How do you determine if corporate venture capital is right for your startup? To help you determine if corporate venture capital is right for your startup, we asked startup founders, investors, and business leaders this question for their best pieces of advice. Matthew Ramirez , Founder, Paraphrase Tool.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

You do not want to miss meeting and learning more about these impressive early-stage founders — all participants in the TC Include Program. TechCrunch partners with various founder organizations who act as advisors and nominate promising early-stage founders to participate in the program. The pitch you improve could be your own.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

From these proposals, 15 candidates will be selected to attend and present at Pitch Day during the Charmalot Annual User Conference, to be held Aug. CharmHealth goes beyond providing just funding or mentorship to winners. founder and CEO of HealMed Solutions, a winner of the 2023 Innovation Challenge.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

He is now co-founder and chairman of 22 Ventures. 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. Michael Redd spent 12 seasons playing in the NBA and on the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

TechCrunch Editorial is on the hunt for 200 early-stage founders to feature in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this September. All selected founders will get the opportunity to flash-pitch in front of investors and TechCrunch Editors. Are you ready? Just apply here.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Pierre is Head of Operations and Acting CEO at Wellington UniVentures , the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington subsidiary tasked with launching new ventures from university research. Wellington UniVentures offers mentorship opportunities, access to pitch workshops and meetings where new ideas are screened, to name a few. “We

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 12, 2023

The Women in Entrepreneurship Incubator, in recognition of the challenges faced by female entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, aims to bridge the gap in mentorship, networking opportunities, and 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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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Seung-jin Park, CEO of AGMO/Cindy Jin, Managing Director of Softbank Ventures Asia/Jae-wook Park, Chairman of the Korea Startup Forum/Young Lee, Minister of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups/Sungjin Choi, CEO of the Korea Startup Forum/Ha-yeon Kim, CEO of NanumVitamin/Josh Choi, Executive Director of COMEUP What Awaits You at COMEUP 2023?

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

But financing isn’t always easy — especially if you’re the proud founder of a brand new business. Pitch your business idea at a competition to earn startup funding. Check out this list of pitching competitions. Angel investing and venture capital (VC). It takes money to make money. Startup competitions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Mentorship is a crucial ingredient to a student’s success. For Mentor Collective , a Boston-based startup founded in 2014, answers to the challenges and opportunities within scaled mentorship have taken time to figure out. co-founder Claudia Recchi said in a previous interview. The more important milestone?

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 16, 2024

Ventures with underrepresented founders will compete for share of more than $130,000 in cash grants, plus mentoring and connections. Prizes include cash grants from a prize pool of $130,000 along with mentorship opportunities and connections with potential investors and key influencers. WILMINGTON, Del.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The accelerator has backed more than 270 startups since its inception in 2012, co-founder and partner of SparkLabs Eugene Kim told TechCrunch. . During its program, SparkLabs provides funding, mentorship and access to administrative and legal advisory support for startups. Not all teams end up pitching at demo day.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. Venture capital is far from a level playing field. of total investment dollars.

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StartupNation

APRIL 5, 2021

SoGal Black Founder Startup Grant. Did you know that Black female founders receive less than 0.5% of venture capital funding ? SoGal is looking to change that with the Black Founder Startup Grant. The program also includes mentorship, access to online resources and the opportunity to be considered for even larger grants.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. We formed a partnership with some of our favorite early stage investors and friends including Jim Andelman at Rincon Ventures and Peter Lee at Baroda. So we went for it. Yeah, he was LA, baby!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

This week on Equity, I interviewed T2 co-founder Sarah Oh , who is building a Twitter rival after working at Twitter as a human rights adviser. By joining the consumer social wave today versus before anyone even thought in characters and retweets, the co-founder thinks they get to factor in more of the nuance.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the scuffle, VCs are turning to scouts to do the legwork, but that has meant being yet another step removed from their founders. I’ve sat at both sides of the table as a founder and a VC, and I understand how difficult it is to get them on the same page. Techstars Equitech Accelerator ) and women founders (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

As the early-stage, biology-focused accelerator arm of SOSV, IndieBio gives the companies in its program $250,000+, mentorship and full access to a biology lab to bring their ideas to life. ” Here are the companies currently in each program, alphabetically: New York. San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Contributor.

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Impact Hub

MAY 13, 2021

It was designed to boost innovative, impact-driven ventures by granting them access to resources, skills training, business coaching, potential investors and more. The three founders of The Three Cord Collective , Banke Makinde, Tunde Adekoya, and Rachel Lulu-Briggs, had always discussed the need for a local engineering solutions company.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

This validation often requires the startup to pitch in some money. Pre-seed capital is required to set the base for the business operations to start and ensure that the founders’ business is a viable one. Key stakeholders are people who help the founders in converting the idea into reality. It is where pre-seed capital comes in.

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Feedough

JANUARY 20, 2021

This investment is made in the infancy or early stages of the startup called the seed stage when the: The initial planning stage ends, The problem and solution hypotheses are validated, The startup gets real customer traction, and The founders are ready to convert the concept into a full-fledged business. Purpose Of Seed Funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

startups: it also led a large round yesterday for Bloom & Wild ), with GV (formerly known as Google Ventures), Audacious Ventures, Latitude and SemperVirens also participating. Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, which first invested in the company in its $16 million Series A in 2020, also participated.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

2) National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge. The National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge is another great source of funding for minority start-ups. To be eligible, one of the business founders has to be black or a person of African descent. 6) SoGoal Foundation Black Founder Startup Grant.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Community organizations like Shine & Rise provide support and mentorship to women who work at tech companies, and coworking spaces like Cahoots offer dedicated tech entrepreneurial spaces for the community. Amesite , founded by top Midwest female founder Ann Marie Sastry, uses AI to improve the online education experience.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Traditional clinical models fail to serve the modern teen The company has already attracted investors who understand the company’s pitch, which is that modern teens and traditional mental healthcare do not fit together neatly. Indeed, General Catalyst just led the company’s $3.2 The data helps tell the story – and highlights the opportunity.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Shin is now part of our Advisory Board,” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda, the top winner of KSGC 2021. ” The startup teams will get the opportunity to feature pitches to potential investors, partners, and business conglomerates. Guidance & assistance by top Korean accelerators During the 3.5-month

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

On a recent episode of Extra Crunch Live , Bain Capital Ventures’ Matt Harris said that if you had asked him a year ago what would happen to venture capital during a pandemic lockdown, he would have replied “it would have fallen off a cliff.” How Founders Can Think Like a VC (Lisa Wu, Norwest Venture Partners) .

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

seed round led by Berlin-based Cavalry Ventures with participation from Supernode Global, Antler and a number of high-profile angel investors (contributing angels include Atomico’s Sarah Drinkwater and Sameer Singh ; and ustwo’s Matt ‘Mills’ Miller, among others).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

Giving the same pitch, sending the same email, and answering the same questions over and over again. However, there are principles that every founder should know before raising, and we will talk about them from the very beginning of the startup to later stages. Rookie founders want to raise to reduce their risk. Refresh again.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

While passion provides self-motivation, it also serves to attract talent and investors to the venture. When facing the challenges of starting a business, a founder needs to be resourceful—and that includes having a network of contacts who are supportive and available to help.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Tom Shields, Executive Recruiter & Founder of Shields Group Search , a search firm specializing in supporting the hiring needs of early-stage startups. As a seasoned recruiter, his efforts have predominantly focused on structuring the executive teams of emerging VC and PE-backed ventures.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 24, 2014

Not every VC used to get pitched by VC funds for a living and has seen hundreds and hundreds of VC pitch decks. Venture capitalists play an important role in burgeoning ecosystems. What I''m talking about is how to get mentorship to launch and run my own fund. Venture Capital & Technology' I still would.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Jamie Finney. Contributor.

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