Y Combinator

APRIL 12, 2023

If you want to learn more about what it takes to start a startup – or how to get a job at one – join us: Join the YC Summer Conference You'll have the chance to connect with YC startups across various stages and learn from the founders’ experiences. Apply to join us!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

The company’s CEO and founder, Mag Rodriguez, says he started building the platform last February as a way to help Black and brown artists retain equity in their creative work. He’s now part of a rarified club: In any given year, less than 5% of all venture capital funding goes to Latino founders.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

TechCrunch Live is thrilled to be hosting an event featuring Boston-local investors and founders. We’ll have several panels and interviews that highlight the opportunities and challenges facing the market. Cait Brumme runs MassChallenge, the long-running, zero-equity startup accelerator based in Boston.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

The startup, which operates the HDmall platform in Thailand and Indonesia, is excited to announce that it has successfully raised funding from a group of investors incl. HD is also one of ten startups recently accepted into the Google for Startups Accelerator: Southeast Asia program.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

The company’s CEO and founder, Mag Rodriguez, says he started building the platform last February as a way to help Black and brown artists retain equity in their creative work. He’s now part of a rarified club: In any given year, less than 5% of all venture capital funding goes to Latino founders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

“Edtech still has deep and untapped opportunities. Show, don’t tell: Tips for robotics startups raising a Series B during a downturn. 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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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Y Combinator, the startup accelerator that has launched the likes of Instacart, Stripe and Airbnb, has broadened its investing lens in recent years, backing companies all over Africa and India, and beyond. In many ways, it’s a new era – but in some, it’s a return to the accelerator’s former geographic roots.

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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. This demonstrates the high level of trust in Antler’s ability to identify and nurture promising startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Unless you are born into a privileged, well-connected family with substantial capital (which is often the vantage point many of the dropout cult advocates come from), your undergraduate degree from a top university is the most powerful socioeconomic opportunity that exists. of co-founders did not go to university.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

The company invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake as part of the accelerator program, which first launched in 2018. The startups will receive mentorship from Snap executives and will also get access to networking opportunities. The company plans to share more once the latest cohort wraps up in June.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2023

There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g., the free YC Startup School courses). Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

“Our goal with Formwork Labs is to help the best and brightest construction tech founders get started on the right foot, set up for success and in front of the right investors, partners and early customers.”. Founders can apply to the program here. . investors,” he said.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 31, 2022

The program, which is also supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), is organised by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA). The startup accelerator program, launched in 2016, supports foreign startups that want to enter the Korean market and further explore the international markets.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

echPetHub’s Clemens is Leading Innovation in the Pet Tech Industry I had the pleasure of interviewing Lorien Clemens, co-founder and CEO at PetHub , Inc., She joined PetHub in June of 2011 as the modern pet ID tag startup was in its beginning stages. What motivated you to launch your startup? for pets and pet parents.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

In May, the accelerator advised its portfolio founders to “plan for the worst.” ” “You can often pick up significant market share in an economic downturn by just staying alive,” top startup accelerator Y Combinator wrote in an internal e-mail to its founders this week.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

The easy-to-use, comprehensive supply chain management system among top applicants selected for Newchip’s online accelerator NEW FREEDOM, Pa., The program is designed to provide all the skills and tools founders need to fund, build, and scale their companies rapidly. Past accelerator cohorts averaged more than 17.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

“Broadly speaking, we are investing in the digitization of Indonesia and the Southeast Asia economy,” ACV co-founder and managing partner Adrian Li told TechCrunch. Through our experience of investing over past funds, we’ve also developed expertise, particularly around commerce opportunities, fintech and micro- and small enterprises.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. Paulo Rogério Nunes. Contributor. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor.

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

San Francisco, and the associated Bay Area, is home to Silicon Valley – the epicentre of startup activity – where an estimated 27,000 startups and 15,000 investors operate in an area roughly equivalent to the the Brisbane-to-Gold Coast region, and with a population of roughly 7 million people. Aussie startups can and should plug in.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

There has not been real significant innovation ever since; it’s just listings, maybe some images and phone numbers,” said Camlist co-founder and chief executive officer, Moustafa Mahmoud. “Classifieds, or peer to peer commerce in general, has been stuck in the same old way of operation since eBay showed up.

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500

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Alluva at 500 Startups: What it was really like being a part of Batch 25 In March of 2019, Alluva was accepted into Batch 25 of 500 Startups. As part of the founding team at Alluva, my thoughts ranged from excitement at the incredible learning opportunity to worry about how challenging 500’s batches were rumored to be.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Full disclosure: In 2016, I was 500 Startups’ Journalist-in-residence. I covered one demo day in person, spending most of my time backstage where founder teams practiced their pitches. 4 strategies for deep tech founders who are fundraising.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

In those seven years, the accelerator says it has supported more than 500 startups, 200 manufacturers, been awarded around 450 patents, and helped to create roughly 4,000 jobs. TechCrunch spoke to mHub’s CEO and co-founder Haven Allen to find out what’s next for mHub, and what makes Chicago its perfect home. “It’s

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

These companies will take part in a three-month-long virtual program (the details are not discussed in Apple’s announcement post) and then will have the opportunity to become suppliers for Apple’s carbon neutral supply chain goals. Mosaic Global Transportation (Founder: Maurice H.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Of note, Drive Capital was co-founded by two alums from Sequoia out of Columbus, Ohio, with a mission to focus on founders outside of the “usual” hubs. That’s precisely what they have done here: Sololearn comes from Yerevan, Armenia, which has produced a lot of engineering talent, but interestingly not as many startups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sequoia said its cohort includes some startups with whom it partnered when they had no product as well as those being run by repeat founders and entrepreneurs with extensive experience in their respective sectors. Following is the list of startups available in the seventh cohort. Surge 07 is no exception.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Harri reports that Google is spinning up a new, online-only startup accelerator centered around the elusive circular economy. The effort is Google’s latest to help environmentally focused startups grow while potentially hooking them on its cloud products in the process. “Edtech still has deep and untapped opportunities.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

Pre-Seed funding is the earliest funding round where a startup raises money to validate its problem-solution hypotheses, propositions, and demand. 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. Startup funding rounds are inspired from farming.

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Gust

JANUARY 22, 2014

This is obviously a softball question that I’ve been Asked to Answer, as I’m the Founder/CEO of Gust. Disclaimer: the author is the Founder & CEO of Gust, and therefore this answer, while completely accurate, is not disinterested. Gust News Invested Interests angel investors David Rose Gust investments startup'

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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. Startups are always risky, so jeopardizing your personal relationships a risk you should avoid if possible. Startup competitions. Pitch your business idea at a competition to earn startup funding. Accelerators.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

The biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government, supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), will be held for 3.5 Shin is now part of our Advisory Board,” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda, the top winner of KSGC 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. startup accelerators?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Saba Karim is director of the startup pipeline at Techstars. As the head of startup pipeline at Techstars, I’ve been getting on calls with founders, attending events, speaking on stages like TechCrunch’s Disrupt and hosting countless Twitter Spaces. Each time, I’ve been telling founders why they should join an accelerator.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The frustrations with the current set of reading apps drove Matter co-founders Ben Springwater and Robert Mackenzie — who met while working at Nextdoor — to take on the challenge of building a new tool for online reading. At the outset, one of Matter’s larger goals was to help people make better decisions about what to read.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

I turned around and there was StockTwits founder (and my favorite Tweeter) Howard Lindzon. And we’re here with Dan Martell , who like any great startup founder is wearing his company t-shirt for Flowtown. But we’re also looking at unprecedented opportunity.&#. That’s a huge difference in opportunity.&#.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

And while you may not need to be an insider, second-time founders — largely male and white — still have a competitive advantage. The growing complexity of fundraising has the opportunity to make tech either inclusive or exclusive. Vise CEO Samir Vasavada and Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire break down the art of the pitch.

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