TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. That startup was DoorDash, by the way. 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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

SparkLabs Korea , a Seoul-based seed to early-stage accelerator, held a demo Day on Thursday for its 19th cohort of companies. The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. Not all teams end up pitching at demo day. Its monthly subscription fee is ~$20.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

The investment platform I founded and run, VenturePole, is the investment partner of HealthInc, the health tech accelerator of Startupbootcamp, the biggest startup accelerator organization in Europe. The winners receive support, including an investment, to accelerate and scale their ventures. Keep it short.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

He is now co-founder and chairman of 22 Ventures. 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. Telehealth startup Doximity filed to go public earlier today.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Register Startups looking at going global should first establish proof of local traction before doing so, John Lim , Partner at Meet Ventures , said in an interview with AsiaTechDaily. Meet Ventures is a consultancy firm that specialises in running startup accelerators and market access programs. Healthy revenue figures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Station F , the iconic startup campus in Paris, is revamping its Founders Program completely to turn it into an acceleration program. Founders who decide to join the accelerator will get many different benefits. With the Founders Program, Station F is looking for entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Register K-Startup Grand Challenge(KSGC) 2022 edition has opened its doors for global startups to do business in South Korea. 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

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

For a few years now the Sustainable Ocean Alliance has been a stalwart advocate for the “blue economy,” and an incubator for ocean-focused early stage startups. “We see startups leapfrogging across multiple accelerator programs to try and access new networks and funding. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

With 17 startups participating, Berkeley SkyDeck’s Demo Day isn’t the largest cohort we’ve seen by any stretch. Founded in 2012, the accelerator is focused on developing early-stage companies tied to the University of California system. Attending a remote startup accelerator is absolutely worth it. NuPort Robotics.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

An disruptive idea marks the start of a startup. But to make sure that the startup idea can result in a profitable business, an entrepreneur needs to validate it. This validation often requires the startup to pitch in some money. Startups raise pre-seed capital when they need to fund their validation methods.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 16, 2023

Investments for the medtech startup could also increase in coming weeks, with additional funding from individual angel investors. We are grateful for the seed funding provided by SDAC and UC San Diego that will accelerate the commercialization of our prosthetic technology.” Learn more at www.ucsd.edu.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Each story is based on an interview with a founder or investor who addressed some of the most common startup dilemmas. Predictably, they’re mostly focused on the how and why: How do I get into an accelerator? Chinese startups rush to bring alternative protein to people’s plates. When should I hire a sales team?

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Yet, that is what Spanish marketing expert and entrepreneur Alex Barrera often ends up doing with startup founders who hire him to help improve their pitch. They think they are going to get help convincing investors, and they do, but the byproduct of the process is that they reframe their startup’s vision.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2016

After many years away, Alexis Ohanian , the serial entrepreneur, investor, and open-Internet advocate, recently returned to the helm of Reddit , the huge user-curated news site, along with his co-founder and college roommate, Steve Huffman. Great founders don’t quit, but do adapt. –before coming back to lead Reddit. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. 500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC. It’s demo day season. The moonshots.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The startup will use the funding to enhance product capabilities and accelerate sales growth with key hires. In addition to bringing on new investors, the company has decided to appoint co-founder Subha Airan-Javia, MD, as the new Chief Executive Officer. and Dreamit Ventures. For more info, visit www.dreamit.com.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

. ————– Techstars is – or was – one of the world’s best startup accelerator programs. Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Because it’s Monday, we need the boost, and a startup whose name includes a “!” What’s your BNPL startup really worth? The deal doubles the value of the startup to more than $4 billion, and indicates that SoftBank is still a risk-on operation. Startups/VC. PST, subscribe here. It’s a whole thing. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, in light of Y Combinator’s biannual Demo Day, Natasha and Alex asked about the utility of the parade of pitches. Our big question: Are demo days outdated?

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

First, Managing Editor Danny Crichton looked at how well the company’s co-founders and many investors stand to make out. Our all-hands-on-deck coverage of DoorDash’s S-1 is a good illustration of Extra Crunch’s mission: timely analysis of current and future technology trends that serves founders and investors.

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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. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitalists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.

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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. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh, human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. 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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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

If you’re coming to Early Stage in Boston, Pitch to VCs there. ” — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Accelerating generative AI : Amazon is jumping into startup accelerators with both feet again and will boost generative AI startups around the globe with a 10-week program, Natasha M writes.

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