American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 18, 2025

a pioneering company in quantum computing hardware, has secured a significant investment from Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc. The Expertise Behind Qolab: Co-founder John Martinis A key figure behind Qolabs innovations is Dr. John Martinis, the companys Co-founder and CTO.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

Since his prospective co-founders were involved in the early development of the new dirt bike, Godby saw how well they worked together and what each brought to the venture. Godbys background is in mechanical engineering and product development, while another co-founder has an industrial design background.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2025

As VP of Investment at BDev Ventures , Keshia leads sourcing and portfolio operations, managing both strategic and operational aspects of the fund. I started out as a founder — I launched an edtech company focused on improving childhood literacy. Outside of work, she loves to travel, cook for friends and family, and Crossfit.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Head of Global Operations of The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, and the Co-Founder & COO of the Vet-Tech Startup Accelerator. The Fund’s team values the unique experience that veterans bring to startup ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 28, 2025

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture capital firm, says, “The thing that gets me most excited is the founder whos obsessed with solving a problem that matters, and is determined to keep going no matter what.” Learn what investors want to hear that triggers their investment decisions.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Seed funding came from venture firms committed to deep tech. Co-founders Halen Mattison and Luke Neise announced the closing of an $8 million seed round for their startup G eneral Galactic , a pioneer in fossil-free fuel generation technology. We started General Galactic to be the energy company of the future.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 3, 2025

Other investors that participated in this funding round include Rethink Impact, Collab Capital, Collide Capital, Vamos Ventures, Tensility Venture Partners, Cake Ventures, and GW Ventures. This statistic highlights a pressing need for accessible, clinically rigorous nutrition care.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Companies in every sector are investing in the latest technologies with an eye toward winning in their markets with AI, said Misha Herscu, CEO and co-founder of Cake. Unfortunately, the cutting-edge has historically been the exclusive domain of large ML engineering teams.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 27, 2025

We can decompose the decline to understand what reduced the small seed round & why it matters for founders today. US venture capital fundraising nearly doubled from $42.3B Salary inflation isn’t driving founders to raise larger rounds. Three forces drove this transformation. in 2015 to $81.2B The correlation of -0.68

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 10, 2025

This is because founders can better manage pressure, adapt quickly, persevere and lead their teams through crises to achieve growth. Common Setbacks Entrepreneurs Face Every founder, no matter how seasoned, faces adversity. Resilient founders don’t treat failure as the end. This is entrepreneurial resilience!

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StartupNation

JUNE 14, 2025

You see, the biggest mistake startup owners make is tying their personal financial futures to the success of their business ventures. Stability allows you to push through hard times and extend the lifespan of your venture. Team up with fellow founders to co-create businesses. Find opportunities to join advisory boards.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 13, 2025

In a major boost for the artificial intelligence startup ecosystem, Seven Stars, a new venture capital firm founded by former SV Angel Partner Steven Lee, has officially launched its $40 million inaugural fund to support early-stage AI startups. The newly launched fund will focus on pre-seed and seed stage startups developing AI applications.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Co-founders of sportsbook FanDuel, Nigel Eccles and Rob Jones, announced this week the public launch of their cryptocurrency casino and sportsbook B etHog and its closing of a $6 million seed funding round. Consumers now have a trusted brand of a first-class online casino and sports betting experience not found anywhere else.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The order is important because I fell in love with the product before I even knew about the company, and the hustle of its founder/CEO Sandro Roco. I was working at a venture-backed apparel startup for 4 years and saw the power of building digitally-native brands through Facebook and Instagram (TikTok was still nascent).

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

Post-AOL, I dedicated myself to backing and supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs as Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Revolution. When I started AOL, not far from here in the fields of Northern Virginia, most of our venture dollars came from investors in Silicon Valley and New York. were on the platform.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 12, 2025

Ventures with underrepresented founders will compete for share of more than $100,000 in cash grants, plus mentoring and connections WILMINGTON, Del. This years categories of FinTech , Life Sciences , and Environmental Impact reflect Delawares evolving innovation and industry landscape.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 29, 2025

Alon Joffe, Eleos’ Co-Founder and CEO, emphasizes that the goal of the companys AI agents is to empower clinicians, not replace them. Joffe and his co-founders Dror Zaide, Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit, and Alon Rabinovich combined their skills and experience to launch the healthcare tech Startup.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

You must demonstrate how your venture helps solve certain problems. They want a glimpse of what your venture’s future looks like. Tips for other founders: 1. Andrei Blaj , Co-founder, Medicai Need Funding? In my experience, the best way to communicate such metrics is to present them in the form of a story.

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Jason Malki

JULY 16, 2025

Steve Gomberg I had the pleasure of interviewing Steve Gomberg and he is a seasoned executive whose career spans general management, finance, and corporate development across a variety of entrepreneurial ventures. Provided strategic guidance and financial backing to early-stage ventures in diverse industries. They cannot.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy yet banks do not have their backs, says CEO and co-founder Sahill Poddar. The two co-founders leveraged their tech backgrounds to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity. and Canada.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2025

nextNYC, the startup events platform I run, produces the largest formal VC/Founder intro event at NY Tech Week. Investors can sign up for a two hour slot here to get six intro meetings to founders.) The founder barely knows who you are and you dont have a board seat. No one likes obligatory meetings, least of all the founders.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In my previous venture, a 100% sales-led growth (SLG) cybersecurity company, we regularly secured $250K annual deals with large enterprises. Despite receiving numerous unsolicited offers from venture capitalists, we are committed to holding out until we reach a significant product traction milestone.

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The Seraf Compass

JULY 21, 2025

You’re juggling pipeline, diligence, founder support, LP management, and usually doing it all with a lean team. Founders share materials via DocSend, and the cap table gets vetted in Carta or Capboard Docs & Close : Final agreements and SAFEs are dropped into structured folders. Good tools don’t replace instinct. They sharpen it.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This interview is with Swayam Doshi , Founder at Suspire. Swayam Doshi, Founder, Suspire Swayam, welcome to Startup Blog Post! I’m Swayam Doshi, the founder of Suspire. After years of working in strategy and marketing, I realized that I wanted to channel my skills into a venture that aligned with my values.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 25, 2025

Held at Gradient, Tulsa’s Innovation Hub, the event spotlighted founders who have spent the past 16 weeks refining their ventures through tailored curriculum, expert mentorship, and strategic preparation for the next stage of investment and growth. Bridge2 helped us get laser focused.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 2, 2025

Led by Battery Ventures, the latest funding round brings Levelpath’s total capital raised to $100 million and marks a significant step forward in addressing the $13 trillion global procurement challenge. Procurement touches every part of a business,” said Alex Yakubovich , Co-founder and CEO of Levelpath. “We

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 22, 2025

Tickets are available at: [link] Workshop List (as at 22 July) Colin Magee : Realising a Return on Your Startup – For Founders and Investors. Explores exit strategies through shared stories and group discussion, highlighting what founders and investors can do now to unlock future value. Debi Roder : What Is Economic Development?

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StartupNation

JUNE 4, 2025

Ben H , Founder & Owner, Dealmemo The Power of a Well-Designed Pitch Deck for Your Business Follow a Psychological Sequence I designed the pitch narrative to follow a psychological sequence rather than a linear business outline. Fei Chen , Founder & CEO, Intellectia.Ai So, the structure was emotional to rational to visceral.

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StartupNation

JUNE 18, 2025

Your co-founders and early hires set the tone for your entire company. Founding team conflicts have doomed many promising ventures. Take the time to draft founders’ agreements, equity distribution, and clear roles from day one. Build Your Early Team with Care Building a startup starts with the people behind it.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 2, 2024

PlayAI co-founders H ammad Syed and Mahmoud Felfel leveraged their experience as software engineers at UAE-based d ubizzle , a classifieds website to buy, sell, and find anything. Kindred Ventures and 500 Global led the Seed round with participation from Race Capital, Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Pioneer Fund, TRAC, and others.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2025

According to a report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, around 65% of small business owners rely on personal or family savings to fund their ventures. Jakes Group and Founder of the Good Soil Movement. It seeks to solve one of the most pressing challenges for entrepreneurs today: access to capital. Jakes, Chairman of the T.D.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The technology-driven beauty company also announced the appointment of Jo Lawson as its new Chief Executive Officer and the transition of co-founder Nathan Harding back to the role of CTO. Heublein remained with LUUM until early 2024 and is now the founder and CEO of Sk inSpirit , an award-winning medical aesthetics brand.

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Revolution

JANUARY 27, 2025

At this years Bark Tank Pitch Competition , eight teams took the stage to pitch their ventures to a panel of expert judges, competing for a record $150,000 in prizes. Watching these entrepreneurs present their ideas, its impossible not to feel inspirednot just by their creativity, but by their commitment to solving meaningful problems.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

This round is about seizing the opportunities ahead for our next phase of growth, including driving innovation with new products, exploring acquisitions, and ensuring long-term financial flexibility, said Immad Akhund, co-founder and CEO of Mercury. Since its last funding round, Mercury has expanded its capabilities in notable ways.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Were moving freight faster, more safely, and at a lower cost for industry-leading brands across the supply chain, added Chris Smith, CEO and co-founder of Slip Robotics. DCVC, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm specializing in deep tech, led the recently closed $28 million Series B round.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

How Iteration Transformed Valley Venture Mentors Before I co-founded Valley Venture Mentors (VVM) and for all of my time there, we experimented with different ways to connect startups with mentors. They don’t just set a strategy and hope for the best.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

She is also the Operating Partner at Full Frame Growth Partners that led the recent funding round and was previously the Founder and Managing Partner of Creekside Ventures. With this investment, Bader Alam, Founder & Managing Partner of Full Frame Growth Partners, will join Superguts Board of Directors.

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