TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Startups start here, which is why we’ve tailored Disrupt 2023 to showcase the game-changing ideas, technologies and industries that are shaping the future of the tech community. CTA: Want to reach the biggest funders, founders and Disruptors? Sessions will include Alphabet and Magic Leap. Disrupt 2023 isn’t just a conference, though.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In order to make those investments, venture firms must first have the money, which means they’re not only just the funders, they’re fundraisers, too. But that image is only one part of venture capital. After launching Avestria in 2019, we found that family offices and high-net-worth individuals were the best targets for us.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

Our events all feature a rejuvenated and refined version of our Innovation Funders Showcase, with broader outreach aid all member groups in deal flow, increasing the value of the program for early-stage companies and angels alike. The Angel Funders Report is based on direct investment data solicited from all ACA member groups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Jake Fingert is a managing partner at Camber Creek, a strategic venture capital firm investing in real estate technology companies. Starting a business is hard, but we now have a path for proptech, lined with funders and advisors, that can propel entrepreneurs over early obstacles through to maturity and deep market penetration.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

It’s a long road taking an idea from the R&D stage in a lab to successful commercialization, especially when you’re talking about technologies as complex and costly as robotics and artificial intelligence. TC Sessions: Robotics is a free online event, happening July 21.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

Startup 302’s mission to support founders from underrepresented backgrounds is such an important one, and this year’s finalists not only further enhance the wellspring of innovation developing in Delaware but offer technologies and solutions that truly will make the world a better place.”

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Some grants target underrepresented communities, others are open to all small businesses and others are tied to early technology research. Accelerators are programs run by a range of organizations and funders to assist the best startup applicants they choose. Government Resources The U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 16, 2023

The convergence of technology, talent and funding now makes the vision of one-hour hypersonic global transport within reach—so say the co-founders of Venus Aerospace and its most recent funder Airbus Ventures. With talent and funding onboard, it is now all about the technology being developed to drive hypersonic global flight.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

These companies may use hyperspectral, thermal, radar or optical instruments — but none, as of yet, use light detection and ranging (lidar), a technology that’s best-known for its use in self-driving cars. Nuview , a geospatial technology company that emerged from stealth today, wants to change that.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Put simply, Crowdz started out by giving small and medium-sized businesses a way to sell invoices for financing to funders. We both service the SMEs by being able to buy receivables, invoices and SaaS contracts through our marketplace, which brings other funders together,” said Johnston, who serves as the company’s CEO. “Or,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Property technology has radically impacted the way we live and travel, but the real estate industry has successfully resisted most attempts to innovate. “What you want as an entrepreneur is funders nodding in agreement with your pitch before you even have a chance to finish it,” write Fingert and Foster.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

” Banking partner Like Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic has been a major banking partner to the world of technology as it grew into a huge, and very valuable, industry. One of the those big funders was the FDIC. JPMorgan, along with PNC, were among the banks who submitted bids over the weekend.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

These companies are global magnets for technical talent eager to work on the most advanced and highest-impact technology products in the world. The next logical step was to go up-market and look for financial “partners” among the many corporations struggling to keep up with the pace of technological innovation during the go-go ZIRP years.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 22, 2023

FPV Ventures’ Co-founders Wesley Chan, founder of Google Analytics, and Pegah Ebrahimi , former COO of Morgan Stanley’s Technology Investment Banking Establishing credit is a major challenge facing millions of Americans, both those in low-income jobs or those just entering the workforce, among others.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 10, 2023

As an example, early in QCA’s history, the group discovered a technology developed at a children’s hospital that could potentially be used to quickly prescribe the correct medication for people suffering from mental illness. Prior to this technology, the process had been an “educated guess” on which drug to initially prescribe.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The partner retailers use the startup’s Mergdata , a proprietary AI technology platform for supply chain intelligence, to digitize the farmers they serve, and to generate the data required to predict the demand of farm supplies and prevent stock-outs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

With money from the Queensland University of Technology, where he is a professor of robotics, Dunbabin’s team developed a prototype underwater robot to reseed dying reefs with tiny coral larvae. What I like about Oceankind is that they recognize the true cost of doing technology projects and they’re prepared to support it,” said Dunbabin.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

Every time I talk to someone about the work we do at Founders’ Co-op , I have to first explain that we don’t really care about technology or business ideas per se. We have lots of opinions about how those groups can best use the tools available – technology, capital, ideas – to achieve their goals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

The move comes at a time when the UK government has been playing lip-service to the idea of the country as a “Science and Technology Superpower”. Tech founders and investors are already being attracted by the $369bn on offer under the US Inflation Reduction Act for technology startups.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Register Indonesian Shariah-compliant SME lending platform Alami Group has announced raising a pre-Series B funding that would further boost its financial technology. Founded by 2018 by Dima Djani, Harza Sandityo, and Bembi Juniar, Alama is a Shariah-based financial technology peer-to-peer lending company.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

When you launch an application in the public cloud, you usually put everything on one provider, but what if you could choose the components based on cost and technology and have your database one place and your storage another? million seed round from TA Ventures, DNX, Florida Funders and other unnamed angels to keep building on that idea.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

For slightly over three years his company, Riverhouse Technology, helped the emerging tech firms in talent sourcing and acquisition. The startup is planning to establish Smart Fund, an investor-matching program that uses algorithms to pick the best opportunities for funders.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

Angels are nimble, identifying and supporting entrepreneurs with desperately needed new technologies and innovations. We are looking forward to meeting face-to-face again at ACA 2022: The Summit of Angel Investing in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in May, with an expanded Innovation Funders Showcase. More than ever, we need innovation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

There’s a lot of value in waste; just ask metals processing company Nth Cycle , which has developed a technology to help mining and recycling companies recover every bit of critical minerals from their operations. There, she received $500,000 in funding to scale the technology and prepare it for demonstration to private funders.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

million in pre-Series A funding led by Nordic Eye Venture Capital, with participation from Tradeworks VC, Venture Catalysts, 9Unicorns and Blume Funders Fund. Freightify started out as FreightBro, a freight marketplace, before its technology evolved into Freightify’s automated rate management system.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Some of Riot’s existing investors also put more money on the table, such as Y Combinator, Funders Club and Founders Future. While that might be a bit too controversial for Riot’s customers, the same technology will make the company’s simulated attacks a lot more sophisticated — and it’s a promising roadmap.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

These folks could become clients, funders, or good places to connect and work over the long term. Venture Capital & Technology' I probably should have connected with the staff when I was there--but no one really thinks about doing that formally.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Additional investors in the newest seed round and expanded credit facility include Village Global VC, Flexport Ventures, Tresalia Capital, 342 Capital, Struck Capital, Antler LLC, Antler Elevate, Florida Funders and Fox Ventures.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2023

I have been inspired to democratize access to technology in the real world from the beginning. Our annual Female Founders and Funders event during LA Tech Week this June, which connects hundreds of women-run VCs, entrepreneurs, and startups, with thousands applying to join the wait-list. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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EntreWorks Consulting

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Folks in the business of community building know the story when it comes to outside funders. Let’s hope that other foundations and other funders embrace this message as well. They fund projects, not organizations. This policy has meant that many local organizations are starved for funds. EntreWorks Blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

One such theme was “water conservation” and we morphed it into a broader theme of agriculture technology or “ag tech” for short. Apeel Technologies. Apeel is another Ag Tech company that has invented technology to reduce spoilage of fresh produce by extended the shelf life through natural means.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2023

I met Liz and Jon when I presented recently to the New York Angels on VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments.) Do you have a technology solution in place? Q: Do you offer your angels any technology tools to support portfolio construction for direct investments?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The company recently performed full engine burn tests at Stennis Space Center with NASA supervision, and they’re ready to fly — the last step before reaching a technology readiness level that would permit the company to step up its revenue. They’ve raised $15.5 million so far but are expecting to close at $17 million shortly.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". Ideas get poorly vetted because the funders aren't current on tech trends. It's in the Financial District--right at 55 Broad Street. It says so right on their website. I'll bet you didn't know that--mostly because it never was.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

By combining buyer-sanctioned marketplaces and auction-based pricing through a multi-funder platform, small and medium enterprises in Brazil have access to credit in a way that they never have before, making the cost of capital more affordable, he said.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I wish the small business ecosystem had something equivalent to the angel investor networks that support technology startups. We work closely with angel investors, venture capitalists, technology transfer offices, federal and philanthropic funders, and other entrepreneurship support program providers. Buddy Palmer. Mara Hardy.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 26, 2020

Over half the deals and total investments reported in the Angel Capital Association’s most recent Angel Funders Report were made in pre-seed and seed rounds. a nonprofit corporation that mentors many of the state’s technology-based startup companies. They tend to invest very early in a startup’s life, even pre-revenue.

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