TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

In an in-depth post, Fernandez explains alternative financing for startups, and how to tell which option is right for you. Startup accelerators’ definition of ‘value add’ is due for a refresh. Startup accelerators’ definition of ‘value add’ is due for a refresh.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Fifteen accelerators from key tech hubs, including Uganda, Egypt, Ghana, South Africa, Senegal, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania will participate in the program. 500 Global’s take on the rising competition among startup accelerators.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

What it does: Pre- and post-pregnancy app Founder: Natallia Miranchuk Country: Cyprus The pitch: The SOULA app is an AI-powered guide for 24/7 informational and mental health support during pregnancy, birth and postpartum care. Company name: SOULA (legal name MAMATECH Inc.) The platform is focused on large corporations in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Vale do Dendê coordinates with local startups, investors and government agencies to support entrepreneurship and innovation and runs startup acceleration programs specifically focusing on supporting Afro-Brazilian founders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

After being in the inaugural cohort of Plaid’s startup accelerator , the fintech meets health tech play launched last year with millions in venture capital behind it. One year in, the startup has evolved from selling to small private practices to largely serving other venture-backed digital health startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

walked through its health assessment service for insurance carriers. Designed to do away with lengthy medical exams and forms, Lydia has insurance plan applicants answer a few questions about their health — e.g., whether they have a chronic illness, have recently been hospitalization and so on — via their smartphones.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

Earlier this year, we were one of six pet care companies selected to participate in the fifth cohort of the Leap Venture Studio , the first pet care-specific startup accelerator. We were also recently selected as one of the 12 startups to participate in the fourth cohort of Plug and Play Topeka’s Animal Health Program.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The Exchange has been tracking Europe’s startup acceleration for years now. If you care about the state and the health of the European startup market, this is for you. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 16, 2023

The World Health Organization estimates there are 40 million amputees in developing countries, 90% of whom live without a prosthetic limb due to lack of access and cost. Scans are taken of an amputee’s residual limbs with smartphones, and a digital model of the amputated limb and a compatible prosthesis is developed by LIMBER. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

SOSV notes that, while HAX’s earliest focus was on wearables, in more recent years, the accelerator has largely shifted to industrial and healthcare, which currently comprise 70% and 20% of its portfolio, respectively.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Mahmoud said that they are building the safest way for anyone to find a pet by also ensuring verified health checks and interest free financing, in partnership with third parties, for those unable to make one-off payments. We are turning the marketplace into a video experience because every pre-owned item has a story.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

is the biggest health market, for example, so for most of those companies, it’s important to get there early and build some relationships. The Netherlands is a small market, and Europe is quite fragmented. is an important market. Most companies — depending on the sector — have to go to the U.S. at some point in time.

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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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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.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

Rizwan Virk is the author of Startup Myths and Models: What You Won’t Learn in Business School. He is a successful entrepreneur, video game pioneer and venture capitalist and founder of the startup accelerator Play Labs @ MIT.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

However, what is often direly needed is how to appeal to investors and raise smart money — knowledge that is essential for fundraising and a master key to building, accelerating and scaling your new venture.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

A global health crisis notwithstanding, London remained a favorite for investors. Bristol is also home to an important startup accelerator, SETsquared. Bristol is strong in media/animation, edtech, social impact, health and science. is gaining in popularity as a great place to start a tech firm. What does it lack?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Amondycare : Amondycare’s app lets mental health therapists manage their workflows and administrative work from patient appointments to sales. The Vetflux app is for pet owners to get the latest information about pet care, while the other, called Vetflux +, is for vets to organize workflows.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Pratech Brands plans to help new-age Indian consumers upgrade their quality of life through better home and health products. TrueFoundry is a developer platform that aims to help startups deploy and monitor machine learning (ML) models at the speed of big tech companies — in minutes or days instead of weeks or months.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

But with the company now trading, our access to its historical results, and our minds still enthralled by YouTube’s recent financial performance for Alphabet, it’s worth taking a moment to digest the company’s health. What Vimeo’s growth, profits and value tell us about the online video market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

As we spoke about on the latest Equity , Plaid has matured to host a growing startup accelerator, acquire companies and clearly expand its strategic ambitions. Francisco Partners scoops up bulk of IBM’s Watson Health unit. Cuffing season: Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 Image Credits: Manuta / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

RizLab Health : Antibiotic-resistant “superbug” bacterial infections are terrifying, and the overuse of unnecessary antibiotics only makes the situation worse. The company’s website says its drug (PNX3) “docks to Pannexin 1 channel and blocks it” — regulating one of the ways the brain processes ATP as pain.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. But how did it affect the company’s financial health? You never know where a hit will come from, which is why these events capture our attention. This morning, Alex Wilhelm examined why Robinhood’s investors were willing to inject $3.4 last week.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Also, the top thirty startups will get further assistance to expand business in Korea through a settlement program with a supporting fee of $11,136. 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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Amnesty International recently surveyed the world’s largest venture capital firms and startup accelerators. Overall, of the 50 VC firms and three startup accelerators analyzed by Amnesty International, we found that almost all of them lacked adequate human rights due diligence policies and processes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

How to get into a startup accelerator. is a skin health brand focused on men. Hopscotch is targeting the pediatric behavioral health sector with a SaaS platform that allows providers to use digitized treatment programs for both in-person and virtual sessions. for a subscription. The Daily is registered with the FDA.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

The startup participated in AngelPad’s three-month startup accelerator program in 2018, shortly before TechCrunch reported that the company had $265,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR). Forma’s core mission is to flip that relationship by designing employee-first benefits programs, he added.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

I’m about to participate in the Startup Champion Network’s Ecosystem Health Challenge from April through June 2020. The third launches in October. “The Fluency Score’s objective – standardized data – will redesign the system of capital and resource allocation in the startup industry in more equitable ways.

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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. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Apollo Health Ventures. Apollo Health Ventures is an Early Stage Investment Firm interested in accelerating breakthrough scientific discoveries to the clinic by building life science companies around new therapeutic technologies. Open Water Accelerator. Open Water is a new type of startup accelerator.

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