TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Boost Biomes , the Y Combinator-backed developer of microbiome-based bio-fungicides and bio-pesticides for agricultural applications, has added $2 million in funding and picked up a new strategic investor in Japan’s Universal Materials Incubator.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 20, 2023

While VC dollars still overwhelmingly funnel into places like Silicon Valley, Brookings research shows tech jobs are finally spreading out — movement spurred by the availability of hybrid and remote work, private investment, and federal initiatives. Dynamism creates vitality and job opportunities that are key to a city’s success.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

With its innovative model for empowering rural women and youth, IndiVillage introduces balance to India’s ecosystem—where cities tend to grow exponentially while rural villages have few economic opportunities. “We It provides participants with opportunities to shadow a CEO, connect with mentors and exchange ideas with EO members.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

The company announced today it has raised $10 million in Series A funding co-led by Alpha Wave Incubation and edtech-focused GSV Ventures. This marks the first time both have made an investment in Indonesia. CoLearn has since been downloaded more than 3.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Early-stage venture capital fund Newtopia VC launched Monday with $50 million to invest in tech startups based in Latin America. The fund will invest between $250,000 and $1 million in startups at the seed stage to help them achieve the milestones needed on the path to raising a Series A. We aim to help entrepreneurs in those stages.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

“We partner with the investment groups at the agencies,” said company founder and chief executive, Ari Bloom. Identifying the opportunities,” said Bloom. “It was important to us once we get to a category what is the demographic opportunity. The company’s first product is a hand soap, Keeper.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As the captain of your ship, you’ll navigate a vast sea of opportunities. Lay the groundwork before the event and apply to become a speaker or invest in a tradeshow booth. In the high-stakes adventure of entrepreneurship, the search for your ideal clients and employees can become a thrilling quest. Look for CEO roundtables and forums.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. could become even more attractive regions for investment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A few years ago, at the start of the fintech services boom in Africa, Oliver Blantern got an opportunity to work in the continent offering advisory services to high-growth startups. Impact Rooms is backed by US-based investment group Global Blockchain Ventures (GBV).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

Notably, the 38-year-old Silicon Valley-based venture firm is doubling down on global investing. billion global “Leaders” fund that is focused on later-stage investing that Accel closed in December. Accel expects to invest in about 20 to 30 companies per fund on average, according to Partner Rich Wong.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Microsoft has today announced plans to support 10,000 startups in Africa over the next five years through a series of initiatives including partnerships with accelerators and incubators across the continent. The Founders Hub also includes opportunities to co-sell to Microsoft’s corporate and enterprise customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Series C was led by Japanese VC firm Incubate Fund, with additional investment from partnerships managed by Innovation Engine, funds managed by SBI Investment Co., Katsunori Sago, Aizawa Investments and funds managed by HiJoJo Partners and Aizawa Asset Management.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 23, 2024

Binghamton University’s Koffman Southern Tier Incubator under the NENY initiative will run ChargeUp, utilizing its established format. The Koffman’s Southern Tier Clean Energy Incubator program has much to tout, having fostered over 60 startup companies since 2017. Included is iM3NY , which opened the state’s first battery Gigafactory.

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Onevest

APRIL 21, 2015

By Michael Whitehouse If you are considering investing in a startup company offline or online with platforms like 1000 Angels , a private investor network that connects startups with investors, the sheer number of what’s available can be both daunting and comforting. If they are not then your investment could prove worthless.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 5, 2023

The venture’s goal is to validate, support, and invest in early-stage healthcare startups. The vetting process was curated to ensure that only the most promising and high-potential startups were considered for investment. Equally exciting is the opportunity to tap into VentureBlick’s extensive healthcare expertise and resources.”

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 2, 2024

HAX, a startup development program for pre-seed hard tech companies, with offices across the world, supports startups and entrepreneurs through investment capital, mentorship, and collaboration. HAX’s investment in Newark and New Jersey is a testament to the diverse talent pool the Garden State has to offer.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Incubators such as the one Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh started a few years ago are also a great way to jump-start your innovative ideas, receive mentoring, network, etc. Zappos also offers opportunities to learn about its company culture, which you can apply to your business. Boulder, Colorado. “We Nashville, Tennessee.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With Knife Fund III called the African Series B Expansion Fund, the firm seeks to directly invest in the aggressive expansion of South African breakout companies. It also plans to co-invest in companies across the rest of Africa. The fund ( KNF Ventures ) which invests primarily in Series A stage has eight startups in its portfolio.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

With such roles, including as angel investors, brainstorming ideas and citing opportunities based on trends and tailwinds within the tech space is inevitable (for instance, Awoyemi co-founded a digital bank for migrants last year that has since pivoted from serving customers to businesses).

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

Fostering Startups: Incubation Initiatives The 2nd Pangyo Corporate Support Hub, a startup incubating space (Photo = beSuccess) In an era dominated by technological advancements, startup support programs play a vital role in fostering stable business clusters.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

In 2017, Delahunt was at Ralph Lauren and had her first look at the blockchain, but it wasn’t until years later while working to pioneer some digital wardrobe projects with companies, like Snap, Bitmoji and Roblox, that she had an opportunity to see that web3 was going to be “more than a niche community” for luxury fashion.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

After attending TechCrunch Early Stage last week, I was cheered to meet so many first-time founders and experienced investors who are looking for opportunities. Still, the fact of the matter is the current attention only covers a fraction of the full breadth of the opportunity. AI is far broader than the buzz would even imply!

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 15, 2023

Register Singapore-based Decentralized Gaming Ventures, a venture builder in the web3 gaming space, has secured a substantial seven-figure investment round. Currently, the venture builder operates a Singapore-based studio that serves as an incubator for 32 promising game developers organized into eight teams.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

MoveinSync’s Strategic Funding Round This financing round is intended not only for growth but also to provide an opportunity for some of its early investors to partially exit. They aim to secure between $50 to $60 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

And out of this data emerges the fact that Native American women are the least likely to benefit from the wealth and opportunity of the tech industry, and of those obtaining computing degrees, only 0.1% of them are Native women. They are also being hit the hardest by inflation right now, as a result.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. Participants have the opportunity to receive prizes reaching $40,000.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Coolwater has built an investment community of 300+ founder VCs and over 5,000 technology companies. Versatile VC is the first VC focused on backing “investment tech” companies which help investors generate alpha and grow. I run a leading blog for emerging investment managers at Teten.com. Generate “operational alpha”.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 1, 2022

This is a no-cost opportunity! A partnership designed to offer the region’s entrepreneurs, students, faculty members, and small business owners designated space, loan and investment programs, business support and mentoring services, and entrepreneurial training all housed in one location. All you need to spend is your time.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 1, 2022

In the context of the Better Incubation ’s Communities of Practice targeted at understanding migrants’ challenges to entrepreneurship and leveraging learnings from successful inclusive experiences, MiFriendly Cities was appointed as an inspiring best practice that supports vulnerable entrepreneurs in the European region.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community. The goal with Resource is to help ensure that incubators and accelerators focused on supporting people of color have the resources they need to flourish, she added. “We

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

This is a no-cost opportunity! A partnership designed to offer the region’s entrepreneurs, students, faculty members, and small business owners designated space, loan and investment programs, business support and mentoring services, and entrepreneurial training all housed in one location.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 8, 2023

Through partnerships with universities and incubators in the region, the competition will bring together the most promising start-ups to compete. The top 10 winners will each be awarded Angel Fund investment of up to HK$1 million, providing a significant boost for their entrepreneurial endeavours.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

“We see a great opportunity for us to automate a lot of what is essentially the rules based kind of conclusions for these different software updates.” It’s not a corporate accelerator or incubator either, although it is building startups and working with corporations. Porsche is its first corporate partner.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Many, like Calendly, passed through Atlanta Tech Village, which has served as an incubator for the city’s talent ecosystem since it was founded in 2012 by David Cummings. Even the Atlanta Hawks launched their own investment firm to back early-stage talent. Last year, Atlanta startups raised around $1.65

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This February, Africa and emerging market-focused Nestcoin raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club and gaming guild Metaverse Magna (MVM). Gaming presents a unique opportunity to help young Africans earn and lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In fact, even some of the excesses of 2021 were eclipsed when the number of investments on the continent rose higher in 2022 than they had a year earlier, boosted by early-stage firms flocking to fund startups in the wake of landmark exits of homegrown companies like Jumia and Paystack. billion, according to data from Partech.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 18, 2019

Libra has been incubated by Facebook. When USV invested in Coinbase in early 2013, our rationale was that digital currencies and digital assets (like Bitcoin and beyond) were a breakthrough technology, similar to TCP/IP, HTTP and SMTP. To be clear, we view this as both an ecosystem investment and a financial investment.

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