AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 30, 2024

Betagro, a prominent player in Thailand’s integrated food industry, has recently launched Betagro Ventures, a new corporate venture arm to incubate innovative startups in the food and agricultural technology sectors.

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APRIL 21, 2011

But I am also someone who is very colored by my past experience of seeing the venture implosion after the first bubble and walking through the fundraising tumbleweed of late 2008. Here's how you can prevent this NYC renaisannce from being a forest fire: Fail fast. You can sign up here.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

It certainly worked out pretty well when Stanford licensed the search technology that Larry and Sergei had been working on back to them at Google. More and more startups are getting built without relying on University research--because hard technology is rarely the barrier to innovation these days. Kick the faculty out.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Here are a bunch of things I don''t do: I won''t do office hours anymore at incubators and accelerators. There are roughly 400 venture deals being done in NYC each year these days, and maybe about 30% or so of those are seed financings. Venture Capital & Technology' I just don''t think those are good for anyone.

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JULY 30, 2012

Interacting with a venture firm these days can feel like ordering from Seamless. Given the proliferation of accelerators and incubators that pre-vet entrepreneurs, roll up their sleeves to help companies, and dress them up for demo days, the best and brightest are being showcased to look better than ever.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The chosen candidate will probably have worked for a very reputable firm that is either in technology, consulting, investment banking, media or a startup. He heads their business development practice and they have been very active in incubating, investing in and helping grow LA startups. Are you merging? It was nearly identical.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Sramana Mitra said not to long ago in Forbes : “I have come to observe that most business school programs have an extensive emphasis on fundraising, especially from venture capitalists, and very little pragmatic understanding of what it really takes to get a venture off the ground. No revenues, no costs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It’s not a tech company this time — Awoyemi co-founded online jobs site Jobberman (which was acquired by ROAM Africa in 2016) and Whogohost, a bootstrapped hosting platform — but instead, a venture studio: Fast Forward Venture Studio. Here are some of the startups in the venture studio portfolio.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

There's no specific agenda or goal, other than to bring together all of the people that have an interest in this great community and its ability to incubate cutting edge and creative ideas. Now we can honestly say that NYC is a great place to build a venture backed company. Now, it's actually true.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals.

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MARCH 11, 2011

I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

But my take: Gaikai had superior technology & a superior business strategy. We also spent a fair bit of time talking about the changing nature of venture capital and in particular the hand-on practitioner role of early-stage VC led by accelerators such as YC, 500Startups, Betaworks and the like. I agree with him.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Pan-African focused venture capital firms Samurai Incubate Africa, Future Africa and Consonance Investment Managers led the round. The Americans of Nigerian descent toured across 20 states and studied different value chains for crops spotting inefficiencies that could be solved by technology. million in seed towards this effort.

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HPA

JUNE 26, 2025

HPA is excited to announce its participation in Handspring’s $12 million Series A led by Cobalt Ventures with support from NextView Ventures, NVP Capital, 25Madison, Arkitekt Ventures, Cornucopian Capital, two regional health plans, and others. Handspring’s proprietary technology platform supports this high standard of care.

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MAY 14, 2012

In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". Is your business plan competition a fun thing you do on the side each year, or do you have real programs with fulltime staff dedicated to teaching full stack development and how to incubate real businesses?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

It has 20 corporate partners that startups collaborate with while they are in ZEBOX’s incubator, including BNP Paribas, CEVA Logistics, Infosys, BNSG Railway, Port of Virginia and Centrime. ZEBOX, an incubator for supply chain startups, launches its Asia hub in Singapore by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. Related: Eskalera Technology Helps Create a More Diverse Workforce. So, what exactly do those action steps look like?

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I thought this would be helpful to two types of companies: Companies which sell directly to private equity/VC funds and family offices, e.g., some of my portfolio companies from my prior VC funds – Addepar , Drop Technologies ( Cardify.ai ), Earnest Research , Republic , Wonder. Lastly, I have three bonus tips.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Korean technology giant LG makes everything from televisions ( they announced some new ones at CES ), washing machines and fridges, to, well, it’ll probably take less time to list the things they don’t get involved in. It’s particularly aimed at homes that have home-care coordination challenges for neuro-diverse audiences.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 28, 2021

org (also for non-Partners in VC), Venture University , Rebel One Ventures , Sutton Capital , VC Career Accelerator. I recommend look at my exhaustive list for emerging VCs and private equity investors of Associations, Accelerators, Incubators, and Platforms. VonPerger European Tech Jobs. European VC Jobs.

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MARCH 21, 2012

You can jump into an incubator program and take it to the next level after just three months. Watching the movie made me think a lot about what's going on in the startup world right now--how you can hack together a project over a weekend and get funded.

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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. Hashed, a prominent Korean venture fund, is the primary contributor to this funding. Over the past year, Venture Builder has supported releasing 15 games in the market. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

One element of the 2021 venture capital apotheosis that doesn’t get enough attention is corporate venture capital. As with other forms of venture capital, CVC has pulled back some this year. The group isn’t into the “incubator” tag, we noted previously; it calls its accelerator a “venture lab.”

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. billion of total venture capital.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup. It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies. 10 Jay Street.

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MARCH 28, 2011

This summer, in NYC alone, over 50 companies will be participating in various incubator programs. I was talking to another venture capitalist the other day, and he suggested that too many entrepreneurs are falling in love with the idea of being entrepreneurs--and not being driven by the "big idea" that keeps them up at night.

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MAY 5, 2011

It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

And so, swimming against the tides, he set up the venture studio in partnership with co-founders Irene Kiwia and Bendon Murgor. Having an Africa-wide reach means that startups under Adanian Labs are able to scale in other markets easily as they tap the venture studio’s existing infrastructure as a launchpad. AI and Blockchain.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

In this post, I’ll cover six realistic ways startups and entrepreneurs can fund their business , including: Incubators or accelerators. Venture capital or VC. Funding from incubators or accelerators. A business incubator or accelerator is an organization that provides resources, mentorship, and connections to startups.

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APRIL 15, 2011

They have definitively set the bar for all other incubation/acceloration programs in the city--which I'm glad about. When you have Andy Weissman of Betaworks going up on stage and eating crow over telling a company that already had a round done not to participate, you know you've accomplished something.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Venture Capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial).

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

They include high-profile crypto and web3 investors such as Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research (FTX) and Distributed Global. We are pleased to partner with MARA as it embarks on building a digital financial system for Sub-Saharan Africa,” says Schuster Tanger, co-founder of TQ Ventures, one of the investors, in a statement.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2019

The number one challenge women face is a significant disadvantage in securing access to venture capital funding compared to their male peers. of all venture capital in the US went to companies founded solely by women. There are venture capital firms out there that are dedicated to closing the gender funding gap.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A serial entrepreneur, Bloom’s last business was the AR imaging company, Avametric, which was backed by Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator and wound up getting acquired by Gerber Technology in 2018. From a venture perspective I think of these all around real defensibility of brand building,” said Dennis. The Honest Co.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We now have incubators, accelorators, business plan competitions, and government backed seed programs, but it's not clear to me that this is where the pain is or where the impact is. Just because you help more people start doesn't mean you automatically get more success stories.

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

Talk of buildings and incubators reminded me of the story of Building 20 from "Where Good Ideas Come From". ".Legendary With all of this news about Brooklyn 's tech scene , I've been thinking a lot about what made the NYC innovation community grow so quickly.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. He’s a star who has a very intuitive feel for technology and … no MBA. I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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