Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But to answer the actual question “Is there something going on in LA?”

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

The investment will be used for platform R&D to further enhance patient triage and symptom checking features as well as clinical decision support analysis – including intake collection, differential diagnostics and lab test interpretation – and to expand operations in Germany and the US, where Infermedica currently has one office.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Scott Kirsner is CEO and co-founder of Innovation Leader , a research and events firm that focuses on innovation in Global 1000 companies, and a longtime business columnist for The Boston Globe. Startups need to live in the future. Big companies, often the target customers for startups, live in a much more near-term world.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. Startup failure is easy to hold up as a type of martyrdom for progress, especially if the founders are starting out scrappy in the first place and trying to save the world. Subscribe here.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2021

Startups used to raise once every 18 months. Today, we joke in Startupland that a startup is never raising and always raising. Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. Then, every 12 months.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

On the flip side, athletes, entertainers, and C-level executives also ask what they should expect when investing in technology startups and working with founders looking to build the next big thing. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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Startup Grind

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Aneme Dlamini of Startup Grind chats to Simone Musgrave of Musgrave Gin about perseverance, building an actual business, and bringing your femininity as a force to be reckoned with in the business world. A : Okay, and how do you mix that sense of urgency and patience, like how do you balance the two for the sanity and sake of your business?

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

How to Foster Innovation and Creativity in Startup Teams To shed light on how to foster innovation and creativity within startup teams, we asked seventeen founders, CEOs, and other leaders to share their experiences. Our marketing game grew stronger with this idea and fueled our startup’s growth.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

In fact, according to the 2018 year-end report by CREtech , funding for “proptech” startups has surged with over $20 billion invested across early and late stage venture rounds in the last two years?—?quickly The connective thread here is the use of technology. It is about building and recreating communities.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. I want to encourage more innovative thinking.”. In 2017 there were 200 attendees.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

On Wednesday, the company announced that it snatched up Active Replica , a Vancouver-based startup developing a “web-based metaverse.” “Together, we see this as a key opportunity to bring even more innovation and creativity to Hubs than we could alone,” Udom said in a blog post.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. Plenty of good funding rounds, a highly skilled workforce and a strong entrepreneurial culture have given Amsterdam a booming startup ecosystem. According to a study by KPMG and and NL Times , startups raised $591.2

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 2, 2024

Out of 14 applicants, eight finalists were selected to participate in Ben Franklin Technology Partner’s TechCelerator Business Bootcamp , a program designed to help entrepreneurs explore the likelihood of success for a startup business idea. Over the past ten years, the program has helped create dozens of new tech startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It had produced, and was poised to produce, an enormous number of technology startups, given its relatively small size. The moniker became so ubiquitous, both at home and abroad, that “Israel Startup Nation” is now the name of the country’s professional cycling team. 2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Now as 2021 comes to a close, Cruttenden’s latest fintech, Ant Money, is announcing it has raised $20 million in funding (a mix of previously unannounced seed and Series A capital) and acquired Blast via a stock-for-stock merger. Cruttenden founded Ant Money , a micro-income startup, with Mike Gleason in March of 2020.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The product was useful to their business as a marketing and operations tool, but they wanted to build it into something more. Paul Silva built the IdeaPAD during years of working with students and companies in innovation and entrepreneurship. PAD P urpose: Why innovate? Paul Silva then facilitated the discussion.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. To meet these expectations, both technology that is easy to use and accurate as well as high-quality software and content are needed. “There are great benefits to independence.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Lest there be any doubt some startups are riding high even amid the macroeconomic uncertainty, process mining software vendor Celonis today announced that it secured a whopping $1 billion in additional capital at a $13 billion post-money valuation, a mix of equity ($400 million) and debt (a five-year $600 million credit line).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

If you think embedded insurance is the only hot thing in insurtech these days, we’ve got a surprise in store for you: While it’s true that startups that help sell insurance together with other products and services are enjoying tailwinds, there are plenty of other opportunities in the space, several investors told TechCrunch+.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

Most Popular: The Benefits of Encouraging Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace. You can use social media as one tool to make those connections , but it doesn’t stop there. StartupNation Originals: Learn How to Ignite Your Innovation, Creativity and Discipline. The 3 things you’ll need. An email list.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

I’m excited to shine the light on Logan and Frank, a software startup focused on worker empowerment. Hunter Walk: Frank , your current startup, is a platform for workers to organize in order to protect or advance their rights. I’m going to assume that your funding conversations here were a bit different than your last startup.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

The company declined to disclose a valuation when it took in the earlier slice of equity and debt last year, so the Barcelona-based startup is sounding more confident going into 2022 versus spring 2021. The startup is also ploughing money into developing what it bills as “sustainable” travel solutions.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

However, her take on the NYC innovation economy during her recent State of the City Address confirmed my thinking: Most of what the NYC government should be doing to support technology entrepreneurship in NYC is to try and stay out of the way. Regardless, is this really the stance the city wants to publicly take on the startup scene?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Palo Alto-based startup has raised another $300 million led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a valuation of $2.6 Plume’s CEO and founder Fahri Diner said the startup will be using the money to continue building out its software platform, inking and servicing more deals with carriers and generally expanding its horizons.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

What used to be a highly organized, cold, productive-oriented environment is now striving toward flexibility, collaboration, and empathy. Empathy and productivity: How do they mix? Most Popular: The Benefits of Encouraging Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace. Let’s take the workplace as an example.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

As Stein, CEO, worked with clients, she saw the need for specialized foods, like gluten-free, and what started as a side project — a blueberry muffin mix — was the catalyst for Purely Elizabeth and became her first product before moving into granola, which is what the company is known for today.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Government tends to struggle when it comes to keeping up with tech innovation. The IRS, for its part, turned to Seattle, WA-based startup ZenLedger for help. While $500,000 seems like a paltry sum for a federal agency, the contracts are significant in the small, hypercompetitive world of crypto tax prep startups. The past U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Spain’s government is gearing up to pass the country’s first ever startup law. The process of debating and agreeing the details of this startup ecosystem support framework is expected to take between six and nine months. So — if all goes to plan — Spain will finally get a startup law before the end of this year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Storm clouds for late-stage startups : To close out a cheery week on a high note, TechCrunch dug into late-stage valuations in light of public market declines. In short, it appears that a host of startups raised new capital last year when valuations – and therefore revenue multiples – were hot. Startups/VC. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

It’s been a hot minute since TechCrunch checked in on the brand — almost three years, actually — which is carving out a unique niche in the $10 billion functional drink mix market that founder and CEO Lauren Picasso told TechCrunch has “exploded” in the past 12 months. Some of those other functional beverage startups are also venture-backed.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And while most of its growth to date has been organic, it will be using some of the funding potentially to bring some inorganic growth into the mix. It’s already doing some of that: in April, it made an acquisition of French-Swiss edtech B2B edtech startup Coorpacademy to expand deeper into francophonic markets.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Agtech startup Source.ag The company argues that greenhouse agriculture is a safer, more reliable and more climate-resilient mode of food production, producing up to 15 times higher yields, using a twentieth as much water as traditional agriculture. today announced it harvested a $10 million investment to make greenhouses smarter.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

Beauty and wellness businesses have come roaring back to life with the decline of COVID-19 restrictions, and a startup that’s built a platform that caters to the many needs of small enterprises in the industry today is announcing a big round of funding to grow with them. Chances are that figure is significantly higher now.

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