TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Besides, these five should be tempting enough for anyone interested in building a bigger, better startup — in less time. Network, connect and collaborate You simply won’t find a better time or place to expand your network, with the right people, than at Disrupt. Five reasons to go to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 1.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

The summit offers an unparalleled opportunity for learning, networking, and investment discovery, specifically tailored to empower the black entrepreneurial ecosystem. Additionally, the ACA’s Angel University pre-summit seminars offer deep dives into crucial topics like angel exit strategies and startup board management.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 5, 2022

Register Korea Startup Forum (KSF) is calling for startups from all around the world to join COMEUP Stars at COMEUP 2022. COMEUP Stars are promising startups that are bound to lead the global startup ecosystem and are hand-picked annually by professional judges consisting of well-known VCs and founders.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Pittsburgh is a fantastic startup ecosystem quickly growing by leveraging its incredible universities, a welcoming local government and experienced investors. It’s free to register and participate in networking and watch the event ( click here to register ).

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Deep Dive Africa 2019 - Pitch day. In its first edition (2019), the program brought together nine investors from Europe for a startup ecosystem tour of Ghana and Nigeria to meet 25 selected startups. Investors will enjoy a tour of the startup ecosystem in each of these cities.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

The event will be held on June 29, so make sure to register here (for free) to listen to these conversations, enjoy the pitch-off and network with local talent. Tsai joined Duolingo in 2012 as one of its first engineers, and firsthand witnessed the growth of the company from a scrappy startup into a 400-person global business.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Introduced last year — and one of the most popular events in TechCrunch history — TC Early Stage provides new startup founders (pre-seed through Series A) access to top experts to help them develop and strengthen their core entrepreneurial skills. Attend both to double your knowledge, double your networking, double your opportunities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Each event features a distinct lineup of startup experts, topics, workshops and interactive Q&As. We’re talking core startup disciplines like building a pitch deck, marketing, term sheets, fundraising, tech stack, operations, product-market fit, content development, growth and lots more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify Boston has had a thriving tech startup ecosystem for a while, but things can change fast. After setting records in 2021 as “Zoom investing” took off, how are local startups faring in 2023?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

You’ll learn from subject-matter experts, across the startup ecosystem, ready to help you avoid costly missteps. Attendees say: “Early Stage 2020 provided a rich, bootcamp experience with premier founders, VCs and startup community experts. Build community and expand your network. The TC Early Stage Pitch-Off.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

But the city — which long bore the scars of rustbelt depression — has traditionally had difficulty retaining much of its talent, losing out to better-known startup ecosystems in places like New York and San Francisco. We’re still looking for startups to participate in the event.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

It feels nice to eavesdrop on conversations and hear people talking about the future, to see bookstores filled until close and to have a full schedule of networking events and happy hours. In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about pitch deck teardowns and artificial intelligence. It’s been felt.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2021

When investors spend time at an accelerator, they listen to brainstorming sessions, pitches and mentorship advice that includes a broad range of perspectives and opinions. Investors can get a feel for founder personalities, hear soft pitches and share connections, ideas and commonalities that don’t naturally come up over Zoom.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Further insights from our 2020 Pitch Deck Interest metrics also indicate that the experience in the seed round is amplified in an unprecedented market environment. As CEO of DocSend, this data on The Funding Divide was important to capture and share with the startup ecosystem to help create awareness for underrepresented founders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Today, there’s a wall of new exciting things to look at…including, among other things, an opportunity Neesha has for you if you’re running a space startup: Apply to pitch onstage at TC Sessions: Space 2022 ! Cold outreach with a warm touch: Here’s the fast pitch we emailed to investors. That was yesterday. wonders Alex.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

If selected, you’ll have the chance to not only recruit, but also network with the other companies at the event. 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. Boulder, Colorado.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Back when I was pitching my previous startup to investors, it had never really dawned on me that they had experienced what I was going through--and that a VC firm was essentially a startup. VCs pitch for money, too. No one ever thinks about VCs having to pitch, who they pitch to, or how it works.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Your pass provides access to all live sessions and video on demand, making it easy to network with attendees or conduct other business during your day. Hot Tip: Looking to increase engagement and exposure for your space startup? If you subscribe to Extra Crunch, knock an extra 20% off the price of admission. at 11:59 p.m.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

With venture investors committing to funding Black and minority founders, alongside the growing availability of government-backed proposals, such as New Jersey allocating $10 million to a seed fund for Black and Latinx startups , can we expect to see fundamental change? These discussions then bring further biases to the surface.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

For example, I was mistaken for an intern in multiple meetings and generally not taken too seriously at networking or industry events. It wasn’t unusual for founders to take calls mid-pitch or check their messages when it was my turn to ask questions. At the time, our path forward wasn’t always clear. Louis well.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

” Joyce Sidopoulos is a co-founder of MassRobotics, a community and advocacy group for the sector’s startup ecosystem. How do you put it into a pitch deck? Milo Werner is a new general partner at MIT’s The Engine, an accelerator and fund focused on “tough tech.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Unicorns are becoming an endangered species in Africa’s startup ecosystem, reports Tage Kene-Okafor. Haje gets grumpy in his Pitch Deck Teardown of the Mint House’s $35 million Series B deck. DeFigure it out : DeFi startups need to experiment with new use cases and build solutions, investors say. Jacquelyn has more.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2023

I had a strong personal network and brand in the Hong Kong region, and I had no trouble finding local entrepreneurs who wanted to pitch Fresco Capital for funding. Unfortunately, in my early days of venture capital, nobody told me this story, so I immediately started searching for deal flow where it was easiest: in Hong Kong.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Accelerators, incubators, entrepreneurship training programs and workshops, co-working spaces, maker spaces, universities, pitch events and competitions, networking events and meetups, venture capital firms, angel investors, government and other civic programs, and mentors. The Benefits of Mapping Your Startup Innovation Ecosystem.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Five guaranteed support at KSGC 2022 In the last six years of the KSGC program, many startups have successfully established their businesses in Korea and Southeast Asia. month program supports startups financially and gives them multiple opportunities to network with top tech companies, VCs, mentors, etc.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Yeah, baby, we are ready to jump right into a jam-packed day dedicated to the growth and success of the entire early-stage startup ecosystem. Head to the expo hall each day to check out early-stage Startup Battlefield 200 exhibitors and sponsor booths. TechCrunch Startup Battlefield presented by Capital Connect by J.P.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

In less than 24 hours, thousands of new startup founders from around the world will tune in to day one of TC Early Stage 2021: Operations & Fundraising. Want to build a better startup? Buy your ticket , join your community and learn the best startup practices from those who earned their expertise by doing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Here’s the agenda , and these are the companies that are pitching at the event. It just raised $3 million to scale its social network for buyers and sellers. I’ll have 50 million of those : Our long-estranged sibling Crunchbase raised $50 million to further develop its startup ecosystem database, Kyle reports.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. As information about COVID-19 emerges from research, expect to see startups like LynxDx at the heart of treatment solutions. RightBrain Networks. Mid-sized top startups in Ann Arbor.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 13, 2020

As a team, we are dedicated to supporting and developing the Serbian innovation ecosystem. We support change-makers who come from different backgrounds and are carrying-out various missions all while hosting a diverse network of experts who take on the role of mentors, educators, and investors. We organized a number of events.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Since its founding in 2013, NS1 has raised more than $100 million to build an engineering team and robust product portfolio that’s expanded to include DDI, which helps companies manage internal networks. startup ecosystem,” they write. Image Credits: jhorrocks / Getty Images. households.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Expo+ Pass: This three-day, limited-feature option lets you access the expo floor where you can meet, greet and network with the Startup Battlefield 200 companies — our curated cohort and the only early-stage startups allowed to exhibit. Hear them pitch live from the Showcase Stage. Price now: $450. After May 12: $1,250.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Like Salesforce, HubSpot also has a significant (albeit smaller) network of integration partners. social network profiles (e.g., Ideally, we wanted to pull in data from outside databases , including data about limited partners and more broadly the startup ecosystem (e.g., Salesforce) and a marketing platform (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

In January, the startup announced a strategic deal with Swiss real-estate firm Stoneweg , which pitched in €100 million ($117 million) to co-develop a number of “dark stores” in areas where Glovo already operates to improve its distribution networks and help speed up its delivery times.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

But why don’t we put startup workers on the same pedestal? Who’s taking on more risk: a Stanford grad who leveraged their network to raise a seed round, or an immigrant worker who relocates to an expensive city for a startup job? That’s no hot take. ” You’re not going to grow into your 2021 valuation.

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