TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

There’s a godawful number of pitch deck templates out there, and there’s one thing that most of them get wrong: They forget to mention that the template is (meant to be) flexible. Investors see tons of pitches every day, and the temptation is to write you off before you’ve really gotten started.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. Most of the technology industry is notoriously apolitical. Intellectual Property.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 24, 2025

startup ecosystem, including a role at Farmers Fridge, a fast-growing food techcompany. The business utilized technology that allowed the entire fitting process to happen online without visiting a store. I think it is important to remember that you dont have to swing at every pitch. How did you break into tech investing?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

According to Startup Genome , Beijing, London, Silicon Valley, Stockholm, Tel Aviv are some of the world’s best startup ecosystems. Startup ecosystems from emerging markets excluding China and India didn’t make the organisations’ top 40 list last year. . A three-way marketplace. for law school.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

” Katai also shared his impressions of Romania’s startup ecosystem, suggestions for maintaining top-of-mind status with customers, and reinforced the often-overlooked need to continually repurpose content to grab mindshare. Technical jargon is one of the most annoying aspects of technology marketing.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With an impressive 60% of startups hailing from outside South Korea, COMEUP 2023 , embraces its 2023 theme, “We Move the World,” underlining its commitment to continuous innovation and nurturing the global startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

. “Carnegie Mellon’s decades-long leadership in research and education in AI and robotics has catalyzed an innovation ecosystem in the Pittsburgh region where entrepreneurship, creativity and placemaking intersect,” Jahanian told TechCrunch. It’s also free to apply to pitch your startup at the event ( click here to apply ).

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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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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The festival served as a dynamic platform for startups, investors, government agencies, and global corporations, fostering international collaboration. Influential figures from Viva Technology, NVIDIA, AWS, and SOSV contributed to the event’s vibrancy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems.

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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. The TC Early Stage Pitch-Off. Day two features a thrilling pitch off.

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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? Get that focus on one, get it accomplished — then you have a story, then you have someone who’s using your technology. Then pivot to another case.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Juan Carlos Hernández is the executive director at parallel18 , a top-level, performance-driven international startup program with a social mission, part of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust. Startup markets around the world are heating up, and more investors are competing against each other for the best deals.

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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. With an initial interest in technology, Andre started his journey by investing directly in tech stocks.

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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. Industrial delivery and drone applications in settings where human crews need to be safe such as scenes of accidents or fire are just a couple of the possible near-term uses for this cutting-edge technology.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Committing to enabling startups When Kickstart was established in 2012, the Philippine startup ecosystem was at its nascent stage. Ambitious and promising startups abound, but none managed to scale as fast or as large as those in neighboring countries. on its first year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

India blocks betting and loan apps: India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has called to block 232 betting and loan apps in order to keep users’ data safe, among other reasons. Africa’s startup ecosystem: Last year saw record investments in African startups. Spoiler alert: They’re faster.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

However, what is made less explicit is that there was likely very little technology involved. Pitch perfect, you might think. But it wasn’t really that technology driven,” he concedes. “We were really good at sales, we were okay at marketing, [and] we were service oriented: we really delivered to our customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Click the links below to see the top founders, VCs, builders, researchers and policy makers who will share their insights on the hot topics, current trends, future technology and more across seven breakthrough sectors on seven stages. Each Startup Battlefield company will also fast-pitch live on the expo’s Pitch Showcase Stage.

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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. TechCrunch Startup Battlefield presented by Capital Connect by J.P. How do you build a health-tech startup that can achieve high growth? Disrupt Stage | 10:50 am & 2:30 pm.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This Space is not a forum for pitching an article — if you’d like to submit your post for consideration, please email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com. Ask @YourProtagonist tomorrow, October 19 at 3 pm PT/ 6 pm ET during our Q&A (but please save your pitches to send over via email!) — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) October 18, 2021.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

It wasn’t unusual for founders to take calls mid-pitch or check their messages when it was my turn to ask questions. Both cities have a growing tech scene that is not yet saturated with VC firms, and each has different focuses at the core of their startup ecosystems. We think that Austin complements our presence in St.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Spend the money, get the customers : If you’re a startup, “we haven’t spent a penny on marketing” (TC+) isn’t the flex you think it is, Haje explains. Get customers, make money from customers : Also on TC+, Haje explains how to think about your business model as part of your pitch to investors. Becca and Ron wonder.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

When I launched WePrep in college, I was researching key drivers for startup success and was introduced to the world of VC. It’s an interesting part of the startup ecosystem because you get a birds-eye view of the market and can help multiple startups simultaneously. How did you break into tech investing?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. Fuelfinance Their pitch: “We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

As you can imagine, the pace of new unicorn creation and fundraising generated plenty of press coverage in France, but there’s an article in particular that caught my attention: A portrait of PayFit’s Firmin Zocchetto , OVHcloud’s Octave Klaba , Shift Technology’s Jeremy Jawish , and Contentsquare’s Jonathan Cherki.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

The SPAC parade continued apace this week as Nextdoor announced it would go public via a blank-check company, with the community social network making its pitch based on scale, claiming users in one in three U.S. startup ecosystem,” they write. It’s just been a nonstop torrent of startups linking up with blank-check companies.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . Ideally, we wanted to pull in data from outside databases , including data about limited partners and more broadly the startup ecosystem (e.g., RRM=Draft a response for me.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

At the helm of Awesome Ventures is Lok Yek Soon, a visionary entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience within the startup ecosystem. We believe that for every shift in technology, new markets and opportunities are created. What types of sectors do you look to invest in? And what’s your mental model for investing?

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Additionally, I take pride in our technology-driven processes. Our exclusive partnership with the job application platform, OneApply, also grants us access to hundreds of thousands of North American resumes and cutting-edge sourcing technology. Stay receptive to new ideas, industry shifts, and technological advances.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

But today, new growing sectors include crypto/web3, real estate tech, CPG and insurance technology. Morgan Flager, managing partner of Silverton Partners — one of the state’s most active investors — believes that Austin has finally gotten respect “as a legitimate top tech ecosystem.”. They are different and that is okay.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

However, one said: “The ecosystem still lacks local funding for the late Series A and beyond rounds.”. Lukas Inokaitis , business development, NFQ Technologies. Jone Vaituleviciute , partner, Startup Wise Guys. What industry sectors is your tech ecosystem strong in? Lukas Inokaitis, business development, NFQ Technologies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

It will be using the money to double down on that strategy, including hiring up to 200 more engineers to work in its headquarters in Barcelona, as well as hubs in Madrid and Warsaw, Poland to build out the technology to underpin it. Spain’s startup ecosystem: 9 investors on remote work, green shoots and 2020 trends.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

However, what is made less explicit is that there was likely very little technology involved. Pitch perfect, you might think. But it wasn’t really that technology driven,” he concedes. “We were really good at sales, we were okay at marketing, [and] we were service oriented: we really delivered to our customers.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth. They share their learnings on Flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog.

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