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MARCH 30, 2014

Image via Startup Professionals. First things first – your startup needs a name! Some startup founders try unusual word spellings to make their business stand out, but this can be trouble when customers ‘Google’ your business to find you, or try to refer you to others. Invested Interests company name entrepreneur startup'

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The collective creativity, ingenuity and technical prowess of the Startup Battlefield 200 presented by Capital Connect by JP Morgan is nothing short of amazing. That’s a whole lotta noteworthy startups, so we’re going to break it down a bit for you and highlight them by vertical. You can find them all listed in the Exhibitor Directory.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 23, 2022

To see a full list of YC companies, visit the YC Startup Directory. Meet some of the featured companies on the list and learn more about the founders, their missions, and the predictions they have for the future.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 15, 2024

 Effective at the end of the w24 batch, I will return to my original role of YC Group Partner and will be able to once again devote all of my time to inspiring, investing, and mentoring early-stage YC startups.  I’ve

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Y Combinator

JULY 26, 2022

This two day event will feature founders from 30 countries and startups in every sector — open source, ML/AI, dev tools, fintech, B2B SaaS, consumer, healthcare, hard tech, and more. If you’d like to start researching companies in the batch, we recommend taking a look at Launch YC and the Startup Directory.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2020

There is another mechanism that ecosystem builders can use to have a huge impact connecting their communities—create and maintain an online hub of information about your startup community. The video of presentations from startups in our Digital Health event has already had over 5,300 views. Here’s some ideas on what to start with.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

JumpCloud, the late-stage startup that is modernizing the notion of corporate directories in a cloud context, announced a $159 million Series F investment on a healthy $2.56 The post [JumpCloud in TechCrunch] JumpCloud raises $159M on $2.56B valuation for cloud directory tool appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 17, 2010

Convert to PDF, attach to an e-mail, upload a photo or video, or copy to my Kindle could all be automated tasks that happen the instant I copy a file to a particular directory. Dropbox should have a marketplace of folders that I can download or even buy that have specific actions built in that occur when I drag a document into them.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When emerging entrepreneur David Davila started to develop his idea of a family business selling coffee, one of his friends recognized that he had a great idea and encouraged him to apply to Union Kitchen, a startup accelerator in the United States. Accelerators such as Union Kitchen, a startup food business accelerator in the Washington D.C.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur who would like to see this clause in more startups please ask your VC to include it in future term sheets and link to it from their home page. “We MovingForward is an open-source directory that pools diversity, inclusion, and anti-harassment commitments from VCs. Ours is: upfront.com/inclusion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Spice AI , a Seattle-based startup that aims to make it significantly easier for developers to leverage AI in their applications, today announced that it has raised a $1 million seed funding round. After all, there’s a plethora of startups out there that want to democratize AI. Now, all of this may sound a bit familiar.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

FireHydrant , a startup that helps companies prepare for and manage such crises, announced a $23 million Series B investment today. As part of that, the company has added a directory of service owners to make it easier to find the people in charge of a given service should it be the cause or impacted by an ongoing event.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We think you’ll be as amazed as we are by the collective creativity, ingenuity and technical prowess of the Startup Battlefield 200. That’s a whole lotta noteworthy startups, so we’re highlighting them by vertical. That’s a whole lotta noteworthy startups, so we’re highlighting them by vertical. But don’t stop there.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Entrepreneurs face challenges everyday and nobody is born with the inherent knowledge needed to make their startup successful. There is great value in assessing and mapping your startup and entrepreneurial ecosystem. That was the moment when the idea for the Sacramento Startup Ecosystem Subway Map was born.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 28, 2020

You can see a list of the companies that presented on-the-record in the YC Directory. Some of the themes we saw in this batch: – Startups revamping traditional industries. At our 31st Demo Day, 198 companies presented virtually over two days. You can also read about the companies in TechCrunch here and here. Sustainability and housing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Zoom today announced plans to acquire Workvivo , a six-year-old Irish startup focused on improving companies’ internal communications and culture. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Founded out of Cork in 2017, Workvivo has amassed a fairly impressive roster of customers too, including Amazon, RyanAir and Bupa.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 29, 2024

It’s not a typical arrangement for most job positions, but it was the perfect pairing for these two parties, made possible through InvestaMatch – a New Zealand built online directory platform that connects people, and small businesses, seeking investment outside of the conventional avenues.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The search for solutions to the challenge has given rise to startups like Doppler, which offers a service that developers can use to manage and secure secrets — specifically app secrets — “at scale” in enterprise environments. The startup has raised $28.8 Managing app secrets in Doppler. Growing industry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Authzed , an early stage startup that wants to make it easier for developers to build permissions in their applications, announced a $3.9 While it may rely on Active Directory or LDAP as the basis of permissions groups, he says that it simplifies the actual permissions implementation. million seed round today.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Browse through the many hundreds of video answers to startup questions that we’ve filmed from the world’s leading VCs and angels. You really should have spent a heck of a lot of time beforehand in thinking through all of the issues surrounding your startup.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Dear Sophie: A friend and I founded a tech startup last year. Like a lot of other startups, we’re looking for funding. Getting yourselves and your startup in front of Silicon Valley investors that focus on pre-seed and seed funding will be important to rapidly scale. How should we begin that process?

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Egypt-born and Dubai-headquartered mobility startup SWVL is planning to lay off 32% of its workforce it said in a statement today. This downsizing from the Dubai-based startup adds to the long list of global cross-stage layoffs in what has been a rough month for tech employees. Over 15,000 tech workers have lost their jobs in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

And, Melton, a lead investor in health tech startups including Livongo, Tia and Calibrate, says the care pathway ages well. The buzzy yet powerful framing is growing in popularity among Silicon Valley startups. Today, interventional medicine is the dominant mindset in Western healthcare. Enter personalized medicine.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Y Combinator has announced Launch YC , a platform where people can sort accelerator startups by industry, batch and launch date to discover new products. 1,000 companies per Y Combinator batch? RIP Y Combinator. As of right now, Launch will only be for recently backed YC companies and product updates from YC alumni.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

The founders of ConductorOne , an identity and access control startup, both came from Okta , which is itself a single sign-on vendor based on the zero trust model. They do a great job of centralizing some of your corporate users into a central directory. Today, the startup has 17 employees with plans to double that by year’s end.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 31, 2024

What motivated you to launch your startup? After the last company I worked for was acquired, I had a VP of Operations role lined up at a startup in D.C., What has been your biggest challenge when growing your startup? One of the toughest hurdles for any startup is getting early adopters to take a chance on something new.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Managers can create an employee directory, as well as social workspaces that can be customized for various teams and departments. Startups in the space benefited. Business is booming, evidently. billion valuation in July 2021.

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StartupNation

JULY 28, 2021

startups nearly doubled from $88 billion to $144 billion. In spite of this, investment into women-led startups tumbled to just 2.4% These discrepancies are huge and even more startling when you take into account that women-led startups are more likely to be successful than those led by their male counterparts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

It integrates with CRM platforms and directories like Salesforce, HubSpot and Azure AD. In a prepared statement, Blackbird partner Rick Baker said, “The last time Square Peg and Blackbird co-invested in a seed-stage startup, the result was Canva.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

This is related to what you can do once you are inside the application, and Oso , an early stage startup, has created an open source library for developers to make it easier to build authorization in their applications. API startups are so hot right now. But there is another piece to this, and that’s authorization.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

The startup claims to have over 500, the largest being the U.S. ” Kulkarni says that most enterprises on Crowdbotics create a private module library on the platform, categorizing their own organization’s reusable components of code plus data. ” There might be a bit of hyperbole there.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

RapidSOS may well be the only startup to pivot from a consumer app to a govtech/enterprise hybrid, and it has the most extensive directory of partnerships and integration relationships of any startup I have ever seen.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

The startup has been building a cloud-based phone system for call centers, support lines and sales teams. Aircall customers can create local numbers and set up an interactive voice response directory. It integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Slack, Intercom and other popular CRM, support and communication systems.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Rather than relying on relatively static roles or attributes, the startup’s platform only grants access to software resources and data when a user needs them. A glance at SGNL.ai’s dashboard, which lets admins review authorizations across teams, divisions and individual employees. Image Credits: SGNL.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You know you’ll require startup funding, but aren’t sure where to start. Participating in an accelerator allows you to join a community of other startups in the program, be provided with networking opportunities, and have the chance to elicit feedback from your peers. Self-fund your startup. Will you self-fund and bootstrap?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Zilla Security , a Boston-based startup, believes it has come up with a solution to meet these more modern identity requirements. As he sees it, if you want to have a more granular approach to permissions, it requires moving beyond the directory approach, the traditional approach to managing identity. “We million Series A investment.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 7, 2022

He’d decided to leave Mountain View and work on a new startup, but I thought there was an opening. Be Strategic About Who Makes The Ask: Sometimes it can be the CEO, if the candidate was senior enough (or the startup is small enough) where there was some direct interaction. Don’t just throw them into the ATS. Or questions you have?

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