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VCs at Freestyle, Plexo Capital and Sequoia join Startup Battlefield judges

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The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups. In 2004, Samuel co-founded Crackle, an internet video platform acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006. Freestyle led the seed rounds in Airtable, Patreon, BetterUp, Narvar and Snapdocs.

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Pangyo Techno Valley: Korea’s Prime Innovation Cluster Bolstered by Local Governmental Support

AsiaTechDaily

Launched in 2006, Pangyo Techno Valley has evolved across its three phases, fostering a collaborative ecosystem comprising businesses, support entities, and national government involvement. Apart from this, they’ve launched a cybersecurity fund, spotlighting fresh investment prospects.

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of audiovisual startup Chroma

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An early Google employee, Stone worked on the Blogger team after its acquisition, ahead of helping co-found Twitter in 2006. The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium. The two hit it off and began to have monthly calls after Stone’s angel investment. Chroma had previously raised 1.6 Chroma did.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

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Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Family office investments increased by 5x , and corporate venture investments rose 6x , thus opening new capital avenues for founders who found it difficult to raise capital. building companies in-house) or incubator (e.g.,

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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

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Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. So we’ve seen an explosion in the number of startup companies and subsequently a huge burst in the number of incubators. Juniper and countless others.

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Daily Crunch: Property management startup Doorstead raises $21.5M Series B

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Will record levels of dry powder trigger a delayed explosion of startup investment? “Despite the downturn, strong cash supply and tailwinds for spending on digitization are leading some market participants to believe we’re in a strong investment cycle,” says Raphael Mukomilow and Pierre Bourdon at Picus Capital. .

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Interior of the Batcave, 2006 ( Jake Dobkin / Gothamist). Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code.