Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. Pay attention. Be careful not to spend all of your time on inbound.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Many GSEA participants go on to grow their businesses through EO Accelerator and eventually graduate from the program and become EO members. A global finalist in the 2007 GSEA competition, he is now an EO Minnesota member who owns five businesses. Tyler Olson is one such GSEA alumni. We asked Tyler about his experiences.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Since M-Pesa’s mobile money infrastructure came into play in 2007, there has been a proliferation of fintech services ranging from wallets to savings and loans. came to East Africa in 2007 to work on philanthropic biofield projects. Founded by Brendan Playford and Cate Rung , Pngme started primarily as a lending platform in 2018.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

2007 marked an important milestone for the Earth’s cities. This year saw the launch of Feeding the City Accelerate in the UK, which aims to support more established small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working in the realm of sustainable food to scale. It happened without us realizing at the time. Photo: Kina Mama.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. Next, entire accelerator programs were created on behalf of corporate partners, promising them access to cohorts of world-class founders eager to listen to their needs and use their APIs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. My Dad was drafted into the Air Force and was given accelerated citizenship. We had the consent of the acquiring company to take them yet US regulation prohibited it. So BuildOnline kept the employees on their books and they did subcontracting work for our company, Koral. He was fortunate.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

million from Plains Venture Partners I, as well as $1,000,000 from the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund and $500,000 from the Oklahoma Angel Fund II. Plains Venture Partners I, the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund, and the Oklahoma Angel Fund are each managed by iMCI. Since 2007, iMCI and i2E, Inc. i2E.org.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

I decided to go back through the Wayback Machine to figure out what Buddy has called itself over the years: 7/27/2007 – Application Developer: Buddy Media is the leading developer of applications for the emerging new media platforms, including Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

There weren’t a lot of seed funds in 2007 so this was often done by angels, funding consortia or sometimes early-stage funds that existed then (First Round Capital, True Ventures, SoftTech VC, etc.). 5 million was always the classic definition of an A-round between the late nineties (crazy financings aside) and say 2007.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“Teaming up with Bending Spoons will [accelerate] the delivery of improvements across our teams, professional, personal and free offerings.” ” Under CEO Phil Libin, who joined the company in 2007, Evernote shifted its focus to the web, smartphones and Mac, starting with Evernote 3.0

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Cait Brumme runs MassChallenge, the long-running, zero-equity startup accelerator based in Boston. 406 Ventures since 2007, is one of the leading VCs in the Boston area. In Conversation with MassChallenge and.406 Greg Darcon, a Partner at.406

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 26, 2023

Established in 2007 and headquartered in Singapore , Apeiron Bioenergy is a globally integrated player in the bioenergy sector. Building upon our proven operational and financial track record, we remain fully committed to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and driving the accelerated growth of green energy.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The company, which was founded in 2007, initially was a low-volume custom bike builder. “I felt this was a special opportunity because we’re able to accelerate investments into a bunch of areas of the business where we’ve already been experimenting for years and that we found work,” Radenbaugh said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The company was founded in 2007 by T. Shell-founded startup fund receives $13 million from Canadian DFI to accelerate clean energy access in Africa. Its current systems can power lights, mobile phones and small home appliances like TVs. Part of the funding will be used to expand the business’ presence.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

“Booz Allen Ventures allows us to actively bridge the gap between opportunity and capability and accelerate the services-to-solutions transformation.” For example, Lockheed Martin Ventures has pledged only around $200 million toward startups since 2007.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. Venture Kick was launched in 2007 with the vision to double the number of spin-offs from Swiss universities and draws from a jury of more than 150 leading startup experts in Switzerland. Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Founded in 2007, Ataccama develops data governance, data catalog, data quality and data management capabilities for enterprises. The growth has accelerated in the past 18 months with 86% annual recurring revenue growth year over year,” Klaus said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

“This investment will accelerate the geographical breadth of Pano’s AI solution, enabling us to safeguard more communities from these climate-caused emergencies. The company told me its mission is to accelerate global resilience to the increasing frequency and intensity of climate-related disasters. Image Credits: Pano.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2007, it became one of the first markets in the world to issue contactless (tap-to-pay) cards. (A The new and old regulatory innovations are accelerating fintech’s success. To do this, it played to its structural strengths: The UK was an early adopter of fintech infrastructure. A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

CEO and co-founder Emil Eifrem said that Neo4j, which was founded back in 2007, has hit its growth stride in recent years given the rising popularity of graph-based analysis. “We Eifrem said that the company recently opened up an office in Singapore to accelerate its sales in the broader IT market there.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act. From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. You’re involved in other aspects of the firm’s activities: due diligence, portfolio acceleration, board service, etc. Accelerator Centre. Accelerator Centre is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada. HOW TO GET A SCOUT ROLE.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As for why he decided to sell, Pixie co-founder (and former Google AI CEO Zain Asgar told me that it was all about accelerating Pixie’s vision. These range from small startups to large enterprises and as Staples and Asgar noted, there was already a substantial overlap between the two customer bases.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2020

million from the Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund, as well as $500,000 from the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund and $350,000 from the Oklahoma Angel Fund. Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund, Accelerate Oklahoma Fund, and the Oklahoma Angel Fund are each managed by iMCI. Since 2007, iMCI and i2E, Inc. Regional investors provided $2.5

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

With a focus on Southeast Asia, Sansan wants to accelerate its overseas product expansion, including its namesake sales DX solution Sansan and online invoice receiving solution Bill One. “We Established on June 11, 2007, the company that is based in Tokyo, Japan has a capital of 6,450 million yen as of August 31, 2022.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The pandemic didn’t represent a major change up or down in the business, but it accelerated the digital transformation in enterprises that are now asking for a cloud-native, composable approach,” Omlo said.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The company aims to accelerate the global transition toward renewable energy by offering crucial support to businesses aiming to achieve carbon neutrality for Scope 2 emissions, which pertain to indirect carbon emissions from electricity, steam, heat, or cooling purchases.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In 2007, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers used a tearful and now famous Ted Talk to urge investment in green technology which he said “could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st Century” and announced a $100 million investment in cleantech, renewable energy, biofuels, electric cars and water purification technology.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Since 2007-08, funding for Ben Franklin has dropped approximately 50 percent, from $28 million to $14.5 These high-value services accelerate clients’ growth and international competitiveness, and help them to identify and establish new markets. million per year.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

i2E’s micro-accelerator, the E3 , helps founders vet and validate the path to market. Since 2007, i2E and Plains have invested more than $61 million of equity funding in 58 companies. Expect a real-world view. . i2E venture advisors go into the community with their sleeves rolled up. Access to capital. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The capital will be used on hiring and product development, with the goal of accelerating the growth of BrandCrowd , its DIY platform. Founded in 2007 and based in Sydney, Australia, DesignCrowd built its reputation as a design crowdsourcing platform, allowing users to get proposals from designers around the world.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 15, 2019

The long-running property bubble had popped in late 2007 and global markets were unraveling, eventually turning into what would become known as the Great Recession. Some friends in Boulder were experimenting with an idea for a “startup accelerator” they called Techstars. In retrospect, it’s hard to imagine what we were thinking.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2016

If I had more space, I’d add that studying accelerated learning is the Archimedes lever for everything else. From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things. That one’s easy, as it would be the same every year. Instead of throwing spears, you’re the one holding the shield.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Retail Index estimates that the coronavirus and resulting social distancing measures have accelerated the transition from in-person retail to e-commerce by about five years. This is the largest increase in new businesses since 2007. For example, IBM’s U.S. But if you’re one of the 3.2

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The message is simple: If your website was built in Ruby on Rails in 2007, it probably was already obsolete before Google came along and told you so. For more tips and tricks on how to comply with mobile first, they offer a deep well of content that can be incredibly helpful here.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

He started working on it in 2007 and developed the business plan in 2009. Earlier this year, we were one of six pet care companies selected to participate in the fifth cohort of the Leap Venture Studio , the first pet care-specific startup accelerator. We’ll participate in a three-month accelerator program.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago. They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. Two years later in 2007 I interviewed Paul and asked him why he started Ycombinator.

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