American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

$1 billion allocated to support her philanthropic voice of advancing women and family causes Melinda French Gates announced she is going her own way, stepping down from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation she and her husband founded almost 25 years ago. She is an advocate for climate action and a fierce champion for women.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

But issues around pricing, flexibility to innovate and a lack of local tech support always come up. In 2011, the company launched its first core banking product targeting microfinance institutions. Typically , African financial institutions rely on using foreign technology solutions to solve their problems.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The company, which was founded in 2011 and is led by CEO Dan Preston, said it has reached a merger agreement with special purpose acquisition company INSU Acquisition Corp. drivers to shop around for insurance and look for deals that supported their shift to lower mileage. II, with an equity valuation of $1.3

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

The stock market is expected to be tough for the time being, but the mobility industry will grow rapidly that we can’t miss this critical time; we will focus on accelerating mergers and acquisitions and investments in new businesses and technology.”. billion won ($ 284.2million) since its inception in 2011 before its IPO.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Jhawar joined payments company Braintree in 2011 as COO and CFO. Lydia also supports direct deposit as you get your own IBAN in the app. Transactions have doubled over the past year, which means that usage is accelerating. Interestingly, Amit Jhawar is heading this investment for Accel. And it’s been working well in France.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

James covers the genesis of Ministry of Awesome following the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011, and provides updates on Ministry of Awesome approaches to startup founder support and programming. You’re also sort of no longer running your classic three-month type accelerator program, which finishes on, say, a demo day.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Register In a strategic move to elevate its support for emerging entrepreneurs, South Korea’s Asan Nanum Foundation has introduced the groundbreaking “Asan Voyager” program. The program offers substantial financial support, covering essential expenses such as airfare and accommodation for two team members, including the representative.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

CircleCI CEO Jim Rose says part of the reason for taking on $200 million in two years is because even though the company was founded in 2011, the continuous delivery approach is still really just getting started. 4 enterprise developer trends that will shape 2021. . 4 enterprise developer trends that will shape 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

He is also an angel investor, and via CcHub’s accelerator programme and a partner fund called Growth Capital Fund , Tijani has invested in more than 40 startups. But before CcHub launched its $500,000 accelerator programme and Aboyeji founded Andela in 2014, Jason Njoku of iROKO had already begun to invest in startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In an email interview with TechCrunch, Raj Verma said that the new capital will be put toward product development and engineering efforts as well as supporting investments in sales. ” SingleStore was founded as MemSQL in 2011 by Eric Frenkiel, Adam Prout and Nikita Shamgunov; Verma became the CEO in 2020 after a year in a co-CEO role.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

The round follows $25 million in financing from CIBC Innovation Banking last September, and brings Vena’s total raised since its 2011 inception to over $363 million. Vena CEO Hunter Madeley told TechCrunch the latest raise is “mostly an acceleration story for Vena, rather than charting new paths.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Founder and chief executive officer Ivy Huq Russell, who grew up in Chittagong and Dhaka before moving to the United Kingdom for university, started Maya as a blog with healthcare information in 2011. Many ask questions about birth control and family planning, or how to support their partners’ medical issues.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. Notley Ventures.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Logan LaHive: First, the problem… The incredible imbalance of power in workplaces is driving continued acceleration of income inequality, which along with climate, is a top issue facing society today. LLH: When starting Belly in 2011, yeah, we were tracking something like 15 companies in the Loyalty space. Next question.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

million round in Kaleidos, Penpot’s parent company that has largely been operating as a bootstrapped operation since 2011 and produces another open source tool, the project management platform Taiga , which today is used by more than a million people. Athos is a repeat backer: It also invested in an earlier $2.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Augury, founded in 2011 but out of stealth since 2014, has now raised $106 million, and we understand from a source close to the company that the valuation is in the range of between $200 million and $300 million. We are happy to support Augury and join it on its exciting journey.”. Up-and-coming enterprise startups in NYC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Plus, it’s understood that Tech Nation is intending to carry on “as is”, even without the government subsidy, supported by fundraising from sponsors, subscriptions and partners. In a statement he told me: “We’ve supported over 4,000 tech companies from around the U.K. Tech Nation has long been embedded in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

While founded long before the pandemic, Steve King says that Black Swan Data , the data science and tech company that he helped co-launch in 2011, is well-suited to the current environment. market share and supporting product development, according to King. It brings the company’s total raised to $18.5 ” . ”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Yin Wu has co-founded several companies since graduating from Stanford in 2011, including a computer vision company called Double Labs that sold to Microsoft, where she stayed on for a couple of years as a software engineer. Can it deal with a complicated scenario, a corner case? TC: What’s Pulley’s relationship to venture firms?

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

COVID-19 has accelerated the digitization of commerce globally. For better or worse, COVID-19 has accelerated e-commerce adoption among businesses in the same way it has accelerated e-commerce adoption among consumers. To do this, independent retailers will need tools to support their growth in a world that has moved online.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Many of our strategic partners will support us on different aspects of the supply chain, scaling components, entering markets, improving operations amongst others. “We are looking for the best talents worldwide and growing our team quickly now, so that we can accelerate on the technical and market development sides. ”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Released in 2011, “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle” was a book that laid claim to the idea that Israel was an unusual type of country. It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Even if investors have dry powder, they may need to focus on the portfolio as some companies may need more support for fund raises than they have required in the past.”. We see the acceleration of females building businesses, and a lot is going on in innovation, so we want to bring more capital into that.”.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

2011-2020 was the warmest decade of all. That’s why we support entrepreneurial impact makers and businesses that challenge the status quo, drive the creation of more inclusive and decent job opportunities and economic growth, and enable the acceleration of inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

2011-2020 was the warmest decade of all. That’s why we support entrepreneurial impact makers and businesses that challenge the status quo, drive the creation of more inclusive and decent job opportunities and economic growth, and enable the acceleration of inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Vitruvian is a new backer for MPB; the rest were already invested in the startup, which has raised around $91 million since 2011. “With the backing of Vitruvian Partners and those reinvesting in our business, we can accelerate our US and European growth strategy at scale, profitably.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

She joined PetHub in June of 2011 as the modern pet ID tag startup was in its beginning stages. 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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Impact Hub

MARCH 16, 2022

At the end of 2021, the EC adopted a new Social Economy Action Plan to support the sector to thrive. For over a decade, the Impact Hub Global Network has been working to shape the social and impact entrepreneurial ecosystem, supporting social impact-makers on local rooted communities around the world.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

She co-founded the Portland Seed Fund in 2011, but also serves as the Director of Portland State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and manager of the Portland State University Business Accelerator, allowing her to monitor prospective and existing portfolio companies that originate from the university.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Zendesk is a 700 person company that builds customer support software. The company has achieved a 114% CAGR from 2011 through 2013, an impressive growth rate. This sales efficiency is enabled by the combination of a great product, terrific sales and in particular community marketing within the customer support world.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

And the Detroit Region Aerotropolis deployed the Airspace Link low altitude drone infrastructure to support the safe use of drones and to lay the groundwork for a new type of Smart City mobility infrastructure. Headquartered in Metro Detroit, Altimetrik is a software company that helps clients transform and accelerate their business.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Accelerators have had quite a good run the past 5+ years. Not just Y Combinator and TechStars but a host of other accelerators across the country. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. By this time many accelerators were being created nationally and a few were getting off the grounds in LA, too.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. By comparison, when oil prices doubled between 2009 and 2011, it created stress for some industries, but there was no concern that the global economy would collapse.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated and exacerbated the situation. The research and evidence supporting the impact and value of startup community building is strong. Startups and entrepreneurs need ecosystems and communities of support to be successful. Startups and entrepreneurs need communities of support to be successful.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

In 2011, I heard a speech by Mark Zandi [chief economist of Moody’s Analytics] revealing that entrepreneurship in the U.S. Today, there are more nonprofits and incubator programs supporting potential entrepreneurs than ever before. Hall actively supports entrepreneurs and start-ups. What prompted you to write Boom ?

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