Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

Brad Stevens is an EO Atlanta member, Chair of that chapter’s Accelerator program, and founder and CEO of Outsource Access , which helps companies grow by providing highly skilled virtual assistants. Here, he shares his experience and insights for growing Atlanta’s Accelerator program. We transitioned to a quarterly membership cycle.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I joined EO Accelerator in 2009, when I owned a business and my business owned me. This year I was invited by EO Global Chairman Brian Brault to participate as a member leader and signer of the EO partnership supporting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Accelerator made it safe not to know all the answers.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 18, 2019

When USV invested in Coinbase in early 2013, our rationale was that digital currencies and digital assets (like Bitcoin and beyond) were a breakthrough technology, similar to TCP/IP, HTTP and SMTP. We believe Libra has the potential to be the catalyst that brings the entire cryptocurrency and cryptoasset market into the mainstream.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. We have never been in a stronger position. We remain steadfast in our commitment to continuing to increase all of the above.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. Right here.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

That’s why in this article, you’ll get a comprehensive look at the startups using voice technology to make healthcare better, along with some of the VC’s and accelerators that are backing them. In 2017, Medscape surveyed more than 14,000 physicians and found that 51% of them reported burnout, up from the 40% in 2013.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2017

Each year since 2013, EO recognizes one outstanding member who embodies the heart and soul of volunteerism, and who paves the way for others to follow, through its EO Global Citizen of the Year Award. How has your work on EO’s Accelerator Global Subcommittee impacted you?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2017

In this special interview, EO South Australia’s DAVID BARTHOLOMEUSZ , a longtime member leader and EO Accelerator trailblazer, opens up about his PoL journey, finding his purpose as a leader and giving back to get ahead. HOW HAS THIS GLOBAL COMMUNITY SUPPORTED YOUR ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY? HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH EO ACCELERATOR?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The company’s new cash has come from the private equity firms KKR and Tritium Partners, and is intended to provide operational support to meet the booming demand for RVs as Americans hit the road in unprecedented numbers. Founded in 2013, RVshare connects RV owners with people who want to rent an RV.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Since launching in 2013, South African fintech Yoco has positioned itself as the go-to platform to access offline payments among merchants in the country. “But the pandemic, which had a devastating effect on so many businesses that relied on in-person trade, accelerated the need for businesses to accept payments online.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Practice ignition , an Australia-based client engagement and commerce platform for professional service businesses, has raised $50 million (65 million AUD) in a Series C round to accelerate its growth and expand globally. It brings the startup’s total raised to $75 million, said Guy Pearson, CEO and founder of Practice Ignition.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Aimed at supporting SMEs grappling with burgeoning ESG demands, this initiative also strengthens carbon reduction regulations, paving the path for 2050 carbon neutrality. Since its establishment in 2013, the Pangyo CS Alliance, a collective of 13 IT giants based in Pangyo, has been dedicated to addressing community-centric challenges.

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Founders Coop

AUGUST 7, 2018

With Aviel’s announcement last week, and a new website up at Founder’s Co-op reflecting our new partnership, I thought it was a good time to revisit the themes from my 2013 keynote at the Geekwire Awards: Turtles and Flywheels. Seattle in 2013 was a different place.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Like so many kinds of automation, Rose says that he has seen things accelerate during the pandemic as software development teams look for ways to eliminate manual processes as they moved to work from home. Vamp launched in 2013 in Amsterdam and raised around €3 million, according to Crunchbase data.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Founded in 2013, Oktopost has only ever registered an $800,000 early-stage funding, and has run on revenues and profit ever since. Oktopost says it plans to use the funding to advance its product roadmap, boost customer success, accelerate marketing and sales, and explore strategic acquisitions — as well as grow its workforce by 50%.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The company, which was founded in 2013, also plans to strengthen its global operations across six countries — Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, and the Philippines. Ascend Money provides a financial platform of opportunity for those financially excluded as well as SMEs around the region.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The other major change was beginning to rely on hardware acceleration of said codecs — your computer or GPU might have an actual chip in it with the codec baked in, ready to perform decompression tasks with far greater speed than an ordinary general-purpose CPU in a phone. Mac-optimized TensorFlow flexes new M1 and GPU muscles.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Co-founder and CEO Gordon Daily said that when the company first launched in 2013, “streaming wasn’t something that everyone understood,” and you needed professional help to live stream anything. BoxCast , a Cleveland-based company aiming to make it easy to live stream any event, has raised $20 million in Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Its solutions are also designed to support a quick access to markets by farmers for better incomes and a reduction of post-harvest loss and waste. Farmerline was founded in 2013 by Alloysius Attah and Emmanuel Owusu Addai. It will start its expansion in Ghana before expanding to the neighboring Ivory Coast, accelerated by a fresh $12.9

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

AttackIQ was founded in 2013 and is based out of San Diego, California. Its Security Optimization Platform platform, which supports Windows, Linux and macOS across public, private and on-premises cloud environments, is based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework , a curated knowledge base of known adversary threats, tactics and techniques.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

The test is taking place under a sandbox program announced back in May 2019 — directing government funding and regulatory support to R&D in the drone space — initially through virtual testing, such as of avoid and detect systems. company, the regulator said today. One company that previously gained such permission was U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Today , the acute asthma attack of a primary school-aged girl in February 2013 was ruled by a U.K. The startup previously bootstrapped the company, supported by customer revenues. court to be due to air pollution. It is thought to be the first ruling of its kind in the world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

By 2013 it would be bankrupt and one of the many casualties of the first wave of cleantech investing. In 2013, there were 220,000 electric vehicles on roads, according to data from Statista , a number which had grown to 4.8 “We can use the side storage to accelerate the development of swapping stations,” de Souza said.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

Even though we decided not to pursue this model at InboxDollars, I continued to think about it and eventually decided to start angel investing as a personal hobby in 2013. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?” One without the other would not be success for me. My angel investing hobby was making me a better Founder, CEO, and business leader.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In a letter to employees that was posted on Plaid’s website, CEO and co-founder Zach Perret said the company saw a rapid increase in usage by its existing customers, a large number of new customers and “substantial revenue acceleration” during COVID. As such, the company “hired aggressively” to meet customer demand and invest in new products.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The startup also recently graduated from the Pear accelerator , a program put together by the 2013-founded seed-stage venture firm. ” Mentor Collective shakes off its boots to scale student support services. Check out these startups from Pear’s Demo Day (there’s usually a breakout or two in the bunch).

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

” Pavlo says that he was inspired to launch OtterTune after he became a professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2013. “This was … right around the time powerful machine learning technologies became more accessible with open source frameworks and hardware acceleration.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In late 2013, Errplane, a Y Combinator-backed startup, began developing an open source project called InfluxDB for database performance monitoring and alerting. “InfluxDB accelerates the pace at which organizations derive value from data,” Kaplan averred.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

But it’s been hard to argue against this position in the last 10 years, as the country powered ahead, famously producing ground-breaking startups like Waze, which was eventually picked up by Google for more than $1 billion in 2013. Israel’s government is very supportive of its high-tech economy. So how are they doing?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 29, 2020

Launched in 2013, Rich Pins offer businesses a free way to make listings more useful to sellers. If those customers have questions or need support, businesses will be able to communicate with them through Messenger, Instagram Direct, or WhatsApp. Then you can start pinning or creating visual posts, about your products.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The funds will be used to expand PhotoniCare’s executive team, ramp up manufacturing, execute on the company’s sales and marketing plan, fuel artificial intelligence development to enable real-time decision support for the TOMi Scope, and expand reimbursement activities and customer support. About PhotoniCare.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Community organizations like Shine & Rise provide support and mentorship to women who work at tech companies, and coworking spaces like Cahoots offer dedicated tech entrepreneurial spaces for the community. DaySmart is a software company that’s accelerating small business growth with digital tools. Ripple Science.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Zendesk is a 700 person company that builds customer support software. Zendesk has matched the SaaS median for revenue growth each year, and slightly exceeded it in 2013. The company has achieved a 114% CAGR from 2011 through 2013, an impressive growth rate. and in 2013, a figure of 1.0, compared to 1.1 for the median.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

A key pandemic-driven trend is the acceleration of the fertility tech sector, including egg freezing and IVF, with a market predicted to be worth $37+ billion in less than 10 years. Rewire has also secured an EU Electronic Money Institution license from the Dutch Central Bank to support its European expansion plans, PitchBook reports.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 25, 2021

Leveraging technologies such as this can help us understand disease and prioritize targets, and support our mission of bringing innovative new therapies to patients who need them.” PitchBook has awarded the accolade to OurCrowd every year since 2013. The company plans to use the new funding to commercialize its platform in the U.S.

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