StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The benefits of building a diverse startup team are overwhelming; from increased creativity and faster problem solving, to a greater diversity of thought opening up new market opportunities and more revenue streams, to better understanding the customer base and building better products… the list goes on. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

AMP Robotics , a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclable material, today announced that it extended its Series C round to $99 million, thanks to an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. Horowitz founded AMP in 2014 after earning his Ph.D. from Caltech.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Harrisburg, PA – The Wolf Administration announced today that Pennsylvania is offering opportunities to tech entrepreneurs and startup companies to grow their business by connecting with government clients and developing solutions to make governmental processes more efficient. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. November 2, 2018.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Cathay Innovation is hoping to secure the bag in a new investment partnership with a company that secures crypto assets. Denis Barrier, co-founder of Cathay Innovation Image Credits: Cathay Innovation. Cathay Innovation was the lead investor in that round, which valued Ledger at $1.5 billion, Gauthier said.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

Craig Hall, the writer of Boom: Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups , shares his view on the current state of entrepreneurship in the U.S. . Unfortunately, we have created a widening opportunity gap for most Americans to become entrepreneurs. What happens when the entrepreneurial spirit and sense of innovation diminish?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

We’ll discuss the opportunities that investors see in backing companies looking down at Earth and what’s ahead for the industry. Between them, these founders have raised roughly $450 million for their respective companies. He’s received the NASA Mariner Award, NASA Discovery Award and NASA Formulation Award.

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Dream It

APRIL 29, 2019

The study looked at 316,244 women whose health insurance switched from a low-deductible plan to a high-deductible plan between 2004 and 2014. Speakers at this year's event include Caroline Savello (VP of Commercial at Color Genomics), Roy Rosin (Chief Innovation Officer at Penn Medicine), and more. months for first biopsy, 6.6

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 22, 2016

I signed up for the half-marathon at the EO Global Leadership Conference in Athens, Greece, in 2014, and I started training on the streets of Delhi. We are young and nimble, and are able to design or innovate pretty quickly. billion people, combined with little or no environmental consciousness, spells a large opportunity in India.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Series C was led by Japanese VC firm Incubate Fund, with additional investment from partnerships managed by Innovation Engine, funds managed by SBI Investment Co., Incubate Fund’s investments in ispace stretch back to the company’s seed round in 2014. ” As launch market matures, space opportunities on the ground take off.

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Revolution

JUNE 3, 2021

Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of work where we have been acutely interested in two data points: the acceleration of funding to early-stage startups outside of the Bay Area and the acceleration of remote work opportunities in tech. At Rise of the Rest, we see opportunity first through the lens of geography.

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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. “We started Appzone with the intention to build out innovative local solutions for banking and payments on the continent,” CEO Obi Emetarom told TechCrunch. This is where Appzone has found its sweet spot.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Hundreds of startups dot the landscape, and the amount of money being raised and spent on innovating around the country’s industrial heft is mind-boggling. But Tang wasn’t satisfied and eventually sold ELEX Technology to a publicly listed company for about $400 million in 2014. The China opportunity.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Sensing an opportunity to solve this problem, many entrepreneurs have developed voice-powered applications that allow providers to offer a better patient experience. million adults in the United States experienced a voice problem in 2014. Another study estimated that approximately 17.9

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Pajani Singah’s company, Amazonia Impact Ventures , was named Top Innovation Winner of the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge for protecting the Amazon rainforest and improving the lives of its people through an innovative finance company that works directly with indigenous communities in the rainforests.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). The media loves to cover young entrepreneurs who’ve done innovative work while going to school. He explained, “I want to share the same opportunities I had.”

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Aspect Ventures : co-founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, the early-stage venture firm uniquely focuses on bridging the funding gap between angels and the larger multi-stage VC platforms through collaboration and diversity. 90% of their funded startups are led by women or people of color.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). The media loves to cover young entrepreneurs who’ve done innovative work while going to school. He explained, “I want to share the same opportunities I had.”

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The acquisition of Spiers New Technologies is the Oklahoma Innovation Model working at its very best. It’s exciting work, especially when we have the opportunity to connect with a new startup in the first year or two of its existence and continue to support the company as it grows. ]. By Scott Meacham. SNT founder Dirk Spiers.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

Register Venture capital firm Goodwater has concluded its latest funding round, raising $1 billion in capital commitments for its fifth early-stage and third opportunity-style funds. Founded in 2014 by industry veterans Chi-Hua Chien and Eric Kim, Goodwater is the largest venture capital fund focused on consumer tech investments.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 15, 2019

Of small businesses started in 2014, only 56 percent survived four years. Look for ones with growth opportunities inherent in the business model. Figure out whether the market is right for innovation the company isn’t providing. Too many individuals believe they need revolutionary ideas to become entrepreneurs. Go shopping.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded in 2014, the New York-based company came out of stealth two years later, launching a smart lock system. The company is set to go public courtesy of a merger with blank check company TS Innovation Acquisitions Corp. This week, Latch becomes the latest company to join the SPAC parade.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 4, 2023

With this, the initiative aims to provide pre-seed funding of up to US$100,000 to empower and foster innovation among consumer-focused startups in the region. Neoh’s involvement with Prenetics dates back to 2014, when he became its initial angel investor.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

billion from 10,000 individual investors since its founding in 2014, the firm has funded to date over 350 companies founded or led by women of its 1300+ current portfolio companies. The Women’s Fund seeks companies and trends at the intersection of innovation, venture investing, and female entrepreneurship. Having raised $1.3

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Berkonomics

MARCH 2, 2017

Early stage investor groups often list these traits at or near the top of their list when filtering opportunities for investment. Flexibility: the context in which a business plan envisions the enterprise in its marketplace is constantly changing as new products and services challenge competitors to innovate and adapt.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region , Sao Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into promising startups since 2011, helping spawn nine unicorns along the way.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

echPetHub’s Clemens is Leading Innovation in the Pet Tech Industry I had the pleasure of interviewing Lorien Clemens, co-founder and CEO at PetHub , Inc., Lorien has been honored by Pet Age Magazine as one of the pet industry’s Women of Influence, and she was also named the Pet Industry Network’s 2014 Pet Industry Woman of the Year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Zeitview was founded in 2014 with the goal of bringing a new resource to businesses: the sky. With a passion for drones and other cutting-edge tech, Burton says he saw an opportunity to use airborne robotics and sensors to capture data about how assets — for example, solar panels and turbines — change over time.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It also offers an opportunity to examine those issues from a bit of distance to see if there are any broader takeaways for the community at large. Mixer/Beam Interactive (2014-2020). ScaleFactor (2014-2020). Ultimately, the company was able to eke out just under three years of life after coming out of stealth. Total Raised: $10.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Founded in 2014, Rohlik’s funding comes at an interesting and key moment in the online grocery business, in Europe and beyond. The opportunity for a company like Rohlik is to export its model to more countries that have similar market dynamics to those it already serves. We understand from sources it is around $600 million.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 9, 2023

Sponsored by Standard Chartered Americas (“Bank”), the WiT competition is part of the Bank’s longstanding partnership with the Zahn Innovation Center (“Zahn Center”) at CCNY to promote greater gender diversity in the technology sector. CCNY embraces its position at the forefront of social change.

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Feedough

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Nokia was the crusader of innovation in its prime. Acquisition By Microsoft: In 2014, Nokia was close to being bankrupt. Failed to Innovate. Nokia was the first company to introduce 3G phones, camera phones, and many more innovative technologies. started to gain some market with their innovative & simple OSs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

NPI simplifies access to USAID resources and makes it easier for partners to bring forward their ideas and innovation. Additionally, many of the breakthrough innovations that we need in global development have been spearheaded by for-profit entities, including those located in low- and middle-income countries.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

While solar grids and panels are another viable option and have compelling use cases for end consumers, there’s still an opportunity to launch products targeted at power distribution companies, and that’s where Beacon Power Services (BPS) plays. and Nigeria-based utility company provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This innovative product marks the latest step in the region’s leadership in progressive energy solutions, offering businesses a versatile, mobile charging option designed to meet the evolving demands of the modern world.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

million round back in 2014 , when the company said it would be able to get net power generation of fusion up and running within three years. But at 50 megawatts, the generators could power around 40,000 homes, and with that amount of power, the technology could open some really interesting opportunities for distributed power grids.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Tijani is the co-founder and CEO of Co-Creation Hub (CcHub), a pan-African innovation hub with offices in Lagos and Nairobi. 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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StartupNation

APRIL 27, 2021

Elon Musk famously announced in an open letter in June of 2014 that Tesla would “not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Tesla’s open source patent strategy announcement in 2014 was fairly controversial in the automotive world. The brilliance of Tesla’s open source patent strategy.

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