Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Contributed to EO by Natalie Kaminski, an EO New York member and co-founder and CEO of JetRockets. Fast forward two-plus decades, and I’m now the CEO and co-founder of JetRockets, where we develop high-performing web and mobile app solutions that help our clients transform their businesses and grow.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

With the latest investment, Minneapolis-based Branch has brought in a total of $58 million in equity funding since its 2015 inception. It started off with earned wage access and then began accelerating payments for workers. The raise marks Branch’s first since 2017. Lee Fixel is already raising a massive second fund.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

According to Jose Cayasso, CEO and co-founder of pitch deck design agency Slidebean, there are five slides where pretty much all founders miss the mark : Go-to-market. 5 critical pitch deck slides most founders get wrong. As a concept, minimum viable product (MVP) has given founders maximum flexibility. Use case/audience.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Founded in 2015, Freshly is a New York City-based startup that offers healthy meals delivered to your home in weekly orders, which can then be prepared in a few minutes in your microwave or oven. Nestlé USA just announced that it has acquired Freshly for $1.5 food market and further positions Nestlé to win in the future.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2017

Cameron Madill is an EO member in Portland, EO’s 2017 Global Citizen of the Year winner, founder of B Local PDX, and founder and CEO of PixelSpoke , a web design and marketing agency. How has your work on EO’s Accelerator Global Subcommittee impacted you? I thought giving advice was against EO’s protocol!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2022

Having recently survived his first bout with cancer, the legendary Apple founder delivered an emotionally vulnerable speech that has become one of the most watched of all time. Natalie Portman, Harvard, 2015. Devote a slice of your energies towards making the world suck less every week.”. Watch | Transcript. Watch | Transcript.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Founded in 2015 by Jeanny Yao and Wang, both discovered the massive problem of plastics starting with a field trip to the Vancouver South Waste Transfer Station. Novoloop claims its TPU made from post-consumer waste has a carbon footprint that is up to 46% smaller than conventional TPUs. Image Credits: Novoloop.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 7, 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. In part 2 of this article , he explains how he helped grow EO Atlanta’s Accelerator program. yet everyone wanted to learn them.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX started out in 2015 as a delivery startup using motorcycles to fulfil customer orders before venturing into ride-hailing, and later into vehicle subscription and financing services – solutions it came up with based on the data from its first services. Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Co-founder of Owned Outcomes Krupa Srinivas explores the value of fear in an entrepreneur’s journey as she describes partnering with a US healthcare intermediary to solve the problem of cataloguing hospital supplies. In 2015, one of the largest healthcare intermediaries in the country presented us these challenges.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. Our partnership with CAVA began in 2015, when the Mediterranean fast-casual chain had just a dozen locations in D.C., Founders Ike Grigoropoulos, Dimitri Moshovitis, and Ted Xenohristos grew up together.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

It was first acquired by Bitfury in 2015 after building a two-phase immersion cooling 500kW data center in Hong Kong, that purportedly cut energy consumption by 95% versus traditional air cooling technologies. and research and development in Hong Kong, according to a statement. billion last year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Like so many other aspects of the robotics world, the pandemic has dramatically accelerated interest in the automated kitchen. Founded in 2015, the Boston-based startup started making waves a few years back as a spinout of MIT mechanical engineering students.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Apollo.io , which is developing sales intelligence and engagement software for business-to-business companies, brought in $32 million in Series B funding to continue with its go-to-market acceleration approach. Tribe Capital led the round and was joined by NewView Capital and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Contributed by Lionel Felix, founder of Felix Media Solutions and a member of EO Austin. . I started the company in 2015 as a side-hustle with my old friend Mike Watts. Lindsey had recently attended the EO Accelerator Cash Day where she learned about profit first.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Existing investors, including co-founder of Facebook Dustin Moskovitz, Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and notable sustainable tech investor Capricorn Investment Group also participated in the round. Round-leader Altman has been involved in the company as an investor and chairman since 2015. billion Series E, with an additional $1.7

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

At the DEMO conference, Danielle Morrill, the founder and CEO of Mattermark presented an impressive statistic. The fertile fund-raising environment and the accelerating rates of new technology adoption have been enticing a substantial number of potential founders to take the leap of faith required to start a business.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 11, 2022

His appointment come as Airwallex aims to rapidly accelerate its growth globally and in the APAC in 2023. I am incredibly excited to grow my role within the company and look forward to accelerating our growth and continuing to build our momentum globally and across APAC,” Kai said on his appointment.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

As I’ve said many times before, women need to be in a position to make decisions, control resources, and shape policies and perspectives, and I want to accelerate progress toward that vision,” French Gates states. She is the founder of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa. She is the co-founder of the School of Leadership Afghanistan.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

million since its inception in 2015 and plans to raise a Series B in early 2022 to drive its rapid growth, the company said. After Kakao’s stock market debut, the four co-founders, who wanted to try again to build a company with global impact, uprooted their lives in Seoul and moved to Silicon Valley to develop the future in VR. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

IgniteXL Ventures, a fund founded by general partner Claire Chang, closed on its first fund of $10 million aimed at backing diverse early-stage founders in the beauty and wellness industry. from Seoul when she was a child and started a global accelerator in 2015. Female founders are making a buzzing, venture-backed comeback.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

“Our technology at Arrikto helps companies overcome the complexities of implementing and managing machine learning applications,” Arrikto CEO and co-founder Constantinos Venetsanopoulos explained. The round was led by Unusual Ventures, with Unusual’s John Vrionis joining the board. Image Credits: Arrikto.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For IndieBio, a science and biotech accelerator run by VC firm SOSV, this unprecedented year offered high stakes and new challenges. Today and tomorrow, the biotech accelerator is hosting its twice-annual demo day. Over the years, the accelerator has created a portfolio of biotech companies valued at over $3.2 Leaving the $3.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

B12 co-founder and CEO Nitesh Banta is a former investor at General Catalyst — having worked at the firm from 2010 to 2015. Over time, B12’s model has evolved as the pandemic accelerated digital everything, including payments.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Rowe Price, in part because of its founders Sterling Anderson, Drew Bagnell and Chris Urmson, all of whom are veterans of the autonomous vehicle industry. In early 2015, Uber kicked off its pursuit of autonomous vehicles when it announced a strategic partnership with Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Center.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

The bottled beverage industry wasn’t what Genki Forest’s founder, Binsen Tang, initially set out to tackle. China doesn’t need any more good platforms,” Tang told his team in an internal email in 2015, “but it does need good products.” Indeed, 2015 was the year when CACs began to exceed or at least rival ARPUs for Alibaba and JD.com.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In fact, the global crisis resulted in its revenue dropping to $0, according to CEO and co-founder Ariel Cohen. It was at that point that TripActions made the decision to accelerate the timeline for its fintech expense product, TripActions Liquid, which had launched only a month before the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Founded in 2015, Lynk has raised a total of $30 million in funding, including a $24 million round announced in January that was led by Brewer Lane Ventures and MassMutual Ventures, with participation from the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund. “Our As COVID-19 era drags on, VCs look beyond Zoom calls for due diligence and sourcing.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We truly want to power and transform the way consumers learn and buy insurance online,” said Carro’s CEO and co-founder Aaron Tan. Founded in 2015, Carro is Southeast Asia’s largest used car marketplace.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

boom, a startup is born… And if you take a long view of their [founders] career, they’re missing out on the depth of things, experience, and authenticity of experience that I think informs the most interesting category-defining companies out there.” founders could build startups for the long term, based on these trends. founders?—?challenges

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of digital freight company Convoy , didn’t start his company because he had a deep and abiding passion for trucking. Lewis and Grant Goodale co-founded Convoy in 2015 , and since then, have brought on a series of high-profile investors. Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of Convoy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

There are an estimated 100,000 Italians already living in London, attracting the likes of Riccardo Zacconi, co-founder of King.com (maker of Candy Crush) and Simon Beckerman of social shopping app Depop. This has seven different funds under management, including a VC fund-of-funds, “Series A/B matching” funds and acceleration funds.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. An engineer by trade — Rangasaye was the COO at Groq and once headed product planning at Altera, which Intel acquired in 2015 — he says that he was motivated to start Sima.ai

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Co-founder and Group CEO of Funding Societies, Kelvin Teo said the company is honoured by the confidence of its new and existing shareholders. “We About Funding Societies Founded in 2015 by Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya, Funding Societies empowers MSMEs in Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. Tan, however, will continue to serve as founder and partner at Initialized – a $3.2 YC says that no one else’s role at the accelerator has changed with today’s executive shakeup.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Revenue acceleration is, too.

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