Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. As the desk-based Internet emerged it was initially sold through telecom carriers (after players like AOL and EarthLink innovated the market). @msuster looking for an inspired post on when an exclusivity deal (w/ major industry player) works (cons as well) for an early stage tech co. —

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Onevest

MAY 7, 2015

By Tim Houghten Every serious angel investor and startup founder needs to be in the San Fran stadium on July 18 th , 2015. Challenge Accepted On July 18 th , 2015 the AT&T Park stadium in San Francisco will be hosting the Spartan Race. In fact; she tells Inc.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Creative use of the country’s networked manufacturing and logistics hubs make mass production both cheap and easy. 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. Other investors noticed as well. Image Credits: VCG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 21, 2016

By Don Britton, Founder and CEO, Network Alliance. Some of these include: Innovation encouragement programs – Empower employees to suggest new ideas or visions for ways your company can improve its systems and processes. Customer service. Satisfaction. These seem like fairly attainable goals for your company’s approach, right?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

If selected, you’ll have the chance to not only recruit, but also network with the other companies at the event. Incubators such as the one Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh started a few years ago are also a great way to jump-start your innovative ideas, receive mentoring, network, etc.

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Onevest

MAY 12, 2015

For every 1,000 ‘curated’ spam sites there is a multibillion dollar valued masterpiece that is bringing priceless innovation online. On March 30 th , 2015 HubSpot proclaimed that there is still a need for trusted curators. Curation” has gone from being a hot hashtag to an unbearable cliché on the web. So where did curation get lost?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

In 2015 in the US there were $77 billion written into startup tech companies. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. Median valuations went up 3x in just 2 years, followed by a precipitous drop in Q4 of 2015. Even Sequoia.

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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. Spiers New Technologies (SNT) became an i2E client company in 2015. million in August 2015. Cox Mobility describes the deal as a foundational investment in Cox’s new global EV (electric vehicle) battery service network.

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Dream It

APRIL 29, 2019

Boston | May 8th, May 10th, June 3rd | The three-part Rock Health Enterprise Insights Series will gather select enterprise executives for a half-day of insights from the latest Rock Health research, facilitated networking opportunities, and expert discussions on startup-enterprise partnerships in digital health. Request an invite.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Earlier this week, we examined the trends in the major categories of startup investment including eCommerce, Software, Social Networking and Education. Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? The rest of the list controverts the notion that startups and investors pursue only incremental innovations.

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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 We’re really seeing a structural change and that is also what UBS is hearing from its customers.”.

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Startup Catalyst

OCTOBER 10, 2018

2015 Youth Mission. Youth Cohort 2015. Paul Martyn, who leads Advance Queensland as Deputy Director-General, Innovation at DITID, has been an active part of the ecosystem since we started calling it an ecosystem. Startup Community cohort (2017). Israel cohort (2017). who went on 14 missions …. Investor cohort (2017).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Afterpay and Square have the potential to build one of the world’s most important payments networks. Square has built a very significant merchant payment network, and, via Cash App, a thriving high-growth consumer payment service. Afterpay and Square have the potential to build one of the world’s most important payments networks.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

LTD , one of the largest security integration companies in the world, according to Forbes Global 2000 , has made a primary equity investment of $192 million in the two companies, $100M in Eagle Eye Networks and $92M in Brivo. Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo are independent companies majority owned by Dean Drako.

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OnStartups

JUNE 7, 2021

I’ve decided I’m going to invest $1 million in BitClout the blockchain-based, crypto-currency powered social network that is all the rage (at least within some circles). I don’t know, but it’s the best implementation I know of a blockchain powered, crypto-based social network. Momentum in terms of innovation of the platform itself.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

Join the rest of the nation including equity crowdfunding platforms like 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors, where currently only accredited investors are allowed to invest. The SEC seems quite okay with postponing finalization until October 2015.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” million USD) through its Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF). Past innovation hubs have relied on physical proximity in order to build networks of human and social capital. billion in cash.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

When my co-founders and I launched Branch in 2015, our mission was to deliver world class financial services to the mobile generation. UPI has since become the world’s fifth largest payment network by volume, and a model for the rest of the globe. India today: Regulation enables innovation At present, the revolution is in full swing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Naspers, via its investment arm, Naspers Foundry, co-led the investment with Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund. Devin de Vries, Chris King and Dave New started the company in 2015. As a mobility startup, WhereIsMyTransport maps formal and informal public transport networks. Today, i t is announcing a $14.5

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Tex Andersen (2015) became CTO of Talentvine , a Brisbane tech startup that makes outsourced recruitment affordable, transparent and simple. Matthew Brown (2015) left a role at one of the big 4 consulting firms to join Maxwell Plus , a medical tech startup rethinking the way we detect and diagnose disease (and are doing pretty well ).

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Tatiana, current Co-Founder and Director of Impact Hub Amsterdam, takes over from Gabriela Gandel, who led the network for the past 10 years. We sat down with Tatiana to learn more about her as a human, her ambitions for the network – and her own entrepreneurial action. And what really inspires you in our network?

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Joseph Rehmann founded Victory Farms in 2015. In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. Maintaining this growth rate can exude utmost confidence.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Since 2015, Black and Latinx founders — who have fewer funding routes available to them to begin with — have raised just 2.4% Participants will also get introductions to Amazon leaders and teams, networking opportunities with potential investors and ongoing advisory support, plus access to a virtual community of AWS experts.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2018

They’d been telling me what I already knew: I had to innovate. . They’d been telling me what I already knew: I had to innovate. I have learned from my team and my network, and I am grateful to have been given another chance. Kirsten Quigley has been a member of EO Washington, DC, since 2015. What did I do?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Founded in 2015, Long Game has built a gamified finance mobile app that aims to help people “save, learn and engage” with their finances. Its main marketing channels thus far have been social media marketing and the use of game ad networks. She also became acquainted with the company through personal networks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

Lewis and Grant Goodale co-founded Convoy in 2015 , and since then, have brought on a series of high-profile investors. To date, the company has raised almost $1 billion to scale its platform, which connects the fragmented network of shippers, carriers and brokers across the United States. TechCrunch+ is having a Memorial Day sale.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The new round from Cowen Sustainable Investments (CSI), labeled a Series B, follows the company reaching profitability in April 2020 and gives Quip more than $160 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2015. The company showcased its service at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley in 2015.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Since its founding in 2015, Moderne Ventures has built a successful investment track record yielding top-tier returns on its 35+ investments, backing over 150 Passport companies across three funds. Moderne’s unique platform de-risks venture, an inherently risky asset class, while producing top tier returns,” said Freedman.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Coro — a startup building an all-in-one cybersecurity platform aimed at mid-market companies, with functions to monitor devices, users, email, networks, data and apps and remediate any malicious activity — has raised $60 million, funding it plans to use to continue doubling down on this particular gap in the market.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Apprentiscope ApprentiScope exists to bolster our national workforce by facilitating the adoption, expansion and success of apprenticeship programs through innovative, efficient and powerful software solutions. Netshield Harden your network and cover your assets with ironclad network access control and vulnerability. management.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 20, 2018

What better acknowledgement of World Entrepreneurs’ Day (WED) —a day devoted to celebrating the leadership and innovation that entrepreneurs bring—than by sharing lessons learned from the founder of EO, Verne Harnish? Verne emphasized multiple times how important it is to have a strategic network. And that’s the short list.).

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After 10 years of leading the Impact Hub Network , Gabriela Gandel will move into a new role on our global board of the Impact Hub Association in 2022. When I joined the ‘Hub Network’ back in January 2011, I had no idea I’d still be here 10 years later, but I knew it was the right place for me to be! Here’s her story.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Since being founded in 2015, the company has amassed a customer list that includes AppFolio, HotDoc, Pitch, Kumospace and Teamflow, and its customers report seeing up to 80% fewer video call errors after using Daily, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Daily, told TechCrunch via email. HIPAA legislation in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer says its APIs provide an alternative network where fintechs and businesses can embed different sets of products into their applications and websites for easy money movement by their customers. We are incredibly excited to support this ambitious team building a next-generation network.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

David Perry and Jason Goldberg co-founded the company in 2015 and built a cross-store selling and influencer commerce platform that is used by more than 7 million influencers and 30,000 brands, like Blendjet, Arizona Iced Tea and Chubbies Shorts. It will be used to grow Carro’s team of 50 employees, product development and network expansion.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The company, which was founded in 2015, just raised about $5.5 For years, he has been an expeditionary videographer and innovator who climbed calderas and attempted to bridge the gap between audiences, humanitarian response, and science. “A million in financing this week.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It has also launched two different acceleration projects aimed at supporting SMEs and startups with mentoring, networking and support services. It has an estimated 67 VC funds, with 18 of them started since 2015. Innovative materials and solutions coming from recycling and the circular economy. Anna Tampieri, partner, ENEA Tech.

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