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A Canvas That Tells a Story: KISS Canvas (v5.0)

Paul G. Silva

I found that trying to filter out the information visually was very difficult, as you can see from this actual canvas I developed for a startup accelerator I was running in 2015… Get Your Own (free!). If you would like to use the KISS Canvas, you may do so completely for free as they are licensed under creative commons :).

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Early-stage African VC firm, Microtraction reports portfolio boom despite the weight of COVID-19

TechCrunch

” Badamosi, who returned to Nigeria from the UK in 2015, worked as the general manager for Starta Africa, an online community for African tech entrepreneurs. Microtraction-backed ThankUCash and a second unannounced startup have also joined cohorts at 500 Startups.

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SOSV is building a New Jersey HAX facility for industrial, healthcare and climate startups

TechCrunch

SOSV notes that, while HAX’s earliest focus was on wearables, in more recent years, the accelerator has largely shifted to industrial and healthcare, which currently comprise 70% and 20% of its portfolio, respectively.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

The number of accelerators has more than doubled since 2014 , while the number of accelerator-backed startups in the U.S. has nearly quadrupled in the same time period (investments from 2005 to 2015 and total investments through 2021 ).

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42Maru’s CEO D.K. Donghwan KIM’s quest to find all ‘Answers’ led to the establishment of a successful startup

AsiaTechDaily

So, he took inspiration from his favorite science fiction book ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy’ and in 2015 founded the deep-semantic QA (Question-Answering) platform, which understands a user’s real intention in a question and derives a single answer from an extensive unstructured data.

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

Dropbox is expected to IPO in 2015 at a valuation exceeding $10 Billion. There are lots of startup accelerators to help get the company off the ground. Some investors are now spending more time prospecting startups in Boston or New York where valuations are more reasonable, and the competition is less intense.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. According to co-founder Rob Walling, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, “TinySeed is the first startup accelerator designed for founders who don’t want to raise traditional venture capital. . —– Indie.vc According to Indie.VC