Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The startup will use the funding to enhance product capabilities and accelerate sales growth with key hires. In addition to bringing on new investors, the company has decided to appoint co-founder Subha Airan-Javia, MD, as the new Chief Executive Officer. and Dreamit Ventures.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

South Korea’s largest accelerator program– the K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) is the unique opportunity for global startups to enter the flourishing market of Asia. The 2023 edition of the accelerator, running from July 25 to November 10, will focus on deep tech startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen steadily in the city since 2016, according to Northen Ireland’s Department for the Economy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Black Innovation Alliance and Village Capital today announced Resource, a national initiative aimed at boosting the efforts of entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) led by, and focused on, founders of color. Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

It’s a known fact that the number of venture dollars flowing to Black and Latinx founders is dismally low. 31, Black and Latinx founders had raised $2.3 billion in funding that had gone to all founders up until that point in 2020. . Venture firms rush to find ways to support Black founders and investors.

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HPA

JANUARY 8, 2025

The firm invested in the founder’s vision and shared Smith’s belief that the company could revolutionize the way food is made to positively impact people and the planet. With Flowers resources, we will be well positioned to broaden distribution, accelerate innovation, and amplify brand awareness, while advancing our mission.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

. “This problem is especially acute in Africa because it’s particularly nascent, but this platform is designed for founders across emerging markets. Ayele tells me that in one sense, Pariti is like an unbundled accelerator. When a founder joins Pariti, they run their company through an assessment tool.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest & the End of “Silicon X Syndrome.” But from the back half of 2020 into 2021, we are bearing witness to accelerated adoption and transformational change in industry after industry. One characteristic I have discovered and tracked with fascination since 2016?—?in

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

million last year from New-York’s Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC) and a syndicate of Australian investors. The new investment will help the startup to accelerate its overseas expansion across the world with a focus on the United States, the country with the highest percentage of educators using one-to-one computing (1:1) computing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

4-year founder vesting is dead. In 2020, all the long-term trends forcing change in this sector continued and even accelerated. Among them, millennials decamped from their rentals in crowded cities to accelerate their first home purchases to the benefit of proptech companies and challenger mortgage players alike. Dana Stalder.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra Drone CEO and founder Toru Tokushige , who is also serving as the CEO of Terra Motors, which develops electric vehicles.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There’s no question that we are in the middle of a long-running and accelerating venture bull market. There were an average of 35 “megadeals” (with over $100 million raised) per month from 2016 to 2019, according to Crunchbase. And all that is indeed happening. In 2021, that number stands at 126 per month.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Catalyst Fund , a global accelerator managed by BFA Global , announced the 8th cohort for its Inclusive Fintech Program today. The accelerator, backed by the JP Morgan Chase and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, runs the flagship program annually. In 2020, all five countries had representatives in the accelerator.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

has raised a $7 million round to accelerate its hiring cadence, and built out the go-to-market model for its its engineering and developer-focused hiring service, it recently announced. Boston-based Filtered.ai Filtered later split from the consulting group in 2019, signing a term sheet to raise capital in March of 2020.

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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. In 2016, with 10 to 15 volunteers a week, our team represented 30,000 refugee mothers and children, securing the release of 99.9%

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This is where artificial intelligence and voice technology have presented an opportunity for enterprises to overcome the challenges of scale and engagement at their customer contact centers,” co-founder and CEO Skit Sourabh Gupta told TechCrunch. Its product VIVA covers more than 16 languages and 160 dialects.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. This is also at least the fourth construction tech company I’ve written about in the past year with a female co-founder.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2019

Written for EO by Manny Padda an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award. Join an international accelerator or entrepreneur group. Similarly, accelerator programs like YCombinator and 500 Startups have gold-star reputations for a reason.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The whole area was accelerated during the pandemic, when many property viewings migrated from physical to virtual, and this trend has continued to tick upward. It’s now raised $16 million in new funds led by Founders Fund, the San Francisco-based VC, whose portfolio boasts names such as Airbnb, Spotify and SpaceX.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2024

The company moves to the next phase of accelerating the abundance of frontier data, building a path to artificial general intelligence. Scale AI was founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo who since left to launch Passes. The funding enables the company to move into the next phase of accelerating the abundance of frontier data.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Opeyemi Awoyemi , one of Nigeria’s well-known serial founders, is back with another outfit. Awoyemi choosing this route is quite interesting, especially as many African founders either launch syndicates or venture capital funds post- or during their entrepreneurial journies. Fast Forward acts as the company’s co-founder.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

K-Startup Grand Challenge launched in 2016 In April 2016, the K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) was started. K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) Program is the flagship accelerator program for international startups looking to enter the competitive Asian market. So that’s why we are here,” said Aykan Ekici, Co-Founder of Khenda.

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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. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The First Cheque program plans to leverage the expertise of experienced founders from Jungle Ventures’ current and former portfolio startups. The firm secured $100 million for its second fund in 2016 and then raised $240 million for its third fund in 2019. billion in follow-on capital raised.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Building Legacies Out of Movements), an accelerator program for social entrepreneurs of color. Through knowledge sharing and funding, the program cultivates a thriving ecosystem for changemakers to accelerate impact and deliver initiatives at the intersection of sport, equity and creativity for Black and Latinx communities. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector. On top of the accelerator, the firm also launched a six-month fellowship program to foster climate tech entrepreneurship.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Register South Korea’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups, K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , is accepting applications for its 2022 edition. The KSGC program, launched in 2016, supports international startups that want to enter the Korean market and further explore the Asian region. Manufacturing in Asia is huge.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

The following article was written by Glen Carlson , co-founder of the Key Person of Influence Business Accelerator, for the March 2016 edition of Octane magazine : Consider the three types of branding you can develop as a business owner: a company brand, a product brand and a personal brand. Request a copy by emailing us !

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees , including one of WaveOne’s co-founders , now work within Apple’s various machine learning groups. Apple wouldn’t confirm the sale when asked for comment.

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A Smart Bear

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Another is to prioritize accelerating sales until that customer represents a percentage of revenue that you can stomach. For example, with $260M in 2016 revenue, still growing at a blistering 60%/year, with a thousand employees, Hubspot is not brittle in any of the ways outlined above. . “One big customer” is brittle.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Should you try to get your startup into an accelerator program? Neal has seen this industry from just about every angle — as a teacher, advisor, investor and repeat co-founder. How do you make the right impression on the application?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Burrow participated in the Y Combinator accelerator in 2016 with an initial aim of building sofas that, by virtue of being modular, were easier to move and adapt to a variety of living spaces. ” Jet co-founder Nate Faust is building a more sustainable e-commerce experience with Olive.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The event has accelerated the use of telemedicine, virtual care, and drug delivery, thus fuelling investor interest in the sector. The company was founded in 2016 by Femi Kuti , Opeyemi Olumekun and Matthew Mayaki. year-over-year revenue growth from 2016. Image Credits: Reliance Health.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Amazon’s first foray into the world of accelerator programs, designed to help early-stage startups build and launch, was focused on conversational AI back in 2016. Now, seven years later, Amazon has another AI accelerator – this time led by Amazon Web Services with a focus on the newest zeitgeist: generative artificial intelligence.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Meanwhile, XM Cyber CEO and co-founder Noam Erez sees the advantages of being part of a large corporation, even if it lacks a technology focus. “For XM Cyber customers, this means that with the financial backing of Schwarz, we will be able to accelerate product innovation, scale and extend our global reach.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A new option for founders who care about control.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

The company will use the capital raised to accelerate product development. Launched in 2016, Chili Piper’s software for B2B revenue teams is designed to convert leads into attended meetings. Nicolas Vandenberghe, CEO, and co-founder of Chili Piper said: “When we started we sold the house and decided to grow the company ourselves.

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