Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We both went on to have successful careers as consultants and entrepreneurs, and had a passion for working with and investing in younger entrepreneurs. We reconnected in 2016 and began angel investing in startups in New York City.  But, even then, we knew that many things could go wrong and that our investments were risky.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

If economists tried to measure the cost of the malaise that the election of 2016 left, we'd undoubtedly see billions, if not more, lost in worker productivity. I was reminded of that when I interviewed Rachel's co-founder Kristen about how she hired their first two developers on the Startup Recruiting Podcast.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

Register Mark & Company, led by CEO Kyungpyo Hong, has announced the establishment and management of a new venture investment fund in partnership with Yoonmin Creative Investment Foundation, chaired by Minseop Sung. 1, launched in July 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In December of 2016, Monika and I established two sister companies: Solwey Consulting , focused on technology strategy and execution, UX/UI design and business intelligence; and Callentis Consulting Group , a research and development business focused on translational research and technology transfer from academia to industry practice.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. “My work with startups and the ecosystem began in 2016 when I founded Startupmedia to help startups and the ecosystem tell their stories and school myself in starting/scaling businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. I mention this because Greg led our investment in a company that I have personally become addicted to called Draft.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Singapore’s Jungle Ventures has announced the launch of First Cheque@Jungle , a new program aimed at investing in startups during their pre-seed and seed stages. Second, the program offers an initial investment without imposing minimum ownership criteria. Over the years, it has consistently grown in size and impact.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

This undisclosed investment is Google’s third from the $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at the continent’s early- and growth-stage startups, which the company CEO Sundar Pichai announced last October. The fund is part of Google’s plan to invest $1 billion in “tech-led initiatives” over the next five years.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 14, 2019

USV seeded Tumblr along with our friends at Spark in the summer of 2007 and were actively involved in the development of the company until its sale to Yahoo! I maintained an active Tumblog from before we invested in 2007 until October 2016, when I stopped posting there. There was no moment when I decided to stop posting there.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

With its latest acquisition Walmart is further investing in technology that will enable shopping via voice and chat. Founded in 2016, Botmock got off the ground just when conversational experiences were starting to be developed. At this time, there was a lack of resources available for design teams. Image Credits: Walmart.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Notably, Speak is the third startup in which OpenAI, the AI lab closely aligned with Microsoft, has publicly invested through its fund — the others being Descript and Mem. Speak was founded in 2016 by Connor Zwick and Andrew Hsu, both of whom had an acute interest in AI from an early age. ” Image Credits: Speak.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 29, 2023

Register Gitai, a Tokyo-based startup, has recently closed a 4 billion yen funding round to accelerate the development of its remotely-controlled robots for space exploration. The company aims to address the challenges and risks associated with human labor in space by developing advanced robotics technology.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Honeycomb was founded in 2016 by two former Facebook engineers to create a new way of looking at application monitoring based on the internal tooling they had seen at Facebook. Today the company announced a $50 million investment, a large sum in today’s tightening VC landscape.

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A Smart Bear

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Also, up-front payments, so you have the cash-flow to invest in that growth right now. The typical attitude is, “We now have a large customer, so pour extra money into development to make sure we don’t lose it,” but the right attitude is to use a lot of that money to land other customers. Talk about brittle!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Entrepreneurship is difficult in any part of the world, but entrepreneurs in developing nations face an especially steep uphill climb. EO supports the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, tapping the genius and problem-solving abilities of its more than 13,500 entrepreneurs to help solve the world’s ongoing challenges.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

From the day after we sold the company until today I felt it was important that I not comment too much publicly about online video even though I continued to work actively in the sector and made five more investments. We had a studio and invested in content creation. But if you’re not on FB in 2016 you’re crazy.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

A few examples… When asked in February what differences in the landscape he saw in 2021 and if deals were much more competitive, Accel partner Ethan Choi responded: “On the investing side, deals were definitely more competitive and valuations certainly reflect that, even despite a correction in public fintech comps.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Their heightened interest is reflected not just in their demand for ESG reports but also in surging investment volumes. Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016.

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

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

The Middle East consists of developing nations and, sadly, we are consumers of innovation and create very little of it ourselves. We hardly invent any new technologies and don’t invest enough in research and development,” Suhail says. “I Contributing to Sustainable Development. An Unreasonable Idea. Promoting Disruption.

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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. million Series A in February 2021. . and Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

The startup developed an auto refinancing platform that handles the entire loan process, including finding the best rates, paying off the old lender and re-titling the vehicle. MotoRefi has raised $60 million since its inception in 2016. Bennett believes the company is now in self-sustaining position.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Three months later, the startup has a different mission: to power the internet economy in Africa and has closed $2 million in seed investment towards that goal. The investment comes nine months after the company raised $500,000 in pre-seed last September and two months after receiving $125,000 from YC. Image Credits: Mono.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Digital House , a Buenos Aires-based edtech focused on developing tech talent through immersive remote courses, announced today it has raised more than $50 million in new funding. The raise brings Digital House’s total funding raised to more than $80 million since its 2016 inception. How nontechnical talent can break into deep tech.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

“Today’s announcement further signals Microsoft’s commitment to long-term differentiated investments in our data center infrastructure, which enhances our broad range of technologies and offerings including offloading, improving latency, increasing data center server density, optimizing energy efficiency and reducing costs.”

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Register Committed to accelerate the digital transformation of the world’s fourth largest population, Privy has partnered with KKR , a leading global investment firm. Privy, a digital trust provider, said new investments will further strengthen its position as the leading digital signature and digital identity provider in Indonesia.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

a Chinese blank-check firm affiliated with the country’s largest state-owned investment conglomerate. After closing, the transaction will inject the lidar company with around $278 million in pro forma net cash, including $40 million in private investment in public equity (PIPE) funding. Quanergy has had a bumpy road to the NYSE.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

That commercial product has over 5,000 paying customers today, and the company decided that the time was right to take a $6 million seed investment to build on the product’s growing popularity. DBeaver takes $6M seed investment to build on growing popularity by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But around 2017, we began to develop an interest in India. In November 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a demonetisation initiative aimed at eradicating black money; Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes ceased to exist as legal tenders and ATM withdrawals were capped. in a single database.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 18, 2023

The funding was led by Real Tech Holdings, a prominent Japanese Venture Capital firm, with the participation of corporate investors, including Mitsubishi Electric, Seeds Capital, Wavemaker Partners, New Keynes Investments, and the State Government of Victoria in Australia. Hydroleap was founded in 2016 by Mohammad Sherafatmand, a Ph.D.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

As Synder ’s two co-founders Michael Astreiko and Ilya Kisel wrap up their time at Y Combinator, they also announced their seed round of $2 million from TMT Investments. It was originally founded as CloudBusiness in 2016 and developed accounting automation and management of business finances for small and mid-size businesses.

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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. AWS will not invest in startups and does not yet have an AI/ML investment arm. There’s also a Demo Day in San Francisco at the end of the program.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Explosion , a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. The round was led by SignalFire, and the company reported that today’s investment represents 5% of its value.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It’s now raised $103 million since its launch in 2016. Additional investment came from Iris Capital, with strong participation from current investors, including Rider Global, Northzone, Cherry Ventures and the Italian venture fund H14. The round was led by Inven Capital, a growth fund out of the Czech Republic.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

She launched the business in 2008 and in 2016 started her first franchise mode. She took invested in education to learn how to not only clean but also the business of “hazardous cleanup” She took the course, even got a ready-made business plan for her envisioned business, and went to banks. Social Media – Video Show.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. The numbers are lower for later-stage funding despite evidence that investing in gender-diverse teams leads to more substantial business outcomes. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort. Catalyst Fund has the backing to keep this going.

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