Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

2017 YLAI Fellow Victor Rujano Bautista is the co-founder of Culturas Indígenas y Medio Ambiente Sustentable (CIMAS), an organization committed to promoting and defending the human rights of indigenous peoples and the protection of the environment in the Venezuelan state of Zulia. By Bryce Kelly.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Making Waves Lennert and Murnaghan opened a newcomer-friendly, Toronto-based surf and coffee shop in 2017, Surf the Greats. Surf the Greats has collaborated with a veritable tsunami of leaders in the sports industry: Patagonia, Rip Curl and Red Bull, as well as artists of all identities and backgrounds.

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

million seed round in 2017, uses DSLR cameras and computer vision to create 3D experiences. The company has a unique advantage in entering the VR space, since so many AEC firms are already using the Revit product to build 3D models and to collaborate with stakeholders on projects. The company, which raised a $1.3

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 13, 2020

As a member of EO Puerto, he’s also seen the company through the 2017 hurricane Maria. But as we all know, video chats can never replace real live interaction and collaboration among teams. Carlos Melendez, Wovenware, EO Puerto Rico. His organization has continued to work remotely. . Planning for a Return to the Office.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 31, 2025

The team has founded 5 companies which participated in 5 graduating batches spanning from 2009 to 2017. If youd like to learn more or see room to collaborate, please reach out! Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies before Demo Day. higher valuation cap. Most investors couldnt even get allocations.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Mat, a former senior engineer at Toyota, was made redundant during the closure of the automotive industry in Australia in 2017. Mat Bowtell was honoured to deliver the first keynote presentation of the EO Ignite event and received an absolutely overwhelming response from EO members after his talk.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Avena, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, also offers advice for future entrepreneurs. Avena noticed the large-scale unemployment throughout Dominica, and her concerns were confirmed by the Central Development Bank in 2017 when Dominica was listed as one of the Caribbean countries with the highest unemployment rates.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

Kenna is the founder and chief executive of LinkUp , a company that provides small businesses in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines a digital space to collaborate as well as promote and sell their products and services. LinkUp launched in 2017. 2021 YLAI Fellow Kenna George knows this well. I’m still with the company today.

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Source Link

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2017, we shared 3 ways to empower your entrepreneurial community. Another important key to sustainability is collaboration, and our SourceLink affiliates find tremendous value in having access to an open exchange of ideas across the national network. Here are some additional recommendations for empowering your network in 2022.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

Trying to reach everyone is “impossible and hard to do,” says 2017 YLAI Fellow Mariery Young, who recommends that “it is vital to work with a specific target audience in mind.” Her business presents a unique opportunity for companies to collaborate with her services.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

2017 feels like a very long time ago. With these takeaways from my first five years at EO, and skills in listening, honesty and collaboration, it’s clear that the future is limited only by our imagination. By Dr. Carrie Santos, CEO of Entrepreneurs’ Organization. The world has changed significantly. A global pandemic. A brutal war.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Fiberplane , an Amsterdam-based early stage startup that is building collaborative notebooks for SREs (site reliability engineers) to collaborate around an incident in a similar manner to group editing in a Google Doc, announced a ??€ Fiberplane collaborative notebook example with multiple people involved.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As a result, we have difficulties communicating with others about our professional activities, teaching them the skills they need to learn, and collaborating with them in professional settings. The curse of knowledge error comes from how our brains are wired.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2017

— Jeff Namnum (@namnum) December 8, 2017. It touched off a whole discussion about putting on a BarCamp here again--a collaborative, open "unconference" where people could come together to share and learn about a wide variety of topics. Absolutely changed my trajectory. We'll do a 2018 cohort and so on.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The company’s acceleration comes thanks to an unannounced $5 million Series A from Collaborative Fund, Homebrew Ventures and K9 Ventures that arrived in late-2019, before COVID-19 was on the world’s radar. ” The latest round followed an early-stage $3 million raise in 2017 and $400K the year prior. .” million in total. “As

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In a 2017 report, How the Startup Economy is Spreading Across the Country — and How It Can Be Accelerated , the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) and TechNet found “Recent research from academic economists suggests that regions that produce more high-quality startups show better economic performance.” They need a community of support.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Bay Area-based firm, which specializes in autonomous farming heavy machinery, was founded in 2017. In the intervening years, John Deere tapped Bear Flag for its own Startup Collaborator initiative. The agricultural technology giant announced today that it’s set to acquire Bear Flag Robotics for $250 million.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) on Dec 20, 2017 at 8:06am PST When you're Ample Hills Creamery , the #1 rated ice cream shop in the country you can pretty much throw everything you've been told about fundraising out the window. Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Bevy launched in 2017 and quickly helped companies like Atlassian, Duolingo, and Salesforce to scale hundreds of monthly in-person meetups and events. Although a lot of companies are scrambling to create tools and better collaboration on virtual interactions, Bevy has been doing this at scale for years. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

When I first covered the company in 2017, the startup was focused on a consumer app. Developers can create, discover and collaborate on ML models, datasets and ML apps. These investors include Addition, Betaworks, AIX Ventures, Cygni Capital, Kevin Durant and Olivier Pomel. It looked like yet another messaging app.

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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. You may look at this and think to yourself “well, of course, how controversial is those?

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Startup Catalyst

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startup Community cohort (2017). Israel cohort (2017). Investor cohort (2017). Female Founders cohort (2017). …to I’ve had a very serious perspective change on the way I can look at my career, especially with regards to world of possibilities that can and do emerge through collaborations. 4 years by the numbers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Since its launch in 2017, AllRight has launched Spanish-English, Polish-English and Russian-English language pairs and garnered 9,000 students, who take 50,000 lessons per month. So the company targets markets with low online education penetration rates, such as emerging markets.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 6, 2020

2017 YLAI Fellow Andrea Puente Salazar has had her share of obstacles on her way to entrepreneurial success. Collaboration is at the cornerstone of entrepreneurship in my experience, and you need to build a support system with wise and trusted voices to keep you motivated. By Jewelle Saunders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Its portfolio includes Ellevest , an investing platform for women; Grove Collaborative , a sustainable goods subscription platform; and ThredUp, which has confidentially filed for IPO. Its previous fund was raised in 2017 at a $50 million close. The percentage change is notable, especially amid volatile times.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

This addresses a longstanding problem typically faced when two institutions (or even one institution working with multiple datasets) collaborate: normally, they have to transfer data and/or algorithms based on that data, in order to train systems or to conduct research. With TripleBlind, the idea is that they no longer have to.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

“Our previously announced collaborations with partners such as Paccar will continue in parallel to the collaboration with Volvo,” an Aurora spokesperson told TechCrunch. “As The announcement also marks a major acceleration for Volvo’s autonomous vehicle arm, Volvo Autonomous Solutions.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Sota Kimura, co-founder and CEO of SmartRyde, founded SmartRyde in 2017 after he experienced trouble getting a taxi from the airport to the hotel when he traveled abroad, Kimura told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Whimsical , a startup creating tools for workplace collaboration, announced Tuesday its first funding round, a $30 million Series A investment led by Accel. One of the challenges that emerged was that people wanted more particular tools that were tailored toward collaborative work, which he said Whimiscal solved.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

In addition, Taiwan-based Foxconn will collaborate with Telexistence to develop mass-production technology for their upcoming model, GHOST. Telexistence, a robotics startup founded in 2017, specializes in developing AI-powered robotic arms for the retail and logistics sectors.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

These strategic collaborations, extending beyond geographical confines, carry the potential to redefine industries and fuel growth. The integration is set to usher in a new phase of collaborative growth, reinforcing Ares’ global standing and offering Crescent Point Capital amplified regional capabilities.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

million to bring its total funding since 2017 to $20 million. All of these global players knocked on our door, and we realized that we can build a healthy business and have a larger material impact if we collaborate with established companies instead of doing it on our own,” he added. “We’re

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Since the launch of crowdfunding services in 2017, businesses have leveraged platforms like Fundinno and Ecrowd to secure funding from retail investors. billion yen from 2017 to August of the current year. Japan initiated its startup crowdfunding framework in 2015 through revisions to the financial instruments regulation.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a result of the efforts of Sam, Rahul, Ted, Nicolas, Chang and the entire MakeSpace team our revenue grew 150% between the months of January and October of 2017, having served more than 20,000 customers and stored more than a million individual items for our customers.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

With this investment, we look forward to expanding our collaborations with private and public healthcare players to bring hospital-level care into every home and for every person. Based in Singapore, Speedoc was founded in 2017 by Dr. Shravan Verma and Serene Cai.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Since 2017, Seongnam City has made substantial efforts to bring UAM technology into the mainstream, with Pangyo Techno Valley at its heart. The defense industry company, LIG Next, collaborated with LG Electronics in 2019 to develop motors used in drones. Furthermore, NCsoft invested KRW 1.5 billion in 2014 and KRW 4.8

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We perform better when we collaborate and when we look at the number one human need that activates the heart, it is connection. Increased team bonding and collaboration. Originally published March 9, 2017. Thinking outside of the box generates excitement, passion and creativity. Increased productivity.

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