Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Alex Yastrebenetsky is the founder and CEO of InfoTrust , a digital analytics consulting and technology company helping marketers use data to make smarter decisions. We believe in giving to grow, and that it is our responsibility to leverage growth as an opportunity to give back globally,” says founder and CEO Alex Yastebenetsky. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Influential entrepreneurs like Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant always preach the need for startups to have founders-turned-investors on their cap table. As Ravikant puts it, “founders want to know that the people they are taking money from have first-hand experience.” . MAGIC Fund has 12 founders who act as general partners.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

based tech founders are welcomed with open arms. and StartupAmsterdam, there are 1,661 tech companies in Amsterdam, while the city ranked fifteenth in Startup Genome’s 2019 report “Global Startup Ecosystem Report,” moving up four places since 2017. Bas Godska , founder, Acrobator Ventures. million raised in the quarter before.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2024

After my job salary was cut on February 10, 2017, I had to quickly figure out a solution for success. Despite having zero business background, I started my first company on April 16, 2017. My two favorite patterns are: The right mindset attracts the right network, and creates the right opportunities. They live in full abundance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

Much hope remains after the crypto winter almost froze the sector: the Luna crash , the bankruptcy of Celsius and the arrest of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried for alleged fraud. Bubble had to pop,” People of Crypto co-founder Simone Berry said. “It Pryce Adade-Yebesi , the co-founder of Utopia Labs, agreed. billion and $4.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Especially if you’re a first-time founder (but even if you’re an experienced serial entrepreneur), it can be hard to spot the potential pitfalls that might lead you astray before you even really get rolling. When you’re just starting out building your company, there’s obviously a lot that can go wrong.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Seedstars Africa Ventures , the pan-African early-stage fund for startups, has appointed Bruce Nsereko-Lule as its new general partner, to help it deploy more capital and provide the much-needed technical support for founders across the continent. The support is meant to help them to spend their full time building the business.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

It’s amazingly helpful to share challenges, opportunities, and experiences with people who understand what I deal with daily as a business owner. EO Accelerator gives you the tough love and support to take your business to the next level!” – Michael Tindall, co-founder, Modern Distribution “The community component was invaluable.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

“Every action we take, big or small, can make a difference in our society,” says Damaris Guardado, co-founder of Purpose Driven Tours Nicaragua. “I Through tourism, I am giving the opportunity to local kids to dream for a better future,” she says. I cannot change the world, but I can contribute to make it a better place to live.”.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

marking its highest level since 2017. Atul National Geographic Explorer, Victoria Herrmann The conversation: Choose your own adventure with National Geographic Explorer, Victoria Hermann The takeaways: Today’s climate problems are also incredible investment opportunities. There are untold impacts of climate change many of us don’t see.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem. ” The low cost of living is also encouraging for talent to stay put in the city, which makes for a tech scene that’s poised to take off, this founder added. .”

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

Jake Rothstein is the co-founder of Papa , a Miami-based company that offers care and companionship to seniors. While Rothstein left day to day responsibilities at Papa in 2017, his experience there gave him a deeper look into the priorities of older adults and families as they go through the aging journey. This is incorrect.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

In 2010, Bastian Gotter invested up to $200,000 into IROKOtv, an African video-on-demand company Jason Njoku, his friend and co-founder, launched in Lagos, Nigeria. Gotter left the media company in 2017, an exit that afforded him the chance to take up angel investing full-time and pursue new projects.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Contributed to EO by Natalie Kaminski, an EO New York member and co-founder and CEO of JetRockets. Fast forward two-plus decades, and I’m now the CEO and co-founder of JetRockets, where we develop high-performing web and mobile app solutions that help our clients transform their businesses and grow. Career progression.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

He is the founder of Misión Ecuador , , created to benefit entrepreneurs and owners of small- and medium-sized businesses in the country, starting in the province of Manabí after the earthquake of April 16, 2016. 2017 YLAI Fellow Andrea Puente Salazar has had her share of obstacles on her way to entrepreneurial success.

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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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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Hope is not a strategy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

2017 feels like a very long time ago. Yet, as I mark five years leading the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) as its CEO, it’s a good time to reflect on five key insights gained from such a remarkable community of business founders. EO’s members are builders, founders, owners and leaders in their own right. A global pandemic.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 18, 2020

2017 YLAI Fellow Neish’s hard work of creating a sustainable trans rights movement has blossomed far beyond his expectations. In the time since TransWave’s beginnings, Neish has made sure to focus on setting up roles of ‘ambassadors’ to support the work of the organization and provide more opportunities for the local community. “I

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 8, 2022

Tiera Covington, EO Hawaii, is the founder and president of Integrated Facility Services Hawaii (IFSH). In 2017, I started my own facilities maintenance company, Integrated Facility Services Hawaii (IFSH). I’ve grown IFSH from US$54,000 in 2017 to US$4.9 They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2017

This trend started in 2014 and has continued through the first quarter of 2017. Several founders have asked me recently how investors perceive second seed rounds. The anomaly in 2017 is due to an outlier. Only one company has raised two seed rounds so far in 2017, qualifying it into this dataset.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Founded in 2017 by Hilda Moraa , Pezesha has built a scalable digital lending infrastructure that allows both traditional and non-traditional finance institutions to offer working capital to MSMEs. The opportunity and impact in solving working capital problems for SMEs is huge. [We

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Mat Bowtell , the founder and CEO of Free 3D Hands, was invited to deliver the keynote presentation at EO Ignite. Mat, a former senior engineer at Toyota, was made redundant during the closure of the automotive industry in Australia in 2017. We hope to have the opportunity to meet some international EO members in the future!

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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. “We believe that Korea has excellent technology as well as opportunities. KSGC is now accepting applications for its 2023 edition from April 10 to May 18, 2023.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures , was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. As fundraising gets harder, founders should ask investors for a flat round. It is important for founders to recognize this and leverage their VCs during these times.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Today, the startup, founded in 2017, announced it has raised $11 million in Series A funding, led by AC Ventures (ACV) with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Skystar Capital. The platform will also continue focusing on security, compliance, efficiency and scalability, said co-founder and CEO Sumardi Fung. Reku’s team.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Hope is not a strategy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

We’re still savoring the success of 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Week and Women’s Entrepreneurship Day! both with the goal of providing community growth opportunities for girls and women. We asked Michele and Melissa to provide a window into what it takes to plan, organize and facilitate such events.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

At a time when startups are facing a challenging funding environment, it is more critical than ever to provide a platform for founders to attract investment and scale their innovative solutions,” said Selma Bueno, Global Head of the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Group.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

There was an original wave of companies working on partial document automation, which still needs a human review, but Ondrej Antos, Klarity’s co-founder and CEO, explained that the full document automation market is still very nascent. Antos founded Klarity in 2017 with Nischal Nadhamuni whom he met at MIT.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Save the Children Impact Investment Fund, Verdant Frontiers Fintech and Logos Ventures participated in the round, as did the Nairobi Business Angels Network (NaiBAN), and Melvyn Lubega, co-founder of Go1, an Australia-based edtech unicorn. But around 2017 we realized that data was actually a much bigger problem in schools,” Nyangolo said.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Founded in 2017, Rainmaking APAC is a startup development company dedicated to helping businesses launch, build, and scale in their industries. Rainmaking APAC’s portfolio centers around co-founding startups in collaboration with corporate partners and entrepreneurial founders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Specifically, the São Paulo-based firm has closed on Kaszek Ventures VI, a $540 million early-stage fund and Kaszek Ventures Opportunity-III (KVO-III), a $435 million vehicle for later stage investments. Funds II and III closed in 2014 and 2017, raising $135 million and $200 million, respectively.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2017, the fintech firm expanded into financial services to provide users with safe and convenient investing options and has since introduced several mutual funds and insurance products, offering every Indian equal opportunity to access services and unlock the flow of money.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

And now, the early-stage VC firm is announcing its largest fund closures to date: Kaszek Ventures V, a $475 million early-stage fund, believed to be the largest vehicle of its kind ever raised in the region, and Kaszek Ventures Opportunity II, a $525 million for later-stage investments.

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