Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

“We brought together the best of all worlds: Conscious customers invested in uplifting the underprivileged, a low-cost and motivated rural workforce, and passionate leaders in urban communities who nurture and grow global opportunities,” Ravi explained in a 2018 interview published on Inc. This was an unexpected win!

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

At the same time, the number of early-stage rounds, categorized as deals under $15 million, has fallen fairly consistently since a peak in H1 2018. We expect the European edtech market to maintain some positive signs of resilience, but naturally, the ecosystem cannot be immune to the headwinds it faces.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2023

At the heart of their accomplishments lies WeBudding, a digital stationery marketplace that has gained a substantial following since its launch in 2018. Other notable backers include Seoul-based accelerator Schmidt and Korean startup incubator D.Camp, solidifying Noutecompany’s position as a leading force in the industry.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Incubated out of Harvard’s Innovation Lab in 2018, CEO Pascal Kriesche and Morgan Abraham call their company a “healthy smoothie store-in-a-box” that is essentially a robot that mixes fruits, vegetables and add-ins like protein into a smoothie.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Thus, for Black Coffee , who backed Andela, a tech talent incubator and unicorn launched from Lagos in 2015, his win meant Africa’s tech scene could, for the first time, brag about having a homegrown Grammy Award-winning artist as an investor in its startups. What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment?

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

This brings the company’s total funds raised to $87 million since the company was founded by Richard Hong and Darwish Gani in 2018. Pangaea, to date, has been a brand incubator, but post the Series B will expand to be a vertically integrated e-commerce platform for other brands.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2018, Y Combinator released its first mega list of the top companies valued at $150 million or more that have gone through the accelerator. Yet, as the accelerator points out, “it’s the most commonly available metric to compare companies in the startup world.”. Case in point: No African company made the list in 2018.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

Over the last three years, GEN has grown its New Zealand network to more than 200 people representing more than 140 organisations, including entrepreneurs, incubators and accelerators, entrepreneur support organisations, central and local government, academia, investors and NGOs. Moskovitz is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Johannesburg-based investment company Founders Factory Africa (FFA) today announced a partnership with Small Foundation that will see it select 18 agritech startups for an acceleration and incubation program. This is a change from when the company launched in 2018.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

’s Tech Nation found in 2018 that about 26% of Belfast’s workforce was employed in tech, and it is among cities in the country with the highest growth potential for 2021. Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. Ignite NI – Seed-stage accelerator program. Co-founded BrewBot.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

A recent survey found that two-thirds of senior oil and gas professionals say their organization is actively adapting to a less carbon-intensive energy mix in 2021, up from just 44% in 2018. But, just as Israeli high-tech is accelerated by, though not dependent on, government subsidies, the same is true for renewable energy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

was incubated at Y Combinator (part of its Winter 2018 cohort ) and has been around since 2017, and it believes it has been one of the leaders in this movement, not least in part because of team members like Jithendra Vepa, its chief machine learning scientist, who previously led the team at Samsung working on its AI assistant Bixby.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

billion venture dollars invested between 2018 and 2019. Also in Austin, DivInc is a nonprofit pre-accelerator that holds 12-week programs for underrepresented tech founders. Also, Digitalundivided’s ProjectDiane 2020 report found that Black and Latinx women founders received just $1.7 billion of the total $276.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Instead, it takes a record-breaking ice wave to knock out power to one of the largest states in America for it to start garnering front-page coverage, or perhaps massive wildfires in America’s most populous state like the Camp Fire in California in 2018.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Barclays had applied for the contract through its network of Eagle Labs incubators , some of which have physical locations, but most do not. Some 44% of the UK’s decacorns graduate from a TN non-dilutive accelerator growth programme (failure rate is less than 5% thus far).”. Tech Nation has long been embedded in the U.K. and abroad.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 22, 2023

Quantum Machines has raised $100M since it was founded in 2018. Tetra Pak signs deal with Fresh Start incubator European food and packaging giant Tetra Pak is teaming up with Fresh Start , our trailblazing FoodTech incubator situated in northern Israel, Food Navigator reports.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

STATE COLLEGE, PA – On December 6, 2018, six emerging tech entrepreneurs will compete for up to $10,000 at the BF TechCelerator’s graduation “pitch” event. A panel of local judges will evaluate the presenters who have been honing their business concepts for the past ten weeks in an intensive business startup accelerator. RSVP: [link].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In 2018, we moved away from being an accelerator to a CVC to better help more mature startups with joint-venture opportunities and scaling. In the past decade, the majority have reacted to and mirrored changes in the startup space, helping to raise the bar for CVC investments.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

“With our technology, we are able to increase the performance on scaleable and non-scaleable tasks by accelerating the existing hardware and saving … on energy use.” ” Samodurova began developing Incooling’s tech in 2018 with Rudie Verweij, the company’s second co-founder.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

The company is organized as a public-benefit corporation and was founded in September 2018 and first launched a year later. The two connected and incubated Lantern at startup accelerator Grand Central Tech. I started my first company when I was 15,” Eddy, who is CEO, said.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In 2018, the Impact Hub network ran over 100+ successful entrepreneurial support programs and 100+ collaborative innovation programs focused on SDGs and ecosystem development globally. The data shows the impact that tailored support programs can have for entrepreneurs looking to develop an idea or scale a venture.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Not to be outdone, Microsoft’s Power Fx low-code programming language that it launched in 2018 now connects hundreds of apps. Entrepreneurs who want to accelerate growth and retain more of their equity may understand SPACs, peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding, but for some startups, securing a credit facility is also a viable option.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country. In December 2018 that figure was $230 million, in 2019 it was just under $200 million. This came decades ahead of most western governments. billion, from $6.51

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Haystack

APRIL 27, 2018

” — Micah Rosenbloom of Founder Collective, April 2018. 2018 presents a new world, though, and going forward, seed funds will invest with eyes wide open to these new alternatives. Looking back, one could argue Haystack’s de facto ‘ value-add ’ was streamlining the path to institutional Series A.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 24, 2019

Her company Evrnu took part in Impact Hub Seattle ’s Fledge accelerator back in 2014, and in 2016 partnered with Levi Strauss & Co to create the company’s first eco-friendly jeans, made from recycled cotton T-shirts, showing that even the big players in the fashion world are open to innovation if the right thing comes along. Good On You.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

A 2020 UCLA study found that approximately 15% of couples will have trouble getting pregnant, but Kindbody, which has spun up a network of fertility clinics since its founding in 2018 , has taken a holistic approach to the issue. Mayfield’s Arvind Gupta discusses startup fundraising during a downturn. For a larger Series A check.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

The owners purchased an old meatpacking building in Eastern Market in 2018, only to discover that the structure needed to be rebuilt from the ground up. Bea’s Detroit. Bea’s Detroit is a newer coworking space located in the heart of Eastern Market in Detroit. Green Garage is located in the heart of Detroit on Second Ave.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Indeed, the country is most popular as a tourist destination, and given that tourism accounted for about 20% of its GDP in 2018 , to an extent, its pre-pandemic focus was mostly on growing its share of the international tourism market. Investors: Fil Rouge Capital, Feelsgood, Zicer, Bird Incubator; Founders: Ivan Klari?,

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

TechCrunch’s Kate Clark has done a round-up of the largest “private VC” rounds of 2018, and there’s a whole other list for just $100M+ financings led by Softbank’s Vision Fund. Accelerators and incubators and angels can help new founders get their wings and leave the nest.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founded in 2018 (and formerly known as Flugauto), Blueflite is a last-mile logistics startup that offers drone delivery services. It accelerates enrollment and improve retainment of trial participants. After raising $10.3 Who manages recruiting and tracking clinical trial patients? Mid-sized top startups in Ann Arbor. Workit Health.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Harry’s Labs, the in-house incubator started by razor brand Harry’s Inc. to scale the business and accelerate D2C growth. announced Monday it agreed to acquire Lum? , the direct-to-consumer brand created to help control all-over body odor. In addition, the entire Lum? team will stay on. “As

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

meter coworking office space where majority of our portfolio companies and accelerator program companies sit on a daily basis. At TAU Ventures, the majority of our portfolio and accelerator companies sit next to us at our 1,000 sq. Gaviti is a SaaS company that specializes in receivable collections acceleration. More than 50%?

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Microsoft Student Accelerator , though it has the word “accelerator” in its name, is a free, 4-month boot camp teaching students advanced analytics and AI, Azure and cloud fundamentals, and web apps and APIs.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 13, 2020

The entity will be primarily focused on SDG 17, building efficient partnerships between civil society organizations, governments, and the private sector to accelerate the achievement of the goals. Impact Hub Montreal was officially launched in June 2018, as part of the Impact Hub Network annual Global Gathering held in Montreal and Ottawa.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In March, two Nigerian startups, Treepz ( formerly Plentywaka ) and TalentQL got into the Techstars Toronto accelerator program alongside eight other companies. Y Combinator remains the most strategic global accelerator for African startups and has invested in about 60 of them in the last six years.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

The idea to build Adanian Labs, was conceived in 2018, when Kamara was living and working in Cape Town, South Africa, where he witnessed the fast growth of the startup ecosystem, and how, in most countries, accelerators were the default launch pads. So, we have a short program to help them raise,” said Kamara.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

DYVVYD : work with diverse teams who are actively seeking capital that are self-launched, self-scaled or recent graduates of an incubated or accelerator cohort. Launching a strategic partnership with Equity Ventures Fund to provide pre-send funding to Divinc portfolio companies.

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