NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round. And in around 2018, 2019, there was a strategic focus by the Board of Trustees to start looking at how can we more specifically support and service founders in the Greater Canterbury region to help them pursue their ideas.

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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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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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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Many companies are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic with a hybrid work model, meaning some employees will return to the office at least part-time, but others will collaborate remotely. Members frequently collaborate, hire one another or refer work through our community. When — and where — can your team get together? Bea’s Detroit.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

In 2018, Impact Hub King’s Cross kicked off an incubation program for UK-based social entrepreneurs aiming to combat the key challenges in our urban food systems. This is where the seed for the Feeding the City incubator was planted. A translocal collaboration is born. Photo: Sutton Community Farm. Feeding the City.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Right now, the company has two plans: a simple free one and a $27 / year plan that tracks your progress on end-of-life planning and allows you to collaborate with family, friends or whoever else needs to be part of your decision-making. The two connected and incubated Lantern at startup accelerator Grand Central Tech.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 24, 2019

When Fashion For Good set out to create a platform for innovation, they collaborated with Impact Hub Amsterdam to set up their space. After taking part in Impact Hub’s Investment Ready Program in 2018, they are preparing to launch their product into the market, so perhaps you’ll be wearing bacteria-dyed textiles soon. Fashion For Good.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Partner and collaborate with other members: 76%. Collaboration also permeates the report as one of the primary benefits for change-makers working in our network, with the members who made many connections ending the following year with a total of 17,300 USD more investment than their peers who made fewer connections.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 13, 2020

With this growth has also come a stronger focus on programming and trans-local collaboration: tackling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through incubation, acceleration, and scaling efforts for social entrepreneurs and innovators from all sectors across North America. Impact Hubs in the region.

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Impact Hub

JULY 22, 2020

It ignites a spirit of giving, collaboration, and a motivation to drive change and help disadvantaged communities, and COVID-19 has made the need for this more clear than ever before. This was in 2018 and the same year the Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace was announced by the United Nations (UN).

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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. They have won $20k in funding from the inaugural A2EF pitch competition, have been incubated at the Zell Entrepreneurship Program, and won multiple awards for their project. After raising $10.3

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Forward Cities

JULY 25, 2019

The essence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem is its people and the culture of trust and collaboration that allows them to interact successfully. Collaboration between organizations providing various services creates a cohesive network of resources better suited to support innovation. Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 22, 2023

Quantum Machines has raised $100M since it was founded in 2018. Representatives of regional governments from five Spanish states came to examine the possibilities of future collaboration with Israeli companies and agencies, courtesy of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Israel’s Embassy in Madrid.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 18, 2019

As a finalist, Merce was awarded a place on a 6-month bespoke incubation program at Impact Hub Madrid – Alameda and mentorship with Leyre Romero, also an entrepreneur and the co-founder of the social consultancy firm Areteia, with whom she still enjoys a close and trusty relationship.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

It’s something I’ve been mulling over this week, after rereading Rodney Brooks’ 2018 post, “My Dated Predictions.” In my view having ideas is easy,” Brooks writes in the 2018 post. Drone Fund led the raise, which also features HAX (SOSV), Incubate Fund, SBI Investment and DBJ Capital. Turning them into reality is hard.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

2) Remote work collaboration — clearly an issue that needs solving, but we have unsurprisingly seen an absurd amount of companies in the space. In 2018, IVC awarded TAU Ventures an award for one of the most active VCs in Israel. And in 2019, Geektime ranked TAU Ventures among the top five best VCs in Israel.

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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. “We How Adanian Labs started. So, we have a short program to help them raise,” said Kamara.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

.” Its beginning can be traced to Willow Garage, a robotics research lab and incubator created by Scott Hassan, an early Google engineer-turned-billionaire tech entrepreneur. In 2018, Open Robotics opened OSRC-SG and announced collaborations with the Singapore government to work on robotics applications for the healthcare sector.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Aspect Ventures : co-founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, the early-stage venture firm uniquely focuses on bridging the funding gap between angels and the larger multi-stage VC platforms through collaboration and diversity. Fearless Fund is built by women of color for women of color.

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