Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The order is important because I fell in love with the product before I even knew about the company, and the hustle of its founder/CEO Sandro Roco. Sandro Roco: I had the idea for Sanzo in 2018. Oftentimes the people behind the Instagram accounts were literally the founders. I’m a Sanzo drinker.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Register Blockchain Founders Fund , an early stage Web3 Venture capital fund based in Singapore , has announced the final close of its Fund II at $75 million. Together, we can build a more decentralized, transparent, and equitable world,” said Aly Madhavji, managing partner at Blockchain Founders Fund.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Angel Flores, a 2018 YLAI Fellow, has made it his life’s mission to improve the lives of people with disabilities. Angel is the founder of Blue Hope ( Azul Esperanza ), an organization that provides educational therapy to children on the autism spectrum. One inspiring YLAI Network member in Nicaragua wholeheartedly shares these goals.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

2018 YLAI Fellow Marcos Heyd is a great example of someone with a good entrepreneurial spirit. He is the founder of La Escombrera, the founder of Surcos Argentinos and the co-founder of Digital Footprint.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

a Suriano, 2018 YLAI Fellow. “It María, who was born and raised in El Salvador, is the founder of Masshii. By Jewelle Saunders. Everyone deserves to have equal opportunities, rights, and benefits,” says Marí?a It is time for everyone to fight for what is right and fair.”.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

2018 YLAI fellow Kenishia Mais is the founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform empowering young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, create their ideal financial lives, and gain the freedom to pursue more of what they love.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 20, 2019

Rafael, a 2018 YLAI Fellow and an entrepreneur in Honduras, saw years later a need for his skills in the country’s cultural heritage sector. “My Rafael López is a 2018 YLAI Network Fellow and the co-founder and CEO of Malengu, a Honduran fashion brand.

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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. Renewing Ecuadorian communities after a natural disaster. How a Jamaican financial educator perseveres through adversity.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

2018 YLAI Fellow Gastón is the founder of eaInversores , an online platform based in Córdoba, Argentina, that provides low-cost investment assistance and financial literacy education. “It is important to try to understand your customers and their needs and supply what they need with honesty,” says Gastón Fontaine.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 19, 2022

Contributed by Robert Young, an EO Nashville member, who is the founder and CEO of Covert Results , a private investigation and security firm. He’s also the founder of Operation Rose , a non-profit focused on solutions to prevent and combat human trafficking. It was time to retire and start a new venture.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

It forces the founder to spend time in front of customers. Founders who took mega bucks off the table already may not want to stick around beyond today’s salad days. April 30th, 2018. With perfect information and too much competition you pay up or they walk right down the street and get it from somebody else.”

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2023

This remarkable achievement has now propelled its visionary founders, Donggyun Ko, Chaeyoung Lee, and Donghwan Shin, onto the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 list in consumer technology. At the heart of their accomplishments lies WeBudding, a digital stationery marketplace that has gained a substantial following since its launch in 2018.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Register “Young musicians today treat music-making kind of like playing video games,” says PoChang Wu, co-founder of OurSong, an NFT-based platform for music collection and community building. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

led by Founder & CEO Jonathan Webb ?—?rang I am at once proud of and awed by Jonathan, whose dual-track passion for the future of food and the future of Appalachia has brought him to tears more than once since we first invested in early 2018. On February 1st, the AppHarvest team?—?led

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

From Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former slave who ran a prosperous dressmaking business that eventually led to her designing and sewing dresses for Mary Todd Lincoln, to Anne Wojcicki, founder of genetic testing and analysis firm 23andMe, women have proved they have what it takes to reach the top of the entrepreneurial mountain.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018. We are proud to announce the close of our 7th early-stage fund with $280 million to invest in seed and early stage founders. What do you do with a $650 million platform? We will continue to work hard to make you all proud.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Contributed by Marina Byezhanova , an EO Canada Bridge member in Montreal and the founder of Brand of a Leader , a personal branding agency that builds and scales the personal brands of entrepreneurs who inspire and make an impact. GSEA brought a ton of value to us,” he shared.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

It’s also not an accident that, upon stepping back from being Textio’s CEO, I’ve built a sizable exec coaching practice working largely with early stage founders. HW: I think of you first and foremost as a founder, not a ‘female founder.’ As a CEO, I was at my best when I embraced this side of myself fully.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Then in 2018, Walter went live with a new company — Blast. Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly.

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

Meet the tech companies transforming real estate using VR and AR technology: View this post on Instagram UberPuppy A post shared by VirtualAPT (@virtualaptcorp) on Nov 19, 2018 at 1:58pm PST VirtualAPT develops autonomous robots that scan rooms and capture 360-degree video content that customers can then use to market their spaces.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Across all stages, companies were seeing higher post-money valuations, anywhere from about 40% at the earliest stages to over 200% in the growth stages in the 2018 to 2022 period, compared to 2012 to 2018. Between 2012 and 2018, the median valuation of a Series C company was $120 million. Source: PitchBook data from 2012-2022.

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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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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In addition to bringing on new investors, the company has decided to appoint co-founder Subha Airan-Javia, MD, as the new Chief Executive Officer. The healthcare industry veteran, worked on the company’s original development team in 2016. Startups participate in one of Dreamit's three industry verticals: Urbantech, Healthtech, or Securetech.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 24, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow and co-founder of L3G’s & Associates, Fatima Chi, is empowering businesses in her community in Belize to take control of their finances.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Goldstein and Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman, was one of the first travel aggregation platforms on the market. It sold its assets earlier this year to PB Funding Group — a group of lenders recruited by then-CEO Bill Mitchell in 2018 to keep it afloat. Quibi (2018-2020). Stockwell/Bodega (2018-2020). Hipmunk (2010-2020).

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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. In 2018 we had 200 businesses, and in 2019, 400. 2021 YLAI Fellow Kenna George knows this well.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2017

That's one of my 2018 goals--is to help make NYC tech feel smaller again, and more connected. Raising a first round of capital is as good a proxy for "Someone vouched for you and you're a legit founder doing cool stuff with actual resources to give it a shot." We'll do a 2018 cohort and so on.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Austin-based firm recently secured $145 million in its own debt and equity financing to help B2B SaaS founders grow their businesses without diluting ownership. The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka. Enter Founderpath. So, how does it work?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019. Seriously, this happens.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

A look back at the Israeli cybersecurity industry in 2018. The early days of any young startup decide how successful it can be, which is why we’ve developed a focused, value-add program to support cybersecurity founders during this most critical stage and maximize their potential in building market-leading companies. Michael Cortez.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

They first crossed our radar the following year, as a member of YC’s Winter 2018 cohort. “We We got a tour of an orchard and just how pronounced the labor problem is,” co-founder Aubrey Donnellan told TechCrunch at the time. The Bay Area-based firm, which specializes in autonomous farming heavy machinery, was founded in 2017.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The VCs who founders love the most. Managing Editor Danny Crichton spearheaded the development of The TechCrunch List earlier this year to help seed-stage founders connect with VCs who write first checks. ” The VCs who founders love the most. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

James covers the genesis of Ministry of Awesome following the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011, and provides updates on Ministry of Awesome approaches to startup founder support and programming. We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The startup introduced vehicle financing in 2018, and in just over two years, CFO Guy-Bertrand Njoya told TechCrunch, the churn rate by drivers affiliated to them has crashed to “close to zero.”. “We Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. Founders Ike Grigoropoulos, Dimitri Moshovitis, and Ted Xenohristos grew up together. For CAVA’s co-founders, taste and hospitality unite. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Maryland, and Virginia.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

But, as the company’s founders noted when they announced their last round of financing, the Discord use case has extended far beyond the gaming community. “It We will continue to take decisive action against white supremacists, racists and others who seek to use Discord for evil,” the founders wrote in June.

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