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. After participating in YLAI, I better understood how to pitch my organization and understand its mission and values more concretely. Clarifying my business goals.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

About TrekIT Health Founded in 2018, the company has developed a software platform for both large institutional health systems and individual clinicians looking for a better way to manage their workflow and hand-off process. Startups participate in one of Dreamit's three industry verticals: Urbantech, Healthtech, or Securetech.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The company presented its product at TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing & Fundraising, where it beat out nine other companies, winning the pitch-off. million pre-seed round in 2018. Watch Vyrill’s pitch-off presentation here. This is a struggle for companies of every size. million already raised.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 11, 2020

Global Business Development Expert Cheryl Edison and our very own 2018 YLAI alum and young entrepreneur Shemeon William discuss the intricacies of business development & growth. Embassy Trinidad and Tobago’s recent entrepreneurship speaker program on making a global name out of an idea. Innovate, Scale Up & Watch It Grow.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

We have quite a unique pitch deck on our hands today. A few years ago, AR car hardware company WayRay raised $80 million at a half-a-billion valuation in a Series C round led by Porsche, and I’m super excited to show off their pitch deck today! Events — CES 2018. Events — CES Asia 2018. Slides in the deck.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

As part of my role as a partner of HealthInc, I sit on the jury for the startup competition in which 20 finalists pitch their ventures, with 10 then selected to enter the program. For example, remember to finish your point if you are interrupted during a pitch. In 2018, I started building what became VenturePole. Keep it short.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2018, Leslie Feinzaig , the founder of Female Founders Alliance , launched a free, equity-free accelerator for women called Ready, Set, Raise. A common culminating event in most accelerators, demo day is an event where founders pitch to a room to investors, angels, and journalists with the hope of raising a round and landing some coverage.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. Student teams pitch and compete for more than $1.5 The competition has $50,000 in cash prizes.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I’m surprised at how many funding pitches I get which lack some of the basic information which investors require before funding. 50% of these meetings led to pitches to individual partners. About 30% of partner pitches led to full partnership pitches. I suggest use the Founder Institute Mad Libs elevator pitch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Instead, he rejoined Greylock as an EIR for another year before joining Dropbox shortly after it went public in 2018 as its VP of product and growth, leaving that post back in February to start his own thing, he said on his way out the door.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 12, 2018

In the first half of 2018, we saw Flatiron Health’s $1.9 Finding this is more rare than you think it would be--as many pitch meetings fall apart quickly, like someone who thinks they're passable in a foreign language until they talk to a native speaker. raising $25 Million--all to fight cancer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Today, 189 companies will pitch, while the rest will pitch tomorrow. Omar El Kouhene and Mehdi Cherif Alami founded Freterium in 2018. An estimated 752,000 new cancer cases, 4% of the world’s total, occurred in sub-Saharan Africa in 2018. The countries with the most representatives (aside from the U.S.)

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 6, 2020

Tema: Elevator pitch: búsqueda de oportunidades en tiempos de crisis. Descripción: Herson Stanley Cabrera Loza, YLAI Fellow 2018, te dará a conocer las partes que contiene un elevator pitch, relacionándolo con la búsqueda de oportunidades para tu emprendimiento en tiempos de incertidumbre. Stanley es YLAI Fellow 2018.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Christina Ross co-founded the company in 2018 in a bid to provide a solution to CFOs who rely on spreadsheets but could benefit from modern data analysis, reporting, and collaboration. Want to get feedback on your pitch during the show? Pitch Practice is back! Tweet at me , and I’ll be sure to ask your questions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

The fund is accepting online pitches on its website from entrepreneurs seeking early-stage funding. Toyota Ventures has been an invaluable partner for Boxbot since they invested in our seed round in 2018,” said Austin Oehlerking, co-founder and CEO of Boxbot, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” Mozilla launched Hubs in 2018, which it pitched at the time as an “experiment” in “immersive social experiences.” “Active Replica will continue to work with our existing customers, partners and community.”

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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. When: December 6, 2018. The post The BF TechCelerator is Hosting a Pitch Event: Someone Will Walk Away With Up To $10,000! You Won’t Want to Miss This! RSVP: [link].

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The Series B follows a $15 million Series A back in 2018 — when the fintech product was available in a handful of European markets and the U.S., Its pitch is that by partnering with multiple lenders it can offer higher acceptance rates and lower fees to consumers so they have greater choice to spread payment for larger purchases.

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Dream It

APRIL 29, 2019

2019 HITLAB World Cup: Women’s Health Tech Challenge | New York, NY | May 21 | With more than $1B in funding between 2015 and 2018, products and services supporting women’s health are set to be the next big disruptor in the global healthcare market. Request an invite.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

I covered one demo day in person, spending most of my time backstage where founder teams practiced their pitches. Deep tech founders face special challenges when pitching investors: they usually don’t have a product, customers or revenue. Grafana’s early pitch deck — 12:00. The pitch deck teardown — 32:00.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

In a recent conversation I had with Leak and Agility CTO Jonathan Hurst, both parties pointed out how much the robotics startup has been able to accomplish with a small team and tight margins, delivering Cassie to customers way back in 2018. Robotics founders: Build your pitch deck around problem-solving, not technology.

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StartupNation

APRIL 26, 2021

Now we were on a bit of a run-up I think in 2019, we eclipsed the 500 million mark and in 2018, around 350 million in venture investors. And they’ll be pitching to these investors. It’s an important thing for the state of Michigan and actually the Midwest region as a whole. That’s healthy and that’s good.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Day One Ventures , a venture firm launched in 2018 with a pitch to combine venture capital acumen with marketing and communications support, has launched a program aimed explicitly at those impacted by tech layoffs this year.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Read the interview: Richard Liew: For those who may not know who Ministry of Awesome is – let’s just assume there might be some – can you give us your elevator pitch? We had this event called Coffee and Jam that was intended to let people think and share their ideas and big dreams for the city.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

In 2018, B2B marketplaces saw an estimated $680 billion in sales, but that figure is expected to reach $3.6 Caryn Marooney, right, vice president of technology communications at Facebook, poses for a picture on the red carpet for the 6th annual 2018 Breakthrough Prizes at Moffett Federal Airfield, Hangar One in Mountain View, Calif.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2022

QED incubated this auto financing company in 2016 and Kevin Bennett became CEO in 2018 and soon after raised its first seed round. Hear how Bennett pitched early investors, and what investors like Holt can provide to mobility companies. The interview begins at 12 pm PT followed by the TCL Pitch Practice at 12:30 pm PT.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

His accolades include the MVMT50 SXSW 2018 Innovator of the Year and Digital Diversity’s Innovation & Inclusion Change Agent awards. He will provide insights on how to network, craft a great pitch and target the best investors for your success. He will be discussing ways to get on investors’ radar and how to raise that early round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Startup Battlefield , the world’s preeminent pitch competition, has launched hundreds of startups over the years — 922 if you want to be a stickler about it. Each startup team gets six minutes to pitch and present their demo — and then they’ll answer probing questions from the judges. Yup, that sound you hear is opportunity knocking.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Perfect your pitch. Once you have an investor’s attention, a sales pitch is your chance to clinch the deal. Create a “hook” at the beginning of your pitch and make sure it leads into a discussion of how your product or service will solve a problem. Originally published March 28, 2018. It (literally) pays to prepare.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

A 2018 study by the the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy reported that there were over 379,000 veteran-owned employer businesses in the U.S. , Before you can pitch your idea to investors or apply for a loan from a financial institution, you should draft a business plan. and overall, 6.8 Create a business plan.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

After more than 30 years of investing in both private and public companies, I’ve now started as a fund manager, and I recommend that emerging managers ask these five questions before seeking out and pitching to potential LPs. Which LPs are you targeting? As a result, capital can be concentrated in certain areas.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2018, he and Akintola Adesanmi — who was no stranger to how rent worked in Nigeria and also desired to effect change — brainstormed Spleet , a platform that partners with apartment owners to list their properties and offers renters options to pay rent monthly, quarterly and biannually.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Or so the pitch goes. The seed funding comes from Uptime’s founders — serial entrepreneurs Jamie True and Jack Bekhor, who previously founded LifeWorks (acquired in 2018 for $325 million), and former YouTube and Facebook executive Patrick Walker — alongside other private investors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

You might remember our profile of the firm back in 2018 when it officially launched with a $100 million enterprise fund. One of the great things is we can really look at the pitch that we want, and then decide when to swing,” Lai said. “We We don’t have to swing at every single pitch. Then he met Lai.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Founded by Tomilola Adejana and Fredrick Adams in 2018, Bankly is digitizing the informal thrift collections system known with different names such as esusu or ajo in Nigeria. Today, Bankly , a Nigerian fintech startup digitizing cash for the unbanked, announced that it has closed a $2 million seed round. It was there Bankly started.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Founded by Tade Oyerinde in 2018, Campuswire is a virtual solution for any teacher who wants to digitize their internal classroom communications, from Q&A time to the lecture itself. While Campuswire’s pitch was set to boom overnight, the founder instead saw a bigger challenge approaching: more competition.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Mr Yum , a Melbourne-based mobile ordering and payments platform that was founded in 2018, announced today it has raised a $65 million USD Series A round, led by Tiger Global. Mr Yum began pitching its mobile ordering platform to businesses before the pandemic, but the pandemic has accelerated adoption.

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