TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

When the company filed initial public offering paperwork back in February, it was coming off of an expensive year of growth in 2019. More from Alex Wilhelm : DoorDash has grown incredibly rapidly, scaling its revenues from $291 million in 2018 to $885 million in 2019. Then the pandemic hit. billion in the same period of 2020.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

In 2019 Dreamit saw over $600 million in exits of companies that got their start at Dreamit, including LevelUp (acquired by GrubHub), Trendkite (acquired by Cision), and Adaptly (acquired by Accenture). Since 2008, Dreamit has worked with over 350 companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

But notable in DoorDash’s impressive results is the impact of COVID-19, accelerating secular trends already in place, and boosting the unicorn’s growth. In an “illustrative” example that DoorDash notes its 2019 “approximate average per-order information,” the split works out as follows: Bill: $32.90.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Marina is delighted to introduce a new member of her chapter, Brandan Ranaldi—a former GSEA competitor and EO Accelerator—who is now one of the youngest members in EO. We then welcomed him into an EO Accelerator class. Meet Brandan Ranaldi, a 23-year-old student entrepreneur. Here is his story. .

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UBI Global

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Recognizing the Top Business Incubators and Accelerators from the World Benchmark Study 2019-2020 In 2012, a Swedish student wondered, “What are the traits of the most successful top-performing university incubators worldwide?” The answer at the time was unavailable; the landscape was unmapped, unexplored, and unranked.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

Supergut was founded in 2019 by Marc Washington in memory of his sister with a mission to empower individuals to take charge of their health through the power of the gut microbiome. With this investment, Bader Alam, Founder & Managing Partner of Full Frame Growth Partners, will join Superguts Board of Directors.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., ” NeuReality was co-founded in 2019 by Tzvika Shmueli, Yossi Kasus and Tanach, who previously served as a director of engineering at Marvell and Intel. The growing demand for AI, particularly generative AI (i.e.,

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With access to new funds, the company plans to accelerate the manufacture of its electric shuttles and school buses, reinforcing its position as the nations only vertically integrated Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) in this space.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. In 2020, all the long-term trends forcing change in this sector continued and even accelerated. More posts by this contributor. 4-year founder vesting is dead.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Robert Glazer is a member of EO Boston and the CEO of Acceleration Partners , a leading independent affiliate management agency with 160 employees. His company, Acceleration Partners, was honored with Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award , recognizing the Best Places to Work in 2019.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The startup will use the funding to enhance product capabilities and accelerate sales growth with key hires. In 2019, the technology, which is a secure, real-time workspace for collaborating across care teams, has been implemented at multiple provider locations, expanding beyond major health systems. and Dreamit Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 18, 2025

This investment marks a key milestone in Qolabs efforts to accelerate the development of scalable quantum computing architectures, particularly superconducting qubits, which are crucial for advancing quantum technology from research to commercial viability. Qolab, Inc.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

2019 saw the local VC firm invest in six companies. Half of its portfolio companies are backed by YC and other global accelerators. Of the total investments raised in 2019 and 2020, 54gene contributed more than half of those numbers by raising $4.5 I believe that these global accelerators look for these same things.”

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Tonik’s acquisition of TendoPay is a testament of our passion for accelerating financial and credit inclusion in the Philippines. Since its official launch in 2019, TendoPay has established itself as the leading one-stop shop for employees’ financial wellness needs. Tonik operates out of hubs in Singapore (HQ), Manila, and Chennai.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” that allows us to stay there so we can grow our startup after the accelerator ends? accelerator!

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest & the End of “Silicon X Syndrome.” But from the back half of 2020 into 2021, we are bearing witness to accelerated adoption and transformational change in industry after industry. Part I) Cities are Like Startups Cities are like startups. not just a select one or two?—?who

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2019

On 25–26 June 2019, EO presented a two-day International Entrepreneurial Summit at the United Nations focused on inspiring, educating and connecting business leaders to promote sustainable business practices. Sustainable Development Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2019

— Steven Kane (@stevenkane) December 26, 2019. And the stagnation of earning power in the lower and middle class is absolutely the result of technology automation, a trend that will only accelerate in coming years. And so I will. 1/ The emergence of the big four web/mobile monopolies; Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Embracing vulnerability Dave was listed on the transplant waitlist on February 14, 2019. “In The diagnosis thrust Dave into a battle for survival, but it also ignited a profound realization – that entrepreneurial skills don’t just grow businesses; they can also give the gift of life.

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500

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Alluva at 500 Startups: What it was really like being a part of Batch 25 In March of 2019, Alluva was accepted into Batch 25 of 500 Startups. Under no circumstances should any of the below content be construed as legal, tax or investment advice from 500 Startups or any of its affiliates.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

TechCrunch has followed Meatable since it picked up $10 million in funding back in 2019. Meanwhile, the new funding will help Meatable, which is still pre-revenue, scale its processes and accelerate the commercialization of its first products, which will include sausages and pork dumplings, in Singapore starting in 2024, de Nood said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Bademosi was the Director of Binance Labs in Africa, overseeing the incubation and development of blockchain projects when he decided to start Bundle as CEO in 2019. Before starting Nestcoin, founders Yele Bademosi and Taiwo Orilogbon led the charge at Bundle Africa, one of the continent’s well-known crypto trading platforms.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2019

In a July 2019 episode of the Food Network’s show “ Chopped ,” EO Fort Worth member Juan Rodriguez competed against other chefs in hopes of landing the top stop. While at the helm of Magdalena’s, he was accepted into EO Accelerator , a program designed to help startups reach US$1 million in annual sales. Spoiler alert.).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans. The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Gartner recently forecast that SaaS revenue worldwide could surpass $140 billion by 2022, which would represent a 40% increase over 2019’s roughly $100 billion. For some, it’s a strategy to accelerate its ARR by covering part of that expense by foregoing, say, an implementation fee for a higher annual subscription amount.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

. “And then kind of dispassionately looking at what is the technology that accelerates our first product to market and then amplifying that — whether it’s from the existing Aurora team or to the new Aurora team — and pushing that forward, whether it’s ideas or code or bits of hardware together to accelerate our time to market.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

It appears to have accelerated its growth. Looking back in time, Wish saw its revenue growth slow in 2019, before expanding much more quickly in 2020. But from 2018 to 2019, its revenue only grew to $1.90 In the first nine months of 2019, Wish racked up revenues of $1.33 How has the pandemic impacted Wish? billion and $1.73

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Ben Eluan and Osezele Orukpe , two software engineers based in Nigeria, faced this problem in 2019. In May 2020, Flux got accepted into Pioneer , an accelerator launched by ex-YC partner Daniel Gross. It has already backed more than 100 founders who give up 1% equity to join the accelerator. to reach a relative in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25 In the end, information from the likes of Maxime Bayen and Briter Bridges made 2019 numbers look like child’s play. billion and $2.8 billion and $1.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

In 2019, The New York Times published an article headlined “More Start-Ups Have an Unfamiliar Message for Venture Capitalists: Get Lost.” Make serious headway with accelerators. I would suggest looking out for accelerators explicitly searching for minority founders by using platforms such as F6S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Catalyst Fund , a global accelerator managed by BFA Global , announced the 8th cohort for its Inclusive Fintech Program today. The accelerator, backed by the JP Morgan Chase and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, runs the flagship program annually. In 2020, all five countries had representatives in the accelerator.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The firm secured $100 million for its second fund in 2016 and then raised $240 million for its third fund in 2019. funding in Vietnamese startup Dat Bike Indonesian Government-backed Accelerator Achieves $65.8 Jungle Ventures, established by Anurag Srivastava and Amit Anand, commenced its journey with a $10 million first fund in 2012.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

We first covered Traptic back in 2019, when it appeared as a Battlefield finalist on stage at Disrupt SF. The company’s acceleration comes thanks to an unannounced $5 million Series A from Collaborative Fund, Homebrew Ventures and K9 Ventures that arrived in late-2019, before COVID-19 was on the world’s radar.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. The original conventional wisdom was that capital could be a weapon for the winning company as private markets hold longer, but now as 2019 begins, I am not so sure. This is again a much deeper topic to explore and I will do that in early 2019.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Hazel Ortega, EO Orange County, co-founder, High Tide Global Securing a hacked website While we were in Accelerator together, Brennen Bliss (EO Austin) helped me out of a bind during our overnight group retreat. Her act of kindness is a gift that will keep on giving for generations and throughout the globe. My company’s website got hacked.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Steel City has all the ingredients to be a hub for startups: a good university system, a cheaper cost of living — definitely when compared to places like New York and the Bay Area — and a proliferation of seed firms and startup accelerators. billion — venture investors on the ground can feel the city’s potential. (I

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups. Milan tends to attract the lion’s share of VC funding — in 2019, startups located there received €311 million, according to NGP Capital.

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