American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2024

million in Series A funding, led by GreenPoint Partners with support from Speedwagon Capital Partners, to accelerate expansion of its managed properties and technology platform. Million to Accelerate Growth, Targeting the Nationwide Truck Parking Shortage appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®. 512-817-0747 Mark S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

million since its inception in 2019, which includes its $2.1 million seed round last January , co-founder and CEO Rajith Shaji told TechCrunch. “Accelerating their growth would require an efficient expense management tool that is simple yet scalable, something that Volopay has always aimed for.” .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. As a Black fintech founder, I believe that venture investors are making safe bets and investing in late-stage founders instead of early or even pre-seed stages. Sesie Bonsi. Contributor. hit nearly $1.8

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 13, 2019

In a recent meeting, a founder asked me what I thought of the fundraising environment. Founders have at least five flavors of seed: friends & family, angel, pre-seed, seed, and post-seed. Founders can go it alone or partner with incubators and accelerators for almost every type of business. Founders can crowdfund.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

Existing investors coming back include BlueYard, Bridford, MilkyWay, DSM Venturing and Wise chairman and founder Taavet Hinrikus. TechCrunch has followed Meatable since it picked up $10 million in funding back in 2019. Oh, and raised $47 million. The company also plans to establish a presence in the United States in two years.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

The easy-to-use, comprehensive supply chain management system among top applicants selected for Newchip’s online accelerator NEW FREEDOM, Pa., The program is designed to provide all the skills and tools founders need to fund, build, and scale their companies rapidly. Past accelerator cohorts averaged more than 17.5

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

Meet the five winning founders from Rise of the Rest 8.0 Also, utilize our ecosystem and engage support systems available such as our growing network of business accelerators, and the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program, a support system from which AireHealth has benefited. What does your company do?

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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. How one founder combined edtech and gaming. Extra Crunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Data centers are taking on ever-more specialized chips to handle different kinds of workloads, moving away from CPUs and adopting GPUs and other kinds of accelerators to handle more complex and resource-intensive computing demands. “We were grossly oversubscribed for this round,” he said.

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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

APRIL 6, 2021

It’s a known fact that the number of venture dollars flowing to Black and Latinx founders is dismally low. 31, Black and Latinx founders had raised $2.3 billion in funding that had gone to all founders up until that point in 2020. . billion venture dollars invested between 2018 and 2019. of the total $87.3

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) Program is the flagship accelerator program for international startups looking to enter the competitive Asian market. The accelerator program ends with top startups getting additional financial incentives and the possibility of doing business in Korea. were chosen from the pool of applications.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 25, 2019

After an extremely inspiring first edition in 2017, the New Economy and Social Innovation Global Forum (NESI) returns to Málaga, Spain for its second edition from the 24th to 26th April 2019, focusing on how to achieve our global goals through local action. NESI Forum Founder. NESI Content Facilitator. Diego Isabel.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Last week The Exchange dug into recent data concerning the amount of venture capital raised by female founders. In Q3 2020, PitchBook data reported that US-based female founders raised $434 million across 136 rounds. The numbers were a dramatic turnaround from where 2019 left the industry. Depressing declines.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

has raised a $7 million round to accelerate its hiring cadence, and built out the go-to-market model for its its engineering and developer-focused hiring service, it recently announced. Filtered later split from the consulting group in 2019, signing a term sheet to raise capital in March of 2020. Boston-based Filtered.ai

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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. We then welcomed him into an EO Accelerator class. Here is his story. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There’s no question that we are in the middle of a long-running and accelerating venture bull market. There were an average of 35 “megadeals” (with over $100 million raised) per month from 2016 to 2019, according to Crunchbase. And all that is indeed happening. In 2021, that number stands at 126 per month.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector. On top of the accelerator, the firm also launched a six-month fellowship program to foster climate tech entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Comcast Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Real Estate Technology (RET) Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to $32 million since its 2019 inception. Image Credits: From left to right: Chester Chipperfield, co-founder and advisor Jonathan Scherr, co-founder and CEO BJ Siegel, co-founder and Head of Design / Juno.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

4-year founder vesting is dead. 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.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

in 2019, according to Dealroom , an industry database. boom, a startup is born… And if you take a long view of their [founders] career, they’re missing out on the depth of things, experience, and authenticity of experience that I think informs the most interesting category-defining companies out there.” founders?—?challenges

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Lewis & Clark Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Knollwood Investment Advisory, WTI, Bronze and Square co-founder Sam Wen also participated in the Series A financing. TomoCredit co-founder and CEO Kristy Kim came up with the concept for the company after being rejected multiple times for an auto loan while in her early 20s.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The First Cheque program plans to leverage the expertise of experienced founders from Jungle Ventures’ current and former portfolio startups. The firm secured $100 million for its second fund in 2016 and then raised $240 million for its third fund in 2019. billion in follow-on capital raised.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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. 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.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The funding came from various investors including Fredrik Jung Abbou; a two-time unicorn founder and Norrsken Impact Accelerator, while the debt round had the participation of French Public Investment Bank (Bpifrance) and GreenTec Capital Partners. Morgane Kablan , is the startup’s other co-founder and chief operating officer.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 16, 2023

Amy Addington is the co-founder of Woofie’s Pet Ventures, LLC, a multi-million dollar animal services company. Starting in 2018, Woofies awarded its first three franchises in Northern Virginia in 2019 and launched its in-house professional grooming school, Woofie’s Accelerated Grooming School (WAGS).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Existing investors Pitango , which led the company’s $5 million seed round, and Global Founders Capital also participated in this round. Rodin also noted that the company is looking to accelerate its marketplace and channel opportunities with the help of this new round. ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

stake in the three-year-old startup, whereas 42dot’s co-founder and chief executive Chang-Hyeon Song, who interestingly also leads the transportation-as-a-service (TaaS) team at Hyundai Motor, held a 36.19% stake as of December 2021, according to 42dot’s regulatory filing. Series A to accelerate its growth.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Jeremy Loh, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Genesis Alternative Ventures highlighted a concerning trend of dwindling venture capital (VC) funding for Asian startups. Genesis Alternative Ventures, founded in 2019 by Jeremy Loh, Ben J Benjamin, and Martin Tang, is a distinctive venture lender focusing on innovative funding approaches.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia disclosed 15 early-stage startups it has selected for the seventh cohort of its accelerator program Surge, pushing ahead with new investments even as the deal activity has considerably slowed in the region. Surge 07 is no exception. Nearly half of them have a presence in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Now empowered by $15 million in new funding , the nonprofit hopes to expand its scope and more tangibly support the class of climate-motivated founders they call “ecopreneurs.” “We see startups leapfrogging across multiple accelerator programs to try and access new networks and funding. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Volterra emerged in 2019 with a $50 million investment from multiple sources, including Khosla Ventures and Mayfield, along with strategic investors like M12 (Microsoft’s venture arm) and Samsung Ventures. Applications networking company F5 announced today that it is acquiring Volterra , a multi-cloud management startup, for $500 million.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A new option for founders who care about control.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

James Peyer, PhD, co-founded the company in 2019, and it has since raised over $180 million to accelerate the development of medicine designed to target the causes of age-related diseases. Cambrian BioPharma bills itself as a new pharmaceutical company with a revolutionary approach to developing and managing drug development.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In response to the limitations of existing CRM software, especially the complexity of platforms like Salesforce, Relate’s founders identified the necessity for tailored features catering to B2B startups pursuing a product-led growth strategy.

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