500

DECEMBER 17, 2019

500 Startups is excited to announce the latest batch from our Seed Accelerator based in Mexico City. For this batch, our team assessed 1706 applications to participate in the acceleration program. The nine startups began the accelerator activities on November 25th at 500’s office in Mexico City. The post ¡Hola Batch 11 LatAm!

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JUNE 9, 2020

Supply chains have been disrupted, businesses have had to close or operate at limited capacity for months, and even founders have had to expand their fundraising timeframes as we saw in our 2020 Female Founders Data Report. As a VC firm, we’ve had to adapt many aspects of our business as well.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

While they can withdraw those funds from the business the next day, local founders must still secure decent backing to even begin the work. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. Katrin Siebenbuerger Hacki, founder, Medows. Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Fueled by a zero-interest landscape in 2020, it has surged, giving rise to an ever-growing array of funds. There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 7, 2021

Annie Cheng is active in the Seattle chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) ‘s Accelerator programme, which empowers entrepreneurs with the tools, community and accountability necessary to aggressively grow their businesses. Why did you join EO Accelerator? But in early March 2020, they were not yet common.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

billion in the same period of 2020. That is 226% growth in 2020 thus far… How high-quality is DoorDash’s revenue? In the first three quarters of 2019, the company had gross margins of 39.9%, and in the same period of 2020 the figure rose to 53.1%, a huge improvement for the consumer consumable delivery confab.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If nothing else, the 2020 pandemic has shown everybody—particularly business owners and entrepreneurs—the value of being prepared and ready to pivot. Andrea Grisdale, founder and CEO at IC Bellagio. David Fastuca, founder at Ambisie and Locomote. Keith Roberts, founder and creative director at Zenman.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Wish’s S-1 (which is filed under its corporate name ContextLogic) is of particular interest given that COVID-19 and the global pandemic have changed consumer behavior around the world in 2020. It appears to have accelerated its growth. In the same period of 2020 the company’s top line grew to $1.75 billion and $1.73

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem. Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. Here’s who we spoke to: Cormac Quinn , founder & CEO, loyalBe. Alan Carson , CEO, Cloudsmith.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy. Brad says: “Talk to people you trust, whether they’re investors, board members, co-founders, mentors, whatever; make sure you’re open about the stress and the struggle you’re going through both financially in the business and personally.” A startup is not a lone adventure.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

If one founder ends up quitting a year or two before the last cliff, they still own a large share of the cap table through many rounds to come. The departing founder might consider that fair, but the remaining founder(s) are the ones adding on the additional value — and resentment is not the only issue.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

4-year founder vesting is dead. In 2020, all the long-term trends forcing change in this sector continued and even accelerated. Among them, millennials decamped from their rentals in crowded cities to accelerate their first home purchases to the benefit of proptech companies and challenger mortgage players alike.

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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 addition to bringing on new investors, the company has decided to appoint co-founder Subha Airan-Javia, MD, as the new Chief Executive Officer. and Dreamit Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

This brings GetVantage’s total raised so far to $40 million, along with a seed round in 2020, the same year it was launched by Bhavik Vasa and Amit Srivastava. For founders without the right network, it’s hard to find investors. Other participants included Sony Innovation Fund, InCred Capital and Haldiram’s Family Office.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest cohort of founders have opinions on the future of fintech. One-fifth of the accelerator’s Summer 2022 batch , which spans 240 companies, is working on solving issues in the financial space. The accelerator backed eight fintech bets in Latin America, worth 57% of its total wagers in the region this season.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest & the End of “Silicon X Syndrome.” Many industries temporarily froze in March-April 2020, paralyzed by the uncertainty that an invisible enemy unleashed. Many industries temporarily froze in March-April 2020, paralyzed by the uncertainty that an invisible enemy unleashed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“While we certainly can’t draw causal lines directly to our efforts, I love that our awareness campaigns that started when Mark and I first shared our story on our 1-year transplant anniversary in 2020 and accelerated when we formed the Living Liver Foundation in 2022, coincide with the increase.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Thinking outside the box, Brad Stevens , president of EO Atlanta, created a way to increase EO member engagement across the 150-member chapter with 43 Accelerator participants. The program began in November 2020. We asked Brad about this exciting new initiative. How did you come up with this initiative to grow EO member connections?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2021

As the founder and CEO of AmberMedia —a media company based in Berlin, Germany—Karsten has been working toward carbon neutrality for a decade. At the beginning of 2020 we decided to finally kick off our GREENAMBER initiative and go public with it. We started 10 years ago by using only alternative energy in our offices.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 27, 2020

This is also a bit of a reunion for USV as one of Tagomi’s founders, Jennifer Campbell, was an analyst at USV when she co-founded Tagomi. Slowly but surely crypto assets are becoming mainstream holdings for institutions and the prime brokerage offerings from Coinbase will help accelerate that transition.

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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. Kacper Marcinkowski, Tendo’s Chief Executive Officer, said that they share Tonik’s commitment in driving financial inclusion since their trailblazing start in 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Startup failure is easy to hold up as a type of martyrdom for progress, especially if the founders are starting out scrappy in the first place and trying to save the world. Which is who founders want to hire in the early days, and who investors want to bet on. Announcing the agenda for TC Sessions: Space 2020. Subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This is where artificial intelligence and voice technology have presented an opportunity for enterprises to overcome the challenges of scale and engagement at their customer contact centers,” co-founder and CEO Skit Sourabh Gupta told TechCrunch. million Series A, in May 2020. It currently has 150 employees.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

In May 2020, Flux got accepted into Pioneer , an accelerator launched by ex-YC partner Daniel Gross. Pioneer gives founders access to funding streams and talent hardly found outside Silicon Valley. It has already backed more than 100 founders who give up 1% equity to join the accelerator. Image Credits: Flux.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. This is also at least the fourth construction tech company I’ve written about in the past year with a female co-founder.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 6, 2022

Roger Patterson an EO Vancouver member, is the founder and CEO of visual marketing platform Later and co-founder of accelerator Launch Academy. Roger recently shared his thoughts on how to un-polarize your workplace by creating middle ground. One study reported remote workers are interrupted every six minutes.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

link] — Infermedica (@Infermedica) August 6, 2020 Technology and Benefits to Health Systems/Payers/Telemedicine Companies Infermedica is an AI-driven, customizable, multi-language platform that aids patient care and healthcare service delivery. This new #investmentround marks a significant milestone for Infermedica. Take a look!

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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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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

As short-form media consumption and the effectiveness of influencer-style marketing have increased, and as enterprises continue to search for better customer acquisition and engagement channels, podcasting has been fueled to a multi-billion-dollar category with nearly 2M shows hosted in 2020¹.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis. 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. million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

For comparison, that two-quarter figure is billions more than French startups raised in all of 2020. According to Techstars, its Paris accelerator will operate two classes per year, while Stockholm will run once in 2022 and twice per year from 2023 onward. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Let’s talk Europe!

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

led by Founder & CEO Jonathan Webb ?—?rang Having the opportunity to learn from the founders you back is by far one of the most rewarding parts of being a venture capital investor. Access to this type of accelerant capital can be the great equalizer so that more startups can scale to become public companies. and should?—?be

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The whole area was accelerated during the pandemic, when many property viewings migrated from physical to virtual, and this trend has continued to tick upward. Back in 2020, another player, Giraffe360, raised $4.5 Giraffe360 CEO Mikus Opelts commented: “We are very excited to partner up with Founders Fund.

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Revolution

JULY 22, 2021

Today, we are pleased to announce our seed investment in Anduin , a software company improving invoicing, accelerating collections, and modernizing payments for owners and executives in professional services, such as accounting. The situation was only amplified during the economic downturn of 2020.

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