Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy. Like the downturns in 2008 and 2001, this has been a very trying time for entrepreneurs running startups. Rizwan Virk is the author of Startup Myths and Models: What You Won’t Learn in Business School.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Then we’ll hear from Eniac Ventures ’ Nihal Mehta , Freestyle’s Jenny Lefcourt , Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson and Contrary Capital’s Eric Tarczynski about what they saw in 2020 while writing a chunk of the checks that our data encompasses. The American seed market in 2020. If you didn’t think much about seed in 2020, you’re not alone.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Half of its portfolio companies are backed by YC and other global accelerators. Last year (the one this latest review covers), Microtraction announced seven startups. Of the total investments raised in 2019 and 2020, 54gene contributed more than half of those numbers by raising $4.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Amnesty International recently surveyed the world’s largest venture capital firms and startup accelerators. Overall, of the 50 VC firms and three startup accelerators analyzed by Amnesty International, we found that almost all of them lacked adequate human rights due diligence policies and processes.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

The two entities will oversee NJ FAST’s accelerator program with an opportunity to make equity investments into select participating companies. million in the fintech accelerator. From 2020 to 2022, Plug and Play was the most active startup accelerator in the world, according to CB Insights.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Vale do Dendê coordinates with local startups, investors and government agencies to support entrepreneurship and innovation and runs startup acceleration programs specifically focusing on supporting Afro-Brazilian founders. It attracted backing from Facebook Brasil and grew 770% in 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

CB Insights counts nearly $8 billion invested into French startups in the last two quarters , with the totals roughly split between the two periods. For comparison, that two-quarter figure is billions more than French startups raised in all of 2020. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Let’s talk Europe!

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The CertifID tool is used by real estate companies to insure and accelerate transactions with financial institutions for real estate purchases. An AI-based online youth athlete coaching startup, MaxOne raised $3.5 million in Series A startup funding in mid-2021. They are wire fraud prevention for real estate. FirstIgnite.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Y Combinator, which helped incubate Pave and is now leading its most recent round through its later-stage capital vehicle, is one of the largest startup accelerators in the world. The reliance on YC could engender platform risk, considering how often the accelerator invests in competitors — often within the same batch.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The number of local (AUS & NZ) billion dollar companies, as well as the rapid growth of publicly listed tech firms, is growing (Crossroads, 2020). This decline has also become evident in startup accelerator programs shifting their focus on later-stage scale-ups that provide higher returns.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Founded in 2012, the accelerator is focused on developing early-stage companies tied to the University of California system. In 2020, SkyDeck — along with much of the rest of the world — went virtual. “We Attending a remote startup accelerator is absolutely worth it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Glimpse had participated in startup accelerator Y Combinator’s winter 2020 batch and had seed-stage investment from both YC and Maven Ventures. “I look forward to seeing the twine team bring twine for Zoom to market,” he added.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The Exchange has been tracking Europe’s startup acceleration for years now. For reference, that figure was below $10 billion in Q2 2019, Q3 2019, Q4 2019 and Q2 2020. That’s a hair more than the full-year 2020 number of $54.8

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In Q3 2020, PitchBook data reported that US-based female founders raised $434 million across 136 rounds. That dollar amount was off from $841 million in Q2 2020, for context. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. As a refresher, the numbers were not good.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 18, 2020

STATE COLLEGE, PA – On Wednesday, June 17, 2020, The Tech Celerator @StateCollege, a partnership with Invent Penn State that has helped create more than 130 new startups, hosted a zoom pitch event.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Y Combinator’s newly announced plan to invest more capital into startups that take part in its accelerator program is more controversial than many first assumed. program and investing group with hundreds of companies in each of its accelerator classes may have materially changed the earliest stage of investing.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

I’m about to participate in the Startup Champion Network’s Ecosystem Health Challenge from April through June 2020. So, we are planning to deploy it inside of schools across Western Iowa to find highly talented individual entrepreneurs and accelerate their growth to help propel CB onward.” – Tom Chapman.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

The startup participated in AngelPad’s three-month startup accelerator program in 2018, shortly before TechCrunch reported that the company had $265,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR). Forma last raised $15 million from Emergence Capital in its 2020 Series A round, as well as $2.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Robinhood’s Q4 2020 revenue shows a return to growth. In yesterday’s column, Alex unpacked Robinhood’s Q4 2020 numbers , “which shows a return to sequential-quarterly growth at the trading upstart.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The co-founders began the development of Matter in early 2020, after raising an angel round, and later participated in startup accelerator Y Combinator’s summer 2020 batch. . “It just became more and more apparent to us that there was an opportunity to build a better reading product,” he says.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In 2021, the e-commerce market was the leading contributor to the internet economy in the Philippines, with an estimated gross merchandise value of $12 billion — a 132% increase from 2020. Following this success, the company got accepted in SEA startup accelerator, Iterative. This is expected to hit $26 billion by 2025.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

That list of past backers includes Zeev Ventures, Foundation Capital and the Google for Startups accelerator.) Launched in January 2020, just before the pandemic really kicked off, Lili has picked up 200,000 customers to date, Bar David tells me. The company has now raised $80 million and is not disclosing its valuation yet.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

Here’s what to know: The startup raised a $6 million Series A round, led by Four Cities Capital, with participation from Draper Associates and 500 Startups. As we spoke about on the latest Equity , Plaid has matured to host a growing startup accelerator, acquire companies and clearly expand its strategic ambitions.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC. Unlike YC, 500 Global has geographic-specific accelerator programs, similar to Techstars, with focus on areas like Aichi, Japan, Cambodia, and Alberta, Canada. ” He added: “We’re very proud of our accelerator. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. cities made up a fifth of the top 20 European cities, with names such as Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh and Cambridge rising to the fore in 2020. city for tech investment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In Why I left edtech and got into gaming , Darshan Somashekar brought us inside his decision to pivot away from a sector that’s been growing hotter in 2020. How COVID-19 accelerated DoorDash’s business. How COVID-19 accelerated DoorDash’s business. Accelerators embrace change forced by pandemic.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

In 2020, the company launched services catered to end-to-end automation of lending operations for banks and blockchain switching. Since its inception , the Google for Startups Accelerator alumnus claims to have led Africa’s fintech sector in some global firsts from the continent. ” Image Credits: Appzone.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He claims that Equilibrium AI secured a spot in a startup accelerator program from an unnamed “large cloud compute provider” that comes with a “five-figure” grant in cloud hardware and compute, which Unstable Diffusion will use to expand its model training infrastructure.

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