TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g., Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

With the support of a friend who gifted her a van (she paid $1 for it) and a mentor in the dry cleaning business, she built a website and embarked on her entrepreneurial journey as founder of WashRoom Laundry. “I Through a scholarship from ScaleUpCLT , Saichelle had the opportunity to join EO Charlotte’s Accelerator (EOA) program.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest (Part II): Does your City have a Moat? The fact that so many cities have small but mighty startup communities can actually help the cities rise, as a more manageable, accessible, and founder friendly market can attract top talent and startups to the region.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 23, 2024

Innovating AI research and advancing entrepreneurship skills in Colombia By Jewelle Saunders “What motivates me in everything that I do is the movement that comes with curiosity,” says Jonathan Puerta Pereira , a 2021 YLAI Fellow. on Innovation & Technology Policy with a focus on artificial intelligence.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

As 2021 begins, we’re witnessing a fast-changing landscape. To ensure your business continues to take advantage of the changing tide, here are 21 ways to help accelerate the growth of your new business in the year ahead: Become a prolific content creator. In fact, according to emarketer.com ; “U.S. e-commerce sales will reach $794.50

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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 3, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic disproportionately reduced venture capital funding for female founders last year, despite a greater boom in fundraising thanks to megafunds and the advent of Zoom investing. billion across 2,661 deals through the first three quarters of 2021, almost doubling 2019’s total of $23.7 That was in an upmarket.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Advice for non-technical founders for finding a serious CTO for your startup Finding a co-founder is hard work. Finding a technical co-founder is even harder. Yet, the benefits of having a technical co-founder make it all worthwhile. A good co-founder will serve as a powerful force multiplier.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Africa’s largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), is launching a $15 million accelerator program, dubbed The Edtech Fellowship Program, to back and support 72 startups across Nigeria and Kenya over the next three years, TechCrunch has learned. More edtech solutions must be built and backed for that to happen.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

.’s Tech Nation found in 2018 that about 26% of Belfast’s workforce was employed in tech, and it is among cities in the country with the highest growth potential for 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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Travis VanderZanden is the founder and CEO of Bird. Today, they’re on track to surpass half a billion rides globally by 2021, far outpacing early growth in the carbon-heavy ride-hailing industry founded by Uber in 2009. In Atlanta, shared e-scooter data has been used to quadruple the city’s protected bike lanes by 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Gleb Polyakov is co-founder and CEO of Nylas , which provides productivity infrastructure solutions for modern software. Gleb Polyakov. Contributor. Gleb studied Physics at Georgia Tech and enjoys chess, motorcycles and space. Previously, he worked in finance and founded an IoT coffee company.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 7, 2023

BintanGo’s prior funding included a pre-seed round of $500,000 conducted in June 2021, just ahead of its launch in September of the same year. BintanGo’s CEO and co-founder, Jason Lee , expressed plans to expand the company’s services to encompass live commerce platforms. million in funding support.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital , a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. For many founders in the startup community, a “founder-friendly” investor is one who stays relatively hands off. Factor in founder friendliness.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., Co-founder and CEO Moshe Tanach tells TechCrunch that the tranche will be put toward finalizing the design of NeuReality’s flagship AI inferencing chip in early 2023 and shipping it to customers. Image Credits: NeuReality.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Bearish investors who might expect the company to post negative growth in Q3 2021 won’t pay any price for DoorDash shares, but in between the two camps is a mess of vaccine timings, shifts in consumer behavior and macroeconomic questions that could determine how many American families can afford delivery. Otherwise the price makes no sense.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tackle says it plans to use its new funding to accelerate the execution of its product roadmap, scale its go-to-market (GTM) teams, expand its global reach, and continue to innovate. Of course, we’d like to know more about Tackle’s revenue, but it is only saying that it doubled its ARR in 2021.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

For founders without the right network, it’s hard to find investors. Vasa said he and Srivastava’s background as founders give them an advantage, because they understand the needs of other founders. The company claims that it saw 300% year-over-year growth in 2021, and helped its clients achieve 1.8x

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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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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. There’s a cottage industry of folks figuring out how to stack tax credits from the inflation Reduction Act to accelerate sustainable initiatives.

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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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

After raising staggering sums of capital through 2021, the financial technology startup industry ran into a valuations wall this year as public markets retreated and many formerly high-flying fintech giants took lumps. YC batch shows founders remain optimistic about fintech by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch.

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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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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

Curtis Fonger and Matthew Busel met on YC’s Co-Founder Matching (CFM) Platform, a tool we built to help co-founders find each other. Even in early conversations, their fit as co-founders was clear to each of them. YC invested in Whalesync in the Summer 2021 batch. What was your process for evaluating co-founders?

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Register “Young musicians today treat music-making kind of like playing video games,” says PoChang Wu, co-founder of OurSong, an NFT-based platform for music collection and community building. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Early data indicates that Africa is set to trounce historical records in terms of venture capital raised in the year and that the first half of 2021 saw roughly twice the funds raised by African startups as was recorded in the first half of 2020. A 2021 comeback. billion H1 2021 total for deals above $1 million, and $1.19

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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. Skit has been listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia start-ups 2021.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

According to CEO and co-founder Eric Glyman, it’s seeing increases across all stages of company maturity. June’s growth figure is more than double, or about 221% higher than, December 2021’s figures, the company said. CEO and founder Thejo Kote told TechCrunch that generating SaaS revenue for the company remains its priority.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

The pandemic has only accelerated these trends with increasing Zoom fatigue and the search for additional forms of entertainment accessible from home. Lindsay, her co-founders, and team are rock stars with a rare passion, unique product, and category-defining vision of Amplified Marketing. Stay tuned! [1]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

As we get into our dive into Q3 2021 venture capital numbers, one region in particular has our attention: Europe. 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. Let’s talk Europe! Why Techstars picked Paris, Stockholm.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2022

With down rounds looming, startup founders have a lot less dealmaking leverage than they did in 2021. If new to the fundraising game, the changing market will require an accelerated class on less-favorable term sheet provisions like liquidation preferences. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Collin Wallace Contributor Collin Wallace is a Techstars managing director leading the Silicon Valley-based accelerator program. But the truth is, I see founders every day looking for money for the wrong reasons. In 2021, VCs poured a record-breaking $329.1 This might seem like a strange question coming from me. People problems?

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StartupNation

APRIL 5, 2021

SoGal Black Founder Startup Grant. Did you know that Black female founders receive less than 0.5% SoGal is looking to change that with the Black Founder Startup Grant. The application deadline for this program is April 16, 2021. Interested entrepreneurs can find more information here about applying to upcoming cycles.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

For over a year, Andreessen Horowitz has quietly piloted its own take on an accelerator for early-stage entrepreneurs, and today, the firm announced the program’s official debut. In exchange for an unannounced percentage of ownership, “a16z START” will offer early-stage founders up to $1 million in venture capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2023

Notifi founder and CEO Paul Kim falls in the latter camp. “Some believe that everything has to be decentralized and Web3-native from the get-go. In mid-2021, the Web3 industry experienced the hottest period of the DeFi Summer, with the daily trading volume of DeFi protocols reaching 850,000 users, 140 times more than a year ago.

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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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