Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

We recently released the video sharing app Ferris and announced that Upfront Ventures led the funding in the company in our seed round of $2 million and I personally joined the board. This accelerated after I co-led the seed & A rounds at Maker Studios, which sold 3 years later for $1 billion to Disney. So Why Did We Invest?

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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. The investor joined Tackle’s board when his firm led the startup’s Series B round, and sees it as a category leader.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But in 2021, Homebound expanded to Austin, Texas, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners. Image Credits: Sonoma home / DANIEL KELLEGHAN PHOTOGRAPHY. But with a 5.5

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

Commentary and Market Context Commenting on the news, Piotr Orzechowski, CEO at Infermedica, said: “We’re thrilled to welcome EBRD and Heal Capital as new investors on board of our venture. The tool has been used by more than 500K patients and has been implemented by 300 organizations, including two national governments.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” Two easy ways to enable scaleability: encourage founders to learn from one another, and share information simultaneously with many.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 25, 2024

At the recent March board meeting, Ben Franklin CNP approved investments in the following companies: Lightscline , located in State College: Lightscline pioneers lightweight AI technology aimed at revolutionizing sensor data analytics.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Trello allows you to create boards for each project, break tasks down into cards, and assign deadlines and responsibilities. This reduces manual data entry errors and accelerates the payment process. Regular sprint reviews and feedback loops accelerate time to market for new products. to work together in real-time.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Building Legacies Out of Movements), an accelerator program for social entrepreneurs of color. Through knowledge sharing and funding, the program cultivates a thriving ecosystem for changemakers to accelerate impact and deliver initiatives at the intersection of sport, equity and creativity for Black and Latinx communities. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

On the other hand, Appruve, which provides an API that verifies user identity, fraud detection and digital documentation, primarily focuses on new datasets that enable or complement traditional government data such as international passports and national IDs.

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HPA

MARCH 3, 2022

We’d like to thank HPA Deal Lead Andy Bokor and HPA Managing Director Pete Wilkins, who served as a Board Observer, for their contributions and counsel to the company throughout the years. We are excited to accelerate our growth in business process automation through PagerDuty’s brand and reach.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

It’s an effective approach, but new codecs require new hardware specially built to accelerate compression or decompression, making improvements slow to propogate. YouTube’s already doing this.

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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. Pending approval by its Board, the NJEDA intends to invest up to $17.5 million in the fintech accelerator. Plug and Play invests in over 250 companies a year.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2024

The funding will build on customer momentum, accelerate market expansion, and continue the innovation of CyberSaint’s CyberStrong platform powered by its patented Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Additional participating investors include Sage Hill Investors, Audeo Capital, and BlueIO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

. “Every enterprise is either already rearchitecting themselves to be built around learning systems powered by AI, or they should be,” said Lonne Jaffe, managing director at Insight Partners and now a board member at Run:AI.” ” Run.AI raises $13M for its distributed machine learning platform.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you are interested in entrepreneurship, innovation and accelerating your growth, then you will want to register for EO24/7 , EO’s annual virtual-learning event. She is currently serving a governor-appointed position on the Information Technology Advisory Board for the State of Nevada. Krupa joined EO Las Vegas in 2018. .

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 8, 2024

The platform enables clients to drive growth across the digital marketing funnel, using deep artificial intelligence and machine learning. Companies with women on their boards tend to perform better on the stock market. Societies that educate girls and allow women to participate in decision-making are more successful.

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HPA

MARCH 23, 2021

Leaf Trade connects licensed wholesale cannabis retailers and suppliers and standardizes operational practices that enable them to scale in a rapidly-expanding industry. This round of funding will accelerate expansion into new markets and investment in their core technology.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. “The appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as the newest member of Sima.ai’s board of directors is a strategic milestone for the company. . After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

For example, a financial analyst might use data from the CDW to project different scenarios for this year’s board plan. These two feedback loops accelerate, spinning the data flywheel pushing more information into the data warehouse. A data scientist might develop a churn prediction algorithm.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

The investment will be used to accelerate the development and commercialization of GB’s AI and 3D vision-based “autonomous mobile robots” or “AMRs” These perform simple tasks such as transporting, picking up and dropping off products in order to free up humans to perform more valuable tasks. Nenad Baki? Matija Kopi?,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Apollo.io , which is developing sales intelligence and engagement software for business-to-business companies, brought in $32 million in Series B funding to continue with its go-to-market acceleration approach. As part of the investment, Sri Pangulur, partner at Tribe Capital, joined Apollo.io’s board.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Steven Kramer, board member and former EVP of Hybris, said via email that over the past two decades, the e-commerce industry went through several waves of innovation. Now, maturing consumer behaviors and expectations are accelerating the current phase. That is painful in any vertical, but especially for e-commerce,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

BJ Jenkins is CEO of Barracuda , a provider of cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions. He is a member of the boards of directors at SumoLogic and Generac Power Systems. Boards sought out CEOs because of the knowledge they bring and their unique ability to interact with the company CEO as an equal.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Aviel and I are both self-taught VCs: the parts of the job we learned as founders and operators of our own companies covered just a fraction of what it means to be effective money managers, fundraisers, board members and trusted partners within the tight-knit community of professional investors.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

We are passionate about finding the best companies to support the future of community banking, so they can thrive and continue to enable and support their customers and communities,” says Ransom. It touts that over 1,000 companies are in its pipeline, accelerating the growth of the 17 funded fintech portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

As part of the round, James McCann, the former chief executive of Ahold USA, a supermarket holding company, has joined the company’s board of directors. This new capital will enable us to grow faster and bigger in 2021, thereby accelerating our mission of reducing food waste while making fresh, nutritious food accessible to all.” .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The metal 3D printing company intends to merge with ONE, a special purpose acquisition company created by Kevin Hartz, who will join its board. Shortly after Berkshire Grey unveiled its intentions , Watertown-based Markforged has announced its own plans. The deal, which could value the additive manufacturing company at around $2.1

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The round was led by Unusual Ventures, with Unusual’s John Vrionis joining the board. Data scientists will be empowered to accelerate time to market through increased automation and collaboration without requiring engineering teams.”. “We make it super easy to set up end-to-end machine learning pipelines.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

The shift in software from subscriptions to usage-based pricing has rapidly accelerated, with many companies seeking to incorporate how the product is used into how it is priced. I wish we had Orb to accelerate our revenue goals.” High-growth B2B technology companies use Orb to automate billing and enable pricing experimentation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

“But the pandemic, which had a devastating effect on so many businesses that relied on in-person trade, accelerated the need for businesses to accept payments online.” There are three core enablers to Yoco’s thriving business, Wazen pointed out. This investment will be there to accelerate all three.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” Two easy ways to enable scaleability: encourage founders to learn from one another, and share information simultaneously with many.

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HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

“This funding marks a significant milestone, enabling Fuel Me to accelerate the development of advanced technology while continuing to deliver unparalleled service to our customers. Eddie Leshin is a Board Member & Senior Business Advisor at Sheer Logistics and a partner at Woodlawn Partners. Full press release here.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 13, 2025

Combined, both rounds have awarded over $5 million to support demonstration projects conducted by innovative New Jersey companies, accelerating the commercialization and deployment of clean energy technologies. In 2023, the NJEDA awarded more than $3.6 million to 14 startup companies under Round One of the pilot program. Amatec Inc.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. You’re involved in other aspects of the firm’s activities: due diligence, portfolio acceleration, board service, etc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s the more efficient footprint and it enables things like serving ports and creating inland port shuttle systems so you can move the containers from a seaport to an inland port, which is often a better place for trucks to go and are closer to warehousing activities.” ”

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Their two plus year old startup just raised $20 million in funding and set up an advisory board comprised of eight unicorn founders and executives. Taktile ignited this transformation by enabling companies of all sizes to more easily build, run and evaluate automated decision flows—without requiring developers to write complex code.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Aclima , a decade-old startup founded by Davida Herzl, is looking to solve that problem and has raised $40 million in new funding from strategic and institutional venture capital investors to accelerate its growth. “We’ve built a platform that enables hyperlocal measurement. Image Credits: Greg Epperson/Getty Images.

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