TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For IndieBio, a science and biotech accelerator run by VC firm SOSV, this unprecedented year offered high stakes and new challenges. Today and tomorrow, the biotech accelerator is hosting its twice-annual demo day. Over the years, the accelerator has created a portfolio of biotech companies valued at over $3.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Thousand Faces , a web3 community-based investment group, hosted its demo day on Wednesday with the top 10 startups from its Female Founder Accelerator program. The demo day coincided with International Women’s Day and featured women-led businesses focused on sustainable development goals (SDGs).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Today is the 28th Demo Day for Alchemist , an accelerator that primarily focuses on enterprise companies — or those that sell to other companies, primarily, rather than directly to consumers. I hopped on a call with Belani, who gave me a rundown of what each company is working on and shared some updates on the accelerator itself.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

Under Governor Murphys leadership, the NJEDA has focused on supporting cutting-edge industries like AI, creating family-sustaining jobs for residents and bolstering the states innovation economy, said NJEDA Chief Executive Officer Tim Sullivan. For more information, including additional eligibility requirements, click here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Alchemist Accelerator is back with another Demo Day — its 29th Demo Day overall, and the latest in the series to be entirely virtual. As an enterprise-focused accelerator, Alchemist primarily works with companies that in turn work with other companies. Alchemist’s Demo Day is scheduled to start at 10:30 AM Pacific.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

million seed round of funding a year after being founded and a few months since it presented at the accelerator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day in March. But the startup’s premise is also that more sustainable forestry management can generate extra carbon credits for forest owners, too.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

This process-based service model is, in our opinion, the only way to grow a business in a sustainable way. Our growth program typically unfolds in three stages as well, which we call the Foundation, Acceleration and Transformation stages. In the Acceleration stage, we scale the experiments that have shown promising early results.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2019

I imagine this is how every founder fats on the eve of demo day. The company sustained this cadence for two years. First, the company sustained a torrid pace of product development for a long time achieving more than most thought possible. Sustain a frenetic cadence for too long, employees burnout. It was a rallying cry.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Circularity tales: Accelerating the transition in Rwanda Impact Hub Kigali is a dynamic and forward-thinking innovation hub in Rwanda, dedicated to fostering sustainable business practices and social impact.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 27, 2025

As startups scale, effective sales implementation becomes the difference between stagnation and sustainable growth. Create a consistent demo : Develop a compelling product demonstration that clearly shows value and addresses pain points.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Most big accelerators tend to dedicate some of their resources to dauntingly hard science problems and the companies taking them on… but for SOSV’s IndieBio , it’s the primary focus. The team has already won a number of awards from groups including LVHM (the holding co.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

What if all startup incubators and accelerators took the step towards integrating design principles that foster circularity? Impact Hub Kigali is part of the process and has recently concluded the Circular Economy (CE) Acceleration Program, a unique 6-month program dedicated to enabling startups to become more circular.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

“Since 2011, the Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship has supported the work of 36 innovators—representing the United States as well as 18 other countries on five continents—who address pressing global issues, from healthcare delivery to college persistence and sustainable construction in developing nations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In Africa, incubators, accelerators, angels and seed investors easily outnumber larger funds — simply because it’s much harder to raise a large fund here. We have strong relationships with most of the continent’s leading incubators, accelerators and venture-building studios.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Third, and finally, he thinks that strong business incentives and for-profit businesses specifically are the most sustainable way to make impact last — not nonprofits or government organizations. The startup also recently graduated from the Pear accelerator , a program put together by the 2013-founded seed-stage venture firm.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Expo Hall & Demo Booths. In this session we will discuss the pain points of getting into healthcare, as well as strategies to open doors to these organizations for pilots and sustainable revenue. Latecomers always welcome: Buy a pass right here. Investor Reception. Receptions | 12:00 pm . Design and Scale Using Behavioral Science.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

As a result, he says the accelerator model must evolve, as “nearly every early-stage VC will have a ‘platform’ component to support early-stage founders.” ” Thanks for reading TC+ this week! “But it doesn’t negate the fact that women are coming to the table from an investor standpoint.”

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Meet Ventures is a consultancy firm that specialises in running startup accelerators and market access programs. Currently, I run an innovation consultancy firm called Meet Ventures that helps corporates to run their accelerators and government agencies to run their market access programs.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 13, 2020

We support and foster the creation of solutions, teams, and environments that are striving towards sustainable change. We are dedicated to showcasing new practices and learning from them through our accelerator program, podcast, meetups, blogs, tailor-made member sessions, Friday’s jazz hours, and more. . The next 5 years. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“Tufts, Brandeis, Boston [University], UMass, all these universities now have entrepreneurship programs, incubators, on campus accelerators that are often included in the curriculum.” “We will do demo days, so we are in that sense an intermediary, escalating certain student pitches to venture firms,” he said.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

The Boston Consulting Group and MassChallenge , a US-based global network of accelerators, partnered to study why “ women-owned startups are a better bet ”. Gender diversity as a driver of sustainable profitability. The founders of such companies inherently are taking financial risk, reputational risk, and career risk.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

is on a mission to accelerate the decarbonization of buildings by using AI-generated efficiency savings to encourage electrification of commercial real estate — wooing buildings away from reliance on fossil fuels to power their heating and cooling needs. Y Combinator-backed Kapacity.io

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago. I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors. Ycombinator has deep roots in the area. None of the local VC firms invested.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

The company got into the XRC Labs accelerator program and also signed a deal with a large U.S. million in pre-seed funding from an investor group, XRC Labs, Sunstone Fund, Salt Lake City Angels, VC California Crescent fund and angel investors like former Steve Madden executive Mark Friedman and Demos Parneros, former CEO of Barnes and Noble.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Josephine Tine, co-founder of ART-Pesoung, Hadji Malick Sagne, of Cactus Innovation, and Adja Aissatou Diallo, founder of Galle epitomise the transformative potential of sustainable solutions in Senegal’s shift towards a circular economy. Sign up now and ignite your journey towards making a difference.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

“Since 2011, the Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship has supported the work of 36 innovators—representing the United States as well as 18 other countries on five continents—who address pressing global issues, from healthcare delivery to college persistence and sustainable construction in developing nations.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When you’re building out a usage-based sales compensation plan, you need to first understand how customers get value out of your product, then identify where your sales team can either accelerate or expand their usage. Are demos or trials available before purchase? Signup How do your customers find and sign up for your product?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Omnitron Sensors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. But one event that we try to catch every year is that of Pear , which is held annually each fall and features (blessedly) just a dozen or so very nascent startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest participants are the second batch to land a $500,00 check as part of the accelerator’s recently refreshed standard deal. Our 11 favorite companies from YC’s S22 Demo Day: Part 1. That’s why I was surprised, then impressed to see Almond take the stage at Y Combinator Demo Day this week.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

As the early-stage, biology-focused accelerator arm of SOSV, IndieBio gives the companies in its program $250,000+, mentorship and full access to a biology lab to bring their ideas to life. IndieBio initially operated solely out of San Francisco, with the accelerator expanding just last year to include a New York cohort that runs in parallel.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2021

The disconnect between Y Combinator Demo Day and due diligence. I ran into one such startup when covering Plaid’s inaugural cohort of startups in its accelerator program. Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit. Unlike Affirm, it doesn’t make money off of fees charged to consumers. Seen on Extra Crunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

We’ll have the new Discovery Stage featuring in-depth demos and speaker Q&As, roundtables, networking, breakout sessions and more. Accelerating Startup Marketing Growth. Learn how you can accelerate growth by leveraging powerful analytics tools, ad features and your active professional network. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Oh, and sustainability is getting a whole stage all to itself at Disrupt. ” — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Accelerating generative AI : Amazon is jumping into startup accelerators with both feet again and will boost generative AI startups around the globe with a 10-week program, Natasha M writes. .”

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