AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Ideaspace Ventures, the startup accelerator division of the MVP Group of Companies, has announced the inclusion of five new startups in its 12th cohort of the flagship accelerator program, titled […]

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 14, 2023

One of the biggest startup accelerators is being liquidated. Was it a scam or just another failed startup? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 1, 2021

What if all startup incubators and accelerators integrated design principles that foster circularity? How will this look like and how will it impact ventures going through these programs? In the startup and venture world, there are two options for integrating circularity. Starting with 67 ventures in 12 programs.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 19, 2024

MYStartup, a national initiative backed by Malaysia’s Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MOSTI) and developed by Cradle Fund, has partnered with NEXEA, a venture capital and startup accelerator firm, to launch its third accelerator program.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

Better Tomorrow Ventures’ Sheel Mohnot landed some of his biggest wins before he ever started a venture firm. The investor previously worked as a partner at 500 , previously known as 500 Startups, where he raised and ran a dedicated fintech fund as well as helped build an accelerator. million valuations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon. Importantly, the traditional accelerator model has enjoyed the fruits of these potential paradigm shifts. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 29, 2024

Tribe, a Singapore-based ecosystem builder, and Digital Industry Singapore (DISG)—a joint office of the Economic Development Board, Enterprise Singapore, and the Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA)—have teamed up with global […]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Venture capital activity in Europe and Asia saw a strong return to form in Q3, data indicates. The two continents enjoyed more venture capital investment into their local startups than in some time, underscoring that strong VC results the United States saw in the third quarter were not a fluke, but part of a broader trend.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

One way to build that camaraderie is through incubators and accelerator programs. It’s easy to spin your wheels as a startup founder without help, and connecting with a startup-focused group is a good way to find people who are in a similar position, Segneri said. That’s the purpose of joining one of these programs. “We’re

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Microsoft has today announced plans to support 10,000 startups in Africa over the next five years through a series of initiatives including partnerships with accelerators and incubators across the continent. Microsoft said that it is already working with Banque Misr, Global Venture Capital and Get Funded Capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) will train managers of leading accelerators in Africa over the next two years, to help them establish sustainable business models that commandeer greater influence in their ecosystems. 500 Global’s take on the rising competition among startup accelerators.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

SparkLabs Korea , a Seoul-based seed to early-stage accelerator, held a demo Day on Thursday for its 19th cohort of companies. The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. SparkLabs launches $50M fund for promising early-stage startups in Korea. and Asia. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The future of technology is determined by a handful of venture capitalists. The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. There is a startling lack of diversity within the venture capital sector. We all live in a world shaped by venture capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Each time, I’ve been telling founders why they should join an accelerator. Now, I am changing things up and going to lay out six reasons you shouldn’t join an accelerator. You’re better off going to VCs, angel investors, crowdfunding, applying for grants or seeking venture debt. If you only need funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

First, a little context: Substack’s first known external capital came in January 2018 via the Y Combinator startup accelerator. From there, the startup’s ability to raise new funds quickly accelerated, with Andreessen Horowitz leading Substack’s $15.3

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Register Startups looking at going global should first establish proof of local traction before doing so, John Lim , Partner at Meet Ventures , said in an interview with AsiaTechDaily. Meet Ventures is a consultancy firm that specialises in running startup accelerators and market access programs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Among Apple’s more recent social good initiatives is the Impact Accelerator, an effort launched about a year ago intended to find and elevate minority-owned small businesses taking on sustainability and climate change.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

This morning Techstars , a network of startup accelerators and a venture capital fund, announced that Maëlle Gavet is its new CEO. That means, we presume, more accelerators in more places investing in more founders. For a meta-startup, an accelerator-and-investing concern, to do the same is not surprising.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2023

It was pure coincidence, but months before the pandemic took hold around the world, IndieBio — a startup accelerator devoted to startups using biology to solve large problems — expanded its remit, adding a New York arm to the operations it was already running out of San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

AC Ventures (ACV) , a venture firm focused on early-stage startups in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia, has reached the first close of its fifth investment fund (Fund V). Wong previously worked at GGV and Qiming Ventures and has served on the boards of startups like Tudou and Mobike.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Steel City has all the ingredients to be a hub for startups: a good university system, a cheaper cost of living — definitely when compared to places like New York and the Bay Area — and a proliferation of seed firms and startup accelerators. billion — venture investors on the ground can feel the city’s potential. (I

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. It’s fair to say that the Seattle startup community would not be where it is today without Techstars. But it also created two big problems for Techstars as a business: cash flow and brand identity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

And we closed with a very Natasha topic: Accelerators. And for the early-stage founders out there, don’t forget to apply for the Startup Battlefield 200 cohort at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023! Venture-backed everything for real world problems, please by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2023

That’s how he summarizes the problem he is trying to solve with his IP-forward accelerator. Aventurine focuses on where venture capital doesn’t typically go: It gets in early to support people who aren’t natural entrepreneurs, and invests in IP for the long term using what it calls a Perpetual IP Income fund, or PIPI fund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Before launching the fund, Google proved helpful in startups’ journeys via its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program. The accelerator program has supported more than 80 startups in seed to Series A stages with equity-free mentorship and resources. Google sets up $50M fund to invest in African startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Like the startup ecosystem itself, accelerators change with time. Y Combinator, perhaps the best-known startup accelerator, has also evolved. Like much of the venture capital landscape, Y Combinator has shrunk slightly this year. The current cohort of startups in the U.S. ” This is not a new trend.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

. “That said, it’s important to remember that publicly traded value represents a fraction of the overall edtech sector,” write Dealroom analyst Carla Napoleão and Rhys Spence, head of research at Brighteye Ventures. Show, don’t tell: Tips for robotics startups raising a Series B during a downturn.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2020

But the expected comeuppance of high-burn, high-growth startups fueled by cheap capital provided by venture capitalists raising ever-larger funds , failed to arrive. Venture capital as an asset class has survived the pandemic’s stress test. Instead, the very opposite came to pass.

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Founder Bounty

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Apply for an accelerator if you think its worth doing. Accelerators like YC can provide real value to any startup or business and we have written a bunch of articles on this so make sure to check them out! Vlad Kozul Is Techstars accelerator worth doing? Market the product and continue to grow the product.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

The startup, which operates the HDmall platform in Thailand and Indonesia, is excited to announce that it has successfully raised funding from a group of investors incl. Partech Partners, M Venture Partners, AC Ventures, iSeed, and Orvel Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

European accelerators are going through an interesting time right now. And I think it’s now commonly accepted that most accelerators outside of YCombinator can too be often ‘less than adequate’, to put it diplomatically. Having said that, accelerators still have a role to play in Europe’s emerging ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

A music industry veteran of 10 years, Rodriguez was introduced to the tech world after he helped build an art program for the gener8tor, a startup accelerator based in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2018. He’s now part of a rarified club: In any given year, less than 5% of all venture capital funding goes to Latino founders.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 16, 2018

A few years ago I had the honor of mentoring Maria Rose Belding when she and her partners at Means Database were in the Valley Venture Mentors startup Accelerator. Her social venture is organized and dreams like a high tech silicon valley startup – but all of that energy is directed to doing good, at scale.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

In a year marred by the coronavirus pandemic, it seems that early-stage startups on the African continent are continuing to see some notable growth, both in terms of their business and from investors looking to back them. . Half of its portfolio companies are backed by YC and other global accelerators. The rest were unannounced.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Boston has long been one of the most important startup ecosystems in the United States. With major universities and a legacy of innovation, the city is a great place to start up and run a venture-backed business. Cait Brumme runs MassChallenge, the long-running, zero-equity startup accelerator based in Boston.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

However, the upcoming revisions will expand the involvement of private companies in the screening process, creating a more efficient and supportive environment for foreign entrepreneurs entering Japan’s startup market.

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