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. Not all teams end up pitching at demo day. and Asia. .

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. Participants have a chance to win more than $250,000 in cash and other support.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

We had a conversation about the role of incubators and accelerators (or the moniker of your choice) within the startup ecosystem. Fund raising assistance (aka Demo Day) - These events are designed to build auction pressure in financings by generating simultaneous investor interest. Yesterday, I spoke at Columbia Business School.

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Y Combinator

JUNE 8, 2021

Work on everything from our Demo Day experience, internal financial systems and tools to help founders connect with one another for advice, intros, deals, networking and more. YC Continuity – Program Associate : YCC’s Program Associate will provide operational and administrative support for YC’s growth-stage founder programs.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Register KB Financial Group has collaborated with startups to support emerging ventures proactively. The financial institution recently organized the ‘2023 HUB Day,’ a startup demo day held at the KB Innovation Hub Center in Seocho-gu, Seoul. It played a crucial role in elevating our collaborative efforts to a higher level.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Supabase , a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by Coatue, with participation from YC, Mozilla and a group of about 20 angel investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day. FixFake: Founded by Kathryn Harrison and Jason Law, FixFake offers decision support tools to reduce fraud in e-commerce. It is based in Brooklyn, NY. ?

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

“It’s so easy to throw together a vertical AI demo,” Winfield told TechCrunch. Xembly founder and CEO Pete Christothoulou said that despite the market’s noise, companies should look to work with VCs like Winfield because while everyone is looking to put money to work in AI, not all support is created equal.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

The program is supported by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) and is a leading program funded by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. The KSGC team also gives follow-up support to the top startups for them to establish a business in Korea. were chosen from the pool of applications. Manufacturing in Asia is huge.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize.

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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 need thousands of active investors that support the different startup stages, especially on the growth side, offering both equity and debt.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Countless tech giants and startups have thrown their tech at the automated call handling problem, from Google (and Google’s Area 120 incubator ), Microsoft and Amazon to Got It AI , Replicant and Tenyx. Now, a newer startup called PolyAI claims to be doing it more effectively — and points to its uptake as proof. CEO Nikola Mrkši?

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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.” VC is adapting too; Pillar is working directly with the student-led non-profit incubator Nucleate to find and fund university spinoffs.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

For any entrepreneur to be successful in starting a business, they must have the right help and resources to support of their hard work. Business Incubators and Accelerators : Incubators offer entrepreneurs and startups workspaces that are typically below market rates.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago. Ycombinator, the incubator of billion dollar unicorns, is a unicorn itself.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Preqin (free demo). Grey House (free demo). WCD (Women Corporate DIrectors) is “the world’s largest membership organization and community of women corporate board directors”, supporting its members in “connecting with peers and advancing visionary corporate governance”. Private Equity. Venture Capital. Pratt’s Guide .

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

And the median investment chart above supports this hypothesis. Median seed rounds are then dominated by the +/- $150k initial investments of incubators and accelerators with large new portfolios like YCombinator and 500Startups whose demo days are fast approaching. In all likelihood, February was a bit of a wait-and-see month.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Estonia-based Membo — which is backed by Y Combinator and will be presenting at the incubator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day next week — is aiming to take a slice of the premium end of grocery shopping in Europe and a bite out of supermarket giants’ continued dominance of the traditional weekly food shop. .

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

However, the technical support and idea incubation available remain small. . Named “Wërngël-Bi”, a term in Wolof that translates to “The Circle”, the circularity programme at Impact Hub Dakar supported different entrepreneurs carrying out projects that ranged from eco-construction to ecological toilets.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Strong Government Support: The Korean government is constantly improving the country’s infrastructure. In 2017, South Korea established the Ministry of SMEs and Startups to systematically oversee various startup support projects to reinforce momentum. K-Startup Grand Challenge Program 2022 K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022 is a 3.5-month-long

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution.

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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? Each startup was assigned an individual sustainability coach that supported them to apply CE knowledge in testing out their circular innovations. Six startups were selected out of a pool of 50+ applicants. .

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Despite this surge in initiatives, the available technical support and idea incubation opportunities remain limited. The generated resources support agricultural properties, offering a sustainable and eco-friendly alternative.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators. Demo’d to death. We’ve all been demo-day’d to death.

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