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Extra Crunch roundup: 500 Startups’ demo day, smart SaaS pricing and much more

TechCrunch

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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The biggest moonshots from 500 Global’s latest Demo Day

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It’s demo day season. This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. 500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC.

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Formwork Labs aims to build ‘the YC of construction tech’

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For starters, Formwork Labs will select five pre-seed companies to participate as a cohort in its immersive, 10-week startup accelerator program. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar We hear from early-stage companies that they want access to customer feedback. “So trillion-dollar industry.

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One Decade In, Saying Hello to the Next One: Announcing Founders’ Co-op IV

Founders Coop

Some friends in Boulder were experimenting with an idea for a “startup accelerator” they called Techstars. million, to lean into our strategy of being first to support the most promising founders here in the Pacific Northwest. We raised our second fund around the same time, a whopping $7.7

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

The Buckminster Fuller Competition : The Buckminster Fuller Challenge is an annual international design challenge awarding $100,000 to support the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. Google for Startups Accelerator.

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Everyone is drafting their own startup Black Swan memo

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Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh, human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. You can often pick up significant market share in an economic downturn by just staying alive,” top startup accelerator Y Combinator wrote in an internal e-mail to its founders this week. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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