TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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. Elsewhere on Demo Day, Lydia.ai walked through its health assessment service for insurance carriers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Y Combinator’s Demo Day took place this week , and although the event itself was virtual-only, 86% of the founders in YC’s winter 2023 batch lived in SF while participating. TechCrunch+ roundup: YC Demo Day faves, thrift shop VCs, cybersecurity product challenges by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, an incubator based in New York, is introducing 12 new companies at its 20th demo day tomorrow. The hope is to reduce chemical fertilizer use, increase crop yields and help farmers grow sustainably. Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story said that demo day was today.

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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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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 26, 2020

On Ramon's recent Facebook Live with HelloAlice he saluted three business owners who are building businesses focused on sustainability. We get out and talk to people every week by doing demos,” Paniagua says. The post VIDEO: A Salute To Three Businesses Who Focus on Sustainable Development appeared first on SmartHustle.com.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Today and tomorrow, the biotech accelerator is hosting its twice-annual demo day. Starting in 2015, IndieBio has provided resources to founders solving complex challenges with biotech, from fake meat to sustainability. Diptera.ai: Vic Levitin is creating a scalable, affordable and sustainable way to fight mosquitoes and their diseases.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Platforms like OnlyFans and Patreon have helped creators earn a sustainable income, while Linktree managed to turn a chunk of Instagram real estate into a unicorn. Our 11 favorite companies from YC’s S22 Demo Day: Part 1. Y Combinator doesn’t seem particularly interested in the creator economy, though.

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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. Alchemist’s Demo Day will be streamed live later today beginning at 10:30 AM Pacific. It’s that time again!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

.” Today and tomorrow, we’ll have team coverage of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day , including a selection of staff favorites, so be sure to check the site each afternoon. 2 reasons why demo days are dead. ” 2 reasons why demo days are dead. ” 2 reasons why demo days are dead.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

based seed-stage venture firm that has, from its outset, attracted the attention of VCs who think the firm has an eye for nascent talent , staged its seventh annual demo day earlier this week, and while it was virtual, one of the startups has already signed a term sheet from a top-tier venture firm. Website: farmraise.com.

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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. Alchemist’s Ravi Belani also shared plans to announce some news during today’s Demo Day, including that: They’ve raised $2 million from German chemistry company BASF.

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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.

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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

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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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Competition and sustainable advantage. Highlight your sustainable competitive advantages, and barriers to entry. Offer to do a demo later, but don’t try to squeeze it in the presentation. In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Marketing, sales, and partners.

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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. For instance, we recently helped a B2B SaaS platform increase demo requests by 350%. Every experiment we ran increased the demo request metric to some extent. But this wasn’t the goal at all.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

the founders of a young company hailing from Cambridge, England addressed a crowd of celebrities, investors and entrepreneurs at Y Combinator’s August Demo Day promising a revolution in food science. 10 startups that caught our eye from day 1 of YC Demo Day S18. That’s made form a sustainable source but also biodegradable.”

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Also on the TC+ Stage, blockchain platform Polygon will host a partner session that will knock your socks off on all things sustainable blockchain. and Web Spiders will be demoing on the show floor. Bringing their amazing group of startups, Ukrainian Bridge will be hosting a startup pavilion in the expo hall.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A unique highlight of this batch are more companies in both the health tech/medtech space and clean tech/sustainability space. Each team will have six minutes to pitch, followed by a six-minute Q&A with our esteemed panel of judges — all experts in VC and successful companies.

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Y Combinator

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Breakthrough Companies list highlights the fast-growing companies we’ve doubled down on – which means they’ve all received significant additional investment from YC in their post-Demo Day rounds. > 58% of the companies have HQs in the Bay Area. 23% of the companies from W16 are on the YC Top Companies list. >

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The industrial biotech startup is working on bringing a novel protein to market — one it says will offer a nutritious, sustainable alternative to animal-derived proteins. The demo facility at least won’t have major energy requirements to run. ” Good food and food for good?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

In January 2020, their acromegaly treatment, Octreotide, demonstrated both safety and sustained bioavailability in primary clinical trials. Next-gen skincare, silk without spiders and pollution for lunch: Meet the biotech startups pitching at IndieBio’s Demo Day.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

And soon after Demo Day, we’re hosting an end-of-batch celebration with the entire YC community. Today, these founders will present their companies to an invite-only audience of investors at our 35th Demo Day. For the first time since the Winter 2020 batch, the Summer 2022 batch was in person. About 42% are outside of the U.S.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 28, 2020

At our 31st Demo Day, 198 companies presented virtually over two days. Sustainability and housing. You can see a list of the companies that presented on-the-record in the YC Directory. You can also read about the companies in TechCrunch here and here. Below are some stats about the YC Summer 2020 batch. The Future of work.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

” Similarly, Ahmad said that for restaurants, paying substantial third-party ordering fees on all of their orders is “not a sustainable long-term strategy.” In fact, I was accidentally transferred during my demo, leading me to quickly hang up in embarrassment.).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. We wanted to make the shrimp business more sustainable and more efficient without destroying the environment,” Russek said. “We million in Series A dollars, and a new U.S.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 29, 2022

Today, these founders will present their companies to an invite-only audience of investors at Y Combinator’s 34th Demo Day. Climate/Energy/Sustainability – 4%. Even more significant than the number of applications is the caliber of teams that applied. When funding, we consider startups at any stage and in any field.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In Singapore, a global expansion base, Kim organized a Demo Day event for the companies in his portfolio looking to expand internationally. A company’s ultimate goal is short-term valuation, long-term stability, sales growth, and sustained profitability. In the startup world, exit strategies are vital.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It is not an expensive demo. They support sustainable business for farmers on earth. Its founder and chief executive officer Wu Di also hailed from DJI, where he worked as the chief scientist and led research and development in chips. FJD Affordable and Mass-produced Agri-robots. Learn more: [link] #AgriRobot #Smartfarm #FJD.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

A founder posed me a question earlier this week: Do you have any data/perspective on whether it’s worth keeping the unassisted free trial flow vs. providing only one path which leads to a demo and an assisted free trial? Salespeople can gloss over faults and holes in the product during a demo. This is a complex question.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Last time we checked in with IndieBio , their companies were working on everything from lozenges to treat gum disease, to vertical farms for the sustainable production of shrimp, to saving the bees. The team has already won a number of awards from groups including LVHM (the holding co.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

With its Demo Day still a ways out, IndieBio gave us a peek at the teams currently going through the program. Vertical Oceans : Taking the concept of vertical farming and applying it to seafood, Vertical Oceans is working on efficient, low-waste, stackable towers to make the production of shrimp more sustainable.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

It’s hard to be sustainably objectively better than others, but you definitely cannot be objectively worse. In my sales demo, I talk about the narrative before going into the demo. Ideally, you start with innovation, and at the same time start building your brand as well. Can you explain this concept? How do you test that?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Make your product demos this simple if you can — it’s easy to understand, visual and impactful. You can learn two things from this slide: Make your product demos this simple if you can — it’s easy to understand, visual and impactful. Simple product, testable now. Image Credits: The Palau Project.

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