Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. two founders in a garage?—?(HP The most connected and high-potential founders start with wads of cash. We live in a hostile world and it’s now a tech-enabled hostile world.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Empowering Small Businesses with Digital Payments: An Interview with Kevin Eghbali, Founder ofKadePay Kevin Eghbali I had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin Eghbali, the founder of KadePay Kevin is a 2x founder and a senior software developer with over two decades of experience in the retail industry, primarily working on POS, payment solutions.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Well, my friend Tom Potter, who I know as a fellow kayaker, but who is much better known as the co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery, is making that happen. Circles enable investors to access multiple investment opportunities at a lower investment minimum, with no fees for investors. Maybe like a fund."

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Erich Joachimsthaler , founder and CEO of VIVALDI envisions a new business model—one that creates shared value for all. Fourth, interaction field companies enable sharing of value creation. This enables entrepreneurs to build their startups while contributing to solve major challenges problems. I like Flatiron Health.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2024

In addition to its classroom curriculum, NFTE hosts the Founders Forum Pitch Competition. Zachary Borja, founder of Borja+ Media took first place and received an award of $5,000 toward his digital marketing company which creates content for organizations with an impact-driven cause. “We

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Recently funded Cake addresses that concern with the launch of its open-source AI infrastructure platform enabling all businesses to deploy the latest technologies cost-effectively. Unfortunately, the cutting-edge has historically been the exclusive domain of large ML engineering teams.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 2, 2024

PlayAI co-founders H ammad Syed and Mahmoud Felfel leveraged their experience as software engineers at UAE-based d ubizzle , a classifieds website to buy, sell, and find anything. We’ve been early big believers in the nascent and rapidly-evolving generative media space,” said Steve Jang, Founder and Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures. “AI

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 8, 2024

Hande Cilingir has the unique and prestigious status as a female-founder of a tech unicorn Founded in 1909 International Women’s Day continues to be both a celebration of women and a rallying cry for women’s equality. In recognition of the day, AI-native platform Insider issued a press release honoring its co-founder Hande Cilingir.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This interview is with Swayam Doshi , Founder at Suspire. Swayam Doshi, Founder, Suspire Swayam, welcome to Startup Blog Post! I’m Swayam Doshi, the founder of Suspire. Many of our readers are aspiring founders. Could you tell our readers a little about yourself and your journey in the startup world?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

As sector agnostic investors, we get a first-hand look at tech-enabled startups across a number of different verticals. Recognizing the lack of support for tech-enabled hospitality companies, the LA Fund was created to help these startups fast-track their growth and connect them with the right industry leaders who can help them scale.

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Dream It

MARCH 20, 2020

Kyle Robertson, Founder and CEO of NarrativeDx. Kyle Robertson, Founder and CEO of NarrativeDx comments, “We share Press Ganey’s passion for driving health care transformation. Today, the company announced that it is being acquired by health care performance improvement pioneer Press Ganey.

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

14 Leadership Lessons From Successful Startup Founders To gain a deeper understanding of effective leadership, we asked startup founders and CEOs to share the most valuable lessons they’ve learned from successful entrepreneurs. This lesson has influenced my leadership style profoundly.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” Top founders want to live in a place where employees are serious about working hard. Startup founders always need help. Mayors don’t build startup cities.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This infusion of capital will enable the company to scale production, expand its product line, and generate new jobs at its world-class production facility in Ottawa, Ohio. Investor backing enables Endera to scale its operations, further expand its product offerings, and substantively contribute to job creation in Ohio.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley). One event held by a few investors focused on Black founders is clearly not enough.

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Dream It

JULY 29, 2020

The round was led by Tech Council Ventures with participation from Boston Millennia Partners Founders Fund and Front Row Fund, who join existing investors including IP Group, Dreamit Ventures, and Ben Franklin Technology Partners. For more information, visit trekit.health. For more information, visit trekit.health.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Zach Wright, the founder and CEO of Grapevine Software , a cutting-edge Virtual Office platform designed to centralize communication, knowledge sharing, and team alignment for distributed workforces. As a founder, what keeps me motivated is the process of constant learning.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 24, 2018

I’m working on two things that should help founders get early feedback: First, I’m continuing my "Fix Your Pitch” series —where founders can get their idea workshopped in exchange for a charity donation. Second, I’m working on a new stealth project that enables founders to get feedback from investors in a fast and easy way.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Oula provides comprehensive maternal care through a midwifery-first, team-based model — including preconception planning, early pregnancy, prenatal, postpartum, and gynecological care — with a unique consumer-centric, tech-enabled approach that caters to modern preferences and builds efficiencies for care delivery.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

By providing a low initial investment and robust deal flow, SDAC enables accredited investors from across the U.S. Angels collaborate with peers, meet interesting founders, and are on the frontlines of exciting new ventures that build businesses, support families and build wealth in communities. It’s inspiring,” says Luckhurst.

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

According to the founders, properties using the VirtualAPT content have seen over 300 percent increase for new building lease-ups. The startup has raised over $13 million to enable designers and individuals to build dream homes using a massive product library of digital furniture from retailers like Amazon, Houzz, and Wayfair.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 31, 2025

Investors back the two co-founders having great depth in agricultural innovation and technology. Ty ler Niday , co-founder and CEO of Bonsai Robotics, sees the companys success as a validation of their progress since their seed round of funding just one year ago. and Australia.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Andrea Grisdale, founder and CEO at IC Bellagio. David Fastuca, founder at Ambisie and Locomote. But I’ve long been a believer in the stark benefits that flexible working environments enable. Keith Roberts, founder and creative director at Zenman. Kym Huynh, founder at WeTeachMe. Ensure your staff stay informed.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

How Ravi Srivatsav, Founder of DataKrypto, Is Revolutionizing Data Security with Breakthrough Encryption Technology I had the pleasure of interviewing Ravi Srivatsav, Co-founder and CEO of DataKrypto. He was also the Founder of ElasticBox and led it to a successful acquisition by CenturyLink. Or on X at [link].

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This critical investment will enable Apptronik to ramp up the production of its groundbreaking humanoid robot, Apollo, and accelerate the development of next-generation robots tailored for a wide range of industries. Its inspiring to have investors who believe in this vision and are committed to helping us bring it to life.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Their journey shows how iteration works at both the program and company level: Finding the Right Problem to Solve The founder initially joined VVM during our first iteration. In the next post, we’ll explore how staying adaptable in the face of setbacks enables long-term success. Design one quick experiment to test a new approach.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

This was the first time we've done a virtual Kickoff Week, and our team at Dreamit is even more excited to get to know these amazing founders in person when things return to normal. ?? Pro tip for creating a sense of community during self-isolation: Virtual Happy Hours ????? Securetech Startups Healthtech Startups Urbantech Startups.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 10, 2025

Through the use of advanced Gridscope devices and its analytics platform, utilities now have unprecedented insight into the health of their grids enabling them to have faster response times and better mitigate risks associated with outages, wildfires, and other disasters.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 1, 2023

Contributed to EO by Abeer Qumsieh, a seven-year EO Jordan member who is the founder of Better Business , the leading organization for management consulting and human capital development in Jordan, and Khibraty , an intelligent digital matchmaking marketplace for expertise seekers and providers.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

But founders are often so consumed with talking metrics, milestones achieved, or the capital they need that they sometimes forget to talk about their overarching vision for their startups. Getting investors excited about your product is a critical part of raising capital. Don’t confuse "exit strategy" with your company’s vision.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. It’s no wonder they’ve both performed so well.

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APRIL 10, 2015

In an age where technology enables fund managers to onboard, update, and organize large amounts of investors--why is there a limit at all? However, I''ve decided that involving a wider community of investors is beneficial to the founders that I back--and honestly makes for a more interesting experience for me as well.

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MAY 13, 2019

Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. It provided a better service than existing cabs were going to be able to do for at least several years—cutting out lots of unnecessary overhead in the system.

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Dream It

MAY 14, 2020

The startup is integrated with large EMRs including Epic, Cerner, and Allscripts using SMART on FHIR technology, enabling the company to embed the wound care portal into a clinician’s typical workflow. The Baltimore-based startup graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2014.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 18, 2021

Natasha Miller is an EO member in Los Angeles, and founder and Chief Experience Designer of Entire Productions , which designs, plans and produces incredible event experiences both virtually and in person. But as a founder and CEO, where can you learn such skills while simultaneously hustling to grow your company?

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

Notably, the round saw participation from Jason Gardner, founder and former CEO of Marqeta, who made this investment his first in the MEA region. Continued support from previous backers includes COTU, RZM Capital, and Github founder Tom Preston-Werner.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Meet Pathos  — the clinical-stage, AI-enabled biotech company that is re-engineering the drug development process to bring novel drugs to market. Beyond a trusted and proven founding team: Pathos management is made up of former founders, drug developers, and scientists with deep domain expertise at the intersection of AI and healthcare.

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