Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so. Thank you to everybody in the community who has supported us all these years.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

If your US-based business is adversely affected by Covid-19 such that you would need to lay off employees imminently and having access to capital would enable you to keep more employees on the payroll then you might be eligible. Am I eligible for the PPP Loan? this is precisely the policy goal of the US Government.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 15, 2025

Our agents don’t just assistthey do the work, enabling teams to focus on strategic priorities, unlock creativity, and drive meaningful organizational impact,” said Maxime Legardez , co-founder and CEO of Maki. With the announcement of its $28.6 This led to millions of dollars in efficiency gains for its clients.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

million pre-A funding round, the FinTech startup aims to expand its regional footprint while laying the groundwork for future global growth. These issues often transform payments from a growth enabler into a cost and risk center for businesses. In these regions, payment infrastructure has often been underdeveloped and fragmented.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Supply chain and e-commerce enablement startup, Omniful, has today emerged from stealth with $5.85

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

” At the time, we were running a startup accelerator for 6 companies. We jumped to 30 startups that first year5x our previous capacity!!! Traditional wisdom: Only veteran judges can evaluate startups. In our next post, we’ll explore how trust enables teams to take the risks needed for breakthrough thinking.

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Revolution

MARCH 23, 2022

At SXSW 2022, Revolution Growth Partner, Todd Klein, joined SparkCharge CEO and founder, Josh Aviv, GoodBuy Gear CEO and co-founder, Kristin Langenfeld, and CAVA CEO and co-founder, Brett Schulman, for a conversation on climate, consumers, and building the sustainable startups of the future. even (and especially) as the company scales.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Second, interaction field companies build a network of interactions, an architecture and governance rules in such as way that enables an entire industry or several industries to solve multiple consumer problems, industry or category problems and societal problems. Fourth, interaction field companies enable sharing of value creation.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. We live in a hostile world and it’s now a tech-enabled hostile world. The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. For starters, a16z was only 2 years old then (as was Bitcoin).

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

In response to these growing threats, several startups have created products to protect connected medical devices. The startup also helps device makers meet the new FDA guidelines for cybersecurity by allowing them to use digital signatures, detect intrusions, and publish a Cybersecurity Bill of Materials.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Startup failure comes quick and often messy--great for storytelling. In [FOUNDING YEAR] [HE/SHE] launched [HIS/HER] company [WHAT INTERESTING CIRCUMSTANCES DID YOU LAUNCH YOUR COPMANY]—it doesn’t get more [WHAT KIND OF STARTUP DO YOU WANT TO BE KNOWN FOR] than an origin story like that. We are a technology-enabled [WHAT WE DO].

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Singaporean fintech enabler Fluid has successfully raised $5.2 Fluid Series A round, led by Insignia Ventures Partners, is vital for the Singapore-based startup, known for its flexible B2B purchase financing platform. This latest investment follows […] The post Singaporean Fintech Enabler FLUID Raises $5.2M

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

How Iteration Transformed Valley Venture Mentors Before I co-founded Valley Venture Mentors (VVM) and for all of my time there, we experimented with different ways to connect startups with mentors. Iteration #1: High-Value, but Unsustainable Our first approach was simple: hand-match startups with mentors for one-on-one meetings.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

The venture fund launched a completely virtual program with a focus on helping 13 Urbantech, Healthtech, and Securetech startups with business development, customer growth, and capital raising in a time of economic uncertainty. During the best of times, building startups is not easy. View Dreamit’s full portfolio here.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The two-year-old startup having served approximately 40,000 customers announced the closing of a $21 million Seed funding round to support its AI speech models and an AI voice agent platform. The company’s latest model uses a conversation’s historical context to facilitate natural, human-like conversational experiences.

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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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500

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

As sector agnostic investors, we get a first-hand look at tech-enabled startups across a number of different verticals. We’ve recently partnered with LA Fund, an innovative hospitality-focused venture fund, to launch a bootcamp for startups building products that have the potential to disrupt this space.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 6, 2024

Identify and access management company Okta will award up to $500K as an investment to the winner of its inaugural SaaS startup competition. The company seeks the latest application innovations underway using identity, privacy, and security-enabled workflows. Okta’s platform helps startups develop identity-enabled applications.

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

12 Strategies for Boosting Team Productivity in Startups To help startups boost their team productivity, we’ve gathered twelve insightful strategies from top founders, CEOs, and managers. Make sure your team members know what is expected of them and how their work contributes to the overall goals of the startup.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc. ( The startup told TechCrunch that it will use the funding to enter Ghana and Egypt by the end of the first quarter of 2022, and other additional markets in Francophone, East and Southern Africa by the close of the same year. Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

The TLDR: ChatGPT can now interact with third-party applications and the internet at large, making the technology bi-directional for the first time — a development that could change how we use the internet and unlock opportunities for users, developers, and startups.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 13, 2025

million in grant funding to 11 New Jersey startups under Round Two of the Pilot Clean Tech Demonstration Grant Program. The funding will support pilot demonstration projects from startup companies creating technologies that mitigate the emission of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. In 2023, the NJEDA awarded more than $3.6

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Dream It

JULY 29, 2020

With the platform pressure tested by over five thousand users a month across multiple large healthcare facilities, this financing will enable TrekIT to focus on customer acquisition and filling key sales and customer-facing roles as more accounts go online. For more information, visit trekit.health.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

EduFi, a fintech startup that enables financially strapped students to secure loans for their education, has raised $6.1 The Singapore-based startup has launched an artificial intelligence-powered study now, pay later (SNPL) lending platform […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Revolution Chairman & CEO, Steve Case and Marketplace Senior Reporter, Stephanie Hughes The conversation: How a new generation of startup hubs can accelerate their entrepreneurial momentum The takeaways: The three most important buckets for creating a winning startup ecosystem are talent, capital, and collaboration.

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Dream It

MAY 14, 2020

The startup has significantly increased patient and clinician engagement in wound management, providing a mobile platform for patients to track metrics on the healing process and identify potential infections. The Baltimore-based startup graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2014.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO)’s purpose is to help entrepreneurs achieve their full potential by enabling life-enhancing connections, designing shared experiences and providing collaborative learning. Leadership: Enable transformational leadership that can drive sustainable change in the world.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Register In recent years, South Korea has emerged as a vibrant hub for new-age startups, powered by technological innovation and entrepreneurial zeal. Global hiring allows businesses to tap into global expertise, enabling them to bridge talent gaps and infuse their teams with fresh, global perspectives.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 21, 2023

Register Tokyo-based startup FLUX has secured $32 million in a Series B funding round led by DNX Ventures, a venture capital firm. FLUX, the developer of FLUX AI, has positioned itself as an AI platform that offers no-code solutions, enabling businesses to integrate AI technologies into their operations seamlessly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

At Upfront we always took the approach that we wanted to back startups that enabled merchants to own the customer relationship and to increase profits by becoming excellent at marketing and serving ones most loyal customers. ChowNow is simply a SaaS enablement product. Covid-19 has changed all of that.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Apple has quietly acquired a Mountain View-based startup, WaveOne , that was developing AI algorithms for compressing video. Even minor improvements in video compression could save on bandwidth costs, or enable services like Apple TV+ to deliver higher resolutions and framerates depending on the type of content being streamed.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave. Many of the actions that make your company a desirable acquisition target will also enable you to better weather economic uncertainty. This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on September 28, 2022. “

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Most startups play defense when discussing pricing with customers. Startups operate in newer markets where pricing standards haven’t been set. But throughout this turmoil, startups must adopt a process to craft a good pricing strategy, and re-evaluate prices periodically, at least once per year. AWS, Twilio, Heroku, etc.

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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. VCs are looking for a grand slam,” according to Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 13, 2024

Their partnership with Foresite Capital enables our support of entrepreneurs who are addressing some of the most vexing aspects of our healthcare system and improving the lives of patients.” The post Forsite Capital Closes Sixth Fund, focusing on Healthcare and Life Science Startups appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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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. I’ve worked with many startup founders. Some will lead well, but others will do poorly.

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