NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round. Over time, the co-working space developed and there was a natural progression towards a lot of individuals starting new ventures coming out of that space. For us, it was not a good use of money.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Summer International stays ahead of the game by identifying the most influential content creators, and working with them to incubate new brands. Since then, Summer International has incubated brands like skincare line Baby Face with Singaporean influencer Jamie Chua, who has over 1.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Today, a company that believes it can improve how agents work within them using AI is announcing a big round of funding. SoftBank Vision Fund is leading the round, with videoconferencing giant Zoom also participating, alongside previous investors Menlo Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, and others.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

While hydrogen itself is generally considered a clean and extremely useful basic element, its production is married to numerous dirty industrial processes. Oil refineries and plastic production, for instance, may give off various hydrocarbons and other mixed gases and chemicals, and to separate them requires further processing and emissions.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. Use discount code BELFAST to save 25% off an annual or two-year Extra Crunch membership. Mark Dowds: Venture partner at Anthemis, co-founder at Ormeau Baths (in my opinion it’s the city’s best co-working space). Co-founded BrewBot. What does it lack?

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.)

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Steinhart, CEO, is an alternative protein expert who was previously with the Good Food Institute, where he incubated dozens of startups within that space. The round was led by Sozo Ventures with participation from Forerunner Ventures, Initialized Capital and Gaingels. It’s giving optionality to consumers.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Neon , a startup providing developers with a serverless option for Postgres databases, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series A-1 round led by GGV with participation from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund and angel investors. Findings on that last point are mixed.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While the University of Michigan has been formally educating students on entrepreneurship for decades, the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has notably ramped up in the last ten years and has effectively used its powerful alumni network to amplify its growth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2 This came decades ahead of most western governments.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Aspen Tech Policy Hub.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

Also, utilize our ecosystem and engage support systems available such as our growing network of business accelerators, and the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program, a support system from which AireHealth has benefited. Venture funding and government funding routes for growth are not mutually exclusive.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Despite being one of the earliest adopters of using the world wide web to disrupt how its business is done and connect with more potential customers, the recruitment industry ironically remains one of the more fragmented and behind the times when it comes to using new, cloud based services to work more efficiently.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Nova itself is a counterpoint to profit-focused corporate venture capital outfits, and is instead focusing on abilities to collaborate with the LG conglomerate across the board, in a few key verticals: the metaverse, connected healthcare, smart homes, electric vehicles (EV) and the wonderfully fuzzily named tech for good. .

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 27, 2024

The recent data from ACA for all Angel Groups shows a similar recent pattern, with only 7% in the $1-3 million range and 12% in the 3-6 million range: Source: TCA Venture Group, Angel Capital Association Angel Funders Report There are of course higher valuations (as expected) in Series A compared to Seed/Pre-Seed, and dispersion in each stage.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The company’s novel test uses planar wave guide technologies to rapidly assess the presence of specific pathogens in a patient. The sample mixes with a reagent pellet in the sample port where the substance is combined with a fluorescent molecule.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 21, 2023

Mark’s expertise spans incubation, early-stage, and emerging growth companies, and his guidance helps founders, investors, sales leaders, and CEOs establish successful go-to-market strategies and build motivated, high-performing teams. It seems the world has done just fine with one less lawyer in the mix.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. But the fact that its valuation sits at roughly 15x ARR could be mixed news for startups looking for an exit, wrote Alex Wilhelm in The Exchange. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Aspen Tech Policy Hub.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

But Tor does not do packet mixing — and Nym’s contention is that a functional mixnet can provide even stronger network-level privacy. “ We do think Tor made all the right decisions when they built the software — at the time there was no interest from venture capital in privacy, there was only interest from the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

The headline speaks for itself : Mike scored a home run with his headline for a story about four European founders turned angel investors who are giving some of their venture capital firm competitors — many they say have not operated a company before — a run for their money. Startups and VC. Vice no more? :

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Since then, many of the key trends and themes we surfaced have come to pass: Airtable clinched an $11 billion valuation in December 2021 after raising a $735 million Series F with help from Salesforce Ventures and Michael Dell’s MSD Capital. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Daniel Cohen , partner, Viola Ventures. Ben Wiener , partner, Jumpspeed Ventures. Inbal Perlman , partner, TAU Ventures. Dror Nahumi , partner, Norwest Venture Partners. Sharin Fisher , partner, Fort Ross Ventures. Tal Slobodkin , partner, StageOne Ventures . Natalie Refuah , partner, Viola Growth.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why so much of our robotics coverage revolves around startups and venture funding. I’d be lying if I told you that every week was an embarrassment of riches here at Actuator HQ (a one-bedroom in a Queens office managed by a mischievous lionhead rabbit mix), but I’ve thus far been happy with the flow of news.

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OurCrowd

MAY 5, 2019

The company is the first venture-backed ‘meat alternative’ startup to go public. Sleek startups developing faux meats that smell, sizzle and even bleed are proving that the year’s most transformative venture-backed technologies are not about AI, drones, or robotics — they are about food. Not just for hippies .

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propel(x)

MARCH 2, 2017

I started working with a renowned venture capitalist named Tom Baruch, which gave me a unique perspective on the startup investment process and how things look from the “other side of the table.” There is still money to be made, but it needs to be used in different and more intelligent ways. The investment clearly has to make money?—?there

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