Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Passbase Co-Founders: Felix Gerlach , Mathias Klenk and Dave McGibbon The Forrest Four-Cast: February 26, 2020 Passbase is tackling a huge and essential challenge: how to build a secure, private, and convenient digital world. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Cofounder New York Software Review 62

VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

I love landscapes as they help organise the categories needed to define the vertical. It forces the founders and investors to understand where the technology can play a pivotal role in shifting control from the big tech companies to the user, and where it needs to improve, such as the negative environmental impact of mining etc.

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Cloud Venture Capital Cofounder Non-Compete 200

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. A contemporary analog to this type of vertical integration is Comcast/NBC-U.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Planning and dealing with extra-ordinary events: M&A, fund raising, crises.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

by Manni Sidhu, Co-founder and CEO of Coleegs , and William Gilchrist , Founder and CEO of Konsyg. A new challenge has bloomed for founders and managers in the Covid-19 era –how do they set key performance indicators (KPIs) for the years ahead? Founders should focus on stability. Will our funding dry out?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As Jerry Chu , CEO and one of the Lofty AI Founders, explains, “our results speak for themselves. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown. But my personal favorite part about San Francisco is the energy of the startup founders and the investor network. If you had bought one of our A.I.’s

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Technical Review San Francisco Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 65

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Prior to joining Syndio, Colacurcio co-founded Smartsheet.com , a work collaboration tool for companies of all sizes. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

DrumG has raised $6.5mm in Series A funding from ConsenSys, one of the largest blockchain companies in the world, led by ConsenSys’ CEO and Co-Founder of Ethereum, Joseph Lubin , and is currently raising Series B funds. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

DrumG has raised $6.5mm in Series A funding from ConsenSys, one of the largest blockchain companies in the world, led by ConsenSys’ CEO and Co-Founder of Ethereum, Joseph Lubin , and is currently raising Series B funds. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review New Jersey Valuation Singapore 62

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Every startup has a profile and so does every mentor and every event. Based on the stage of the startup and what industry it is in, the system recommends the most appropriate mentors to meet and events to attend. Epic Office Hours” is a speed dating event with dozens of entrepreneurs, mentors and investors meeting in rapid fire.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Boston University used Vidyard to create personalized videos that encouraged people to promote their fundraising event, “Giving Day.”. For example, it was how Loom’s co-founder and CEO, Joe Thomas, responded to me when I asked for information about the platform: The platform uses Loom’s desktop app. Adapt video sizes.

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Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. He is also the Co-founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. He's the founder and chairman of the board of global partner marketing agency, acceleration partners. He's also the co-founder and chairman of brand cycle.

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Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 90

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers.

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View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

So all of us have seen both “horizontal” functions — things like mapping, scheduling, and some of the visual processing — and also “vertical” plays, like managing golf courses and other large amounts of real estate, use cases for insurance companies, for news and entertainment, and so on.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review B2B 159

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 14, 2018 For the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event , 50 startups will show off their skills on March 10 and 11. The SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event takes place within the Startup & Tech Sectors track of programming. Next would be Jensen Huang, the Founder & CEO of NVIDIA.

Startup 70

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Hearpreneur

MAY 22, 2020

Eight years ago, I founded STERLINGS Mobile Salon & Barber Co, a mobile full-service salon for busy professional men and women that parks right at their places of business. We have already pivoted to manufacturing trailers for other verticals. Thanks to Kush Kapila, STERLINGS Mobile Salon & Barber Co. ! #6- 20- Two ways.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 16, 2020

The venture capital community reacted to the racial reckoning the country experienced in June in ways I felt were pretty underwhelming—one-time pitch events for Black founders or promises to only meet with Black founders for a month. That’s what we want to change with these events.

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Community Networking Founder New York City 62

VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and CEO. Perhaps the most successful franchise of all is BAYC (Bored Ape Yacht Club) which succeeded in not only creating a utility (social access to events and other owners) but also transcend the medium to food and drinks (including M&Ms) , music ( Snoop Dog and Eminem at the VMAs ), apparel, etc.

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IP Strategic Investors Vertical Early Stage 187

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Maria Tanjala and Irina Albita , the co-founders of FilmChain. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 16, 2020 Maria Tanjala , co-founder of FilmChain , is passionate about tech solutions that bring transparency and automation to creative industries. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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Cofounder Vertical Austin Revenue 88

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. Here is your COVID-friendly cheat sheet.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Sarah Tuneberg, co-founder and CEO, answered some questions about the company. We have developed a product that first meets the needs of public safety agencies and organizations, but we have seen a ton of interest from corporations across multiple verticals?—?hospitality, Has Geospiza been involved with other pitch events?

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Denver Startup Austin Vertical 48

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Based in Amsterdam, Skilllab is co-founded by Azza El Hayek and Ulrich Scharf. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown. Skilllab’s co-founders won the Google AI Impact Challenge in 2019. SXSW attendees are also invited to Meet the Finalists from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Monday, March 16.

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Cofounder Vertical Austin Conversion 78

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). But they are usually frequently quoted in the press or they frequently speak at the industry events. And every industry has them.

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Software Review Sales Cofounder Analytics 48

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Recently I’ve been lucky enough to attend a few events which have been centered around what’s next socially and commercially. The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. You’ll find it is full of contradictions and juxtapositions. And now it is over.

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Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. So that's the quick and dirty of our origin story is that, and Bob Young, by the way, is still the sole owner and founder of the company, and very much and involved in what we do on a day-to-day basis.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Debbie is the co-founder and CEO of Senior Living SMART, a full-service marketing agency focused exclusively on the senior housing and care industry. She is the co-founder and CEO of Senior Living Smart, a full service marketing agency focused exclusively on the senior housing and care industry.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp , says, “We focus on helping our customers stay safe and succeed because our philosophy is that technology is only a tool to solve people’s problems.” All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown. But to achieve this, we need the entire ecosystem to work together.

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San Francisco Cofounder Colorado Security 97

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Tony Martens , Co-Founder at Plantible Foods , moved his company to San Diego from the Netherlands The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 Plantible Foods wants to contribute to a more sustainable and responsible future while meeting the food needs of a hungry planet. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. Browse companies on AngelList , Made in NYC , Startup Genome and your local co-working spaces and create a short list of the ones you like. Current Events Lists.

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Naming Startup Social Media RSS 84

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. What have you learned from other pitch events and/or tech conference? One worked at a different quantum dot startup based in the UK that’s now publicly traded, another built a vertically integrated cannabis company in Oregon. You can see our dots!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Stine Mølgaard Sørensen, co-founder and COO for Radiobiotics, based in Copenhagen. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown. Sørensen, who is also a co-author of F**k It, Ship It , shared some thoughts about life in Denmark and her startup experience. What is your top goal for Radiobotics in 2020?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown. Noam Maital , CEO and Co-Founder of Waycare. Noam Maital , CEO and Co-Founder of Waycare, graduated Summa Cum Laude from Babson College with a dual degree in Economics and Strategic Management.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Quicc co-founders Jason Toevs and Mike Mathia. One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Quicc Co-Founder and CEO Mike Mathia will pitch his company in the category of Entertainment & Content Technology before a live audience and a panel of expert judges (3:30 to 4:30 pm Sunday, March 15).

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