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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Sapient

Austin Startup

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist.

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How Philadelphia is Winning a Startup Renaissance

The Startup Magazine

Philadelphia gets called a lot of things. One thing this historic city doesn’t often get noticed for is its emerging Philadelphia startup scene. Philadelphia has two huge positives for startups tapping the local talent pool: a diverse metro population of more than six million and a host of area universities.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973. Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

Well, for starters, I was born in Philadelphia, so I’m a lifelong Eagles fan. And my specialty was computer networks. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. Technical founder. 00:00:52] MARK: Sure. I grew up in Northern California.

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Accelerator Spotlight: Waivr

View from Seed

Founders: Carolina Nucamendi & Brenna Curran. Brenna Curran (BC): Waivr is modernizing the 60+ year old recurring payments infrastructure by enabling merchants to transact through the Real-Time Payments network, delivering lower transaction costs, eliminating bounce rates, and providing instant fund disbursement to merchants.

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

VCAP© is a collaborative venture that provides women and diverse entrepreneurs nationwide with access to venture capital through accredited investors within the HBSAANY network. VCAP©, the first program of its kind, bridges the gap between venture capitalists and angel investor networks and women and diverse entrepreneurs.

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

VCAP© is a collaborative venture that provides women and diverse entrepreneurs nationwide with access to venture capital through accredited investors within the HBSAANY network. VCAP©, the first program of its kind, bridges the gap between venture capitalists and angel investor networks and women and diverse entrepreneurs.