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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Sapient

Austin Startup

Instead, an idea for smart outlets, conceived while he was still a student at University of Pennsylvania, evolved into Sapient Industries, based in Philadelphia, Penn., This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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May Your Help Be Wanted

Austin Startup

Those folks may be hired in vertical specialties, and the larger and more successful incubators have enough deal flow to keep their agendas filled. Dreamit is to me a shining example of this vertical approach. Many accelerators and incubators have institutionalized mentoring in the form of EIR’s or similar titles.

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2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Groups

Gust

Philadelphia. Speaking with many angel leaders , I believe we have identified several possible explanations for group-to-group variations: 1) Clearly, startup ventures in some business verticals command high pre-money valuations that others. Ohio TechAngels. Queen City Angels. Cincinnati. SeedStep Angels. flat to up. Pasadena Angels.

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SXSW Pitch: Collective Liberty

Austin Startup

Rochelle Keyhan , CEO of Collective Liberty , spent six years as a prosecutor of gender-based violence crimes in Philadelphia. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.