Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Oper8r, built by Winter Mead and Welly Sculley, aims to help newbies to the VC world. The accelerator was launched last year as the Y Combinator for Emerging Fund Managers, designed to help … Read more
For more than a year, Zoom’s mission has been to transform itself from an application into a platform. To that end, there were three announcements last year: Zoom Apps Development Tools, the Zoom Apps Marketplace, and a $ 100 million development fund to invest in some of the more promising startups building tools on their … Read more
“I like to think of successful branding as creating a company where customers would be annoyed to part with their identity,” growth marketing expert Julian Shapiro told us earlier this week. “For example, they would stop being the man with Slack stickers on his laptop. Or the woman who no longer wears Nike shoes every … Read more
Startups, the so-called Deep tech often has a hard time raising capital for a variety of reasons. At the TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising, two experienced investors spoke on the subject and advised startups on a challenging fundraising path. Pae Wu and Garrett Winther are both partners at SOSV and lead the fund’s programs … Read more
Clockwise from top left: Henny Damian, Co-Founder and CEO of Joola; Stacie Whisonant, co-founder of PYT Funds; Will Rush, Co-Founder and CEO of Stack; and Luke Moberly, Bumper CEO. Four Seattle startups have won a spot in a financial technology incubator run by banking firm BECU and CoMotion, the University of Washington’s innovation arm. The … Read more
Swallowtail co-founders Ash Fogelberg and Nick Frandsen Based in Sydney and Auckland, Dovetail is a full service venture studio that works closely with founders who have a great idea but may not have a technical background. Dovetail helps them build businesses from the ground up and prepare them for growth and more funding. The success … Read more
The math is simple: Big research universities produce great startups. Pittsburgh certainly has little shortage of the former, with two world-class research schools – Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh – in the city. The latter has posed a challenge to Pittsburgh in the past as local startups often headed to the greener … Read more
Sean O’Sullivan, founder of global venture company SOSV, has slowly but steadily built a sizeable operation over the years. SOSV began as a family office and invested O’Sullivan’s capital after co-founding two companies, including MapInfo, a company that went public in 1994 before Pitney Bowes took over three more funds years later in 2007 , … Read more
RBC Signals uses satellite ground stations around the world. (Graphic of the RBC signals) The warnings about the possible dangers of foreign alliances go back to George Washington’s farewell speech – but in the space age the problems related to international relations are much more nuanced. At least, that’s the view of Christopher Richins, the … Read more
Wunder Mobility built its business sales software on shooter, e-bike and even short-term car rental startups. Now they are relying on a new – and once secret – credit department to generate more revenue, which will give micromobility operators another way to access capital without pitching venture capitalists and other investors. The company announced the … Read more