Sentences with phrase «startups founded»

For more, we created an ever - growing list of over 1,300 startups founded by female founders.

Intel Capital, the corporation's investment branch, announced that it is creating a Diversity Fund of $ 125 million to invest in helping grow tech startups founded by women or underrepresented minorities.

Under Ms. Vosmek's leadership, Astia is now the pre-eminent organization working to ensure the success of high - growth startups founded and led by women.

A whopping 90 % of investor money worldwide goes to startups founded by men.

When you think of innovative companies, high - tech startups founded by Ping - Pong - playing millennials spring to mind, not a 96 - year - old grocer.

«Insofar as people depend upon advice and counsel from an «expert,» those are the best areas to have new startups founded.»

Hosted by a community called Xoogler.co, the event featured 24 startups founded by former Googlers, with an audience of 118 angel or early - stage investors, many of whom were current employees or alumni themselves.

Popular tech startups find themselves the target of acquisition talks, too.

There can be no doubt that for Theranos, the Palo Alto, California, blood testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, 2015 was a breakout year.

While this is by no means an exhaustive list, here are a few of the startups I found particularly interesting:

Following these investors can give you insight into the types of startups they find most interesting and the markets that are ripe for disruption.

Once the startup finds candidates it trusts to learn the growing process, it has to train them and teach them the company's more than 100 best operating procedures.

And so, this startup found itself with a «founder friendly» board that believed that the company could grow at a greater rate if the founding CEO continued to run the company.

The blood - testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes had a big year — racking up more than $ 400 million in investment.

It's the first product from Starship Technologies, the robotics startup founded by the creators of Skype.

Slack, the $ 2.8 billion business - collaboration - software startup founded by Stewart Butterfield, is Inc. magazine's 2015 Company of the Year.

Today, that baton could easily pass to Stripe, a San Francisco - based payments startup founded by two young Irish entrepreneurs, brothers John and Patrick Collison.

Aurora Innovation, the secretive startup founded by some of best minds in self - driving cars, has landed partnerships with Volkswagen Group (vlkay) and Hyundai (hyundai - motor) to help bring fully autonomous vehicles to the masses faster.

Aurora Innovation, the secretive startup founded by autonomous vehicle veterans from Google, Tesla, and Uber, has received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to start testing self - driving cars on public roads there.

In the talk, which lasts a little over an hour, Jobs shares a number of stories from his time at Apple and NeXT (the startup he founded after leaving Apple), along with the lessons learned through both good times and bad.

Despite fierce competition and a fast - paced industry, standout ad - tech startups find their footing and succeed.

Aurora Innovation Inc. is startup founded by Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson, and Drew Bagnell, super stars of the self - driving car space.

Released on July 6, Pokémon Go is the spawn of Niantic Labs, a Google - incubated startup founded by John Hanke.

The project is from Solar Roadways, an Idaho - based startup founded by husband - and - wife duo Scott and Julie Brusaw.

The outlines of a new industry are emerging as a few crowdfunding startups find ways to raise money for Main Street - type businesses that typically wouldn't interest private investors.

Nest began as a startup founded by Tony Fadell, who helped invent the iPod.

Systrom later left Google to join Nextstop, a startup founded by some former Googlers.

500 Startups Founding Partner and CEO Christine Tsai noted that the investment builds on past partnerships, as ADFG was a limited partner in 500 Startups» previous funds too.

Should a startup find itself sitting on dead stock that it can't move, it may not be able to survive the loss.

As an entrepreneur who turned a startup founded in the basement of a liquor store into a substantial technology company, I can confirm that the extra bit is usually what makes the difference.

ADFG CE0 Jassim Alseddiqi, 500 Startups Founding Partner and CEO Christine Tsai, and Algorythma CEO Dr. Saleh Al Hashemi

Take Asana, the enterprise collaboration startup founded by two early Facebook employees.

He mentioned Square, a payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey, that got its start processing people's credit cards but has branched out with new services including a Venmo - like system called Square Cash.

After analyzing two million loan requests and the devices they were submitted on, the startup found that Mac users have the highest credit score on average, followed by iPad users, Windows users, iPhone users, and Android users.

Despite performing more than six million blood tests over the past couple of years, Theranos, the embattled Silicon Valley startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, somehow managed to blow through nearly $ 700 million without generating any revenue, according to the Wall Street Journal.

3D Robotics, the Berkeley, Calf. - based drone startup founded by a former editor - in - chief of Wired Magazine, Chris Anderson, said Tuesday that it's partnering with China - based DJI.

One survey of software startups found that 41 % reported «significant operational impacts» from patent troll lawsuits, causing them to exit business lines or change strategy.

The document outlines operational details of a startup founded by Anthony Levandowski, who was a lead engineer in Alphabet's self - driving car division.

I've spent 10 years of my career in startups: did Y Combinator in Summer 2012 with a social referrals startup I founded, called Referly.

This is not the first instance of an established company taking legal action against a startup founded by some of its former employees.

Will these startups find traction in the challenging European economy?

Bitcoin isn't the only venture that is going after the e-currency pie: we've written before about Flattr, the micropayment startup founded by The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde, which is trying to create a «tip jar» - style payment system for content (the company recently launched a way to integrate payments with Twitter).

While McClendon wasn't the only one working on the company's maps, at least six people who were on the company's mapping team have also left the company to join Argo.ai — a startup founded by former self - driving engineer Peter Rander.

He's dedicated his career to helping entrepreneurs and startups find their footing and succeed.

It's a development startup found

Bitcoin Vietnam Co. Ltd., a Vietnamese Bitcoin startup founded in late 2013, aims to bring world - class Bitcoin technology to the Vietnamese market.

Another entrepreneur asked Goyal what were the key qualities that YourNest looked for in a startup founding team.

Vida, a new startup founded by Google Inc's former commerce chief, aims to...

Our company is an American startup founded by parents in 2010 and located in Lake Worth, Florida.

AUSTIN BUSINESS JOURNAL - Oct 16 - The startup founded by Michael Dell's 17 - year - old son, Zachary, claims 1K members.