Sentences with phrase «young startup called»

Paige Craig, currently the most prolific, under - dressed, and most eligible angel in Los Angeles, sourced a hot, young startup called Gendai Games (makers of GameSalad — a platform for rapid development of mobile games).

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Called The Next Foundry, it will link high school entrepreneurs with young founders like Gillis who can guide them through the startup process.

At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

This fall, the company — doubtlessly aware that young people distrust brands that don't give back and eager to signal its commitment to gender equality — launched what it calls the 50/50 Founders» Fund, donating a dollar from each sale to a pool of seed money evenly distributed between startups led by men and women.

Sacks was struck by scenes of a young Jobs — played by Ashton Kutcher — making call after call but unable to convince anyone to invest in his startup.

Silicon Valley, London, NYC: Startup Genome Data Reveals How The World's Top Tech Hubs Stack Up Last year, we covered an ambitious collaborative R&D project called «Startup Genome,» created by three young entrepreneurs, Bjoern Herrmann, Max Marmer, and Ertan Dogrultan.

Another area of concern is a 12 percent decline in jobs at young businesses; everything from startups to mom and pop stores, what Shearer calls, the bedrock of a community.

Called Leaptran, the young startup plans to help commercial building owners, such as at a university or warehouse, use solar panels to soak up and store energy in batteries for potential future use.

Zayner, a biohacker — basically meaning he experiments with biology in a DIY lab rather than a traditional one — was giving a talk called «A Step - by - Step Guide to Genetically Modifying Yourself With CRISPR» at the SynBioBeta conference in San Francisco, where other presentations featured academics in suits and the young CEOs of typical biotech startups.

In a recent episode of the new HBO series, Silicon Valley, which tells the story of the trials and tribulations of a young startup company called Pied Piper, we see a scene that captures the challenges faced by non-techies in a land of techies.

Not surprisingly, this disruptive change isn't being driven by lawyers, it's driven primarily by the young tech savvy entrepreneurs behind an internet startup called Willing, a web - based company that allows users to complete their own estate planning documents online.