Capital may help someone take the jump into entrepreneurship, but what about the activation energy to let them think that big in the first place? To Cory Levy, the latter has always been more important. The entrepreneur behind First Text, a low-friction service that connects founders to investors, launched Z Fellows last year to test […]
Google for Startups Accelerator メンターを募集します
Google for Startups Accelerator のメンターを募集します。Google はテクノロジーが社会をより良くしていくと考えています。私たちは社会の大きな課題を解決するためのアイデアを持つスタートアップをテクノロジーの力で支援したいと考えています。そのため、Google では、Google for Startups Accelerator というスタートアップを支援するアクセラレータプログラムを日本でも継続的に行っております。この度、Google for Startu…
Why Techstars is doubling down on Europe
As we get into our dive into Q3 2021 venture capital numbers, one region in particular has our attention: Europe.
FoundersHK, created to strengthen Hong Kong’s startup ecosystem, holds its first demo day
FoundersHK was created to strengthen Hong Kong’s startup community, which has weathered more than two years of political turmoil, along with the COVID-19 pandemic. Today the non-profit, which started as an events and mentoring network, held the first demo day of FoundersHK Accelerate, its equity-free accelerator program, which was created to help prepare Hong Kong […]
スタートアップを対象としたオンライン アクセラレーター プログラム、本日より日本で募集開始
Google は、 スタートアップを対象としたオンライン アクセラレーター プログラム「Google for Startups Accelerator Class 4 」を実施します。2021 年 9 月 16 日（木）より参加スタートアップの応募を開始し、2022 年 2 月 よりプログラムを開始いたします。詳細なスケジュールについては プログラムのウェブサイトをご確認ください。Google for Startups Accelerator では、SDGsに沿った持続可能な産業化の促進、AIやIo…
Our favorite startups from YC’s Summer 21 Demo Day, Part 2
From beaming actors into the class room to plucking things out of space, the second day of Y Combinator’s S21 Demo Day was a fresh snapshot of what nearly 200 startup teams believe is the future of innovation. Yesterday, the TechCrunch team covered the first half of this batch, as well as the startups with one-minute […]
Our favorite startups from YC’s Summer 21 Demo Day, Part 1
Y Combinator kicked off its fourth-ever virtual Demo Day today, revealing the first-half of its nearly 400 company batch. The presentation, YC’s biggest yet, offers a snapshot into where innovation is heading, from not-so-simple seaweed to a Clearco for creators. The TechCrunch team stuck to its tradition of covering every single company live (but, you […]
You can’t hack your YC application, but here’s what to avoid
Typically, you hear advice focused on ways to improve your YC application so it gets accepted. Here are some tips on what not to do and why so many YC applications get rejected.