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Charting AI Frontiers: Microsoft + Madrona Ventures GenAI Hackathon

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:52:39 +0000

Microsoft Private Capital and Global Independent Software Vendor Teams, in collaboration with Madrona Ventures, recently organized a GenAI hackathon for portfolio companies, hosted at the Redmond campus. 33 participants from Amperity, Clari, Highspot, and SeekOut, formed seven teams, to explore generative AI solutions. Prior to the Hackathon, participants crafted distinctive problem statements and strategized with...

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Fueling your startup: why fundraising and investment readiness matter

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:27:04 +0000

Startups are the lifeblood of the economy. They drive innovation, create jobs, and fuel economic growth. But starting a business is hard, and it takes more than just a great idea to succeed. Fundraising provides the essential capital needed to fuel growth, hire talent, and develop innovative products or services. Investment readiness, on the other...

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Experts on AI: A series of fireside chats about LLMs and AI best practices

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:54:10 +0000

As AI capabilities advance rapidly, it’s now easier than ever for new companies to create intelligent apps, solutions, and services that attract customers and drive growth. We sat down with startup leaders, investors, and AI experts to shed light on the use of AI and large language models (LLMs) to help deepen your understanding of...

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Microsoft working with Conviction Partners to support AI incubator, Embed

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:25:46 +0000

At Microsoft, we are committed to supporting the next generation of AI-first entrepreneurs and startups. Today we are thrilled to announce that we are working with Conviction, a new venture firm purpose-built to serve AI-Native startups, to support their new incubator, Embed. Conviction Embed, a highly selective, eight-week program for extraordinary early (pre-seed, seed-stage) founding...

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Microsoft for Startups partners with Antler to support founders with Rising Entrepreneur grants

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 23:45:07 +0000

Microsoft for Startups with Antler supports women founders all over the world with our Rising Entrepreneurship grants to enhance equitable access to funding resources and reduce barriers to startup success.

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Three signs that it’s time to raise funds – #InsideVC

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:05:19 +0000

97 of the top 100 cloud startups raised money from venture capital.

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Four questions startup founders should ask investors – #InsideVC

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:37:14 +0000

The lead investor will be the one that sets your startup’s valuation and will be your closest strategic partner moving forward.

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Advice for early-stage founders – #InsideVC

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:49:29 +0000

Ask yourself these two questions: Is this business going to be something that you're excited to wake up to every single day? Is it a big enough problem to solve?

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How to get your startup valuation right – Andrea Gardiner, CEO of Jelix Ventures

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:00:49 +0000

Today’s guest post features an interview between Colin Kinner, founder and CEO of Startup Onramp in Brisbane, Australia, and Andrea Gardiner, Founder and CEO of early-stage VC fund Jelix Ventures. Andrea has been a successful entrepreneur, a lawyer and investment banker, and has also had an extraordinary career in professional climbing, having scaled many of the world’s...

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Meet the Innovators with Ellington West, co-founder and CEO of Sonavi Labs

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:25:09 +0000

This week I was delighted to catch up with Ellington West co-founder and CEO of Sonavi Labs, a medical device and software company using AI technology to enhance chronic disease management, based in Baltimore, Maryland. Ellington comes from a tradition of changemakers. Her grandmother was one of the human computers working for NASA as portrayed...

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