Las Vegas-based startup Tracky has spent the last year, heads-down, building a social collaboration platform that aims to bridge the gap between your personal and professional networks.
And while I am pleased that stories like the one in Newsweek will heighten awareness about the treatment of women across the startup industry, there is an ironic, philosophical gap between the creative idealism of the startup industry and the investors who fund them.
The motivation behind Breakout is to bridge that gap between the point when a startup is engaging in risky, more capital-intensive research and when they've found something that is commercially viable or that can be made into a product.
Much as Datadog has bridged the gap between developers and ops, Pomel hopes to continue to give back to the New York startup ecosystem by bridging the gap between technical startups and venture capital.
This article presents a typology of corporate mechanisms to engage with startups that balance speed and agility against control and strategic direction, to map the ways companies can bridge the gap between themselves and the startup world.
We first developed the idea for TC Sessions: Robotics because we wanted to bridge the gap between startups and investment in the robotics world — namely research, academia, government and industry.
The Launchpad Accelerator has 50 alumni in India, Indonesia, Brazil and Mexico already and a Google spokesperson told us that the company hopes that this space will help "bridge the gap between Silicon Valley and startups from emerging markets around the world to understand their local/global challenges and share resources".
"There's a gap between the change layer - the digital health startups, the hackathons, the accelerators - and the reality layer, where most patients receive care," said Pitch Day keynote speaker Dr. Sachin H. Jain, a Harvard MD-MBA and the Chief Medical Officer at CareMore Health System.
It's a nostalgia for a time of startup vigor, in which the gap between the outsider and the insider, between starvation and middle-class prosperity, could be vaulted with an idea and some drive.
Cuil, the recently launched search startup, mainly known for the yawning gap between the quality of the site and the amount of press it got, is valued at $200 million by its investors.
