Entrepreneurs

Female Founders
7 min read

Canvas CTO Maria Telleria On Bringing Automation To Construction

The Crunchbase “Female Founder Series,” comprises stories, Q&As, and thought-leadership pieces from glass-ceiling-smashers who overcame the odds and are now leading successful companies. Maria Telleria is the co-founder and CTO...

Ayzia Vizcocho, Content Specialist at Crunchbase

Female Founders
9 min read

Wheel Founder And CEO Michelle Davey On Improving Patient Access By Empowering Clinicians

In this Q&A, Wheel founder and CEO Michelle Davey shares her experience scaling a digital health company during the pandemic and guidance for founders on picking the right investors.

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

Entrepreneurs
5 min read

3 Tips To Sharpen Your Elevator Pitch

Patientco CEO, Bird Blitch, shares three tips and observations to keep in mind as you develop your elevator pitch.

By Bird Blitch, CEO of Patientco

Entrepreneurs
9 min read

Attracting An Audience Versus Building A Community (And Why Community Is Worth Every Penny)

In 2020, community became the hottest “buzzword” in tech. Communities popped up left and right as companies sought new ways to reach customers.

By Katie Ray, Community Manager at Sales Hacker

Entrepreneurs
9 min read

Building A Vibrant Partner Ecosystem: Taking A Page From The Salesforce Playbook

Companies looking to grow and succeed in today’s hypercompetitive enterprise cloud market need more than a great product and a compelling value proposition. They need a partner ecosystem. This isn’t...

By Chris Barbin, Founder and CEO of Tercera

Entrepreneurs
4 min read

Key Insights From Founders To Solve The Coming Talent Crisis

This article is part of the Crunchbase Community Contributor Series. The author is an expert in their field and a Crunchbase user. We are honored to feature and promote their contribution...

By Ryan Falvey, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Financial Venture Studio

Female Founders
5 min read

Duality Technologies Co-Founder And Chairwoman Rina Shainski On Innovation, Team Culture, And Preserving Privacy And Trust

The Crunchbase “Female Founder Series,” is a series of stories, Q&As, and thought-leadership pieces from glass-ceiling-smashers who overcame the odds and are now leading successful companies. Rina Shainski is the...

Ayzia Vizcocho, Content Specialist at Crunchbase

Entrepreneurs
5 min read

How Technology and Data Leaders Can Redefine Financial Inclusion

The World Bank has defined financial inclusion as the share of households and firms that use financial services. Understanding how this metric contributes to the overall success of a community, country, and the world is paramount.

By Amir Hemmat, Co-Founder and CEO of Welcome Tech

Female Founders
6 min read

Paying It Forward: How One Female Co-Founder Aims To Make Tech More Inclusive To Women

We can create inclusive spaces where women can feel comfortable reaching out for help and guidance. All it takes is paying it forward.

By Karen Ho, Co-founder at Swiftly

Entrepreneurs
6 min read

How Botco.ai Co-Founder and CEO Rebecca Clyde Fought the Funding Battle as a Female, Latine Tech Leader

In this Q&A, Rebecca Clyde shares why it’s important to trust your gut, prepare yourself for rejection, and lean on grit, scrappiness, and resilience when starting a company.

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

Entrepreneurs
6 min read

A Tech Entrepreneur’s Guide To Funding In A Boom

Historically, most entrepreneurs looking for financing don’t have the luxury of choice. But the past 18 months have been anything but normal.

By Heriberto Diarte, Founder and Managing Partner, SE Ventures

Entrepreneurs
10 min read

Stark CEO Cat Noone on Accessibility, Design, and Leaving the World a Better Place

Cat Noone is passionate about ensuring everyone can access the world’s latest innovations. That’s why Noone co-founded Stark and developed a suite of tools designed to help make widely used software products more accessible.

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

Entrepreneurs
6 min read

Early-stage Growth: Why Shifting the Founder Mindset is Critical to Acquiring Your First 10 Customers

As an inherent part of the job, early-stage founders spend the first days of their company’s existence facing inward.

By Sudheesh Nair, CEO, ThoughtSpot

Female Founders
5 min read

How Leila Kashani Disrupted the Beauty Industry with an Anti-Beauty, Beauty Brand

Ayzia Vizcocho, Content Specialist at Crunchbase

Entrepreneurs
12 min read

How To Find The Right Investors To Fund Your Startup

Learn how to find investors for a startup. This guide explains how to execute a plan, raise capital, and find investors. ✓ Read more and get started now!

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

Female Founders
5 min read

How Fabi Hubschmid is Connecting Small Businesses Around the World

Fabi Hubschmid is COO and co-founder of Markaaz, the world’s first global platform to verify and connect every small business on the planet and the network of partners that support them.

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

Diversity
6 min read

How Investors Can Build an LGBTQ+ Friendly Portfolio

There are many ways to get started investing while focusing on diversity through indexes like the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) and LGBTQ-specific indexes which rate companies based on their gender diversity, racial diversity, etc.

By Nahla Davies, Technical Writer

Crunchbase Partnerships
3 min read

StartOut Pride Economic Impact Index

In July 2020, with support from JPMorgan Chase, StartOut, Socos Labs, and Crunchbase launched the StartOut Pride Economic Impact Indexes (SPEII), the first of our Inclusion Impact Indexes created to gain insight into LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs' economic impact.

By Andres Wydler, Executive Director at StartOut

Entrepreneurs
7 min read

5 Steps To Ensure Your Return To Work Strategy Isn’t Excluding People From The Future Of Work

This is what business leaders can be doing make sure their industries equally include workers with disabilities, and those of all ages, backgrounds and family situations.

By Rachel Sheppard, Director of Global Marketing at the Founder Institute