October 2020 Pioneers in our September cohort are improving crop yields, creating a parking space marketplace,
September 2020 Fully automated freight shipping. Efficient ML model deployment. Ocean-faring drone ships. Pioneers around the world tinkering away at the next generation of formidable businesses.
August 2020 Pioneers in our August batch are powering the LatAm money-sharing economy, optimizing your work environment, incorporating your US business faster, and more.
2 Years of Pioneer: 40 Countries and Counting Two years ago, Pioneer launched with the intent of finding and empowering ambitious outsiders around the world.
July 2020 Pioneers in our July batch are creating companies to easily offset your carbon footprint, keep you in a state of flow, market your engineering work and more.
Pioneer Challenge: A New Terminal In 4 weeks, we’re investing $20,000 in the best Terminal 2.0. We start with a 48 hour Hackathon from August 7th - August 9th. Winners are incorporated for free, then compete for Pioneer Gold investment.
June 2020 From Stripe Atlas for government forms, to micro financing for projects, to better virtual workspaces – meet this month’s Pioneers.
May 2020 From better tools for personal productivity, to improved livestreaming, to finance apps that could power a continent, meet this month's batch of diverse projects.
Pioneer Challenge: $10,000 for Better Zendesk It’s hard to know what to build. If you’re lucky enough to find a good problem, you’re still a long way from your first customer and even longer from success.
April 2020 From better email analytics and marketing to software that helps people optimize their savings to a Shopify for Africa, our Pioneers’ companies span a diverse range of categories and multiple continents.
March 2020 Our March 2020 batch includes companies as diverse as crypto based video games, a Wix for voice apps, and an intelligent note-taking assistant. We’re excited to have these Pioneers in our online city.
February 2020 The second set of Pioneers in 2020 exemplifies that philosophy. Whether it’s an easier way to publish a blog, better e-commerce search, or a Fitbit for productivity, our founders have focused on making things people love.
Building Cities From Scratch: An Interview With Mark Lutter and Tamara Winter We know how to make new apps. New companies. But what does it take to make new cities? Mark Lutter and Tamara Winter are building the Charter Cities Institute to figure out the answer.
Pioneer 2.0 Just like other startups iterating on their product based on user feedback, we're iterating on ours. Here are some updates for our next release.
January 2020 global warming, the first set of Pioneers of 2020 are working on tractable, useful companies that will positively impact our society and planet in the coming decade.
Meet the Pioneers - December 2019 Our latest cohort includes everything from AI-powered RPA to a Google Docs for music, to a modern Heroku. We're really excited to have these Pioneers in our online city.
Small Projects, Big Companies Pizza delivery. Event planning. Bill splitting. We see many of these at Pioneer. I call them “incombustible ideas”. Founders relentlessly try to ignite them, but they just don’t light up.
Refinement Revenue People say "launch fast". But Stripe, Notion and Airtable took years to launch. What gives?
Meet the Pioneers - August 2019 In Pioneer’s first year, we’ve funded 65 creative hackers from around the world in over 20 different countries.
Academic Progress: An Outsider’s Perspective Why does academia move slowly? I spent some time talking to researchers about the current system. Below are the notes of an outsider peering in, trying to decipher why things are broken and how one might help fix it: A conservative cultural feedback loop.
