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How a Fashion Brand in Honduras Is Preserving the Country’s Traditional Culture

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Rafael, a 2018 YLAI Fellow and an entrepreneur in Honduras, saw years later a need for his skills in the country’s cultural heritage sector. “My The Malengu name, an amalgamation of Maya, Lenca and Garífuna, harkens back to some of the country’s largest indigenous communities. We are a mix of Spanish, Indian, black and Mayan culture.”.

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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. It is about building and recreating communities. The connective thread here is the use of technology.

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Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision

TechCrunch

“We will benefit from their unique experience and ability to create amazing experiences that help organizations use virtual spaces to drive impact. “Active Replica will continue to work with our existing customers, partners and community.” Mozilla’s forays into the metaverse have had been met with mixed results.

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Summer International uses social media data to launch new beauty brands

TechCrunch

Summer International co-founder and CEO Xiaoski Kuik said the company’s goal is to create an ecosystem to help influencers and creators launch and sell beauty brands using consumer data and analytics. The company launched in 2018 along with Gushcloud International, an influencer marketing firm.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend.

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Highnote launches a collaboration platform for musicians and podcasters offering voice notes, polls and more

TechCrunch

Might come as a surprise, but the audio world, in large part, uses general-purpose tools to discuss and iterate their files, which is extremely inefficient,” Bradley said. Highnote is free to use, and no download is required. There’s also the option to create polls to prompt the listener with questions at a specific time.

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An Early Investor's Postmortem of The Wing

This is going to be BIG.

That was a note that I got from a friend back in September of 2018. It always made more sense as a way to mix it up away from another workspace you were more anchored to—the “third place”. Community building isn’t much easier, especially in progressive circles. Thought I'd share.” She knew I was a seed investor in the company.