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Meet the Black Female Founders from TC Include at TC Sessions: Justice 2021

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Topics range from accessible product design and fighting algorithmic bias to the justice system, workplace organizing and support for underrepresented founders — and that’s just for starters. Don’t miss your chance to meet some founders currently participating in TechCrunch’s Include program. Founded by Denise Umubyeyi.

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Here’s your chance to show off your expertise at TechCrunch’s founder summit

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We’re looking for trendsetting, game-changing, later-stage startup founders and ecosystem experts — of every stripe — to apply for the opportunity to share their hard-won expertise at our annual founder summit. You get great mentorship through attending the Early Stage sessions. Show us your content — apply today!

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

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In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” Top founders want to live in a place where employees are serious about working hard. Startup founders always need help.

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Grab one of the last remaining tickets to TC Early Stage

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Just two days — with only a handful of tickets remaining — until TechCrunch Early Stage drops invaluable knowledge on the newest generation of startup founders in San Francisco on April 14. The agenda is jam-packed with reality-based information that early-stage and aspiring founders need to know but often struggle to find.

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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

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Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019.

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Leverage Edu raises $6.5 million to help Indian students land in top colleges abroad

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Leverage Edu said Tomorrow Capital led the Delhi-headquartered startup’s Series A financing round. Chaturvedi, 30, began exploring this idea for this startup in 2015 and spent a little more than a year experimenting with different models. Existing investors Blume Ventures and DSG Consumer Partners also participated in the round.

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There’s no ‘hacker house’ geared toward undergraduate women, so they created one of their own

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While founders are adapting to quarantine in style, a group of college women in their 20s aren’t waiting until they are done with undergraduate to plunge into the lifestyle themselves. Startup founders set up hacker homes to recreate Silicon Valley synergy. So, they started their own program.