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Centbee raises $1m in pre-Series A funding round led by Ayre Ventures

AsiaTechDaily

Register Centbee, a blockchain payments company based in London, has closed its pre-Series A round with $1 million in investments from Ayre Ventures. Founded by entrepreneur Calvin Ayre, Ayre Ventures made its first investment on Centbee in 2019. “My He is also highly regarded globally as an educator and presenter.

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Hans Severiens Award Given to Tony Shipley

Angel Capital Association

Since 2000, Shipley has led the Queen City Angels group (based in Cincinnati, OH), served as a board member for the ACA including a term as Chairman of the Board and worked tirelessly for the founding of the Angel Investor Foundation and chaired its capital campaign. CB Insights ranked QCA second out of 370 national angel organizations.

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Valuation Workshop – The Art of Negotiation Between Investors and Founders

Angel Capital Association

By: Emily Angold, ACA Marketing Manager As an entrepreneur and seasoned angel investor, Bill Payne understands the critical importance of education to make well-informed decisions that determine the success or failure of a startup. Over the past four decades, Bill Payne has successfully founded or invested in over 100 start-up companies.

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Circularity in action: Social entrepreneurship in London

Impact Hub

Each One, Teach One Masha Guyard is a self-taught pandemic quilter with over 25 years of experience working in community development and engagement within education, families and community support as a trained adult and family learning facilitator. The circular start-up is designed to bring everyone into the climate action space.

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WorkRamp raises $17M to ramp up its enterprise learning platform

TechCrunch

WorkRamp , which has built a platform that helps organizations build their own training materials, and then distribute them both to their workforce and to partners, has raised $17 million, a Series B round of funding that’s being led by OMERS Ventures, with Bow Capital also participating.

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Investors are missing out on Black founders

TechCrunch

As the recipients of less than 1% of venture capital raise, institutionalized systems are visibly at play. When you think about the intersection of venture capital and technology, and specifically how it works — it is being led from an engineering perspective. I was in college from 2000 to 2004.

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20 Women Entrepreneurs Changing Their Industries (and the World)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Sparked by a pair of scissors, some pantyhose and a party where founder, Sara Blakely , wanted to look her best, Spanx officially began production in 2000 and changed women’s fashion and fit forever. Peeler isn’t just changing the world of student aid, she’s also redefining the role of women entrepreneurs in finance and education.