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Two Local Erie Startups win Ben Franklin’s TechCelerator Business Bootcamp

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

For nearly 40 years, Ben Franklin has been providing investment capital, business support services, and operational assistance to emerging tech startups and small manufacturers. Since February 2008, ECGRA has invested more than $55 million in Erie County turning gaming revenue into transformative investments in Erie County, PA.

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EdgeDB raises $15M ahead of the launch of its cloud database service

TechCrunch

The new capital brings the startup’s total raised to $19 million, which CEO Yury Selivanov said will be used to boost headcount and launch the previously announced hosted version of EdgeDB’s database solution, EdgeDB Cloud. And so EdgeDB was born. Image Credits: EdgeDB.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? Well, they did ask David Chao of Doll Capital, who said that the " frothy bubble is over ". In 2008, people weren't sure if we were heading into a complete financial collapse.

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Praava Health raises $10.6M to increase access to quality healthcare in Bangladesh

TechCrunch

Before launching Praava Health , a company that combines telemedicine with physical clinics, Sylvana Sinha had a successful career in international law, including serving as a foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and working for the World Bank in Afghanistan. million seed for regional expansion.

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

Both Sides of the Table

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. Hamet came up with this idea after 3 years consulting for Nielsen Media helping them to figure out the value of branded integration and trying to define ways to measure efficacy of the unit. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years.

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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

Sarah Tavel is a general partner at Benchmark, where she invests in network effect businesses with a focus on marketplaces and social, as well as cryptocurrency. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in philosophy, Tavel was a consultant at The Kerden Group and then vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Asset Management Is a Peculiar Industry Ripe for Disruption

David Teten VC

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. In contrast, entrepreneurs in most other fields risk a more significant portion of their own capital in their new venture , better aligning incentives.