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Melinda French Gates Sets Path to Empower Women Globally

American Entrepreneurship

Leymah Roberta Gbowee , 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate and Liberian peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate. She is co-founder and CEO of Kidogo, and Shabana Basij-Rasikh, dedicated her life to ensuring Afghan girls’ access to education. She is an advocate for climate action and a fierce champion for women.

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Investor Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool’s Chris Bennett on getting to the point with a pitch deck

TechCrunch

The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. That was happening when I first moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011. Before our conversation on Extra Crunch Live, Marlon Nichols dropped a bomb on me.

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GoStudent acquires UK’s Seneca Learning and Spain’s Tus Media Group

TechCrunch

Launched in 2016, Seneca Learning did not previously take on venture capital backing, according to Crunchbase. The move comes a month after GoStudent raised €300 million in a Series D funding and follows GoStudent’s 2021 acquisition of Fox Education, an Austrian all-in-one school communication solution. 1 global school.”

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“If I never again have to read a bunch of entitled tech bros mansplaining on twitter about their way of working is the only way, I will die a happy man.” Canadian Investor Chris Neumann on Venture Vibes, Who Helped Him Along the Way, and the Qualities of a Founder Who Could Fail But He’d Back Again

Hunter Walk

Chris Neumann (of Canada’s Panache Ventures ) checks these boxes so I asked him to come on my blog (currently less consistent, hopefully still the other two) for Five Questions. Hunter Walk: So why venture capital, why early stage, and why Canada? CN: Thanks so much – that means a lot coming from you.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Recurse Center. “The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for people who want to get better at programming.”. How Star Wars will help you raise capital for your company.

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Public Policy Quarterly: October 2023

Angel Capital Association

ACA and its members recognized the need for a strong advocacy arm and public policy agenda to educate Members of Congress on issues that affect angel investors and early-stage entrepreneurs. Another bill ACA is pushing is Congressman William Timmons’s bill, the Improving Capital Allocation for Newcomers Act.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! ” Recurse Center. “The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for people who want to get better at programming.”. Congratulations! Skoll Foundation. Thiel Fellowship.

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