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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

Participants from all over the world are eligible to compete for more than $100,000 in prize money and also receive mentorship and other resources. Eligible startups compete to win funding, legal support, and mentorship totaling more than $100,000. It provides mentorship, networking, and equity-free grants up to $50,000.

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Meet Seoul-based accelerator SparkLabs’ 19th batch of startups 

TechCrunch

The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. The accelerator has backed more than 270 startups since its inception in 2012, co-founder and partner of SparkLabs Eugene Kim told TechCrunch. . SparkLabs launches $50M fund for promising early-stage startups in Korea.

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MentorcliQ raises over $80 million to grow its employee mentoring software and services

TechCrunch

Informed by the experience at McMaster-Carr and mentorship conversations with other companies, George left his role in 2012 to team up with his brother, Andy George, and former colleague Miles Ulrich to found an employee mentoring software and white glove service startup. .” He might be right.

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Startup fundraising is the most tangible gender gap. How can we overcome it?

TechCrunch

Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. There has been little movement in the amount of VC dollars going to women-founded companies since 2012. Venture capital is far from a level playing field. VC went to startups with at least one woman on the founder team.

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Learn what happens after you sell your startup at TC Sessions: SaaS on Wednesday

TechCrunch

She is currently founder and CEO at Xata , and also runs Tupo.io , a startup she launched last year to offer underrepresented folks in tech free mentorship. Today, he runs two startup, Harness and Traceable , and also founded the venture capital firm, Unusual Ventures.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

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We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs.