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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Microsoft Student Accelerator , though it has the word “accelerator” in its name, is a free, 4-month boot camp teaching students advanced analytics and AI, Azure and cloud fundamentals, and web apps and APIs.

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WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down

TechCrunch

The other major change was beginning to rely on hardware acceleration of said codecs — your computer or GPU might have an actual chip in it with the codec baked in, ready to perform decompression tasks with far greater speed than an ordinary general-purpose CPU in a phone. Mac-optimized TensorFlow flexes new M1 and GPU muscles. Like Krisp.ai

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

DYVVYD : work with diverse teams who are actively seeking capital that are self-launched, self-scaled or recent graduates of an incubated or accelerator cohort. They invest in companies that are disrupting traditional retail and consumer experiences. The broad portfolio includes companies disrupting traditional markets.

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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. I published in 2013 a much earlier version of this in Forbes , and in December 2020 published the final version in Techcrunch. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

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Argentinian fintech infrastructure startup Geopagos leaves the boot straps behind with $35M funding round

TechCrunch

Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services. The pandemic accelerated the use of digital payment solutions globally, but especially in Latin America, noted Núñez Castro.

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African tech took center stage in 2021

TechCrunch

AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25 More experienced founders exist and specific markets, particularly in the Big Four (Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Kenya), show a mix of matured but still open-for-disruption traits. billion and $2.8 Per the report, only 3% of the $1.7

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Lingoda, an on-demand online language school with live instructors and Zoom classrooms, raises $68M

TechCrunch

Founded in 2013 by two brothers — Fabian and Felix Wunderlich (now respectively CFO and head of sales) — Lingoda had only raised around $15 million before now, a mark of the company being pretty capital efficient. The valuation is not being disclosed. New Jersey specifically) in an interview.