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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

Impact Hub

It is clear that without rapid innovation on a global scale, what we eat in our cities and how we produce it poses an existential challenge. In 2018, Impact Hub King’s Cross kicked off an incubation program for UK-based social entrepreneurs aiming to combat the key challenges in our urban food systems. trillion USD by 2030.

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President-elect Joseph Biden reportedly plucks Revolution’s Ron Klain as new chief of staff

TechCrunch

He most recently worked as the White House Ebola Response coordinator from October 2014 to February 2015, and helped as a debate advisor to President Obama and President Clinton, as well as nominees Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. about how regulatory hurdles could hinder key innovation in startup-land.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Beta Boom : founded in 2017 by two veteran Silicon Valley innovators, Kimmy and Sergio Paluch the firm invests in pre-seed software startups that are building the future for womxn, Black, Latinx and other ethnic minority consumers. 90% of their funded startups are led by women or people of color. Secretary of Commerce.

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Why Convoy’s Dan Lewis expects digital freight to go mainstream within the year

TechCrunch

Lewis and Grant Goodale co-founded Convoy in 2015 , and since then, have brought on a series of high-profile investors. We were excited to work with them because they’re an incubator and accelerator, so their whole system is designed around helping founders succeed. TechCrunch+ is having a Memorial Day sale.

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Arrikto raises $10M for its MLOps platform

TechCrunch

At the core of Arrikto is Kubeflow, the Google -incubated open-source machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes — and in many ways, you can think of Arrikto as offering an enterprise-ready version of Kubeflow. “ Arrikto has taken an innovative and holistic approach to MLOps across the entire data, model and code lifecycle.

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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

TechCrunch

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. It also has a long history of innovation and a rich tech legacy.

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The Four Cities Every Startup Should Invest in Visiting

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Incubators such as the one Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh started a few years ago are also a great way to jump-start your innovative ideas, receive mentoring, network, etc. Boulder is quickly becoming a startup mecca on par with Silicon Valley — largely due to the Techstars accelerator, which has cultivated the city’s startup ecosystem.

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