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AMADPOC: Pioneering migration research and policy dialogue in sub-Saharan Africa

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AMADPOC: Pioneering migration research and policy dialogue in sub-Saharan Africa AMADPOC is an independent research consulting firm dedicated to assisting governments and other migration stakeholders in understanding migration dynamics through research.

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Urban Innovation Fund, VMG Catalyst among female-led firms raising new funds

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Prior to starting Urban Innovation Fund, Brenner was in commercial real estate development and met Lein, who was doing political polling and consulting, at business school at MIT. billion since its founding in 2015. In their first two years they founded and ran the largest women’s event on MIT’s campus at the time.

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Data governance startup Immuta lands $100M to pursue acquisitions

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” Immuta was co-founded in 2015 by Steven Touw and Carroll, who began his career as a U.S. Before founding Immuta, Carroll spent several years at consulting group CSC after it acquired his previous employer, 42six Solutions, where Touw also worked. “We don’t see that slowing down.” ” Image Credits: Immuta.

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Mozilla launches a new startup focused on ‘trustworthy’ AI

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Its managing director is Moez Draief, who previously was the chief scientist at Huawei’s Noah’s Ark AI lab and the global chief scientist at consulting company Capgemini. If history is any indication, voluntary frameworks and one-off tools won’t move the needle much, if at all. flexibility that nonprofits lack.

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Ex-Uber team raises $6M seed for geospatial analytics platform Unfolded.ai

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He, Brodsky and Green had joined Uber around 2014 and 2015, while Kashuk joined later in 2017. The team first funded their operations with some consulting projects, including with Google Earth , but now it has raised a seed round to further expand the team and its ambitions.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth. In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth. In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot.