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Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try

TechCrunch

Luis von Ahn, the co-founder of Duolingo, visiting President Obama in 2015. Duolingo’s competitors see the app’s massive gamification and solitary experience as inherently contradictory with high-quality language education. The year after its founding, Duolingo launched its Language Incubator in 2013. Image Credits: Duolingo.

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Deepgram lands new cash to grow its enterprise voice-recognition business

TechCrunch

” Launched in 2015, Deepgram focuses on building custom voice-recognition solutions for customers such as Spotify, Auth0 and even NASA. Firms participating don’t need to pay any sort of fee and can use the funds in conjunction with existing grant, seed, incubator and accelerator benefits.

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The New economy starts with Impact-Driven Entrepreneurs

Impact Hub

We at Impact Hub advocate for better policies and funding, we make education and financial and non-financial resources accessible to impact ventures around the world. His involvement gave him access to funding and valuable business education. In 2015, Tika Oktorinad collaborated with Firly Savitri to create Ilmuwan Muda Indonesia.

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Go global or grow local? The Kiwi startup quandary

NZ Entrepreneur

Founded in 2015, Niesh provides an app designed to meet the challenges of the modern university student, and now offers both a suite of services for brands to connect with the youth market and deals to make every student’s life easier. Business incubator “ecentre” is based at Massey University’s Auckland campus in Albany.

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Behind the Scenes: Building an Angel Experience You Will Never Forget

Angel Capital Association

Marcia spent 16+ years of her career with Kaplan Higher Education Campuses (KHEC), serving as Vice President of Career Services, along with various roles in sales and marketing, operations, and compliance. She is an Entrepreneur in Residence at First Flight Venture Center, one of the nation’s largest high science incubators.

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Yieldstreet raises $100M as it mulls going public via SPAC, eyes acquisitions

TechCrunch

million since its 2015 inception. In an effort to help people understand just exactly what they’re putting their money into, Yieldstreet aims to provide “a ton of investor education,” Mehere added, in the form of content such as articles, blog posts and infographics. ” What he did share is that Yieldstreet has funded nearly $1.9

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

TechCrunch

Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups. It has an estimated 67 VC funds, with 18 of them started since 2015.

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