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Breakthrough Energy Fellows announces 3rd Cohort to accelerate Climate-tech Innovation

American Entrepreneurship

Breakthrough Energy was founded by Bill Gates in 2015 to solve the climate crisis. Once in the program members are given critical resources that includes research funding, mentorship, education, and access to the extensive Breakthrough Energy network.

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Leverage Edu raises $6.5 million to help Indian students land in top colleges abroad

TechCrunch

Crimson Education, a platform to help students get into top universities, nabs $5M at a $245M valuation. Chaturvedi, 30, began exploring this idea for this startup in 2015 and spent a little more than a year experimenting with different models. An Indian startup that is bridging this gap on Thursday said it has raised $6.5

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What’s Happening in Tech During 2016?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

According to USCIS, the federal agency responsible for handling work visas, in 2015 U.S.-based WeCanCodeIT – based in Cleveland, OH since 2013, is focused on empowering women, African Americans and Hispanic Americans, groups underrepresented in technology, with education and mentorship that lead to jobs in the region.

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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.

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Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India’s Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung

Y Combinator

I’m excited to have Vidit Aatrey, CEO and co-founder of Meesho, which was founded in 2015, and you went through YC in 2016. These are educated women but handicapped so no one ever gave them jobs. But what happened back in 2015, like the year out of college, I was working within MobiHerd, Sanjeev was working with Sony in Japan.

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