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The unusual story of an unusual company – Melanie Langlotz and Geo AR Games 

NZ Entrepreneur

However, like so many enterprises before it, the business faced significant challenges and in 2015, three quarters of the team was made redundant, including Amie and Mel. Mel and Amie secured funding from another incubator, Lightning Lab XX in Wellington, which gave them another few months of runway to get Magical Park off the ground.

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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 CEO Constantinos Venetsanopoulos. Image Credits: Arrikto.

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We Recast Our Business Expertise Into Valuable Incentives for Young Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Instead of creating advertisements and posters, we reached out directly to 600-some contacts at universities and local incubators, and this paid huge dividends. Luckily, Vancouver is home to HootSuite, and not only did this company provide us an amazing space for our 2015 finals; they covered all the costs! We also scoured newsfeeds.

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The Power of People: How We Recast Our Expertise into Valuable Incentives

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Instead of creating advertisements and posters, we reached out directly to 600-some contacts at universities and local incubators, and this paid huge dividends. Luckily, Vancouver is home to HootSuite, and not only did this company provide us an amazing space for our 2015 finals; they covered all the costs! We also scoured newsfeeds.

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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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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. The city made major strides in 2015, and with oil and gas investors looking to profit elsewhere, more money will be flowing into the area’s startups in 2016.

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Mr Eazi, Black Coffee and Ajebutter22: The African music artists backing startups

TechCrunch

Thus, for Black Coffee , who backed Andela, a tech talent incubator and unicorn launched from Lagos in 2015, his win meant Africa’s tech scene could, for the first time, brag about having a homegrown Grammy Award-winning artist as an investor in its startups. Europe and globally. .

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