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Black Innovation Alliance, Village Capital team up to support founders of color

TechCrunch

Black Innovation Alliance and Village Capital today announced Resource, a national initiative aimed at boosting the efforts of entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) led by, and focused on, founders of color. Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge: The South Korea accelerator program that is ‘a gateway’ to doing business in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

K-Startup Grand Challenge launched in 2016 In April 2016, the K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) was started. The program is supported by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) and is a leading program funded by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. were chosen from the pool of applications.

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Fast Forward Venture Studio to build African startups from idea to scale

TechCrunch

It’s not a tech company this time — Awoyemi co-founded online jobs site Jobberman (which was acquired by ROAM Africa in 2016) and Whogohost, a bootstrapped hosting platform — but instead, a venture studio: Fast Forward Venture Studio. “First, we’re more hands-on than funds and incubators or accelerators.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. Right here.

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LexCheck raises $17M to automate common contracting processes

TechCrunch

“At a time of macroeconomic challenges, companies need a solution that accelerates key business processes,” Sangha told TechCrunch in an email interview. “I founded LexCheck to increase revenue by simplifying and accelerating commercial contracting processes across an entire organization.”

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What's Really Happening in the US Venture Fundraising Market in Early 2016

Tomasz Tunguz

The startup fundraising market in 2016 has been difficult to characterize. VCs invested about $2B in January and February 2016. And the median investment chart above supports this hypothesis. Most importantly, the data supports the notion that investors are still looking to invest, and round sizes are relatively stable.

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

TechCrunch

The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen steadily in the city since 2016, according to Northen Ireland’s Department for the Economy.

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