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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. billion of total venture capital.

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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. Here are some of the startups in the venture studio portfolio.

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

AsiaTechDaily

The country also organizes the biggest startup festival, COMEUP, a 3-day extravaganza with lectures, panel talks, mini-events, and relevant topics for startups, attended by global and domestic startups, experts, mentors, innovators, media, venture capitalists, etc. The program received applications from 2,439 startup teams from 124 countries.

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Cranium launches out of KPMG’s venture studio to tackle AI security

TechCrunch

” Dambrot’s perception led him to pitch KPMG Studio, KPMG’s internal accelerator, on funding and incubating a software startup to solve the challenges around AI security and compliance. To date, Cranium, which launches out of stealth today, has raised $7 million in venture capital from KPMG and SYN Ventures.

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Apple acquired a startup using AI to compress videos

TechCrunch

” WaveOne was founded in 2016 by Lubomir Bourdev and Oren Rippel, who set out to take the decades-old paradigm of video codecs and make them AI-powered. It’s an effective approach, but new codecs require new hardware specially built to accelerate compression or decompression, making improvements slow to propogate.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Microsoft Student Accelerator , though it has the word “accelerator” in its name, is a free, 4-month boot camp teaching students advanced analytics and AI, Azure and cloud fundamentals, and web apps and APIs.

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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. Median seed rounds are then dominated by the +/- $150k initial investments of incubators and accelerators with large new portfolios like YCombinator and 500Startups whose demo days are fast approaching.