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How entrepreneurs are building resilience in their communities

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

2016 YLAI Fellow Marco Mendieta works hard to develop the small-business community of Ecuador and regenerate the economy following the country’s devastating earthquake of 2016. Learn how other #YLAIStrong entrepreneurs are building their resilience and strengthening their businesses in the face of adversity.

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Google’s early-stage AI Fund Gradient Invests in Cake’s Open-Source AI Platform for All Businesses

American Entrepreneurship

A seasoned entrepreneur and software engineer, he founded McCoy Medical Technologies in 2016 which was acquired two years later. When we first met the team at Cake, it was incredible to see the number of customers deeply engaged with their solution. Herscus background in deploying innovative technology runs deep.

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Dreamit Startups on the Front Lines of COVID-19

Dream It

Eko has already sold 40,000 devices since 2016 across 4,000 hospitals. TrekIT helps hospital teams manage tasks and collaborate on crisis disease management. With an anticipated surge of patients that will disperse care delivery across new settings, hospitals are using collaboration platforms to help them keep pace.

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Apptronik Closes $350M in Funding to Meet Surging Demand for Humanoid Robots, Gains Google Investment

American Entrepreneurship

Founded in 2016, Apptronik has rapidly gained recognition as a leader in humanoid robotics. By combining cutting-edge AI and human-centered design, Apptronik aims to create robots that can collaborate seamlessly with humans in various sectors, including logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, and eldercare.

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Robust.AI raises a $15M Series A to improve problem solving for collaborative robots

TechCrunch

CEO Gary Marcus, meanwhile, is also the co-founder of Geometric Intelligence , which was acquired by Uber, back in 2016. are plans to build “the world’s first industrial-grade cognitive engine for robots,” essentially providing collaborative robots sufficient problem-solving capacity to effectively work alongside humans.

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Can You Build a Business with $100 or Less? Yes … and Here’s How

StartupNation

In 2016, our ETC team weighed all the options and decided to go mobile with AMP (accelerated mobile pages) to see a rapid jump in sales (and we saw it!). 8 Ways to Make Money on Social Media Arm yourself with a toolset (free!) They offer the highest return on investment (ROI). It’s my passion. In 2024, it generated $6.7

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To the Class (and Future Entrepreneurs) of 2025

Revolution

In 2016, after I wrote my book The Third Wave (a title that paid homage to Toffler, and talked about the way in which the Internet was revolutionizing major sectors of our society), the number one question I got was: Whats the Fourth Wave, Steve? In every wave of technological progress, collaboration will be more powerful than competition.