Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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. In 2019, the program was expanded in each of Ecuador’s provinces, providing “mini master’s degrees” in entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership.

communities

Source Link

MARCH 30, 2022

Colmena66 continues to adapt to the needs of entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico, developing new and innovative ways to market their platform and meet small business owners where they are. Think outside the box when addressing external events that impact your community, and be flexible to adjust your plans as the situation continues to change.

communities

Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

Wellth graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2016. Wellth is also currently partnered with Boehringer Ingelheim to bring value-based collaborations to the market between payers, providers, and biopharma with the goal of increasing medication adherence to reduce costs associated with poorly managed chronic conditions.

health

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Recently, five CC4H Robotics’ middle school teams showcased their talent and innovation at an event on January 20th, 2024, kicking off the competition season at the York qualifier with a day filled with thrilling robot battles. In total, the program has ten competing teams, with over 100 students between 4 th and 12 th grade.

support

Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It was a product designed natively to be collaborative, to be easier to use than Adobe’s professional tools, and without the baggage of features and nomenclature leftover from years of software releases, platform shifts, and business model changes. Figma is being incredibly well-rewarded for innovation.

creativity

AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

Register In the swiftly transforming landscape of financial technology (FinTech), Asia stands resolute at the forefront of innovation and entrepreneurial dynamism. These annual gatherings not only exhibit the region’s FinTech prowess but also foster knowledge exchange, networking, and collaborative innovation.

innovation

AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register The tally of recognized startups and acquisitions, burgeoning to 84,012 in 2022 from a mere 452 in 2016, is a testament to the positive impact of investment incentives and simplified business regulations, as highlighted by the Economic Survey 2022-23.

energy

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Mio , a startup that helps enterprise teams collaborate across messaging services like Zoom Chat, Microsoft Teams, Slack and Cisco’s Webex, today announced that it has raised an $8.7 In total, Austin-based Mio, which was founded in 2016 and participated in the Y Combinator Winter 2016 class, has now raised $17 million. .”

collaboration

Startup Catalyst

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Youth Cohort 2016. …of Paul Martyn, who leads Advance Queensland as Deputy Director-General, Innovation at DITID, has been an active part of the ecosystem since we started calling it an ecosystem. James Schulte (Adelaide), 2016 Future Founders. …who went on 14 missions …. Investor cohort (2017). Female Founders cohort (2017). …to

support

AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

Among these investments, nine companies have been selected by the Technology Innovation Program for Startups (TIPS), while four others are in the process of applying for TIPS this year. This collaborative effort builds upon the success of their previous venture, the MegaStudy-Yoon Min-Mark Venture Investment Fund No.

investing

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor — where he taught classes in space science, aerospace engineering and innovation — he focused on solar, heliospheric and planetary instrumentation and data analysis. Zurbuchen joined NASA in 2016, and he engages people worldwide with the agency’s work and the inspiration of science.

data analysis

David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

founder

StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In 2020, they were named one of the Best Places to Work in Financial Technology 2020, and the TAG FinTech ADVANCE program recognized Autobooks as one of the most innovative U.S. The co-founders are looking for entrepreneurial candidates who are “obsessed with finding a better way” and feel free to innovate. FinTech companies.

startup

AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 29, 2023

This marks the fifth successful fundraising effort since the company’s inception in 2016, bringing the total funds raised to over $97 million. The Hong Kong startup has collaborated with Microsoft Corp., The names of new investors will be disclosed at a later date when announcing their strategic partnership.

health

AsiaTechDaily

JULY 19, 2023

They reached a collaborative agreement to establish a “Self-Driving Demonstration Complex” and position Pangyo Zero City as a self-driving pilot city.

transportation

AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

First Cheque@Jungle is designed as a bespoke program targeting operators and innovators at the idea stage and those seeking support in their pre-seed and seed stages. The firm secured $100 million for its second fund in 2016 and then raised $240 million for its third fund in 2019. billion in follow-on capital raised.

investing

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

And this is certainly due to the consumer and merchant education that we had to go through over the past seven years as it was quite an innovative solution that no one was really familiar with before.”. From 2016 to 2017, Ozow raised a combined $1.2 That’s quite an incredible growth and adoption,” he said.

peer-to-peer

Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

I did my PhD on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, defended on November 2017 and received 2 Best Dissertation award on entrepreneurship from the Academy of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the International Association for Research on Entrepreneurship and SMES (this was a hybrid French – English version but I have an English version at Research Gate.

entrepreneurial ecosystem

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

NPI simplifies access to USAID resources and makes it easier for partners to bring forward their ideas and innovation. In simple terms, NPI helps USAID collaborate with local nonprofits on humanitarian work by identifying new partners and sources of funding, streamlining access to resources, promoting local leadership and providing training.

innovation

American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. raised approximately $7 billion in 2021 , up 59% year over year.

venture capital

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. ” Luan told TechCrunch in an interview via email.

collaboration

AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Register Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, SoGal Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage investments in diverse founding teams, operating in both the United States and Asia. They are more humble and collaborative – we had almost never seen major issues motivated by ego.”

ventures

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

According to a 2016 survey commissioned by CyberArk, 40% of organizations store admin passwords in a Word document. While not new — one of the first homomorphic encryption schemes was proposed in 1978 — recent innovations have made homographic encryption viable to implement at scale on today’s hardware.

enablement

OurCrowd

JUNE 27, 2022

OurCrowd First Israeli Company to Partner With the Singapore Economic Development Board in the Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) Programme. Collaboration will further strengthen ties between startups and corporates in Israel and Singapore. June 27, 2022 09:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time.

economic development

TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

“We can improve both outcomes and costs by moving care from the hospital back to the place it started — at home,” they write in a post that explores five innovations enabling at-home care and identifies investment opportunities like acute care and infrastructure development. Jeetu Patel, EVP and GM, Security and Collaboration.

SaaS

AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

As the first coworking space operator in Hong Kong to provide a truly “across space” solution for businesses, theDesk’s virtual work and collaboration platform is equipped with all essential features to support communication and collaboration, from video conferencing, presentation, screen sharing, chat to whiteboard, etc.

coworking spaces

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay , a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. This year, $1.6 billion was invested between January and May alone. Is Teampay sufficiently differentiated?

economic environments

TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

“We believe that we’re stepping into a new era of legal technology and SpotDraft is going to be at the forefront of building the next generation of legal innovation that saves time and money.” The trio met at a Diwali party in New York and moved back to India in 2016.) SpotDraft’s management dashboard.

opportunity

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

“This investment builds on our collaboration with PrimaryBid and is part of London Stock Exchange Group’s commitment to broadening retail investor access to public equity markets,” said Charlie Walker, Head of Equity and Fixed Income, Primary Markets at London Stock Exchange plc, in a statement.

investing

David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. When HOF Capital invests abroad, HOF is typically collaborating closely with the local, non-US VCs who are investing in their own backyards. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

ventures

TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

” Kirzner founded Lightbits in 2016 to solve the perennial storage/compute utilization problem. Lightbits, together with Meta, Intel, Cisco, Dell EMC, Micron and others, collaborated on the NVMe/TCP standard that was ratified in November 2019 by the NVM Express consortium. And traditional software-defined storage systems.

accelerator

Impact Hub

APRIL 24, 2019

So with that in mind, here are 9 innovative ventures to watch that are on a mission to disrupt fast fashion: 1. When Fashion For Good set out to create a platform for innovation, they collaborated with Impact Hub Amsterdam to set up their space. Tommy Hilfiger Social Innovation Challenge. There is a way forward.

ventures

American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

Every year, we put together this list of top private companies, and we are blown away by the level of innovation, growth, and impact they are making on the SMB economy. Congratulations to all on making this year’s list.” Placement on the 2023 SMBTech 50 is the latest in a string of accolades Boulevard has garnered in recent months.

venture capital

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

. “This will be a game changer for professionals, paving the way toward a metaverse-like future that will transform work and collaboration.” “We are very fond of what we do at this size,” he said. “There are great benefits to independence. “We are very fond of what we do at this size,” he said.

mix-use

Impact Hub

JANUARY 23, 2020

Impact Hub San Francisco has been a driving force in growing both the Impact Hub Network and social innovation movement in North America and beyond. However, after over 10 years of operations we are sad to share Impact Hub San Francisco has had to close.

incubation

David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. DV Hacks , led by BCG Digital Ventures: “A 48-hour hackathon to improve how we live, work, collaborate, and learn.”. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Notley is a catalyst for social innovation unlocking opportunities with today’s impact organizations and changing communities.

startup

TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. Now, a handful of companies, including Cruise and Motional, are trying to turn their innovations into a product that not only has the technical capability to navigate city streets, but is approachable and easy for people to use. with Oliver Cameron (Cruise) and Laura Major (Motional).

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