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Local Food Systems and Kitchen Incubators

EntreWorks Consulting

Many such efforts also revolve around the development of kitchen incubators or commercial kitchens, where entrepreneurs can produce food products at scale, and learn the ins and outs of business development. Kitchen Incubators: An Industry Update , provides an in-depth look at what’s happening in this sector. EntreWorks Blog.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

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.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

Astra Incubator is “the first Italian incubation program designed to connect aspiring innovators and build multidisciplinary teams.” The Velocity program, based in Waterloo, Canada, is an early-stage, pre-seed startup incubator for ambitious founders from the University of Waterloo and around the world looking to scale globally.

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How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020

TechCrunch

million in 2016, it was one of the largest disclosed rounds at that stage in Nigeria. . For Jituboh, her solid tech background spoke for her — boasting a senior software engineering job at Pexels and engineering consultant role at Canva before founding Okra. When Stripe-subsidiary Paystack raised its seed round of $1.3

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas. Some specific accelerators: 17 Incubators For Impact Entrepreneurs and Social Enterprise.

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Lina Adil from Impact Hub Khartoum reflects on running a Climathon

Impact Hub

The challenge was curated according to a set of consultations with our partners, and with environmental experts, academicians, and policymakers, aided by information and Statistics from the National Adaptation Plan 2016. And the areas of focus have shown to be the most pressing areas that needed immediate action. .

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas. Some specific accelerators: 17 Incubators For Impact Entrepreneurs and Social Enterprise.

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