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Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoffs

TechCrunch

Area 120 , the Google in-house incubator responsible for products such as Checks , Tables , Stack and ThreadBite , has been significantly affected by broader layoffs at Google parent company Alphabet. Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoffs by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

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Moving Beyond Learning Differences to Support the Next Great Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

“What if we created a research lab and business incubator that took these people with learning differences and put [them] together? We will continue to use the incubator space here at the lab and have Rick and Tom help us with the hard parts of running a business. I hope to launch the company in Australia in 2016.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Christina Theodoraki

Ecosystem Builder Hub

These can be policy makers, entrepreneurs, students, incubator managers and staff, universities, professors, educators and researchers, or just citizens. I also do research on incubators, as intermediaries between entrepreneurial and the ecosystem and how they decrease the gap between them. We are all connected to our ecosystem.

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

TechCrunch

Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community. The goal with Resource is to help ensure that incubators and accelerators focused on supporting people of color have the resources they need to flourish, she added. “We Disclosure: Verizon is TechCrunch’s parent company).

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Mission wrap: London 2018

Startup Catalyst

On Monday we had a private tour with Tech City Ventures, where we visited Runway East and WeWork Moorgate to hear and learn from Incube, SwiftScale, StreetBees, and Hambro Perks. That evening we were hosted by Adepto (Catalyst 2016 alumni) for a rooftop social event.

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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. Prior to the Apple acquisition, WaveOne attracted $9 million from backers including Khosla Ventures, Vela Partners, Incubate Fund, Omega Venture Partners and Blue Ivy.

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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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