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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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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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Building Future Tech Company Founders and Leaders: Ben Franklin Technology Partners Supports CC4H Robotics

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Ben Franklin CNP’s commitment to CC4H Robotics extends beyond financial sponsorship and has helped facilitate demonstrations of the robots to companies within their incubator network, providing valuable exposure for CC4H Robotics and fostering potential partnerships.

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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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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.

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

AsiaTechDaily

K-Startup Grand Challenge launched in 2016 In April 2016, the K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) was started. From 2016 to 2022 In its inception year itself, KSGC received an overwhelming response. After a meticulous selection process, 40 startups were chosen in 2016 for the first 3-month acceleration program in South Korea.