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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

Black Innovation Alliance and Village Capital today announced Resource, a national initiative aimed at boosting the efforts of entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) led by, and focused on, founders of color. Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community.

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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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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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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. The program is supported by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) and is a leading program funded by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups.

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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. And the median investment chart above supports this hypothesis. Most importantly, the data supports the notion that investors are still looking to invest, and round sizes are relatively stable.

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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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