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New Startup Accelerator for Battery Innovation Accepting Applications

American Entrepreneurship

Part of this initiative was used to open the new accelerator ChargeUp in upstate New York , focusing on battery innovations. Companies participating in the accelerator program, which is mostly remote, benefit from the region’s growing battery industry cluster enabled by New Energy New York ( NENY). awarded a $4.5 25, 2024, 1–2 p.m.

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Newsletter: Airbnb, DoorDash & DropBox incubator

OurCrowd

Top investment opportunities. Gil Meron appointed CEO of our New Zealand incubator. I have always preferred seed investing, as I write in my latest “Investors on the Frontlines” LinkedIn Newsletter. Startup of the week: OncoHost. Rebel Fund: Nurturing the next DoorDash and Airbnb. Canadian clearance for our flagship OC50 Fund.

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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 (KSGC) Program is the flagship accelerator program for international startups looking to enter the competitive Asian market. The accelerator program ends with top startups getting additional financial incentives and the possibility of doing business in Korea. were chosen from the pool of applications.

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OpenAI will give roughly 10 AI startups $1M each and early access to its systems

TechCrunch

Beyond Converge, surprisingly, there aren’t many incubator programs focused exclusively on AI startups. The Allen Institute for AI has a small accelerator that launched in 2017, which provides up to a $500,000 pre-seed investment and up to $450,000 in cloud compute credits.

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Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets

TechCrunch

Nestcoin , a company founded last November that builds, operates, and invests in web3 applications, wants to be pivotal in this transition and has raised $6.45 Bademosi was the Director of Binance Labs in Africa, overseeing the incubation and development of blockchain projects when he decided to start Bundle as CEO in 2019.

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AI2 Incubator’s new $30M fund triples down on early stage AI startups

TechCrunch

The AI startup world may be getting hotter by the day, but there’s a difference between a startup that uses AI and an AI-first startup — and the Allen Institute for AI prides itself on fostering the latter in its AI2 Incubator. ” You know who you are!

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SmartRyde, a Japanese online platform for airport transfers, spurs global expansion with Series A

TechCrunch

Sota Kimura, co-founder and CEO of SmartRyde, founded SmartRyde in 2017 after he experienced trouble getting a taxi from the airport to the hotel when he traveled abroad, Kimura told TechCrunch. SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6 It will also use the funding for global expansion, Kimura said.