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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. Participants have the opportunity to receive prizes reaching $40,000. The pitch takes 90 seconds and participants have the opportunity to win prizes totaling $10,000. 3) Accelerators.

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Ancient8 secures $4M in seed to democratize social and financial access in the metaverse

TechCrunch

Ancient8 , Vietnam’s blockchain gaming guild, develops a community and software platform to enable everyone to play P2E (play-to-earn) games and build the metaverse while earning rewards. “We We lend our P2E game assets to the scholars, or guild players, so they can play P2E games and enable them to earn rewards.

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India’s insurance platform Turtlemint raises $30 million

TechCrunch

American Family Ventures, MassMutual Ventures and SIG; existing investors Blume Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, Nexus Venture Partners, Dream Incubator and Trifecta Capital also participated in the round, which brings Turtlemint’s total to-date raise to $55 million. Only a fraction of India’s 1.3

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New Startup Accelerator for Battery Innovation Accepting Applications

American Entrepreneurship

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). Binghamton University’s Koffman Southern Tier Incubator under the NENY initiative will run ChargeUp, utilizing its established format.

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How Antler East Africa is building early-stage startups with experienced professionals

TechCrunch

Founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur, Magnus Grimeland , and a team of experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and company builders worldwide, Antler has raised more than $75 million to help entrepreneurs spread across nine of the world’s major entrepreneurial hubs. To date, Antler has invested in and helped build over 250 companies.

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Ready, Set, Raise, an accelerator for women built by women, announces third class

TechCrunch

This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day. datacy: Founded by CEO Paroma Indilo and Kaleb Wilson, Datacy is a marketplace focused on enabling ethical and legal data exchange.

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India’s InsuranceDekho raises $150 million despite market slump

TechCrunch

The Indian insurance platform InsuranceDekho has raised $150 million in a Series A funding round as the more than a decade old firm eyes merger and acquisition opportunities at a time when the market slump has engulfed most startups in the South Asian nation.