Impact Hub

APRIL 1, 2022

In October 2017, the European Union’s Urban Innovative Actions fund awarded €4,2 million to Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton for a 3-year initiative called MiFriendly Cities. The project looked to develop innovative, community-led and sustainable approaches to enhance the contribution of refugees and migrants across the region.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

“At a time when startups are facing a challenging funding environment, it is more critical than ever to provide a platform for founders to attract investment and scale their innovative solutions,” said Selma Bueno, Global Head of the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Group.

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Source Link

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2017, we shared 3 ways to empower your entrepreneurial community. Creating inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems can help close the wealth gap , as entrepreneurship offers one of the greatest opportunities for personal wealth building. Make your ecosystem sustainable. Make your ecosystem inclusive.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Nayleen, a 2017 YLAI fellow, is from a small rural village in the province of Los Santos, Panama. She saw a need for local artisans in this community to be given the same opportunities as those in the modern industry. Santé Cutarras became the first brand to innovate the national shoes of her country. By Elise Kemp.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. The initiative aims to provide Singapore-based startups access to diverse funding sources and mentorship programs, nurturing innovative concepts into prosperous companies.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 30, 2024

Their decision to grow in Delaware will help make our environment more sustainable and add jobs to our state.” We have the talent right here in our state, and this expansion presents opportunities for our workforce to stay right here at home.” As the company has evolved, including raising $16.5

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Sebastian led Innovation Management in 3 verticals before becoming a corporate intrapreneur in the automotive industry in 2017, where he created numerous in-house startups, going through ideation to scale-up stages. It is inevitable to miss out on opportunities due to time constraints. Not sure if I mentioned AI.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 5, 2017

” While pursuing an MBA at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Sandton, South Africa, Stacey saw an opportunity to leverage her business acumen in South Africa’s educational sector. In 2017, the SPARK network comprises 11 schools and nearly 3,000 students. Read more about Stacey and Ryan’s endeavor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We entered this market because we saw a real opportunity to guarantee and deliver quality furniture. However, in 2017 it pivoted and started a pilot for its first consumer product (a mattress), and then a year later launched the MoKo Home + Living brand to serve the mass market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

They concluded that a unique opportunity to rebuild the fish value chain from scratch existed. We sell to mass market Africans via a high innovative RTM cold chain which uses predictive data to push fish to thousands of market ladies every day all across Kenya with less than 1% spoilage.”. billion fish deficit.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2020

The new funds will also be used to build out Ten-Nine Technologies’ engineering, business development and managerial team and continue development of its innovative battery materials. Johnson received the Battery Innovation Center (BIC) award for the development of hydrocarbon parity lithium battery technology in 2017.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 25, 2019

In the NESI Forum held for the first time in 2017 more than 700 representatives of these models agreed that: “The new economy will be at the service of people and the planet.” NESI brings together the global key players working on economic system change and social innovation. What do all these models have in common?

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Impact Hub

JULY 30, 2021

Larissa de Moura, a Brazilian social innovator based in Spain, has experienced first-hand the challenges of being a young, migrant entrepreneur and developing her startup on her own, in an unknown country. We are changemakers, doers, social innovators, dreamers, thinkers, disruptors and much more. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

In a bid to position its brand as more tech-forward — and, in the process, foster new culinary innovations — Chipotle today announced the launch of Cultivate Next, a venture fund run by Curt Garner, the restaurant chain’s chief technology officer.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

. “[It] provides both a clear path to productization (with no new technology development) and basis for value proposition in customer applications at the forefront of AI, positioning EnCharge for market impact … Many edge applications are in an emerging phase, with the greatest opportunities for value from AI still being defined.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

CEO Mark Rojas, whose background is in product development, founded Proper in 2017 after spending a year-and-a-half learning the ropes in a property manager’s office. He considers proptech still in its infancy with much of the innovation coming from home buying, selling and maintenance rather than accounting. The company brought in $4.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa winner in 2017 is currently present in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. She stated that Lori has been focusing on growth, sustainability and a path to profitability since its last funding round. Google’s Africa Investment Fund makes first investment in Uganda’s SafeBoda.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

He and his co-founders saw an opportunity to innovate around the tail spend space when they launched the company in 2017. “We Companies configure Fairmarkit for things like price, sustainability and vendor diversity and the system finds the best match for them, a process known as autonomous sourcing. “We’ve

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Vienna, 10 November 2021 – As the Impact Hub Network continues to accelerate the transition to a more just and sustainable future, we are excited to announce an update on our leadership team. Tatiana holds an MSc in sustainable business practice. To accelerate the transition to a more just and sustainable future.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 11, 2019

Hawaii is best known as a tropical paradise, but as the state is making big moves towards becoming an innovation ecosystem, we’re adapting our tropical paradise into a #startupparadise. We secured our newest (and current) location in Kaka’ako and opened our doors August 2017. We secured a great location, but quickly outgrew the space.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Here are 10 impactful moments that led us to become the largest global network that supports social entrepreneurs and innovators. And, looking now at 102 Impact Hubs across 60 countries and 24.000 entrepreneurs and innovators supported, it looks like we were right to believe so. LatAm SEED Program meeting, São Paulo 2017.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Register The global events and meetings industry is a powerhouse, driving billions of dollars in economic activity with countless business opportunities. Founding Visions that Fuel Innovation Younghak Ahn’s journey into entrepreneurship began with a passion for addressing real-world problems.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

I felt like the luckiest teenager in the world, having gotten the opportunity to watch some of the best and brightest people I had ever seen try and solve the problems we are afflicted with, the problems we see on the news every day. In 2021, we invested more than we did in 2017-2020 combined. I was inspired by the people in my life.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Hardware, as the saying goes, is hard; but there remains an opportunity for startups that focus on specific niches to build viable businesses. There is true innovation, major steps in terms of what we can offer the customer. We also think it’s great from a sustainability perspective [to move away from] pushing out new hardware.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Once lone rangers, Q1 Labs and Radian6 are now surrounded by thriving copycats in a self-sustaining ecosystem. In 2017, Bird and the former CEO of Q1 Labs founded a new cybersecurity company, this one focused on public clouds, called Sonrai Security , which has since raised nearly $40 million in venture capital.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Impact Hub Network Global team Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp In Brazil, a dynamic force of over 11 million individual micro-entrepreneurs (MEIs) is actively recognising and capitalising on opportunities to shape a more promising future.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Adtech and martech VCs see big opportunities in privacy and compliance. 3 adtech and martech VCs see major opportunities in privacy and compliance. How do you sustainably scale a company that probably doesn’t have revenue and isn’t likely to for the foreseeable future? “Often these founders with Ph.D.s

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

I’d been a retail investor in crypto since 2017. When NFTs started to explode in popularity, it was the first time I saw an opportunity to use my skill set to actively participate and build. In ’22 he doubled down on his commitment to NFTs launching the Shufl NFT marketplace. Thank you so much for joining us!

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer was inducted into the Oklahoma Woman’s Hall of Fame in 2017. She is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma, Leadership Oklahoma City, and is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Oklahoma City. Women business leaders have created mentorship networks to help support a culture of innovation and risk-taking.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 22, 2018

ERIE, PA – More than 15 years ago, a Penn State Erie faculty member, Tom Briselden and his team at Spin-Works LLC, developed an innovative, silicon-carbide radiant tube insert called a SpyroCor. The twisted “Y” design produced non-turbulent, high convection flow creating a high rate of uniform heat transfer. Others did as well.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply. I chose to come back to Orlando because I found it most rewarding in terms of personality fit, diversity, and growth opportunities. Yes, absolutely.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

It is also a competition that provides the opportunity for start-ups to grow and has been doing so since 2017. Subsequently, it provides an opportunity for sustainable growth of minority small businesses that are underfunded. 14) Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Program.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Naspers’ acquisition of Takealot for a little over $200 million across two transactions in 2017 guaranteed almost a 2x return for Tiger Global. That is why they saw an opportunity in the likes of Flutterwave, and they came in at the best time.”. Fintech brings the Tiger back. Investor interest in fintech reached its peak in 2021.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

JC Penney closed 139 stores in 2017, despite aggressive efforts to woo Sephora customers and Sears refugees. Buyers now expect stores to offer an opportunity to connect with a brand in a way that is relational rather than purely transactional. “A Sustainability and Transparency.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Friendly, smart, innovative, and ready to lend a helping hand. The year 2020 threw online education into the spotlight, but this Ann Arbor tech company has known the value of it since it was founded in 2017. Because they’re quickly growing, working at Blumira offers the opportunity for high growth and a fast-paced work environment.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

and opportunities for impact focused start-ups in the current ecosystem, at the Resurgence TiEcon. ecosystems to drive collaboration and entrepreneurial innovation around the UN’s Sustainable. Steering Group for Impact Investment (2017-20); Founding CEO of India’s Impact Investors Council. Delhi-NCR event.

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