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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 1

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I asked them to treat me like a funder. For example, my EDO had “7 wins” (companies that relocated) in 2018, but only “1 win” in 2019. So, we are planning to deploy it inside of schools across Western Iowa to find highly talented individual entrepreneurs and accelerate their growth to help propel CB onward.” – Tom Chapman.

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

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’s Tech Nation found in 2018 that about 26% of Belfast’s workforce was employed in tech, and it is among cities in the country with the highest growth potential for 2021. Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. Ignite NI – Seed-stage accelerator program. Co-founded BrewBot.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. By 2018 I sensed that he was right and we began focusing more on our barbell approach.

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Tech Nation looks for new home as UK Gov hands tech ecosystem contract to Barclays

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Tech City UK, its predecessor, was launched in 2011 by former prime minister David Cameron and concentrated largely on the London ecosystem until 2018 when it merged with Tech North (based in Manchester). “There’s such a gap in equity for Northern funders still. Tech Nation has long been embedded in the U.K. and abroad.

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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

TechCrunch

Then in 2019, Dunbabin was approached by Oceankind, a mysterious new ocean philanthropy organization that promised to accelerate his efforts. They’ve been absolutely a dream funder.”. That makes Oceankind one of the biggest non-governmental funders of ocean science in the world. But global issues can’t wait three years.”.

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