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Snap debuts its fifth cohort of Yellow accelerator startups

TechCrunch

Snap’s in-house Yellow accelerator program, which invests in startups, has debuted its fifth batch of investments. The company invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake as part of the accelerator program, which first launched in 2018.

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Wrap-up of the Startup Community Leaders Mission USA 2018

Startup Catalyst

The second Startup Community Leaders Mission to the USA took place from 11-18 March 2018, with 20 participants taking part, including 14 from 11 different regional towns in Queensland, 3 from Brisbane, one from Sydney, one from Adelaide, and one from New York (assisting the Beach City film crew). Aussie startups can and should plug in.

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As startups accelerate in record Q3, Europe and Asia rack up huge VC results

TechCrunch

The two continents enjoyed more venture capital investment into their local startups than in some time, underscoring that strong VC results the United States saw in the third quarter were not a fluke, but part of a broader trend. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Asia: $24 billion. Europe: $9 billion.

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Colgate-Palmolive, Coca-Cola and Unilever join AB InBev’s sustainable supply chain accelerator

TechCrunch

A clutch of the world’s largest consumer products and food companies are joining Budweiser’s parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev in backing an investment program to support early-stage companies focused on making supply chains more sustainable. Those startups have gone on to raise more than $200 million in follow-on financing.

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Why You Don’t Want to Miss the MyEO DealExchange DX22 Conference

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The first two MyEO DealExchange conferences in 2018 and 2019 made a significant impact on the members who attended—including a 7-figure investment in Scott Mesh (EO New York)’s company. MyEO DealExchange was formally approved as a MyEO Premier Group in August 2018. EO’s “Angel-Sharks” are interested in a good investment.

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Paris-based accelerator The Family sues co-founder Oussama Ammar

TechCrunch

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. According to her, other people working for The Family have asked several times to see documents that proved that investments went through.

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Early-stage African VC firm, Microtraction reports portfolio boom despite the weight of COVID-19

TechCrunch

This represents nearly four-fold growth over a year ago when its portfolio raised $6 million (and just $3 million in 2018). Other investors include Pave Investments and US-based angel investor, Chris Schultz. Being entrepreneurs in the past, some of these investors know what it takes to build a startup in the U.S.

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