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Broadband critical for economic development

Innovation 2 Enterprise

The availability of broadband depends on whether a subscriber is in a populated or rural area, on carrier’s pricing and on how carriers prioritize their investment in expanding broadband infrastructure. According to the Federal Communication Commission’s 2018 broadband deployment chart, Oklahoma is last in our region in broadband development.

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Innovation is key to economic development

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Driving innovation through collaboration to create jobs is the entire reason for being of the public-private consortium of the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST), the Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance (OMA), the Oklahoma State University New Product Development Center (NPDC) and i2E.

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AppHarvest is now APPH: Rise of the Rest’s First Publicly Traded Company

Revolution

I am at once proud of and awed by Jonathan, whose dual-track passion for the future of food and the future of Appalachia has brought him to tears more than once since we first invested in early 2018. AppHarvest raised its first round of institutional capital from our Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and others in January 2018.

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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The Middle East consists of developing nations and, sadly, we are consumers of innovation and create very little of it ourselves. We hardly invent any new technologies and don’t invest enough in research and development,” Suhail says. “I For 2018 we are planning for 300-plus attendees. An Unreasonable Idea.

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African fintech OPay valued at $2B in SoftBank Vision Fund 2-led $400M funding

TechCrunch

The round, which marks the Fund’s first investment in an African startup, drew participation from existing investors like Sequoia Capital China, Redpoint China, Source Code Capital, and Softbank Ventures Asia. ” The company, founded in 2018, had an exclusive presence in Nigeria before last year.

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New Jersey announces $10M seed fund aimed at Black and Latinx founders

TechCrunch

The Black and Latinx Seed Fund will be administered by the New Economic Development Authority (NJEDA). NJEDA CEO Tim Sullivan said based on research conducted by the state, that New Jersey is the first state in the nation to develop this type of fund. billion venture dollars invested between 2018 and 2019.

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Zembo nabs $3.4 million from Toyota, DOB Equity and InfraCo Africa to grow its motorcycle startup in Uganda

TechCrunch

Mobility 54 Investment SAS, a corporate venture capital subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho Corporation and CFAO group, DOB Equity and InfraCo Africa have invested $3.4 Zembo, a French startup with operations in Uganda was founded in 2018 and sells electric motorcycles through a lease-to-own program.

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