Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Rondell Hamilton is the founder of Rennie’s Orphanage and Animal Rescue (ROAR) in Trinidad, a nonprofit organization managing the rehabilitation, repopulation, and rescue of wild animals. The need for education on biodiversity, as well as the care of injured animals, also drove me to create ROAR. By Jewelle Saunders.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Bibiana Dipeo, the director of Alimentando Para el Futuro (Feed4Future) in Paraguay, is empowering her community after more than a decade in the financial sector, by innovating new ways to reduce malnutrition and poverty. The most effective tools for women to get out of poverty are to: Democratize access to education.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 4, 2018

In entrepreneurial circles throughout the world, there is a lot of chatter about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) —17 goals to address some of the world’s most challenging socioeconomic, environmental and lifestyle issues. He earned a nomination for 2018 EO Global Citizen of the Year. Create a network.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 18, 2021

Developing your brand means deciding how you distinguish yourself to your audience, and it determines how many people will interact with your organization and what the world knows you stand for. Understand your audience and educate your community. Taking on bigger (and better funded) competitors is not easy,” says Professor Goldberg.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 29, 2020

Tamara Isch, a 2018 YLAI Fellow and a co-founder and COO of EcX Labs, has been breaking boundaries in her country, in her field of work, and in the world. A great way to do that is to join a community for support. Developing contacts expanded her view of the world. By Elise Kemp. Joining a community was key in Tamara’s journey.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Matt Biilmann, Netlify CEO and co-founder, said that in the early days, they had to educate and convince people that the change in architecture that Netlify was trying to bring about was a real thing. “[OneGraph technology] is going to be an important part of our next stage of product development,” Biilmann explained.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Driven by a desire to help people from a young age, YLAI 2018 Fellow Janeel Boon aims to empower others to see their leadership ability within themselves. Providing five-minute tips and tricks about what to do and not to do with your computer during these sessions allowed me an easy way to start educating my community as well.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 19, 2022

With encouragement from friends and family, in March 2018, I founded Covert Results, a private investigations and security company. That became our main focus: To educate the hospitality industry. We’ve experienced an outpouring of support from the local community and media. It was time to retire and start a new venture.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2019

On 25–26 June 2019, EO presented a two-day International Entrepreneurial Summit at the United Nations focused on inspiring, educating and connecting business leaders to promote sustainable business practices. Sustainable Development Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

2018 YLAI fellow Kenishia Mais is the founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform empowering young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, create their ideal financial lives, and gain the freedom to pursue more of what they love.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Y-Combinator- backed Localyze has nabbed $12 million in Series A funding led by Blossom Capital for a SaaS that supports staff relocations and hiring across borders. “We developed a software that automates large parts of the relevant processes around global mobility,” explains Asmussen.

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

As we foster the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems, it’s important to design them to level the playing field for women. In 2018, women started 1,821 net new businesses every day according to research by American Express, which also showed that black women are starting businesses at the fastest rate of any racial group.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

Over the last three years, GEN has grown its New Zealand network to more than 200 people representing more than 140 organisations, including entrepreneurs, incubators and accelerators, entrepreneur support organisations, central and local government, academia, investors and NGOs. Moskovitz is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

London-based Kodland , which started out back in 2018 offering in-person courses for children to learn digital skills like computer programming before switching focus to online learning from early 2020, has closed a $9 million Series A funding round to scale into more markets. It says it will also be spending on product development.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

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 Add to that, the dozens of courses I’ve attended and home education programs I’ve listened to.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As a software engineering student, he set on a mission to transform South Korea’s education environment. The country’s education system predominantly relied on one-way knowledge transfer, and Ahn believed that information technology could alter this landscape. Jaewoo Ahn and Jungho Choi lead the development team.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Its host companies include AWS, Carrefour, Dentons, GAM Investments, Asian Development Bank and Bio Pharm Dongsung. This results in many students feeling that their universities didn’t give them adequate career support. But geography and time commitments also make many top internships inaccessible.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Userpilot CEO Yazan Sehwail told TechCrunch that they will use the latest funding to build new features that will help companies further reduce customer support and engineering costs. As investors focus more on profitability, product-led startups may be sitting pretty.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 15, 2021

To increase public understanding of the role of entrepreneurship we need to educate our communities about its power and impact. We need educational and awareness campaigns that communicate the importance of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystem building as a means to building stronger, more resilient, and equitable economies.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It will also support the development of new consumer and enterprise products to enable Indonesians and businesses to access a wider range of services securely and accelerate broader digital transformation. Marshall Pribadi, CEO and Co-Founder of Privy, said he is thrilled to welcome KKR as among their new investors.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. Without this support, many early-stage companies wouldn’t get off the ground.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. Without this support, many early-stage companies wouldn’t get off the ground.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

is a New York-based company that develops innovative color technology products. The Colorpik Smart Pen is a popular tool for artists, designers, and educators. After four years of arduous research and development, my determination and ingenuity finally led to the creation of a pen that could contain the infinite spectrum of colors!

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 28, 2023

Register With the release of the conversational AI ChatGPT developed by OpenAI in November 2022, our lives our lives are directly affected by AI technology more than ever. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

A 2018 study by the the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy reported that there were over 379,000 veteran-owned employer businesses in the U.S. , Although veteran-owned businesses are often more successful than the average startup, they still need mentorship, funding and support to take their idea from concept to market.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Founded by Tade Oyerinde in 2018, Campuswire is a virtual solution for any teacher who wants to digitize their internal classroom communications, from Q&A time to the lecture itself. BookClub connects readers to the authors they are reading, giving bookworms an opportunity to ask about cliffhangers and character development.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2019

Vikram Beri is an EO New Delhi member and the director of business development at FieldKing , a manufacturer of farm equipment founded by his grandfather in 1978. In late 2018, Vikram celebrated the second anniversary of his youngest, perhaps most meaningful, startup. So we changed our approach and started psycho-educating clients.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. New research looking into how U.K. Here the report found that 42.72% of U.K.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

By combining clinical services with software and design, Mantra Health aims to improve the mental health of more than 20 million university and college students through partnerships with higher education institutions and health insurance plans. The startup was founded in 2018 by Ed Gaussen, Matt Kennedy and Dr. Ravi Shah.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

STATE COLLEGE, PA – On December 6, 2018, six emerging tech entrepreneurs will compete for up to $10,000 at the BF TechCelerator’s graduation “pitch” event. Come and show support for the entrepreneurs but stay to enjoy the rest of the evening. Come and show support for the entrepreneurs but stay to enjoy the rest of the evening.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

joins them after raising $1 million to continue developing its online platform designed for matching like-minded travelers to small-group adventures organized by travel experts. Since 2018, CEO Bortnikova said that YouTravel.Me It instantly attracted me to help support them. million for its free travel itinerary platform.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A business’ ability to adapt to a digital future depends on developing the next generation of skills , meeting the talent supply and demand, and protecting its potential from future changes. Using these new skills, almost 50 bots have been developed so far that complete a range of functions from finance to marketing to technical support.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

This past decade, Nigeria has seen several companies cater to the development and growth of software engineers and tech talent in general. So when Chika Nwobi started Decagon in 2018, the perception was generally “here comes another tech talent accelerator.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Erin Yurday is the founder and CEO of NimbleFins , a startup that aims to educate consumers with data-driven research so they can make the best financial decisions for their individual situation. . Finally, Germany has a well-educated workforce, with 83 percent of adults having at least an upper secondary degree. United Kingdom.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

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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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Women Entrepreneurship Report 2018/19 shows that the average rate of women’s overall entrepreneurial activity is 10.2%, which is more than three-quarters of the overall rate of men’s entrepreneurial activity. Gender gap in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education .

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow. To support the startup community, he mentors young entrepreneurs in deep tech and automotive and has helped two web3 companies grow from inception to 200m+ market caps. There’s nothing worse than ivory tower developments.

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