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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. The DX event is so powerful because of the networking quality among the MyEO DX community. Who can attend DX22?

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

TechCrunch

” Badamosi, who returned to Nigeria from the UK in 2015, worked as the general manager for Starta Africa, an online community for African tech entrepreneurs. 2019 saw the local VC firm invest in six companies. This time there was a representative outside Nigeria — Ghanaian fintech startup, Bitsika.

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Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America

TechCrunch

Vale do Dendê coordinates with local startups, investors and government agencies to support entrepreneurship and innovation and runs startup acceleration programs specifically focusing on supporting Afro-Brazilian founders. It attracted backing from Facebook Brasil and grew 770% in 2020.

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With Benioff backing, Sustainable Ocean Alliance aims to be the rising tide that lifts all ‘ecopreneurs’

TechCrunch

Benioff challenged SOA founder Daniela Fernandez to find and accelerate 100 ocean-focused startups and projects back in 2019, and the organization more than doubled that goal. “We see startups leapfrogging across multiple accelerator programs to try and access new networks and funding.

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 1

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Recently, I worked with a community that was struggling to explain what they thought success looked like in ten years to their funding organizations. For example, my EDO had “7 wins” (companies that relocated) in 2018, but only “1 win” in 2019. Does this mean we were less successful in 2019? It is led by Chapman & Co.,

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Noologica

NZ Entrepreneur

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and innovators working on our next generation of new business startups, social enterprises and small businesses. At a glance Founders: DR.FABIAN LABRA SPRÖHNLE, Isidora Labra Odde, Myriam Odde Cattan Business: Noologica Founded: 2019 HQ: Tasman Can you tell us a bit about your business?

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How COVID-19 and the resulting recession are impacting female founders

TechCrunch

The numbers were a dramatic turnaround from where 2019 left the industry. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. In Q3 2020, PitchBook data reported that US-based female founders raised $434 million across 136 rounds. That dollar amount was off from $841 million in Q2 2020, for context.

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