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Women entrepreneurs find success despite lack of access to investment capital

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As we foster the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems, it’s important to design them to level the playing field for women. Despite the growth in women-owned businesses, venture capital is still funneled to mostly male-owned businesses. of venture capital funds went to women-owned businesses in the U.S. Plenty of initiative.

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AllSpice thinks hardware developers lack their own ‘GitHub,’ so it is building one

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AllSpice , a collaborative hub designed for hardware development, came out of private beta on a mission to build a DevOps ecosystem inspired by GitHub. Founders Valentina Ratner (formerly Toll Villagra) and Kyle Dumont met at Harvard while both were getting a joint engineering master’s and MBA in 2019.

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

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I’ve heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. So here’s a reminder of why 2019 is 10000x better than 20 years ago. “We We’re in a new tech bubble!”

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The Rise of the Rest Class of 2019

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My advice would be to pick and develop a focus in which you have competency and passion. When a business concept can thrive in an area that is not capital rich, it’s likely that this is a resilient idea, driven by resilient people. It’s also a fantastic place to raise a family, meaning you have an advantage when recruiting.

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How WhiteLab Genomics is using AI to aid gene and cell therapy development

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French biotech company WhiteLab Genomics has raised $10 million in funding for an AI platform designed to aid the discovery and development of genomic therapies. However, such therapies are typically costly to develop with no guarantee that they’ll work.

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Bibit raises another growth round led by Sequoia Capital India, this time for $65M

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Four months after leading a $30 million growth round in Bibit , Sequoia Capital India has doubled down on its investment in the Indonesian robo-advisor app. This brings Bibit’s total funding to $110 million, including a Series A announced in May 2019. Indonesian robo-advisor app Bibit raises $30 million led by Sequoia Capital India.

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Temasek’s Pavilion Capital backs South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions with $50M investment

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Global venture capital firms are pouring money into the semiconductor startups developing the next generation of chips. Sunghyun Park , a former quant developer at Morgan Stanley in New York, launched artificial intelligence semiconductor startup Rebellions with four co-founders to enter this red-hot industry in 2020.

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