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Rallying for rural entrepreneurship: addressing the challenges that face rural small businesses

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During my tenure with the local University I worked with economic developers all across Iowa, from Sioux City to Davenport and a great many small but mighty communities in-between: Grinnell, Parkersburg, Webster City and Lamoni to name a few. Distance and transportation. Heightened vulnerability for minority entrepreneurs.

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Google’s third bet from its Africa Investment Fund is in logistics company Lori Systems

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Lori Systems , an African on-demand logistics and trucking company digitizing haulage and providing shippers with solutions to manage their cargo and transporters, has raised a pre-Series B round in which Google participated along with other existing investors. Lori has raised a total of $38.2 million, according to Crunchbase.

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Your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology

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Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. However, in 2019, the company realized that the challenge was a bit bigger than the founders previously anticipated. The Mexico City-based company emerges with new funding, $3.9

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NJEDA Establishes New Jersey Green Bank to Advance Climate Goals

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April 15, 2024) – Last week, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board approved the creation of the New Jersey Green Bank (NJGB), which will make investments in the clean energy sector that will help advance the state’s efforts to make an equitable transition to 100 percent clean energy. TRENTON, N.J.

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