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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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

Founded in 2017 by former Wall Street traders Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo, and Brannin McBee, CoreWeave began as a cryptocurrency mining operation before pivoting in 2019 to become a specialized provider of GPU-based cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

According to the 2019 RBC Economics Research report with findings from Statistics Canada, Ranaldi is part of the glaring “1.7% RBC attributes this low percentage to the financial duress that post-secondary education puts on aspiring entrepreneurs, impeding their ability to start businesses while still in school. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

He is the co-founder and CEO of Surf the Greats , Canada’s largest brand and community for surf education, adventure and lifestyle on the Great Lakes and beyond. The whole purpose of this company has been to educate and create spaces for the community to come together and live this lifestyle,” Lennert noted.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The tech-enabled startup, launched by Fadl Al Tarzi in 2019, is filling affordability and relevance gaps in education. accredited higher education and lets them study at their own pace. He also lauds the platform’s daily academic support and affordability, adding that conventional universities in the U.S.

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

in 2019 , and even less makes its way to minority women. If we are to create entrepreneurial ecosystems that nurture entrepreneurs of all colors and races, we must begin by addressing the systemic issues in play that prevent these business owners from accessing vital resources, capital, mentoring, networking and education.

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Source Link

DECEMBER 1, 2021

These businesses deserve our support and celebration; they make up the bulk of the existing entrepreneurial ecosystem in any community. After all, the only way to fill a gap is to identify it, and work collaboratively to address and overcome systemic barriers to better support small business success. Population, though 97% of U.S.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

Some of the common best practices to keep in mind when building an inclusive workplace, according to Ideal , include fair treatment and equal access to opportunities; a focus on teamwork and collaboration; representation at all levels; diversity, equity and inclusion training, and education; and effective and consistent communication.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 11, 2018

As part of our focus on #EOImpact , Jabez told us about his efforts in the education field. Ever since, I knew I’d be involved in education somehow. So, after that pause, my amazingly supportive wife and I began to form a plan for Sisu Academy. Quality Education. Quality education goes beyond just the core curriculum.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The report, “Empowering Global Citizens to Create Global Change,” focuses on the impact of MPOWER Financing’s core product, the world’s only fixed-rate, no-cosigner education loan for international and DACA students at top U.S. Enhance the financial independence and educational prospects of women from emerging markets.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Creative professionals continue to look for ways to monetize their talents and knowledge through online education platforms like CLASS101 that bring stable incomes and improve opportunities. CLASS101, a Seoul-based online education platform, announced today it has closed $25.8 In 2019, the company raised a $10.3

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

We spoke with Greg Crabtree , chair of EO@Wharton Executive Education program, to gain insights on how to plan during these uncertain times. 5000 list for 2019, Greg’s firm merged with Carr, Riggs & Ingram CPAs and Advisors , a top 25 U.S. Greg Crabtree is a speaker, author, entrepreneur and financial expert. Or suspend their pay?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 12, 2020

This Positively Gotham Gal podcast from April 2019 with Robin Steinberg of The Bail Project is a great education into the bail system and why it is so problematic. One of the issues with giving to bail funds is figuring out which one to support. The Gotham Gal and I have been donating to bail funds for a while now.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2016

Just ask Stacey Brewer and Ryan Harrison , EO Johannesburg members who are redefining the educational ecosystem in South Africa. Historically, South Africa ranks among the worst-performing education systems in the world. SB/ “The state of education in South Africa is stark at the moment.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

Her teaching areas are Management, Strategy, Business Plan and Entrepreneurial Support. Her areas of research include entrepreneurial ecosystem, entrepreneurial support, and inter-organizational strategies with a focus on business incubators. HilbertProblems (As an educator, I am working on a webinar/MOOC to serve ecosystem builders.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

When I first opened my salon 15 years ago, there wasn’t education or companies you could reach out to about sustainability. I learned the phrase “celebrate all mistakes” in 2019, and I have made that my motto! You joined the Austin chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) in January 2019.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In April 2019, Impact Hub partnered with GoDaddy , an American publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company, to create the New Roots program. The focus is on providing personalized support to underserved communities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

It approaches the human questions of “how do you support intrinsic motivation” through participant surveys and algorithmic matching — while tackling diversity of student needs by building different curriculums for first-generation individuals, adult learners, veterans, BIPOC and others.

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

We partner with early to mid-stage remote-first businesses of 50 to 2,000 employees in tech, consulting, professional services, and education. Since its launch in 2019, Remote has supported global relocations, helping over 5,000 individuals secure work permits in 2023 alone. We also tend to have a global workforce already.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Five years ago, entrepreneur Dan Sommer bet big on the adult learning space when he was building out Trilogy Education, an online and in-person bootcamp in collaboration with universities to train workforces on the latest tech skills. In 2019, Sommer sold that company for $750 million to 2U in one of the largest edtech exits to date.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

The freshly acquired funds will be utilized by Vuihoc to support its product offerings, leveraging AI technology to provide personalized learning experiences tailored to each student’s unique needs. Founded in 2019 by Lam Do and Thu Do, Vuihoc has rapidly grown to serve over 1.1

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

So the company targets markets with low online education penetration rates, such as emerging markets. That is why in March 2019 we directed our efforts to further delivery of an affordable edutainment program and launched Spanish-English and Polish-English language pairs.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Holberton , the education startup that started out as a coding school in San Francisco and today works with partners to run schools in the U.S., A number of students also accused the school of not giving them the education it had promised. After a hearing, the BPPE allowed Holberton to continue to operate its other programs.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

Wellington-based entrepreneur and investor Dave Moskovitz has been the chair of GEN New Zealand since 2019. “We We would like people who are in, and who interact with, the entrepreneurial ecosystem, to support our key messages and initiatives and create a more entrepreneurial Aotearoa,” Moskovitz says.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Fintech startup StudentFinance — which allows educational institutions to offer success-based financing for students — has raised a $5.3 It now has 35 education providers signed up, managing over €5 million worth of ISAs. The startup was founded in 2019 by Kostelec, Marta Palmeiro, Sergio Pereira and Miguel Santo Amaro.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So I think we need to do a lot of expectation setting and educating so that people know what is possible and what’s not for us. Do you see specific ways that we can support women in business? First, I think we need to seek out and support them. They have been supportive through every step of becoming a mom.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2016

Just ask Stacey Brewer and Ryan Harrison , EO Johannesburg members who are redefining the educational ecosystem in South Africa. Historically, South Africa ranks among the worst-performing education systems in the world. SB/ “The state of education in South Africa is stark at the moment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

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. BLCK VC launches educational initiative to bring more Black entrepreneurs into investing ecosystem.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 4, 2019

On Tuesday, December 3, 2019, at the Technology Center on Innovation Blvd in State College, each team pitched their business concept to a panel of independent judges for a cash prize of $10,000! A standing-room-only crowd was on hand to support the efforts of these local startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

USD $76 million) in 2019, due to a near doubling of transactions from 46 in 2019 to 92 in 2020. In addition, in 2020, investors provided more follow-on capital than ever before at 56%, or NZD $109 million (USD $79 million), which shows a dedication to supporting startups through to exit, according to a PwC analysis.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Lifepal was founded in 2019 by former Lazada executives Giacomo Ficari and Nicolo Robba, along with Benny Fajarai and Reza Muhammed. Many of these apps provide educational content, since their customers are usually millennials investing for the first time, and Lifepal takes a similar approach.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

London-based Habitual , a healthtech startup which offers a weight loss program aimed at people with type 2 diabetes (or prediabetes) that combines “evidence-based” food replacement with digital support to help people manage and even reverse the condition (so they can be medication free), has closed a $2.3 million seed round.

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Jason Malki

MARCH 24, 2023

Dare to Run will be launching the first cohort of the Women’s Leadership Training Program in 2019. Simultaneously, she worked as the Program Manager for the Quality of Life Innovations Program for an educational nonprofit called Working in Support of Education in Midtown. Prior to founding Dare to Run, Ms.

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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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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

These can be policy makers, entrepreneurs, students, incubator managers and staff, universities, professors, educators and researchers, or just citizens. I am a professor in entrepreneurship and educate students to this reflection and contribute to the development of an entrepreneurial culture and mindset. Theodoraki, C. Theodoraki, C.,

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 23, 2023

At a glance Founders: Evo Leota-Tupou (Founder), Theresa Tupuola-Sorenson (Co-Founder), Tatiana Marich (Co-Founder) Business: Pacific Kids’ Learning Founded: 2019 HQ: Auckland Can you tell us a bit about your business? It was created in response to a lack of digital content supporting Pacific languages for young learners.

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