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Bumo’s Innovative Child Care Platform Gains $10M in Seed Funding

American Entrepreneurship

Bumo aims to modernize the child care industry and position itself as the go-to platform for today’s parents—just as Airbnb redefined lodging and Uber reimagined transportation. At the same time, it empowers small businesses and early education providers by helping them connect with more families and improve their occupancy.

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

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Don and his team find in many rural communities, “well-educated young people […] are seeking careers in a wider range of fields,” and if the community fails to create diverse job opportunities associated with career paths, “chances are good that most of the community’s children and grandchildren will leave the community and not return.”.

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What We Can Learn from the Biggest Tech Policy Mistakes of 2018

Revolution

In what I’ve called The Third Wave , the Internet will become ubiquitous and transform industries that are part of our everyday life including health care, transportation, education, food, etc. As we kick off 2019, let’s look back on some of the “greatest hits” of 2018, that highlight why policy now matters.

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New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape

TechCrunch

from 2010 to 2019. According to the report, African developers created 40% more open source repositories on the software engineering marketplace in 2019 than in 2018 — recording a higher growth percentage than any other continent globally. Image Credits: ITU World Telecommunication/IOT indicators database/Endeavor.

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Norebase raises $1M to allow companies start, scale, and operate in any African country

TechCrunch

But in 2019, various policymakers across different parts of the continent signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement — a framework for Africa to be a single market for trade and services — to make intra-trade less painful (side note: the agreement is yet to make any significant impact.). .

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5 top investors in Dutch startups discuss trends, hopes and 2020 opportunities

TechCrunch

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. and StartupAmsterdam, there are 1,661 tech companies in Amsterdam, while the city ranked fifteenth in Startup Genome’s 2019 report “Global Startup Ecosystem Report,” moving up four places since 2017.

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Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change

TechCrunch

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. At the start of 2020, Israeli startups and technology companies were looking back on a good 2019.