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Black Innovation Alliance, Village Capital team up to support founders of color

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Black Innovation Alliance and Village Capital today announced Resource, a national initiative aimed at boosting the efforts of entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) led by, and focused on, founders of color. Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community.

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Marco Financial raises $82M in debt, equity seed round to support small Latin American exporters

TechCrunch

Additional investors in the newest seed round and expanded credit facility include Village Global VC, Flexport Ventures, Tresalia Capital, 342 Capital, Struck Capital, Antler LLC, Antler Elevate, Florida Funders and Fox Ventures. Miami-based Marco Financial is launching a revenue-based lending service for Latin American SMEs.

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Presbyterian Health Foundation awards $4.6 million in new research grants

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OKLAHOMA CITY, July 20, 2020: The Presbyterian Health Foundation has awarded nearly $4.6 A major funder of research programs at the Oklahoma Health Center, PHF has awarded more than $25 million to support biomedical research in Oklahoma since 2014. Contact: April Stuart. 405) 319-8260. astuart@phfokc.com. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

TechCrunch

Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. Chris McClelland, MD of Ignite NI: He’s a mentor on the city’s top accelerator program. Great incubator and accelerator in Ignite, but needs expansion to the Northwest where deprivation and poor infrastructure need to be addressed. What does it lack?

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

and abroad between February and September 2020. In an ecosystem, there should be multiple entrepreneurial support organizations, coworking spaces, incubators/accelerators, investors, etc.communicating about the resources they have to support entrepreneurs. Dealing with resistive funders, however, is our biggest challenge.

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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

and abroad between February and September 2020. I’d like to understand how to build effective multi-year plans that inspire and engage both funders of my own organization (and/or myself!) Expanding understanding and deepening genuine co-creation with policy-makers, academia & research, and funders (foundations & investors).

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India.