Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 23, 2024

She began to notice a variety of challenges when it came to STEM education, both in her community and globally. The initial idea was born in 2013 but was not officially registered as a business until 2020 because she faced hardships launching the STEM Builders Learning Hub and finding tutors.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 30, 2020

2016 YLAI Fellow Marco Mendieta is working hard to develop the small business community of Ecuador and regenerate the economy following the devastating earthquake of 2016. With the support of the U.S. It is never about the money that I make in the projects I work on, but the contribution to the community and to society overall.

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Source Link

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Expedited innovation. Despite many small businesses closing their doors in 2020, the pandemic nevertheless brought an increase in entrepreneurial spirit. Between June and September 2020, more businesses were launched than in any other quarter in U.S. Entrepreneurship-led job creation. Then, funding—how to pay the employees.

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UBI Global

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

3 reasons why startups fuel any innovation ecosystem A guest post by Tala Al Ansari, Director of District 2020’s Innovation Ecosystem and supporting partner to the Triumph of Innovation impact study and report.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 1, 2022

Untapping the potential of diverse communities. In October 2017, the European Union’s Urban Innovative Actions fund awarded €4,2 million to Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton for a 3-year initiative called MiFriendly Cities. As one might imagine, all this diversity brings with it an untapped resource of skills and ideas.

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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

After collectively witnessing many of our main street and small businesses across the country close in 2020, there arose a new sense of appreciation for the value entrepreneurs bring to our communities and our economy. To support the growth of our network, we welcomed two additional team members!

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Our $10,000 prize pool was sponsored by BB&T now Truist, Lancaster County Community Foundation & The Candy Factory. The winner, Sharina Johnson – Founder of MEH Support, is developing a platform to support individuals recovering from substance abuse. MEH Support took home a cash prize of $6,000.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

We’re just about two weeks away from launching TC Sessions: Space 2020 , our first focused foray into early-stage space startups and the essential satellite industries that support them. Here are five stellar reasons to attend TC Sessions: Space 2020. Top innovators in the space scene. We’ll go you four better.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

NJ Entrepreneur Support Program provides guarantees to support investments into Garden State companies TRENTON, N.J. The NJ Entrepreneur Support Program provides investors with a one-year guarantee of up to 80 percent on a convertible note or bridge loan to a qualifying company.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

You have just 48 hours left to secure an early-bird ticket to TC Sessions: Space 2020 , a two-day virtual conference dedicated to early-stage space startups and the community that supports them. See the latest innovations, connect with potential customers, collaborators or investors. Listen up, space fans and aficionados.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 20, 2022

A number of startups and entrepreneurial initiatives working to address challenges in the transport sector have been approved for funding in round one of the Waka Kotahi Hoe ki angitū- Innovation Fund , with a second round of challenges now announced. It will support a range of private and non-government sector innovators and innovations.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Contributed by Amanda Ma, founder and CEO of Innovate Marketing Group and EO Los Angeles member. In March 2020 when the pandemic hit and the US shut down, the events industry was completely disrupted. My Forum mates—who are all in other industries—took turns checking in on me to offer their support and brainstorm ideas with me.

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Impact Hub

JULY 14, 2021

For the second year in a row, Impact Hub joined forces with GoDaddy for another edition of New Roots, a business startup and mentoring program for entrepreneurs from underserved communities. The program was piloted in 2019 by Impact Hub King’s Cross in London and it was focused on supporting migrant and refugee entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Bahia could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America. 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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Lawyers and accountants tend to err on the conservative side, leading to a low failure rate of businesses but less “moonshot innovation,” shall we say. The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Education, support and sage advice are arguably as essential to startup success as fundraising. Find all that — and connect with your early-founder community — at TC Early Stage 2021. Early-bird pricing: We offer two pass levels — Founder and Innovator. Jessica McLean, director of Marketing and Communications, Infinite-Compute.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 8, 2022

In view of this panoram – and inspired by the successful pilots of the programme in other European countries -, the Instituto Pedro Nunes launched in 2020 the Portuguese version of Empreendedorismo 5.0. . How are they supporting seniors’ entrepreneurship? Empreendedorismo 5.0 Empreendedorismo 5.0 s participant.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 24, 2020

Stories of organizations and innovators choosing to do the right thing in the hardest time provide hope. . In early April 2020, larger financial institutions including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup, vowed to hold off on making layoffs. Even smaller organizations are committing to keep staff on.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Small businesses encouraged to take advantage of the Small Business E-Commerce Support Program to develop website, marketing plan & implement online ordering TRENTON, N.J. Since the Small Business E-Commerce Support Program launched, the NJEDA has connected 152 small businesses to consulting firms, representing over $1.1

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

These projects need investment capital and community involvement/buy-in to get to market and begin the process of decentralization. I am a big fan of “safe harbors”and wrote a bit a few years ago about why I like them so much and why a crypto safe harbor is such a needed and good idea.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 8, 2020

CEMEX-TEC Award is the most important award in Monterrey, Mexico, for social innovation and social entrepreneurs. This is due to two elements: the Bootcamp nature of the program and the large sum of grant money involved; and 2020 marks its 10 anniversary. In 2020 the tour will be repeated, so keep an eye out on further information.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In a year as unprecedented as 2020, entrepreneurs showed the world the kind of resilience they and their businesses are made of amid the coronavirus. Here’s what aspiring entrepreneurs hoping to get their start in 2021 can learn from the businesses that survived, and thrived, in 2020: Create a pivot-friendly business model.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Entrepreneurs are not only reinventing the future through innovative solutions, but they are also positively impacting the present by playing a role in creating decent work opportunities and economic growth. Actions in support of diversity and inclusion. Actions in support of diversity and inclusion.

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StartupNation

MAY 18, 2021

Angel funding is typically the earliest form of equity funding, and it supports nearly 20 times the number of startups versus other forms of equity funding — each with an increased probability of survival, improved performance, and annual growth of 30% to 50%, on average, based on a study by Harvard and MIT researchers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 15, 2022

As many of you remember, EO was meant to go to Cape Town back in April 2020, when the COVID-19 outbreak put a hard stop on all our plans. I was so proud to see EO members offering support to each other during lockdowns, while we learned to collaborate without regular in-person meetings. At GLC 2022, across both Washington, D.C.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 16, 2021

In 2020 they launched Patch Animation , LLC, a remote full-service animation studio with headquarters in Ebensburg, Pa. This innovative use of a gaming software for a short film results in greater efficiency, cost-savings and more pipeline flexibility,” said Romani, partner and head of business operations. “We

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

.” That was Lori Coulter, CEO and co-founder of Summersalt, speaking at the State of the Midwest Startup Community 2020. And in 2020, we actually saw a backward trend for female founders that’s preventing some really great breakthroughs. They’ve done innovative work with sizing, taking over 1.5

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2024

As an experienced leader in venturing and digital transformation, Taylor has been at the forefront of emerging consumer and technology innovation trends for the past decade. Having earned his MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, he maintains close ties to the Bay Area’s entrepreneurial community. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” According to Mozilla SVP Imo Udom, Active Replica will support Mozilla’s ongoing work with Hubs, the latter’s VR chatroom service and open source project. “Together, we see this as a key opportunity to bring even more innovation and creativity to Hubs than we could alone,” Udom said in a blog post.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 18, 2020

Coinbase is putting Rosetta out to the broader community under an Apache license in the hopes that other exchanges will kick the tires on it. An open source middleware framework like Rosetta should make it much easier for exchanges to list new assets and allow them to support new assets more quickly.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 16, 2024

Coordinated by Delaware Prosperity Partnership and innovation-supporting partners from throughout the Delaware business community and beyond, Startup302 launched in 2020 and has provided $643,000 in funding to 37 ventures since the first finals in 2021. Thanks to sponsors, there is no charge to enter.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 16, 2023

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and innovators working on our next generation of new business startups, social enterprises and small businesses. At a glance Founder: Sally Metelerkamp Business: Lived Founded: 2020 HQ: Otago Can you tell us a bit about your business? What’s the backstory for your business idea?

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HPA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

HPA first invested in the $4M round that NOCD completed in 2019 and invested again in the $12M Series A in 2020. With this new round, NOCD will use the funding to address the global OCD crisis by establishing a new behavioral health market category called “Community-Driven Therapy”.

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HPA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

HPA first invested in the $4M round that NOCD completed in 2019 and invested again in the $12M Series A in 2020. With this new round, NOCD will use the funding to address the global OCD crisis by establishing a new behavioral health market category called “Community-Driven Therapy”.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

Many industries temporarily froze in March-April 2020, paralyzed by the uncertainty that an invisible enemy unleashed. But from the back half of 2020 into 2021, we are bearing witness to accelerated adoption and transformational change in industry after industry. The Miami ecosystem, which we visited on our ROTR 8.0

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

We reached out to Brianna Ellison, director of community engagement for Verizon, as part of our initiative to bring the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready program to Michigan entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners. What work is Verizon doing in the Detroit/Michigan community to help small businesses? Brianna Ellison.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2023

207 Applications Approved for over $8 Million in Tax Credits to Support Investment in 28 Companies TRENTON, N.J. million in private investment as supported in 2023 by the New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Program (ATC). The NJEDA approved 207 investor applications in 2023, for a total of more than $8.2

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