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Venture capital undermines human rights

TechCrunch

Venture capital firms, which provide equity financing for early- and growth-stage startups, play a critical gatekeeper role, deciding which new technologies and technology companies will receive funding. Amnesty International recently surveyed the world’s largest venture capital firms and startup accelerators.

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Governor Murphy Announces Proposed Fintech Accelerator in Hoboken

American Entrepreneurship

Plug and Play’s network consists of 50,000 startups, over 500 leading corporations, and hundreds of venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies. From 2020 to 2022, Plug and Play was the most active startup accelerator in the world, according to CB Insights.

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How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy. Like the downturns in 2008 and 2001, this has been a very trying time for entrepreneurs running startups. Rizwan Virk is the author of Startup Myths and Models: What You Won’t Learn in Business School. But chronic stress is something that can become debilitating.

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Pave gets Y Combinator to back better startup compensation tools, again

TechCrunch

Today’s financing puts Pave’s valuation at $400 million, up from $75 million one year ago. Pave launched with an ambitious goal: Can it measure pay across venture-backed tech companies in real time, and help startups move their comp table off of spreadsheets? ” On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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Nigerian fintech Appzone raises $10M for expansion and proprietary technology

TechCrunch

In 2020, the company launched services catered to end-to-end automation of lending operations for banks and blockchain switching. Since its inception , the Google for Startups Accelerator alumnus claims to have led Africa’s fintech sector in some global firsts from the continent. ” Image Credits: Appzone.

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5 things you may have missed in Atomico’s 2021 Europe report

TechCrunch

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The Exchange has been tracking Europe’s startup acceleration for years now. For reference, that figure was below $10 billion in Q2 2019, Q3 2019, Q4 2019 and Q2 2020. That’s a hair more than the full-year 2020 number of $54.8

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Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America

TechCrunch

The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate. It attracted backing from Facebook Brasil and grew 770% in 2020.