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What Benefits Do Startup Employees Want?

Startup Blogpost

Ben Gibson , Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner and Award-Winning Pharmacist, Awesome We Can Do It Better Together Networking Opportunities Employees value opportunities to build their network, and companies should strive to provide this for them. This group tends to be younger on average and motivated to learn new things.

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Standard Chartered Bank and Singapore Management University Launch Women Entrepreneurship Incubator

AsiaTechDaily

The Women in Entrepreneurship Incubator, in recognition of the challenges faced by female entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, aims to bridge the gap in mentorship, networking opportunities, and funding.

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Asia’s Premier Global Startup Extravaganza, COMEUP 2023, Set to Ignite Seoul with Record International Participation from Nov 8 to 10

AsiaTechDaily

This program provides a unique platform for mentorship, networking, and investment opportunities for early-stage startups from South Korea and beyond. The COMEUP Stars program for this year involves 13 top Korean and foreign VCs and accelerators closely collaborating with 10 promising startups each.

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How Gender Equality Improves Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

This year’s IWD falls on 8 March, 2020, and its focus is #eachforequality, which recognizes that equality is not a women’s issue—rather, it’s an economic issue. Greater investment in women-owned businesses will also result in more women in business, and therefore stronger, more powerful social and professional networks.

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15 Grant Programs for Minority and Women Business Owners

StartupNation

A total of nearly $63,000 in grants were made during 2020. The program also includes mentorship, access to online resources and the opportunity to be considered for even larger grants. Leading the global shift toward inclusive innovation, digitalundivided invested in over 1,500 Black and Latinx women entrepreneurs in 2020.

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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

TechCrunch

The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019. Sopoong invests up to $350,000 into each startup via the accelerator program and offers mentorship, co-working space, administrative support and networking opportunities with experts.

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

TechCrunch

Resource also plans to build a national community of practice among ESO leaders of color and their funders to share best practices and “develop stronger capital and mentorship pathways” for Black, Latinx and Indigenous founders across the U.S. On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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