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17 Inspiring Recoveries: How Entrepreneurs Bounced Back from Crises

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Dr. Barbara Sparacino , Founder, The Aging Parent Coach Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Find free courses, mentorship, networking and grants created just for small businesses. Because the strongest caregivers are the ones who know when to ask for help. And most importantly, in any situation, you have to take action.

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Metropolis’ AI Platform Transforms Parking Experiences, Backed by $1.8 Billion in Financing

American Entrepreneurship

The company now has North America’s largest parking network having also purchased Premier Parking’s 500+ locations in 2022. Alex and the Metropolis team will implement their tech solutions to both improve people’s daily lives and drive significant value to real estate partners.”

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Three Fintech Founders Share How They Are Closing the Racial and Gender Wealth Gaps

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Learn how each are creatively fighting to close gaps from helping underrepresented job candidates navigate salary negotiations with data, to democratizing the traditional world of real estate investing via crowdfunding. As the U.S. We set Sam up on Perch, and within two weeks, his score went from a 560 to a 714,” Boughton recalls. “He

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Top Detroit Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2022

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InvestNext is a Detroit fintech startup that has created a platform to streamline how real estate investment firms raise and manage capital. In 2020, TIME listed Guardhat’s smart hat as one of the best inventions of the year. PlainSight is a new networking app. Rebound was founded in 2020 and just getting started.

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Hustle Fund wants to help spawn a new generation of angel investors

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So far, Penn has invested in five startups across a range of sectors including real estate, food, apparel and finance. . Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020. And, part of the value of having this group is then we can accumulate a bunch of smaller checks to then write one larger check for a company.”.

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New Stack Ventures raises second fund focused on Silicon Valley outsiders

TechCrunch

It makes angel, pre-seed and seed investments into B2B SaaS startups in sectors like finance, healthcare, cybersecurity, supply chain, construction and real estate. We didn’t start with a thesis there, but due to lack of capital and networks in the Midwest, we had our choice of backing those founders.

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Sila banks $13M to offer single API for developing financial products, services

TechCrunch

And unlike competitors that focus almost exclusively on e-commerce, most of Sila’s customers are doing regulated payments within the fintech, insurtech, commercial real estate and cryptocurrency spaces that tend to be more complex from a compliance basis, Karkal said. The company raised a $7.7 million seed round earlier in the year.