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Altitude Lab Startups Raise Over $120M in Capital

American Entrepreneurship

Launches Fellowship Grant Opportunity for Early Career Entrepreneurs Altitude Lab today announced that its incubating startups raised over $120M in early-stage funding since commencing operations in 2020. In 2021 we announced our investor coalition, which targeted $50M in funding for our startups.

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LexxPluss expands into US with its warehouse robots

TechCrunch

Drone Fund led the latest financing along with SOSV’s HAX, Incubate Fund, SBI investment and DBJ Capital. market, the largest autonomous mobile robots market, which was already $762 million in 2021 and is expected to grow to $3.2 Our approach is to maximize product transparency and make collaboration much easier.”

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Singapore’s Decentralized Gaming Ventures Receives Major Funding Boost from Hashed

AsiaTechDaily

Currently, the venture builder operates a Singapore-based studio that serves as an incubator for 32 promising game developers organized into eight teams. The company has collaborated with Mighty Jaxx, a Singapore-based toys and collectibles firm with an impressive portfolio of titles. .

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Orlando has all the ingredients to be the next big startup hub

TechCrunch

Q2 2022 saw $320 million invested, tracking higher than the $90 million and $30 million allocated in Q2 2021 and 2020, respectively. The Orlando tech community is a very inclusive and very collaborative community,” David Adelson , the chief innovation officer at the Orlando Economic Partnership , added. “We Orlando: The Silicon Swamp?

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Former Salesforce exec Bret Taylor is teaming up with Google AR/VR vet Clay Bavor on mystery startup

TechCrunch

He would later found Quip, an enterprise document collaboration company, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2016 for $750 million. Only a couple of weeks ago, Bavor authored an email detailing cuts to Google’s R&D projects within the Google Labs group, which housed the company’s internal incubator Area 120.

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Unlocking the Entrepreneurial Potential of People With Disabilities

Impact Hub

According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (2021), more than 90% of the people with disabilities in Spain indicate the existence of barriers to find adequate employment – mostly due to health reasons, but also due to lack of opportunities, lack of qualifications and experience, and to societal bias. .

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After a record 2022, 8 investors explain why it’s ‘still just Day 1’ for Africa’s startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

In fact, even some of the excesses of 2021 were eclipsed when the number of investments on the continent rose higher in 2022 than they had a year earlier, boosted by early-stage firms flocking to fund startups in the wake of landmark exits of homegrown companies like Jumia and Paystack. For global venture capital, 2021 was an outlier.