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Q&A: How Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Can Help You

StartupNation

In 2021, we extended a grant to Grand Valley State University’s Veterans Entrepreneurship Lab. In 2021, we also established a partnership between Verizon’s Pro Bono Program and the Metro Detroit Black Business Alliance ’s Capital Connect Program. Veterans and/or military spouses work on their business launch over a three-month period.

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Spend management platform Teampay expands partnership with Mastercard, raises $47M

TechCrunch

“In today’s economic environment, Teampay’s software-led approach has proven resilient — as we saw in late 2020 to 2021, when the economy rebounds, Teampay benefits disproportionately through accelerated growth … We increased our debt facility for additional flexibility in uncertain times.” This year, $1.6

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7 investors discuss why edtech startups must go back to basics to survive

TechCrunch

The early innings of the pandemic netted edtech massive investments of more than $10 billion in venture capital investment globally in 2020 and $20 billion in 2021. This move toward extension rounds illustrates a level-setting of expectations from founders around fundraising in the current economic environment.

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9 Steps to Start Making Money in Crypto

Entrepreneur's Handbook

internal network) statistics for Bitcoin as well as the macro economic environment. LUNA’s price fell approximately 73% in five days in May 2021. Dylan LeClair ( @DylanLeClair_ ): Senior Analyst at digital asset fund UTXO Management and expert in on-chain (i.e., Smaller projects, like LUNA, saw their prices plummet even more.

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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

TechCrunch

Image Credits: Pitchbook Boston had a steady investment growth trajectory until it dropped off (like everyone else) in 2022 as investment overall slowed in an uncertain economic environment. Cait Brumme, CEO at early stage tech accelerator MassChallenge says that Boston was not immuned to the vagaries of investment cycles in 2022.

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Australia’s Avarni raises $3m to speed up decarbonization efforts

AsiaTechDaily

When it was founded in 2021, Avarni said team members met at a Sydney-based tech incubator and they saw a massive gap in the market on carbon reporting. Avarni is also a technology partner at the McKinsey Digital Capability Center that is part of McKinsey & Company’s global Digital Capability Center Network.

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Wing Venture Capital’s Fifth Annual Enterprise Tech 30 List

American Entrepreneurship

The List revealed the substantial rise of Generative AI companies and the significant drop of productivity/ collaboration-labeled companies from 19% in 2021 to now just 5%—reflecting the spike that technology had in response to the shift to remote working during the pandemic.