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Meet 5 YLAI Fellows Traveling as Youth Delegates to the Summit of the Americas

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Department of State is supporting five outstanding 2022 YLAI fellows to travel as youth delegates to the Summit of the Americas, where they will serve as a voice for the YLAI fellowship program, their communities, and youth across the region. Department of State and implemented in 2022 by IREX.

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Alumni Ventures launches Women’s Fund 1

American Entrepreneurship

years, and their companies have a lower burn rate, using 25% less capital per month vs. the overall market, according to 2022 Review of Funding for Female Founders by Female Founders Fund. Pitchbook reports that in 2022 U.S.-based based startups with “all-women teams” received just 1.9% (or around $4.5

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Everstream, which applies big data to supply chain management, raises $50M

TechCrunch

“Everstream has grown revenue 30x from the initial investment made by Columbia Capital three years ago and was successful in doubling the business in both 2021 and 2022.” Funding for supply chain startups in Q3 2022 fell to $3.3 ” Everstream’s growth isn’t happening in isolation.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022: The world’s most tech-savvy country South Korea invites startups to grow their businesses

AsiaTechDaily

Register K-Startup Grand Challenge(KSGC) 2022 edition has opened its doors for global startups to do business in South Korea. KSGC 2022 started receiving applications from startups on April 15 and the last date for startups to apply for the most sought after program in Asia is soon on May 31. Who can apply for KSGC 2022?

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BankTech Ventures’ Fintech Investing focuses on Community Banks

American Entrepreneurship

as of December 31, 2022, according to the FDIC. To date the Fund has invested over $40 million in companies that have technologies supporting community banks in the areas of revenue, deposit growth, security, compliance, data analysis and customer marketing.

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Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

TechCrunch

” Emperia collects a lot of datadata that not every shopper might be comfortable sharing. .” According to an August 2022 report from PwC, around a third of consumers had tried a VR app in the last six months, and — of those consumers — 32% bought products after checking them out in VR.

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NASA’s Thomas Zurbuchen tackles cosmic questions at TC Sessions: Space

TechCrunch

As a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor — where he taught classes in space science, aerospace engineering and innovation — he focused on solar, heliospheric and planetary instrumentation and data analysis.