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Subak, which incubates data-for-climate not-for-profits, announces six startups in 2022 cohort

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based incubator focused on nonprofit startups that are addressing climate-related challenges through open-source data initiatives has announced the six startups which will be put through its 2022 program. The incubator was founded by Baroness Bryony Worthington, who was the lead author of the U.K.’s

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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

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Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.”

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Impact Hub Montréal rebrands as they switch to regional focus

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Continuing their commitment to the achievement and progress of the SDGs, they will now do so under the name Accélérer 2030 pour le Québec. We have come to a strategic agreement to part ways as the local team will follow a more regional approach to broaden their reach throughout the Province of Quebec.

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What if all startup accelerators promote circularity?

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What if all startup incubators and accelerators integrated design principles that foster circularity? Circularity-focused incubation and acceleration programs already exist, but there are two problems: There aren’t enough of them to transform the private sector as a whole. of the global economy is circular.

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The New economy starts with Impact-Driven Entrepreneurs

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A community kitchen, cooking school, and rooftop farm that started thanks to the incubation program from Impact Hub King’s Cross Feeding the City Start-Up. Due to home-schooling during the pandemic, they now engage with the rapidly growing crowd of followers, wherever they are, via IG Live and webinars. The Kitchen at 44 .

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

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Spain is preparing to push forward with pro-startup legislation, having recently unveiled a big and bold transformation plan with the headline goal, by 2030, of turning the country into ‘Spain Entrepreneurial Nation’, as the slightly clumsy English translation has it. billion for the main measures that we want to start setting up.

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Mobilising the Full Potential of the Social Economy in Europe

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Built on the results of the 2011 Social Business Initiative and the 2016 Start-up and Scale-up Initiative , and preceded by extensive dialogue with stakeholders and civil society, the Action Plan proposes 38 concrete measures to be implemented in a nine-years horizon, between 2021-2030.