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Melinda French Gates Sets Path to Empower Women Globally

American Entrepreneurship

Sabrina Habib , works to improve access to quality, affordable early childhood care in East Africa’s low-income communities. Later this year she is allocating $250 million to fill an open call for proposals from organizations working to improve the mental and physical health of women and girls worldwide at the community level.

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“Workers are mad and no longer willing to sit idly by being spoon fed ‘we’re family’ b t from bosses:” Logan LaHive is Helping Employees Organize & Collectively Bargain. But Did He Compromise His Own Vision By Taking Venture Capital for the Startup?

Hunter Walk

So a sincere hope of mine in building Frank isn’t that we’re right, it’s that we can be part of growing an ecosystem or community of folks building tools specifically for worker power (LaborTech). Frankly, raising capital to work on this problem is and was privilege. It is a certainty that things are and will change… How fast?

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How to get superior returns in VC

David Teten VC

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. Similarly, firms like my alma mater ff Venture Capital and Andreessen Horowitz have executed this strategy in VC. – Network. – Incubating companies. – Internal diversity.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020.

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To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean

TechCrunch

Just offshore wind alone has the potential to meet global electricity demand by 2040, according to the IEA, which is well in excess of all offshore oil and gas production today. In particular, the philanthropic community is just starting to recognize that there is an urgent need to support efforts to develop ocean-based climate solutions.

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Newsletter: Medical selfies are the next big thing + Back on the road in Dubai

OurCrowd

IT trailblazer and OurCrowd portfolio company JumpCloud has more than doubled the total amount of capital raised, after adding $225M in its latest funding round, The Register reports. “The cultured meat sector is one of the most prosperous in the food substitutes industry and is expected to reach a turnover of $630 billion by 2040.

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Newsletter: OurCrowd Summit: Early bird offer ends Dec. 1

OurCrowd

Venture capital is still the engine driving the Israeli economy and we’re delighted that even with this slowdown, OurCrowd has passed a landmark of $2B in investment commitments, as I told Laura Cellier on i24 News. Morgan Stanley estimates the flying car market will reach $1.5T OurCrowd has an allocation in Air EV’s current funding round.

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