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American Entrepreneurship
JANUARY 23, 2024
Part of this initiative was used to open the new accelerator ChargeUp in upstate New York , focusing on battery innovations. Companies participating in the accelerator program, which is mostly remote, benefit from the region’s growing battery industry cluster enabled by New Energy New York ( NENY). awarded a $4.5 25, 2024, 1–2 p.m.
American Entrepreneurship
MAY 17, 2024
The two entities will oversee NJ FAST’s accelerator program with an opportunity to make equity investments into select participating companies. Equity investments of up to $1 million will be made in at least 15 percent of participating companies. Pending approval by its Board, the NJEDA intends to invest up to $17.5
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Internet giant Google announced today that it has made the first investment from its Africa Investment Fund in Ugandan super app SafeBoda. Before launching the fund, Google proved helpful in startups’ journeys via its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Silicon-Valley based VC firm 500 Global and German’s economic development agency Gesellschaft fu?r r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) will train managers of leading accelerators in Africa over the next two years, to help them establish sustainable business models that commandeer greater influence in their ecosystems.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Tara Sabre Collier is an early-stage impact investor with more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of economic development, social entrepreneurship and impact investment. She is a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University where she teaches and writes about impact investing, diversity and equity.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
The five-year development plan utilizes $25 million from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. SOSV notes that, while HAX’s earliest focus was on wearables, in more recent years, the accelerator has largely shifted to industrial and healthcare, which currently comprise 70% and 20% of its portfolio, respectively.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
JUNE 20, 2020
The traditional economic development approach uses static and reactive metrics – the number of jobs created, capital investment dollars, and companies recruited – on an annual basis. This was a focused effort to support our mayor’s goal of investing in women-and-minority-owned small businesses.
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