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Venture Atlanta 2023 “Startup Showcase Live” selects Enrichly as $500K Winner

American Entrepreneurship

Three of the four pitching finalists were women entrepreneurs focusing on health and wellness issues. Now with the winning $500,000 investment in hand, Jordan’s youth development startup will accelerate its mission of tackling the current teen self-esteem crisis. Women’s healthcare startup Betty’s Co.

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Presbyterian Health Foundation awards $4.6 million in new research grants

Innovation 2 Enterprise

OKLAHOMA CITY, July 20, 2020: The Presbyterian Health Foundation has awarded nearly $4.6 million in biomedical research grants to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF). “We Our contributions are enabling researchers to achieve important progress for public health.

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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

TechCrunch

Then in 2019, Dunbabin was approached by Oceankind, a mysterious new ocean philanthropy organization that promised to accelerate his efforts. They’ve been absolutely a dream funder.”. That makes Oceankind one of the biggest non-governmental funders of ocean science in the world. But global issues can’t wait three years.”.

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Grantee Perception Report: What We Heard and How We Plan to do Better

Surdna Foundation

As a racial justice funder, we also know that shifting power and building equity, mutual accountability, and authentic, trusting relationships are vital to our grantmaking. We are also proactively sharing our data with Candid and signing on to data-sharing initiatives, such as the Climate Funders Justice Pledge. Shifting power.

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Project to Professionalize Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building Progresses

Ecosystem Builder Hub

The goal of EBLP is to collaboratively design, build, test, and validate a field-wide infrastructure that will accelerate adoption of ecosystem building as a practice in economic, community, workforce, and entrepreneurship development in the United States. It launched in March, and has made some significant progress over the past few months.

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 1

Ecosystem Builder Hub

I asked them to treat me like a funder. I’m about to participate in the Startup Champion Network’s Ecosystem Health Challenge from April through June 2020. The InBIA has commissioned The Fluency Score for a large-scale program offering the data for free for over two dozen qualifying startup accelerators.

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How to Find a Job as a VC Scout: Compensation and Which Firms Are Recruiting

David Teten VC

For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. You’re involved in other aspects of the firm’s activities: due diligence, portfolio acceleration, board service, etc. Accelerator Centre. Accelerator Centre is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada. HOW TO GET A SCOUT ROLE.

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