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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

Forward Cities

Evaluate the impact of these efforts, including increased access to capital, on stabilizing local entrepreneurs and small businesses across all demographics and geographic areas. As disruptive as COVID-19 is, new entrepreneurial opportunities will open up because of it. Additionally, with crisis comes opportunity.

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Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar industry

TechCrunch

Allison Xu is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where she focuses on investments in the fintech and property tech sectors. As one of the least-digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption. Miscommunication and poor project data accounts for 48% of all rework on U.S. Allison Xu.

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Seraphim Capital’s space tech accelerator releases details of its newest Space Camp cohort

TechCrunch

.’s Seraphim Capital , the country’s only space tech accelerator, has released details of its newest cohort as part of its Space Camp programme, timed with the end of World Space Week last week. Kinnami has created a unique storage and security system, ‘AmiShare’, which fragments and encrypts data.

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InstaDeep’s acquisition is a classic case of an African startup gone global 

TechCrunch

They were developing specific technology that could impact many sectors,” noted Jilani on InstaDeep’s pioneering tech. Yet, it’s too early to assume that because of that, it’ll suddenly open the sluice of venture capital in Tunisian tech or Africa’s AI market, which currently lags several industries as hotbeds of investments on the continent.

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Satellite constellation operator Spire Global to go public via $1.6 billion SPAC

TechCrunch

Spire’s network of satellites is designed to provide customers with a “space-as-a-service” model, allowing them to operate their own payloads, and access data collected via an API their developers can integrate into their own software. To Disrupt The Aerospace Industry With Small, Affordable Satellites.

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Credit Suisse leads $20M Series A in data extraction startup Daloopa

TechCrunch

Daloopa closed on a $20 million Series A round, led by Credit Suisse Asset Management’s NEXT Investors, to continue developing its data extraction technology for financial institutions, which is now being expanded globally. Customers can request data sets with a couple of clicks of a button and have it delivered the next day.

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Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in

TechCrunch

I’m not sure I would characterize the ocean economy as recession-proof, but the investment opportunities are real from a venture capital perspective,” said Tim Agnew, general partner at Bold Ocean Ventures. Impact investors have also catalyzed the growth of the ocean investment landscape by providing the first capital into ocean funds.