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NFTE Founders Forum Pitch Competition Announces Student Winners

American Entrepreneurship

In addition to its classroom curriculum, NFTE hosts the Founders Forum Pitch Competition. In its recently held finals, three young entrepreneurs gave their best pitch to a panel of judges to win a portion of a $10,000 capital investment pool.

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In Their Own Words: Female Founders and CEOs Discuss the Discourse That’s Missing (and Hitting)…

Revolution

In Their Own Words: Female Founders and CEOs Discuss the Discourse That’s Missing (and Hitting) the Mark This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “ Inspire Inclusion ” — a call to recognize the unique perspectives and contributions of women from all walks of life, in all facets of life, including the innovation economy.

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Shield Capital’s Inaugural Venture Capital Fund Focuses on Frontier Technologies

American Entrepreneurship

30 Investments to date in the areas of AI, autonomy, cybersecurity and space Shield Capital was launched in 2021 by the Managing Partners Philip Bilden and Raj Shah, both of whom have deep experience in technology and investing, driving their passion to support founders of frontier technologies.

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Capital crunch shines a light on the importance of founders’ mental health, investors say

TechCrunch

In recent years, calling oneself a startup founder was certainly seen as a flex. For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as a visionary, aided by a venture capital market that experienced an overextended bull run in the background.

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15 Years of Founders’ Co-op

Founders Coop

Founders’ Co-op turns fifteen this year. Our firm’s original premise was – and remains – dead simple: Seattle is a global gravity well for engineering talent, thanks to the sustained excellence and corresponding human capital needs of Amazon and Microsoft. By contrast, venture capital is a craft that defies both speed and scale.

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Driving the Dialogue: Questions These Female Founders Wish You Asked

Revolution

population, but in 2022, companies with solely female founders garnered just 2% of the total capital invested in venture-backed startups. The long and short of it: Female founders face systemic barriers to founding, funding, and scaling their businesses. Women represent 50.5% of the U.S. That ticked up to 15.4%

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Singapore’s KNN3 wants to enable social discovery for decentralized apps

TechCrunch

Nansen has the support from a16z to provide on-chain data analysis for crypto investors. The blockchain data space is already quite crowded, co-founder Thomas Yu admitted, but there’s still room for more specialized services. The Graph offers an API for developers to query blockchain data. In the U.S., KNN3 said it has raised $2.4