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Cultivating a Practice of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Ecosystem Building Programs

Ecosystem Builder Hub

As part of the Insights from the Field campaign, I wanted to hear from other ecosystem builders in the field about their approaches to DEI, and hopefully identify specific techniques that they’ve incorporated in their communities. Ongoing third-party consultation. Building Entrepreneurship Ecosystems in Communities of Color.

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African healthtech startups in the supply chain segment show rapid growth, spurring a $7M investment initiative

TechCrunch

And according to a new report from Salient Advisory, a global healthcare consulting firm, this is the segment where the most impressive growth has occurred for Africa’s healthcare in the last 12 months. Companies in this segment work with community pharmacies and lower-end providers such as drug shops to help stock products.

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Amira Yahyaoui wants Mos to be a ‘radical’ fintech startup

TechCrunch

Since its 2017 inception, Mos has opened access to a pool of over $160 billion in financial aid to the more than 400,000 students within its community. We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,”

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Make no bones about it, Fuzzy expands reach into pet care market with capital infusion

TechCrunch

The company has facilitated more than 1 million consultations to date and with it, amassed data and operation expertise to be able to expand delivery care at scale. In addition, 25% of the capital was raised from underrepresented communities, Bhettay said. Fuzzy live chat via its app. Image Credits: Fuzzy.

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Welcome Tech, which wants to build a ‘Super App’ for immigrants, raises $30M

TechCrunch

Welcome Tech co-founder, CEO and president Amir Hemmat says his company’s initial approach was different than others in the space in that rather than launch a banking product and then set out to earn the trust of the community it aims to serve, it first “worked hard to earn that trust and understand the community’s needs.”

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Request for Startups: Climate Tech

Y Combinator

Community coordination to encourage whole-block electrification. Other considerations include market size, incumbent strength, founder fit with an enterprise-like sales cycle, and ability to create significantly better-electrified products faster than the incumbents can modify their existing lines and supply chains.

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HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale

Y Combinator

14:20 – At what point did they shift entirely away from consulting? What we didn’t want to fall into was the trap of building something that was a consulting company. Craig Cannon [14:42] – At what point did it feel like you really shifted to a startup from a consulting company? 16:00 – SEO is underrated.