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BankTech Ventures’ Fintech Investing focuses on Community Banks

American Entrepreneurship

Funding supports innovative technology companies that are taking community banks into the future. Community Banks, defined by the Federal Reserve as having less than $10 billion in assets, totaled 4,001 in the U.S, as of December 31, 2022, according to the FDIC.

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Neo4j raises Neo$325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise

TechCrunch

Graph-based data models have become central to modern machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, and are now widely used by data analysts in applications as diverse as marketing to fraud detection. In the past, most business analysis was built on relational databases. That’s for the data storage folks.

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Alumni Ventures launches Women’s Fund 1

American Entrepreneurship

Now reaching its tenth anniversary, the venture firm has a community of 625,000+ members, many from top universities such as Harvard Business School, Cornell, and others. The membership community will be a resource base for the Women’s Fund, a women-centric network that will help source, invest in, and support top female-led startups.

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Appetiser’s co-founders discuss building client relationships and getting to MVP

TechCrunch

With a focus on designing, building and growing mobile and web apps, Appetiser’s co-founders Jamie Shostak and Michael MacRae were endorsed by several clients who worked with them from the earliest days of their projects. “Every startup has to start with an idea. For the latter, we established the Appetiser University.

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Meet 5 YLAI Fellows Traveling as Youth Delegates to the Summit of the Americas

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Department of State is supporting five outstanding 2022 YLAI fellows to travel as youth delegates to the Summit of the Americas, where they will serve as a voice for the YLAI fellowship program, their communities, and youth across the region. Bevon Charles , Grenada , CEO and founder of Akata Farms , a company that builds sustainable farms.

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Decipad wants to help everyone do data modelling

TechCrunch

. “We are building for people that lack the technical skill to do cool things with data and numbers but have ideas and expertise that they want to bring to life and share with the world,” says co-founder and CCO Kelly McEttrick, who’s previously clocked time at Facebook and LinkedIn, among other tech industry roles.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Steven Rodriguez

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Someone who works at the intersection of economic/community/ecosystem development, is data-driven, collaborates and connects diverse stakeholders, focuses on being the right kind of busy and has a give #GiveFirst attitude. Data analysis and science in ecosystem work. To you, what is an Ecosystem Builder?