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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

Fostering these entrepreneurs and the economies they impact is a direct result of ACA’s mission to fuel the success of angel investor community. ACA members and groups enjoy unprecedented education and networking opportunities, brought to them by the trusted authority in angel investing.

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A Future Worth Creating: Fiscal Year Recap and Vision for Tomorrow

Angel Capital Association

The future of our economies and our communities is at stake. We are grappling with healthcare challenges, irreversibly disrupted industries, millions of underemployed workers, and devastating racial and gender inequities. We will grow the angel investor community by expanding our strategic work in four key areas: Community Networking.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

As an emerging field that is challenging the status quo of entrepreneurship in economic development, ecosystem builders are bound to run into obstacles along the way which – if repeated and consistent – make us want to pull our hair out. Lack of diversity especially when it comes to immigrant and refugee communities.

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WHAT IF AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS THE CURE?

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

State College, PA – Our schools are charged with creating safe environments where students learn, thrive, and grow into the adults who will ultimately be our next leaders, employees, educators, and parents. Covert commented, “As educators and researchers, we know that numbers can tell a tale. But, we’ve all seen the statistics.

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8 Czech VCs on green shoots, pandemic impacts and 2021 opportunities

TechCrunch

The Czech Republic may be better known for beer, hockey and the sights of Prague, but its entrepreneurial community is as ambitious as any. Patrik Juránek from Startup Disrupt community. These challenges are still, to an extent, worries to our portfolio companies, as the economic development is still uncertain.

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Nigerian agritech startup Releaf secures $4.2M to scale its food processing technology

TechCrunch

. “ We think there’s a really great opportunity to bring both physical technology and financial services to these communities to make them more productive. We believe the firm’s thesis on decentralizing food processing would have a strong match with Africa’s economic development landscape for the next few decades.