TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. Education, HR + Future of Work. Mobility + Transportation. Going through the vetting process reminded us, yet again, just how much creativity, innovation and talent exists within the startup community.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Entrepreneurs, business leaders, and innovators possess a unique driving force that pushes them to be the best version of themselves in order to elicit change in the world. I wasn’t ready for the disparities that I saw (when it came to) opportunity for people, whether it was education or quality of housing or access to government services.

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transportation communities education entrepreneurs 86

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

As President and co-owner of the 102-year-old Lamey Wellehan shoe stores, Jim Wellehan used sustainability to foster innovation and remain relevant in the face of fierce competition. With little formal education and using this principle, Cheung Yan founded Nine Dragons Paper and became one of the richest women in China.

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sustainability innovation peer-to-peer hospitality 130

Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Jackie Jenkins-Scott has more than three decades of experience in executive leadership positions in public health, higher education and corporate and non-profit governance. Curiosity will play a critical role in steering an organizational transformation, creating a new product, innovation or better understanding the competition.

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StartupNation

MARCH 17, 2021

Yet many rural and low-income communities around the world, including those in large urban areas, lack reliable, affordable internet access. Furthermore, with the innovation 5G enables, we can transform industries like education and healthcare, job and skills training, civic engagement and even public services.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Fine told TechCrunch that Dame is known for its products aimed at “innovating for sexual wellness through real people.” The new funding enables us to continue to expand our product line with Dip, especially our replenishables, do more product innovation and add to our content and community.”.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Among the standout success stories of the 2030 Impact Accelerator are Sense Innovation and Donkey Move , both recipients of the Social Enterprise Revolving Fund Special Prize. Play Sense Innovation specialises in designing and developing innovative eye movement software tailored for children and ALS patients.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. A focus there will be on disadvantaged communities that haven’t had access to clean energy investments.

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real estate energy startup construction 98

American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 21, 2023

With this funding, recipients will launch innovative training programs focused on strengthening and diversifying the state’s offshore wind workforce, with a particular emphasis on serving Overburdened Communities. All programs are either led by or partner with a community-based organization serving a New Jersey overburdened community.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Well, certainly from the entrepreneurial community at large, and of course within businesses themselves large and small. Well, certainly from the entrepreneurial community at large, and of course within businesses themselves large and small. Where do the big ideas come from around which startup businesses originate?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

“We can improve both outcomes and costs by moving care from the hospital back to the place it started — at home,” they write in a post that explores five innovations enabling at-home care and identifies investment opportunities like acute care and infrastructure development. Image Credits: Cowboy Ventures / Guild Education.

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SaaS hospitality education transportation 90

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

SoLo Funds wants to replace payday lenders with a community-based, market-driven model for individual lending, and now has $10 million to expand its business in the U.S. “A majority of [power lenders] are college educated and the majority of them tend to be white men.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2022

This agility and innovation is exactly what’s needed right now and will be essential to alleviate the human suffering, while governments mobilize (often more slowly). I got the sense that their feeling is, “What’s the point of running a business if you’re not completely involved in what’s happening in your community?”.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

” That was Lori Coulter, CEO and co-founder of Summersalt, speaking at the State of the Midwest Startup Community 2020. And one thing is for sure: there are plenty of smart, talented and successful women entrepreneurs who are shaping communities and the future. They’ve done innovative work with sizing, taking over 1.5

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 21, 2020

An Ecosystem Builder is someone working to make resources available to support entrepreneurs in their community. Short answer: I believe that by helping people start business we build communities of people that care about each other’s welfare instead of people focused on how they can exploit one another for personal gain.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Meet some of the outstanding African entrepreneurs addressing challenges in sectors ranging from finance to healthcare to education and keep an eye out for the program’s Dealbook, where the full cohort will be featured. The fintech company Kobopay provides a wide range of services using a community-based approach.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Friendly, smart, innovative, and ready to lend a helping hand. Community organizations like Shine & Rise provide support and mentorship to women who work at tech companies, and coworking spaces like Cahoots offer dedicated tech entrepreneurial spaces for the community. Just last month they raised $11.8

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

That, plus the growing number of startups, affordable cost of living, and vibrant community, make it a great place to live and work. In 2020, they were named one of the Best Places to Work in Financial Technology 2020, and the TAG FinTech ADVANCE program recognized Autobooks as one of the most innovative U.S. FinTech companies.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 18, 2021

Evette Ellis and Ben Schippers took to the main stage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 to share how their companies capitalized on the new opportunities presented by the electric transportation revolution. Few people are more closely tapped into the innovations in the transportation space than investors. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

We surveyed: Coralie Hassanaly , innovation consultant, DRIAD. Pete Read , CEO and founder, Persona Education. Coralie Hassanaly, innovation consultant, DRIAD. Coralie Hassanaly, innovation consultant, DRIAD. Bristol is strong in renewable and zero-carbon innovation, fintech and robotics. innovation.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. 33 Flatbush. The Batcave.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

billion in research and innovation it has to spend this year. Blocksport Blocksport builds Web3-ready platform solutions for the professional sports and entertainment industry to enable tokenization use cases for their fan community. Jooble Venture Lab has also invested in JayJay, a startup in the field of online education.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Nurtured at OurCrowd’s Labs/02 incubator, NetOp customers and trials include a major global financial institution, Israel’s largest MSP and other US-based MSPs and companies in the education, manufacturing and retail sectors. OurCrowd meets Australian Innovation Trade Mission. OurCrowd is leading a SAFE for NetOp. Learn More.

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Revolution

APRIL 2, 2019

The tour will end the week with a visit to Puerto Rico to explore innovation and entrepreneurship with Chef José Andrés. At each stop, we will host a fireside chat, a community celebration, and a pitch competition where eight startups will compete for a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 23, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY – Student innovators from across Oklahoma pitched concepts in the 2021 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup that ranged from high tech futuristic solutions to answers for real world problems that are here and now. Oklahoma Business Roundtable Manufacturing, Material Sciences and Transportation. 405) 813-2403. sseagraves@i2E.org.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

We surveyed: Alena Hloba , community manager, RST Ventures for Earth. Alena Hloba, community manager, RST Ventures for Earth. There will for sure be more startups, more investors and more startup organizations (like meetups or community builders). Jakub Karkocha , CEO, LightApply. Kamil Rudnicki , CEO, Timecamp. Maciej Wilczy?ski

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. Via Transportation raised $400 million in Q1. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2

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OurCrowd

JUNE 24, 2022

Spanish transportation tech giant Indra will be integrating the airport operations management platform created by our portfolio company IntellAct into their own products, Passenger Terminal Today reports. The GIA is designed to catalyze cross-border collaborations between Singapore and major innovation hubs around the world.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 19, 2021

Grip and Guard promises more comfort and convenience for snow-and water-boarding enthusiasts with an inexpensive, vinyl-coated foam universal grip and guard, reducing the discomfort of transporting a cumbersome board. Leaena Boutique. Oklahoma State University. Advisor: Jacob Mahaffey. Team Leader: Allison May. University of Central Oklahoma.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 27, 2020

What I mean by that is where new market entrants create healthy competition and push the boundaries of innovation. No one says you can’t make a lot of money—but when a small number of companies control access to key resources, sit on cash instead of continuing to innovate, and block competition, this isn’t a path to a dynamic economy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

And he talks specifically about how water trade lowered the costs of transportation and thus products and gave such a resounding advantage to those with great water resources that other nations struggled to keep up. Mass transportation. Industrialization. Cost advantages. Trade has winners and losers.

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