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An Early Investor's Postmortem of The Wing

This is going to be BIG.

Audrey Gelman was on the cover of Inc magazine, visibly pregnant. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect—just as being a venture-backed hospitality company claiming some sort of moral high ground doing inevitable mass layoffs when the pandemic hit couldn’t have made it more of a target of racial reckoning issues in 2020.

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

The tech community has been having a long-overdue conversation about mental health and work/life balance and it’s something I’ve been talking up as far back as 2006 , 2009 , and 2014 on my blog and in public. Nine months later, Audrey became the first executive to appear visibly pregnant on the cover of Inc magazine.

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Circularity tales: Accelerating green impact in Barcelona

Impact Hub

Simon’s project addresses the alarming fact that 100% of sanitary waste from hospitals and health centers ends up in landfills or incinerators. He expresses the significance of being part of the community, emphasising the invaluable synergies and new social circles that Impact Hub has provided during the programme.

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Circularity Tales: accelerating green impact in Barcelona

Impact Hub

Did you know that 100% of the sanitary waste discarded in hospitals and health centers ends up in landfills or incinerated? A great prize”, as he considers that being part of the community throughout the time he participated in the program has been key to the development of his project.

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Newsletter: Covid-killing spray proven in UK trials

OurCrowd

“I expect this to be a major advance in the global battle against the devastating human impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Dr. Stephen Winchester, Consultant Medical Virologist and Chief Investigator of the clinical trial at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey, UK, tells Crowdfund Insider.

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Newsletter: The next big tech outage + Our new unicorn

OurCrowd

Its new Age Analysis technology flags suspicious online behavior cybercriminals often use, posing as older adults to apply for credit cards, SC Magazine reports. Our portfolio company BioCatch wants to prevent financial fraud targeting people over 60.

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Build a Better Tribe, Build a Better World

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Six months in the hospital changed the way I looked at life yet again—from living one day at a time to looking toward the future. Plus, with education, she can go on to a career and become a leader in her community. Within three months I was promoted to vice president and I was hooked on trade. Finding your people.