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Booz Allen Hamilton launches $100M corporate venture arm focused on early-stage startups

TechCrunch

Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies.

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FintechOS nabs $60M for a low-code approach to modernizing legacy banking and insurance services

TechCrunch

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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Prezent.ai secures $20M to gamify deck presentations

TechCrunch

When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist. But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo. Mishra says that Prezent.ai

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

TechCrunch

Its digitally-native approach can save pet parents up to $750 a year on healthcare expenses, Zubin Bhettay, co-founder and CEO of Fuzzy, told 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.

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

TechCrunch

Human rights activist and Mos founder Amira Yahyaoui couldn’t afford to go to college, so when she first launched a platform to connect students to scholarships, the innovation felt full circle. Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.” Amira Yahyaoui, the founder of Mos.

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These Y Combinator-backed startups are trying to build ‘ChatGPT for X’

TechCrunch

” That new ventures are jumping on the ChatGPT hype train isn’t surprising, considering ChatGPT’s virality. Interestingly, Yuma “got started by accident,” according to founder Guillaume Luccisano. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg — see ventures like Lang , Neuron7 and Ultimate.ai.

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

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What does it say when we tell them their ideas and dreams are unworthy because they don’t fit into some narrow model of a startup founder? It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. Ongoing third-party consultation.