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

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

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It’s an evolution from Mos as an edtech business built to help students navigate their way through applying and attending college into a fintech that can support the same user base through all of life’s similarly complicated demands. Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.”

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

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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. Bhettay is also seeing the larger incumbents focus here, as well as marketing dollars, which he considers validation that the market is shifting to the digitalization of pet care.

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Ivorian healthtech startup Susu has $1M to scale its family-centric insurance product across Africa

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Having worked in a luxury firm, as an investment banker at JP Morgan and her own consulting firm, Bardet decided to start Susu in 2019. Care bundles are basically medical calendars composed of doctor consultations, nurse visits, medical advice sent by SMS and a combination of other medical activities for patients. “A Susu founders.

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

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Yuma’s platform provides ChatGPT-like AI systems that integrate with help desk software, suggesting drafts of replies to customer tickets that are both “relevant and customized to the support agents” (in theory). “ But they all have one thing in common: they all hate customer support.

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

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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. We are actively working to ensure that individuals regardless of gender, background, race, and place have equitable support to reach their full potential and succeed in entrepreneurship.”.

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A court decision in favor of startup UpCodes may help shape open access to the law

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You can’t make a business model out of owning the legal rules that citizens have to follow; you have to find some other way to support your business which ICC has done, by getting revenue from program services.” Property data, statistics and other kinds of government data can also support new businesses.

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