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ACA Receives an NSF Award to Connect Early Stage Capital to Deep Tech Innovations

Angel Capital Association

For Immediate Release Alexandria, VA (October 4, 2023) – The Angel Capital Association (ACA) has received an $123k award from the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIPs) designed to catalyze private investment in the Deep Tech Sector. Dr. Margaret Bacheler, Ed.d.,

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Innovation in the Financial Markets: Seventy Years of Hedge Funds

Tomasz Tunguz

Since that era, hedge funds have innovated roughly every decade or so. Using large volumes of data collected by hand in the cocoa markets of Africa for example, econometricians developed models and reshaped investing. And without a doubt, these firms will continue to innovate and push the market forward.

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How collective data and storytelling can lead to lasting impact for underserved entrepreneurs

Source Link

The concept of building networks of support, or what has sometimes been referred to as, forging “entrepreneurial ecosystems”, has been a key focus for many advancing the idea that innovation and entrepreneurship will be the future of not just our recovery- but the necessary inclusive pathway for economic advancement and wealth building for all.

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Tokyo-based Startup FLUX Raises $32M in Series B Funding for its No-Code AI Platform

AsiaTechDaily

The funding also included participation from existing investors Archetype Ventures and new investors such as Japan Co-Investment, Aozora Corporate Investments, Salesforce Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, SMBC Nikko Securities, and NTT Docomo Ventures.

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Social AI Platform Chai reaches 100M+ Chats, Strategic CoreWeave investment announced

American Entrepreneurship

CoreWeave’s Cloud will handle every message sent on the social AI platform Those in the know say we are just at the beginning of the AI revolution—and that it is hard to predict what innovations will emerge. The blog goes on to say that “whoever best crowdsources the collection of data and feedback to their systems will win the AI war”.

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5 Ways E-Commerce Entrepreneurs Can Make More Data-Driven Decisions in 2022

StartupNation

All of these things can, and should, be supported by data. Collect strong data to optimize supply chain. One supply chain startup, Logmore, describes how they’ve used data to solve supply chain issues , especially with perishable items. Says the company, “Data is not collected from where it should be.

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How Amazon’s continued expansion into healthcare could buoy the sector

TechCrunch

Amazon just frankly made what I would argue is one of the classic mistakes in innovation,” Aoun said. They’re not trying to innovate and build the new world [ … ] If you’re not really going to innovate then I don’t know that this is going to do that much.”. They’re trying to rebuild the old world.

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