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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

TechCrunch

Maqsad will use the proceeds for developing in-house content, such as production studio, academics and animators, as well as bolstering R&D and engineering, Aziz told TechCrunch. Struggles of students during the early days of the pandemic motivated us to run a pilot. The word “maqsad” means purpose in Urdu.

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Eclipse Foods isn’t out to substitute dairy — it’s on a mission to replace it

TechCrunch

Steinhart, CEO, is an alternative protein expert who was previously with the Good Food Institute, where he incubated dozens of startups within that space. Prior to Eclipse, he was director of R&D and product development at Hampton Creek, now known as Eat Just. It’s giving optionality to consumers.”.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. This program provides $1,000 in AWS Cloud credits, $350 in Developer Support credits, and other guidance. The GitHub Student Developer Pack offers more than $200k in developer tools/training for student entrepreneurs or any students.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

TechCrunch

” I spoke with Dr. Rhee in great detail earlier this year, to figure out how startups can work with LG Nova: LG and the hunt for the next-gen corporate incubator. Fast Sense H2 – Nano-sized quantitative, mixed-gas sensor and analyzer for industrial, environmental and security applications. CurieAi, Inc. NeuroTrainer, Inc.

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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

If anything, the business school students need to figure out what their value add is to a design or software development student. That means making it easier for meetups and innovation conferences to use your spaces. They don't have to be big, contrived incubators--just a few couches and maybe a plug or two--and open wifi.

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

TechCrunch

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups.

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Nym gets $6M for its anonymous overlay mixnet to sell privacy as a service

TechCrunch

The founders also took in grant money from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research fund during an earlier R&D phase developing the network tech. But Tor does not do packet mixing — and Nym’s contention is that a functional mixnet can provide even stronger network-level privacy.

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