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Standard Chartered Bank and Singapore Management University Launch Women Entrepreneurship Incubator

AsiaTechDaily

Register Standard Chartered Bank has joined forces with Singapore Management University’s Lien Centre to establish a Women in Entrepreneurship Incubator. The Women in Entrepreneurship Incubator , funded by a $300,000 contribution from the bank, aims to empower female entrepreneurs dedicated to creating a positive social impact.

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4 Steps to Launch Your Startup’s First Product on a Shoestring Budget

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Turning an idea into a sellable product takes grit, but limited budgets often require entrepreneurs to develop creative solutions that rely more on resourcefulness than cash. With passion, hustle, and these thrifty startup strategies, you can transform your vision into a viable product without relying on loans or financing.

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NJEDA Establishes Diversity Finance Advisory Board

American Entrepreneurship

September 21, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) today announced the establishment of the Diversity Finance Advisory Board (DFAB) which will work to increase access to institutional capital for women- and minority-owned startups.

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Binance-backed Xend Finance launches DeFi platform for credit unions in Africa

TechCrunch

Nigerian startup Xend Finance uses decentralized finance (DeFi) to address currency devaluation. Currency devaluation is a common economic nightmare faced in most African countries and other developing countries worldwide. This gave birth to Xend Finance.” Image Credits: Xend Finance. It has since secured $2.2

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Agricultural biotech startup Boost Biomes adds a strategic investor in Japan’s Universal Materials Incubator

TechCrunch

Boost Biomes , the Y Combinator-backed developer of microbiome-based bio-fungicides and bio-pesticides for agricultural applications, has added $2 million in funding and picked up a new strategic investor in Japan’s Universal Materials Incubator.

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Avilar Therapeutics Increases Financing to $75 Million to Advance Pipeline of Novel Extracellular Protein Degraders

American Entrepreneurship

This financing accelerates progression of our expanding pipeline and unlocks new applications of our unique and proprietary discovery engine, positioning the company well for our next stage of growth.” Concurrent with this financing, Paulina Hill, PhD, Partner at Sanofi Ventures, will join Avilar’s board of directors.

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Dapper Labs, Flow, and NBA Top Shot

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

But I am writing again as there is likely to be a bunch of chatter about Dapper, Flow, and NBA Top Shot as the news of a financing round comes out today. Financings don’t really interest me but companies do. Dapper Labs came out of an incubator called Axiom Zen back in 2017. And this is a fascinating company.