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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Promoting Disruption. The first-ever FALAK UTS launched in May 2017 as a two-day summit on innovation and disruption. All of the costs of the event were covered by our sponsors, the main ones being TAMKEEN (The Bahrain Labour Fund) and the Bahrain Economic Development Board.

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Nigerian agritech startup Releaf secures $4.2M to scale its food processing technology

TechCrunch

Even after graduating from Y Combinator’s summer batch that year, Releaf toyed around with ideas around trade finance and a marketplace for buyers and sellers of agricultural products. Releaf will use the seed investment to develop technology and deploy it to smallholder farmers, Nzewi tells me. Then the $1.5

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Sanzhar Kettebekov’s Vision: Empowering Trade with AI in the Volatile Food Market

Jason Malki

He has 25 years’ experience in AI and related technologies, and over 10 years at the C-level of driving large projects in various areas for economic development. Trade financing desperately needs a new architecture since more than half of food exports and a quarter of all imports belong to countries with volatile currencies.

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Google’s third bet from its Africa Investment Fund is in logistics company Lori Systems

TechCrunch

The influence of logistical operations on products leads to various problems for operators, from inconsistent pricing, which stems from a fragmented supply and demand market, to paper documentation and little or no access to financing. a16z, Avenir and Google back South African mobile games publisher Carry1st in $20M round.

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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. More importantly, without you, our economy would be weakened, and society’s ability to innovate would be stunted.

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A Future Worth Creating: Fiscal Year Recap and Vision for Tomorrow

Angel Capital Association

We are grappling with healthcare challenges, irreversibly disrupted industries, millions of underemployed workers, and devastating racial and gender inequities. Together, we can empower contributors of all races, genders, and backgrounds to turn disruption and division into creation and abundance – for all. We need ingenuity.

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MedRhythms Uses the Universal Language of Music to Bring Hope, Healing to Mobility Impaired Patients

Angel Capital Association

This week, MedRhythms was awarded the prestigious Luis Villalobos Award for Life Sciences, which recognizes the most ingenious and innovative idea recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association (ACA.) The company is now advancing its hardware and software solution through the FDA approval process. “As