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We’re disrupting TechCrunch Disrupt: 8 stages, 3 days, 1 city

TechCrunch

For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between.

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The ACA 2021 Innovation Funders Showcase Pre-Summit Kick-Off and Deeper Dive Feature Groundbreaking Companies

Angel Capital Association

Chiara Renella-Brooks, ACA Partnership Director Incredible Companies Built by Women Highlighted During the Innovation Funders Showcase Deeper Dive This year’s ninth Annual ACA Summit Innovation Funders Showcase opened ACA Summit week with many exciting new twists!

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TravelPerk’s breakout Business Platform gains $104M led by Softbank Vision Fund 2

American Entrepreneurship

TravelPerk continues to innovate, integrating AI across the product stack to deliver a world-class experience for customers and travelers. TravelPerk was co-founded in 2015 by a highly seasoned entrepreneurial innovation team. Within the enormous global business travel market, SMBs have remained a largely underserved segment.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even Ten years on much has changed.

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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

More importantly, without you, our economy would be weakened, and society’s ability to innovate would be stunted. Our events all feature a rejuvenated and refined version of our Innovation Funders Showcase, with broader outreach aid all member groups in deal flow, increasing the value of the program for early-stage companies and angels alike.

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Third Rock Ventures Invests in Internships for Underrepresented Groups in Life Sciences

American Entrepreneurship

By gaining real world experience and exposing these college students to potential future employers, the program moves LSC’s mission forward to “disrupt the cycle of poverty and inequality”. Other early funders include Google Ventures and JLABS. Those participating in the program are often a family’s first-generation to enter college.

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To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean

TechCrunch

Until now, most climate funders focused on terrestrial or atmospheric issues, and ocean funders focused on important, but only tangentially climate-related ocean issues such as ending unsustainable fishing practices and establishing marine protected areas. Ocean tech and climate change companies and investors all have the same goal.

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