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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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Daily Crunch: New AI model DeepFloyd IF offers ‘advanced text-to-image generation techniques’

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If you’ve got some time on your hands today, get your Disrupt tickets — early-bird savings end in 7 days ! Startups and VC Is the grass greener on the other side? With valuations falling, founders who accept down rounds no longer have the taint of failure, said Russ Wilcox, a partner at Pillar VC. PDT, subscribe here.

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How Parfait is using AI to upend the $13B custom wig industry

TechCrunch

A group of four Black women, two with MBAs from Wharton, and the other two with PhDs from MIT, founded Parfait because they believed they could build a better and more efficient way to design and build these wigs using technology. They brought the idea to market and have gotten a $5 million seed investment led by Upfront Ventures.

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Redacted comes out of stealth with $60M in funding and a new take on fighting cybercrime

TechCrunch

Today a startup called Redacted is coming out of stealth with a different approach to tackling that malicious activity: It applies threat intelligence, and then proactively goes after the hackers to recover data loss and disrupt their activities. Ten Eleven is a VC specializing in cybersecurity that has backed a number of other startups.)

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

TechCrunch

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? VC firms have taken notice: notable investors in Atlantic Canadian startups include Breakthrough Energy Ventures , a fund supported by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson.

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8 Czech VCs on green shoots, pandemic impacts and 2021 opportunities

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Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. As far as green shoots, COVID-19 has “played a role of an accelerator for innovation in many business areas and even e-government and other rigid/conservative industries,” said one. Innovative. I miss a more innovative approach. Vaccination.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

I’d be lying if I told you that every week was an embarrassment of riches here at Actuator HQ (a one-bedroom in a Queens office managed by a mischievous lionhead rabbit mix), but I’ve thus far been happy with the flow of news. How best would an adversary attack innovation in robotics?