Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 28, 2020

By Ana Gonzalez. Through the Saint Apollonia Mobile Dental Clinic , 2018 YLAI Fellow Valesca Saint Cyr is able to deliver quality and affordable dental care to underserved communities in Haiti. The clinic travels to different areas for two or three days at a time and treats over 100 people each day. To celebrate women’s entrepreneurship in the field of science, the YLAI Network shares Valesca’s inspiring efforts and successes in Haiti.

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Venture Well

JANUARY 28, 2020

As more technology transfer offices work to close the gender engagement gap, we outline some best practices to help administrators enhance their efforts. The post how technology transfer offices can close the gender engagement gap appeared first on VentureWell.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 28, 2020

I just posted about USV’s investment in Justworks on the USV blog. I have known Isaac Oates for over a decade and he’s a terrific entrepreneur and has built a great company which offers a fantastic HR solution to small and mid sized companies. If you don’t love the payroll and benefits solution your company uses, go here and find out how Justworks can change that for you and your employees.

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500

JANUARY 28, 2020

Guest Post: The following post is a sponsored guest post by SEMrush. All views and opinions represented in this post are the views and opinions of SEMrush and do not represent those of 500 Startups or any of its staff or affiliates. When you’re researching a market for the first time, it’s essential to find out what companies operate in your niche. And it’s no less important to understand how these businesses made it to the list of top industry players and what marketing strategies they follow.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 28, 2020

Hailo-8 was also selected as a CES 2020 Innovations Awards Honoree in the Embedded Technologies product category, and Hailo engineers presented at CES earlier in January. “CES was fantastic and a great opportunity,” Danon said, noting that Hailo was exposed to a crowd at CES estimated at 170,000. Read more here. The post [Hailo in FierceElectronics] How AI chips will explode 3x by 2025 with startups like Hailo, Syntiant and Groq appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 28, 2020

Join us for a fireside, hosted by Harvard in Tech, with YC partner Aaron Harris. Aaron was the founder of edtech company Tutorspree (a startup that was based in NY) and has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013. He’ll share what he’s learned from working with over 1,000 startups, and he’ll talk about some of the myths around starting a startup and getting into YC.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 28, 2020

You probably know that SEO stands for “search engine optimisation” and is the process of driving traffic to your website from organic search engine results such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. But have you ever thought about doing SEO and… Found it too complicated? Found it too expensive? Weren’t sure if it really will help your business?

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 28, 2020

Diego Saez Gil is the founder of Pachama (YC W19). Pachama is building a marketplace where companies can support carbon offset projects. He talks to Craig Cannon and YC partner Gustaf Alströmer about how Pachama uses technology to help solve climate change. 00:00 – Welcome Gustaf and Diego. 01:19 – Diego’s background. 06:50 – What is Pachama?

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 28, 2020

The data was uncovered by SixGill, a cybersecurity intel startup, which wrote: ‘This report analysed different trends related to underground financial fraud in H2 – 2019, focusing on the 76,230,127 compromised cards that were offered for sale in illegal credit card markets monitored by SixGill in the deep and dark web.’. Read more here. The post [SixGill in MailOnline] Security experts find the number of stolen credit cards on the dark web increased to 76 MILLION in the second half of 2019, wit

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2020

When we announced our investment in and partnership with Mattermost about a year ago , I wrote about a new architecture for SaaS. I’m starting to see that archiecture more and more, but with a twist. The idea behind the new architecture is split a SaaS app into code and the data. The SaaS company writes, updates, and maintains the code. And the customer manages the data.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 28, 2020

Sixgill, a leading threat intelligence company, has appointed Meira Primes, a veteran strategist and marketer, as chief marketing officer. Read more here. The post [SixGill in Help Net Security] Sixgill appoints Meira Primes as chief marketing officer appeared first on OurCrowd.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 28, 2020

BOL Pharma, a IMC-GMP-certified cultivator and supplier of medical cannabis, said it exported its first batch of medical cannabis to a customer in the United Kingdom. The products are destined for centers that specialize in the treatment of children with epilepsy and autism. Read more here. The post [BOL Pharma in JPost] Israel exports medical cannabis for first time appeared first on OurCrowd.

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