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NFTE Founders Forum Pitch Competition Announces Student Winners

American Entrepreneurship

In addition to its classroom curriculum, NFTE hosts the Founders Forum Pitch Competition. Zachary Borja, founder of Borja+ Media took first place and received an award of $5,000 toward his digital marketing company which creates content for organizations with an impact-driven cause.

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In Their Own Words: Female Founders and CEOs Discuss the Discourse That’s Missing (and Hitting)…

Revolution

In Their Own Words: Female Founders and CEOs Discuss the Discourse That’s Missing (and Hitting) the Mark This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “ Inspire Inclusion ” — a call to recognize the unique perspectives and contributions of women from all walks of life, in all facets of life, including the innovation economy.

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Driving the Dialogue: Questions These Female Founders Wish You Asked

Revolution

population, but in 2022, companies with solely female founders garnered just 2% of the total capital invested in venture-backed startups. The long and short of it: Female founders face systemic barriers to founding, funding, and scaling their businesses. Women represent 50.5% of the U.S. That ticked up to 15.4%

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Singapore’s KNN3 wants to enable social discovery for decentralized apps

TechCrunch

Nansen has the support from a16z to provide on-chain data analysis for crypto investors. The blockchain data space is already quite crowded, co-founder Thomas Yu admitted, but there’s still room for more specialized services. The Graph offers an API for developers to query blockchain data. In the U.S.,

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Japanese e-commerce enabler AnyMind raises funding in equity, debt for acquisitions

TechCrunch

Japanese commerce enabler AnyMind , which helps brands and influencers’ online operations, has closed a ¥5 billion (approximately $36 million) Series D round on the back of that boost to make additional acquisitions in Japan and globally. AnyMind offers a number of services for brands and online business operators.

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15 Years of Founders’ Co-op

Founders Coop

Founders’ Co-op turns fifteen this year. But as a “company town” where most engineers come for a well-paying job, not as founders seeking like-minded peers, our region’s entrepreneurial support systems are surprisingly weak. By contrast, venture capital is a craft that defies both speed and scale.

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Opaque Systems secures cash to keep data private while enabling collaboration

TechCrunch

million, which co-founder and CEO Rishabh Poddar says is being put toward product development and doubling the size of the team to close to 100 employees by the end of the year. Intel’s recently launched security-as-a-service solution, Project Amber, supports confidential computing workloads. ” The Opaque platform. .