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15 Underrepresented Founders Share $170K in Startup302 Grant Prizes

American Entrepreneurship

We’re so grateful for the ongoing support from sponsors and community members for this exciting competition, and, as usual, we were extremely impressed by the quality of the startups who made it to the finals,” said DPP Director of Innovation Noah Olson. These included a welcome reception on May 15 and a breakfast with investors on May 17.

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

TechCrunch

Tech that serves to conserve the oceans while using it to replace older, more harmful means of generating energy and food seems to be one such opportunity. The open ocean also contains tremendous amounts of energy. But today, it increasingly means tapping the enormous energy represented by the ocean’s winds and waves.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. two founders in a garage?—?(HP The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two HP Style) are dead.

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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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Covariant, MassRobotics and The Engine discuss the road from lab to market at TC Sessions: Robotics

TechCrunch

And even though robotics is weathering the current slowdown in venture funding better than other tech sectors, it’s still too easy for innovative inventions to remain stuck in the lab. Abbeel’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Rolling Stone, Wired, Tech Review and (of course) TechCrunch.

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5 tips for scaling your green startup during a funding drought

TechCrunch

Priyanka Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Live Green Co , a Chilean food tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to suggest plant-based alternatives for meat and artificial additives in food. Here are five things green founders should remember when seeking VC funding at this moment. Priyanka Srinivas. Contributor.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired. It doesn’t have the same energy or chemistry. everything. I remember.

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