American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Three of the four pitching finalists were women entrepreneurs focusing on health and wellness issues. “I am so grateful to Venture Atlanta, BIP Ventures, Catalyst by Wellstar, Florida Funders, and Knoll Ventures for this incredible opportunity for growth,” said Jordan. Women’s healthcare startup Betty’s Co.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Ecosystem Building Leadership Project (EBLP) is an initiative to advance the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field of practice. Improving the Field: Imagine a learning infrastructure supporting the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field widely seen as both efficient and innovative. What would that look like?

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

With booking volumes approaching $2 billion and employees now over 1200, the latest lead funder Softbank has come on board with participation from existing investors, Kinnevik and Felix Capital. The post TravelPerk’s breakout Business Platform gains $104M led by Softbank Vision Fund 2 appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 29, 2021

We just closed our annual survey to learn what entrepreneurs need right now and this will feed our initiatives for the next year, but not only that, we’ll be sharing this data with the entrepreneurship ecosystem to influence public policy, funding mechanisms, deployment of resources such as Cares Act and CDBG-DR funds.”. 8 and above.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

Collaborative research focused on developing the field of ecosystem building would allow the field to identify the principles and practices that are most effective for fostering successful entrepreneurship. I asked them to treat me like a funder. Voices from the field. We have done work in more than twenty states at this point.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Beyond the dismissal of companies with mixed-gender founding teams that had tremendous successes in 2021 — consider Alloy ( which reached unicorn status ), Cityblock Health ( which raised $600 million ) and Nubank ( which closed the year with a record-breaking IPO ) — the correct statistic reflects a dramatic change in gender disparity.

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