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Views on the Ground: Scenes from Our Chicago Founder Fly-In

Revolution

After the team touched down in Chicago, we brought together founders, funders, and friends of the ecosystem for dinner at Chicago Winery, our home base for the Fly-In. Before lunch, we mixed founders with Chicago’s civic, academic, and financial leaders — including former Google exec, Ted Souder , J.P. Show panic, get panic.

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

TechCrunch

Use discount code BELFAST to save 25% off an annual or two-year Extra Crunch membership. We have a mix of angel and institutional investors in Belfast. INI is a big support and funder. This offer is only available to readers in the U.K. and Europe, and expires on May 31, 2021. What are the tech investors like in Belfast?

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Oliver Libby, Managing Partner, H/L Ventures , notes, “it is important to remember that impact funders occupy the same spectrum of returns as regular investors.

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World Refugee Day: Navigating the challenges of refugee employment and entrepreneurship​

Impact Hub

Refugee in the Netherlands Meanwhile, Africa and the Middle East host substantial refugee populations while providing a mix of opportunities and restrictions. Barriers range from formal legal impediments to practical issues, like obtaining the necessary documentation to use the banking system, which obstructs refugee entrepreneurship.

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World Refugee Day

Impact Hub

However, the process is challenging due to language barriers, bureaucratic hurdles and the need to prove qualifications that are difficult to verify from my home country.” - Refugee in the Netherlands Meanwhile, Africa and the Middle East host substantial refugee populations while providing a mix of opportunities and restrictions.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Oliver Libby, Managing Partner, H/L Ventures , notes, “it is important to remember that impact funders occupy the same spectrum of returns as regular investors.

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Data obscures positive trends in VC dollars reaching women-founded startups

TechCrunch

In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. To put the number in context, women-founded companies have accounted for around 24% of annual first-financing deals that we know had mixed-gender teams since 2017. We need better funder-side reporting.

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