American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

The country’s only tech-enabled deposit network is leaving behind competitor networks that still use manual processes While fintech funding languished in 2023 , deposit management platform ModernFi is an exception going into 2024, having just closed an $18.7 million Series A funding round. The current round adds to a $4.5

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. Without this support, many early-stage companies wouldn’t get off the ground.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 25, 2024

Participants leave their programmes equipped with the tools and networks necessary for sustainable growth and success, demonstrating Impact Hub Bradford’s dedication to making a lasting impact in their community. million in funding for the ‘Local Access Bradford District’ initiative.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. Without this support, many early-stage companies wouldn’t get off the ground.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

AI Stage: Covers the latest artificial intelligence tech related to NLG, speech recognition, virtual agents, biometrics, RPA, deep learning platforms, reactive machines, and P2P networks. CTA: Want to reach the biggest funders, founders and Disruptors? Sessions will include DeepMind and Benchmark. Founders, do you have what it takes?

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

For any entrepreneur to be successful in starting a business, they must have the right help and resources to support of their hard work. Accelerators are programs run by a range of organizations and funders to assist the best startup applicants they choose. Search out resources that are timely to starting and growing a small business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Enter LGBT+ VC, a nonprofit organization that aims to support LGBTQ+ founders and investors allied with the cause. That resulted in the duo tapping into their networks and assessing the relationship the LGBTQ+ community currently has with the tech ecosystem. Tiana and I came together, and we thought, ‘where can we make a difference?’”

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Launched in Boston in 2019 the program serves over 300 students with many more on the horizon due to Third Rock’s support. That contribution with Third Rock’s founding support is a great convergence of focus, creating optimism that more underrepresented and underserved college students will pursue positions in life science industry hubs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

With the support of Oikocredit alongside our first-round funders, our distribution, logistics and financing services will continue not only in Ghana but also in Ivory Coast where we’ve recently begun the process of expanding our team,” said Attah in a statement. to grow its input supply network.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 10, 2020

We appreciate collaboration and work diligently to identify appropriate networks & partners within ecosystems to convene and apply solutions collectively. ”(Startup Champions Network). Data today, 3-5 years later will not support that notion though. What motivates you as an ecosystem builder?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Over the two days of the workshop, nine projects were identified to move the EBLP forward from the following prompts: Regarding the Field: Imagine the field of entrepreneurship ecosystem building takes center stage; it is consistently adopted among practitioners, funders, policy makers, and others – locally, regionally, and nationally.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

Over the last few years, we have been supported by our dedicated volunteer and professional staff to continue to offer better member experience, expanded our professionalized education programs and continued to be the voice for protections and incentives for angel investors in the public policy arena. Read the first newsletter here.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

How can we better support acceleration and incubation efforts to push for the transition from the linear to the circular economy? Circularity is part of our broader Environmental Strategy – discover how Impact Hub Global Network is addressing our time’s most pressing issues here.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Social enterprises and social enterprise support organisations locally and internationally can get involved by reaching out to Impact Hub Amman. Unleash your impact potential today Join our free global membership for the latest news, resources, and inspiring stories of entrepreneurial impact.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Social enterprises and social enterprise support organisations locally and internationally can get involved by reaching out to Impact Hub Amman. Unleash your impact potential today Join our free global membership for the latest news, resources, and inspiring stories of entrepreneurial impact.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Our 110 communities are diverse yet they all need an enabling environment of supportive regulatory frameworks, inclusive economic development initiatives, stronger social and environmental sustainability standards, and a brave impact funding environment. To date, our community has reached over 25,000 such impact-driven enterprises.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

Angels are nimble, identifying and supporting entrepreneurs with desperately needed new technologies and innovations. We’ve become the most active public policy supporter for early and seed stage investing in the United States. More than ever, we need innovation. We need ingenuity. We need risk-takers and difference-makers.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

These are people whose business it is to support startups. On top of that, they tend to be the locus of innovation networks. It's no accident that the people who give out money have the largest networks of people floating around them. Ideas get poorly vetted because the funders aren't current on tech trends.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

“Not everybody can do ecosystem building; it’s a talent that is developed through experience and education, connections and networking. In the midst of supporting founders in their communities during a global pandemic, what do they wish they were more versed in? It is a unique combination of skills and the right mindset.” Kim Louis.

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Forward Cities

MARCH 27, 2020

Set up or leverage a digital communications platform that helps small businesses connect with resources, a community of support, and a storytelling platform that can personalize and amplify the work, products, and needs of small businesses; .

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 28, 2021

Plus, we’ll have virtual happy hours and crowd-sourced discussion groups for low-key and high-comfort networking. Experience an all-new way to celebrate angel investing and the power of company support! Attend this preview session on April 29 to get networking and learning tips and tricks, build your own agenda, and more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

” Clearly, that’s how Holberton’s funders feel about this, too. ” He expects to see 5,000 students join this year, up from 500 in 2019, and see the network expand with new schools in the U.S., “Raising funds is helping us support and accelerate our vision of creating this ‘OS of education.’

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

I asked them to treat me like a funder. The more metrics that we can collect about ecosystems the more we will be able to make informed decisions and provide targeted support as ecosystem builders.” This was a focused effort to support our mayor’s goal of investing in women-and-minority-owned small businesses. Ellen Bateman.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 1, 2021

Jordan, 1 June, 2021 – The Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE) and its mandated Advisory Committee and Sub-Committees, supported by the United Nations Development Programme Jordan (UNDP Jordan) and Impact Hub gathered to advance policy development work in support of social entrepreneurs in Jordan.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

Note that I specifically am excluding from this analysis the firms that help investors access investment funds, e.g., CAIS , Context365 , iCapital Network , OurCrowd , Palico , PrimeAlpha , Trusted Insight. We support that with an active Slack community and a venture scout program.” Elite networks. Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

How they managed to rally other ecosystem stakeholders into supporting these efforts. Alexis Ehrhardt, President & CEO at Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce, explains “For two years, Danville Regional Foundation provided a fellow to support the development of the ecosystem. The need for an ecosystem builder.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I wish the small business ecosystem had something equivalent to the angel investor networks that support technology startups. In an ecosystem, there should be multiple entrepreneurial support organizations, coworking spaces, incubators/accelerators, investors, etc.communicating about the resources they have to support entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

That means having VC firms that spotlight international entrepreneurship and foster global expert networks. To help this along, angels and VCs who’ve been behind a recent exit and are reinvesting in similar founders should publicize those knock-on investments, explaining how their previous success motivated them to support similar ventures.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2023

Q: I imagine you periodically have people joining not because they have cash to invest and want to lock it up in an illiquid, high-risk investment, but because they want to network with angels. Q: Do you offer your angels any technology tools to support portfolio construction for direct investments?

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It is a description for a new entrepreneurial support pilot program launching in Franklin County, OH in January of 2020. No, this isn’t a description of a new reality TV show! Innovation Sprints. The second pilot provides growth-oriented small businesses with an expert site visit and strategic assessment.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 29, 2021

I’ve also occasionally replaced a new Story Time with a Zoom-based Happy Hour to Support Local Biz or a Schmooze Time event, as I recognized that as much as my community loves its stories, it missed having the unstructured time that was padded into our 2-hour in-person events to connect and schmooze.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Scouts are typically hired because they are well-networked and credible in an industry, geography, and/or community that a VC is focusing on. This role helps augment the candidate’s profile with personal branding, networks, track record, dealflow, and industry best practices. HOW TO GET A SCOUT ROLE. Solo GP Training. Calm Company. “We’re

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Public funding supports are good, but too fragmented and hard to access. Halo Business Angel Network feels staid. With more support from Invest NI, the whole of Northern Ireland can be an innovation hub linked to Ireland via the startup ecosystem. The support for early-stage startups has also contributed to this influx.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is a description for a new entrepreneurial support pilot program launching in Franklin County, OH in January of 2020. No, this isn’t a description of a new reality TV show! Innovation Sprints. The second pilot provides growth-oriented small businesses with an expert site visit and strategic assessment.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In simple terms, the local LP community owned 70% of the fund economics, the Managing Director owned 20% and Techstars owned 10%; we also paid Techstars a $50K annual fee to support the program’s back-office operations. Bottom line, Techstars needed cash. Killing the Golden Goose Organizations become what they’re staffed and led to do.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution.

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