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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. Despite storm clouds rolling in, Chicago’s broader startup community packed the evening happy hour — proof that momentum here doesn’t mind a little weather.

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Tradition Meets Technology: How WAYS Is Redefining the Future of Cultural Travel

Jason Malki

After a decade immersed in digital strategy, fintech, and responsible AI, Rocio returned to Spain to co-found WAYS  — a tech-for-impact startup revitalizing cultural routes like the Camino de Santiago. What motivated you to launch your startup? What has been your biggest challenge when growing your startup?

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Empowering Nonprofits with AI: Ron Rivers on Innovation and Impact

Jason Malki

Imagine having a dedicated AI grant agent continuously scouting and evaluating new grant opportunities, performing due diligence on funders, and drafting comprehensive grant applications based directly on organizational activities. If you had to share words of wisdom with a founder about to start their own startup, what would theybe?

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Rising Tide: The Business of Climate Innovation

Revolution

Maryland, and Virginia.” —  Mahati Sridhar, Rise of the Rest Partner Mahati opened the morning by underscoring the regional opportunity and the need to connect founders, funders, and institutions across the DMV who are building the next generation of climate solutions. The takeaways: “There’s so much talent concentrated between D.C.,

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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

This is going to be BIG.

Despite the attempts at seeding things way downtown, Flatiron and Soho is where tech startups grew, just like today. These are people whose business it is to support startups. Like pollinating bees, VCs bounce from meeting to meeting interacting with dozens of startups per week each. So why didn't it work?

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

You can ask a bunch of startup companies to move to a place, but it''s harder to bring together inspiring people who will build the companies of tomorrow in that place. There was no strategic goal to build venture backed startup companies, but yet at least three companies in her community got VC investment last year.

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Venture Atlanta 2023 “Startup Showcase Live” selects Enrichly as $500K Winner

American Entrepreneurship

They introduced “Startup Showcase Live”, a pitch contest for seed and pre-seed startups, competing for a $500,000 investment. Now with the winning $500,000 investment in hand, Jordan’s youth development startup will accelerate its mission of tackling the current teen self-esteem crisis. Women’s healthcare startup Betty’s Co.