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What if all startup accelerators promote circularity?

Impact Hub

One garbage truck of textiles is landfilled or incinerated every second – representing a lot opportunity of USD 100 billion annually. Our ambition for 2030 is to shape the business of the future by pioneering new models to foster financial health, wellbeing, environmental action and social inclusion in all that we do.

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Startup Accelerators are Entrepreneur Boot Camps

Gust

Most incubators and accelerators today provide one or more of the following: flexible space and leases, often at very low rates. group rates for health, life and other insurance plans. If that’s the toughest problem you face as a startup, then you probably didn’t need an incubator in the first place.

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Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America

TechCrunch

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. Contributor. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor.

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PetHub’s Clemens is Leading Innovation in the Pet Tech Industry

Jason Malki

We’re focused on growing our company and building strategic partnerships that will fuel future growth and investment opportunities. Earlier this year, we were one of six pet care companies selected to participate in the fifth cohort of the Leap Venture Studio , the first pet care-specific startup accelerator.

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Thai healthcare, surgery marketplace HD raises $6m in funding

AsiaTechDaily

The startup, which operates the HDmall platform in Thailand and Indonesia, is excited to announce that it has successfully raised funding from a group of investors incl. HD is also one of ten startups recently accepted into the Google for Startups Accelerator: Southeast Asia program.

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The biggest moonshots from 500 Global’s latest Demo Day

TechCrunch

walked through its health assessment service for insurance carriers. Designed to do away with lengthy medical exams and forms, Lydia has insurance plan applicants answer a few questions about their health — e.g., whether they have a chronic illness, have recently been hospitalization and so on — via their smartphones.

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SOSV is building a New Jersey HAX facility for industrial, healthcare and climate startups

TechCrunch

SOSV notes that, while HAX’s earliest focus was on wearables, in more recent years, the accelerator has largely shifted to industrial and healthcare, which currently comprise 70% and 20% of its portfolio, respectively.

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