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How to Fix a Racially Biased Venture Capital Model and Commit to Diversity in Entrepreneurship

StartupNation

Venture capital is driven by relationships and many investments are sourced via personal referrals, usually through one’s direct networks. Investors’ networks tend to mirror themselves. So, if your own network lacks diversity and you rely on your network for deal flow, how can you expect to see startups led by diverse founders?

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Christina Theodoraki

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These can be policy makers, entrepreneurs, students, incubator managers and staff, universities, professors, educators and researchers, or just citizens. I also do research on incubators, as intermediaries between entrepreneurial and the ecosystem and how they decrease the gap between them. We are all connected to our ecosystem.

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Luxury fashion meets blockchain on Syky, the Seven Seven Six-backed web3 platform

TechCrunch

In 2017, Delahunt was at Ralph Lauren and had her first look at the blockchain, but it wasn’t until years later while working to pioneer some digital wardrobe projects with companies, like Snap, Bitmoji and Roblox, that she had an opportunity to see that web3 was going to be “more than a niche community” for luxury fashion. “I

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AI2 Incubator’s new $30M fund triples down on early stage AI startups

TechCrunch

The AI startup world may be getting hotter by the day, but there’s a difference between a startup that uses AI and an AI-first startup — and the Allen Institute for AI prides itself on fostering the latter in its AI2 Incubator. ” You know who you are!

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Nigerian agritech startup Releaf secures $4.2M to scale its food processing technology

TechCrunch

And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and huge economies of scale in high-demand cities, farmers still suffer from poor logistics networks. When the pair started the company in 2017, the idea behind Releaf was not concrete yet as the team, based in the U.S.,

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Innovation for More Inclusive Urban Spaces: the Case of MiFriendly Cities

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In October 2017, the European Union’s Urban Innovative Actions fund awarded €4,2 million to Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton for a 3-year initiative called MiFriendly Cities. For the first one – jobs -, a network called ‘Migration Friendly Employers’ was created. Untapping the potential of diverse communities.

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India’s insurance platform Turtlemint raises $30 million

TechCrunch

American Family Ventures, MassMutual Ventures and SIG; existing investors Blume Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, Nexus Venture Partners, Dream Incubator and Trifecta Capital also participated in the round, which brings Turtlemint’s total to-date raise to $55 million. Only a fraction of India’s 1.3