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New Jersey announces $10M seed fund aimed at Black and Latinx founders

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billion venture dollars invested between 2018 and 2019. Also, Digitalundivided’s ProjectDiane 2020 report found that Black and Latinx women founders received just $1.7 billion of the total $276.7 Disclosure: Verizon is TechCrunch’s parent company ).

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

The “Elevate” Black Entrepreneurs Scholarship is awarded to “a Black undergraduate or graduate school entrepreneur who is currently building or who aspires to build a new business.” Astra Incubator is “the first Italian incubation program designed to connect aspiring innovators and build multidisciplinary teams.”

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

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’s Tech Nation found in 2018 that about 26% of Belfast’s workforce was employed in tech, and it is among cities in the country with the highest growth potential for 2021. Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. And as far as the local startup scene goes, the U.K.’s What are you most excited by?

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The latest list of YC-backed companies worth over $150M is the most geographically diverse yet

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In 2018, Y Combinator released its first mega list of the top companies valued at $150 million or more that have gone through the accelerator. There were 141 companies from 24 countries in the winter 2018 batch , compared with 377 companies across 47 countries in the summer 2021 group. have joined this desirable list.

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The BF TechCelerator is Hosting a Pitch Event: Someone Will Walk Away With Up To $10,000!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

STATE COLLEGE, PA – On December 6, 2018, six emerging tech entrepreneurs will compete for up to $10,000 at the BF TechCelerator’s graduation “pitch” event. A panel of local judges will evaluate the presenters who have been honing their business concepts for the past ten weeks in an intensive business startup accelerator.

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Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change

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In December 2018 that figure was $230 million, in 2019 it was just under $200 million. However, the decline may also be a function of large tech firms setting up incubation hubs to cut up and absorb talent. By the end of last year, the annual Israeli Tech Review 2020 showed that Israeli tech firms had raised a record $9.93

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Alto raises $40 million to help individuals make tax-savvy investments in assets like crypto and artwork

TechCrunch

Using self-directed IRA companies to make such investments was costing Satz over $500 a year in fees, a problem he aimed to solve for others by launching Alto in 2018. Retirement accounts are particularly suited to making early-stage investments in private companies because of their long duration and risk-return profile, Satz said.