Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Developing the skills to be resilient is essential in order to be a strong leader, to recover from setbacks and to adapt to whatever challenges come your way. 2016 YLAI Fellow Marco Mendieta works hard to develop the small-business community of Ecuador and regenerate the economy following the country’s devastating earthquake of 2016.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Rondell Hamilton is the founder of Rennie’s Orphanage and Animal Rescue (ROAR) in Trinidad, a nonprofit organization managing the rehabilitation, repopulation, and rescue of wild animals. During my YLAI experience in 2018 at San Diego Zoo Global, I learned about managing all the moving parts of a conservation facility.

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Source Link

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners in Nebraska now have access to a premier network of interconnected support resources that spans the 76,878 square mile state. In fact, many communities start with just one area of focus and develop their program over time to realize economic impact. affiliate, SourceLink Nebraska !

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 18, 2021

Developing your brand means deciding how you distinguish yourself to your audience, and it determines how many people will interact with your organization and what the world knows you stand for. While 2018 YLAI Fellow Janeel Boon spends his time running his business Boon’s Computer Repairs , he is also well-known in his home country of St.

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Source Link

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Data captured from the small businesses supported by SourceLink® affiliate organizations provides valuable information for our network to report to their community stakeholders. Tracking and supporting job creation. Data was extracted from the 2018 Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) report from the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

2018 YLAI fellow Kenishia Mais is the founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform empowering young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, create their ideal financial lives, and gain the freedom to pursue more of what they love.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Innovators Hernann Zabala Naoumov, 2018 YLAI Fellow, and Antonio Mendoza, 2016 YLAI Fellow, co-founded EnerGea , a social enterprise aimed at increasing energy efficiency and reducing pollution and energy consumption through sustainable technology. From there, they founded EnerGea. Courtesy of Antonio Mendoza. Turning away from corruption.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

And that’s in the background of why we also raised this next round to really accelerate that, to fuel the developer revolution and advance [this] modern way [of developing websites], and to also tackle the next set of challenges. Netlify nabs $53M Series C as microservices approach to web development grows.

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

As we foster the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems, it’s important to design them to level the playing field for women. In 2018, women started 1,821 net new businesses every day according to research by American Express, which also showed that black women are starting businesses at the fastest rate of any racial group.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The European startup’s flagship claim for the data-ingesting bot-builder platform is it’s capable of automating up to 80% of customer support interactions. When we last spoke to the Helsinki- and Berlin-based startup, back in 2018 for a $1.3M

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 19, 2022

With encouragement from friends and family, in March 2018, I founded Covert Results, a private investigations and security company. We’ve experienced an outpouring of support from the local community and media. It was time to retire and start a new venture. The company has doubled in size each year.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The healthcare industry veteran, worked on the company’s original development team in 2016. The support of IP Group and DreamIt Ventures is further evidence we’re solving a widely recognized problem that is ubiquitous within the healthcare industry,” Airan-Javia said.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Sandro Roco: I had the idea for Sanzo in 2018. At the same time, 2018 was the summer of LaCroix and other flavored sparkling water brands across a larger $45 billion carbonated soft drink category that has been in decline in the U.S. Here are Five Questions with Sandro. Hunter Walk: Backstory time! Crazy Rich Asians became the No.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2018, three co-founders of Refract, Chong Geng Ng, Michael Chng and Eugene Koh, worked on a gaming-related project and encountered a problem statement: How would one bridge the gap between gaming and physical activity? “We are pleased to support their growth and the development of the overall innovation ecosystem in Singapore.”

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

Meet the tech companies transforming real estate using VR and AR technology: View this post on Instagram UberPuppy A post shared by VirtualAPT (@virtualaptcorp) on Nov 19, 2018 at 1:58pm PST VirtualAPT develops autonomous robots that scan rooms and capture 360-degree video content that customers can then use to market their spaces.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

This brings the company’s total funds raised to $87 million since the company was founded by Richard Hong and Darwish Gani in 2018. Pangaea ended up developing proprietary infrastructure, including warehousing, payments and shipping, as a holding company to grow and scale direct-to-consumer brands.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Incredibuild , an Israeli startup that provides a way for organizations to implement distributed computing architecture to speed up the processing needed for intensive tasks like software development by tapping into a company’s network of idle CPUs, has picked up $140 million in funding.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Driven by a desire to help people from a young age, YLAI 2018 Fellow Janeel Boon aims to empower others to see their leadership ability within themselves. Kitts & Nevis , a support group setting designed to empower entrepreneurs as they pivot in this trying time. By Jewelle Saunders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Assembled , which bills itself as a workforce management platform for customer support teams, today announced that it raised $51 million in a Series B funding round led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from Emergence Capital and Basis Set Ventures.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 28, 2020

Through the Saint Apollonia Mobile Dental Clinic , 2018 YLAI Fellow Valesca Saint Cyr is able to deliver quality and affordable dental care to underserved communities in Haiti. The people in the communities we go to are always happy to see us, and they always support us. By Ana Gonzalez. How has your organization been successful?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 11, 2020

Global Business Development Expert Cheryl Edison and our very own 2018 YLAI alum and young entrepreneur Shemeon William discuss the intricacies of business development & growth. Here, Edison stressed the importance of makerspaces, where entrepreneurs can share experiences, support each other and test their products.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Nomic Labs , creator of popular Ethereum developer tools platform Hardhat , is becoming a nonprofit with the goal of improving the protocol’s developer ecosystem, it announced today. . Indeed, 23,000 GitHub repositories, or developer projects, use Hardhat, representing tens of thousands of active users, according to Zeoli.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

Because it’s more convenient to shop online or support a larger business, people weren’t supporting smaller businesses as much as bigger ones. In 2018 we had 200 businesses, and in 2019, 400. What issues in your community drove you to create this company? What has it been like to scale your business?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

This is more than double what Nylas had raised up to now ($55 million since being founded in 2015), and when it last raised — a $16 million Series B in 2018 — it said it had “thousands of developers” among its users. Now, that number has ballooned to 40,000, with Nylas processing some 1.2

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 9, 2023

Register Taiwan-based auto machine learning solutions developer, Profet AI, has earned $5.6 The company also intends to further develop its AutoML Virtual Data Scientist Platform and Ready To Go Applications and accelerate new product development. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Remember Me.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Vinehealth , a 2018-founded, London-based digital health startup that’s built an app which offers personalized support for cancer patients while also making it easier to gather patient-reported outcome (PRO) data, including for drug development and clinical trials, has closed a $5.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Y-Combinator- backed Localyze has nabbed $12 million in Series A funding led by Blossom Capital for a SaaS that supports staff relocations and hiring across borders. “We developed a software that automates large parts of the relevant processes around global mobility,” explains Asmussen.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Amidst all the challenges and tribulations, workers believe a large portion of their work week is unproductive, with the majority of respondents to a recent (2018) Intuit survey saying that they’d get more done with fewer meetings, for one — and with more sleep. That’s not great news for employers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

A look back at the Israeli cybersecurity industry in 2018. Michael Cortez, vice president at YL Ventures, focuses on business development initiatives to grow the market leadership of the firm and its portfolio companies, with an emphasis on strategic and tactical support for early-stage go-to-market activities. Michael Cortez.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

We were invited to participate by the Global Leaders Initiative, which aims to bring key networks together to find solutions that address the challenges of sustainable development. In addition, SDG Lab participants were asked to support the creation of the SDG Olympic Games for Climate. They hope to launch it later in 2023.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

A 2018 study by the the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy reported that there were over 379,000 veteran-owned employer businesses in the U.S. , Although veteran-owned businesses are often more successful than the average startup, they still need mentorship, funding and support to take their idea from concept to market.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2019

Vikram Beri is an EO New Delhi member and the director of business development at FieldKing , a manufacturer of farm equipment founded by his grandfather in 1978. In late 2018, Vikram celebrated the second anniversary of his youngest, perhaps most meaningful, startup. To a more meaningful tomorrow. Happiness Always, Vikram Beri.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

WeRide, one of China’s most-funded startups developing autonomous driving capabilities, said on Wednesday that it has raised a $200 million strategic round from Chinese bus maker Yutong. The partners have already jointly developed a front-loaded driverless minibus for mass-production.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

On Wednesday, the company announced that it snatched up Active Replica , a Vancouver-based startup developing a “web-based metaverse.” ” According to Mozilla SVP Imo Udom, Active Replica will support Mozilla’s ongoing work with Hubs, the latter’s VR chatroom service and open source project.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Initially introduced in 2018, the policies have now been extended until the end of 2027, as stated in a joint announcement by the Ministry of Finance and State Taxation Administration. Register China has announced the extension of favorable taxation policies for venture capital firms and individual angel investors investing in tech startups.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2024

April 24, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) has closed its first four approvals under the Angel Match Program , awarding a total of $2 million to support early-stage technology companies. $20M program matches investors’ direct investment in product-based companies TRENTON, N.J. TLA Innovation, Inc.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 24, 2023

Register ZEBOX , a global accelerator founded in 2018 by the Chairman and CEO of the CMA CGM Group, Rodolphe Saadé, has launched its Asia Pacific hub in Singapore. The ZEBOX Asia Pacific hub has the support of Enterprise Singapore and the Maritime Port Authority of Singapore (MPA).

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