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Meet the Black Female Founders from TC Include at TC Sessions: Justice 2021

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We partnered with various founder organizations — who in turn nominated promising early-stage startup founders — and collectively provide educational resources and mentorship to help these young founders develop and succeed over the course of the year.

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Grab one of the last remaining tickets to TC Early Stage

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Just two days — with only a handful of tickets remaining — until TechCrunch Early Stage drops invaluable knowledge on the newest generation of startup founders in San Francisco on April 14. You get great mentorship through attending the Early Stage sessions. Our Launch Special tickets sold out.

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Here’s your chance to show off your expertise at TechCrunch’s founder summit

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We’re looking for trendsetting, game-changing, later-stage startup founders and ecosystem experts — of every stripe — to apply for the opportunity to share their hard-won expertise at our annual founder summit. You get great mentorship through attending the Early Stage sessions. Show us your content — apply today!

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What went wrong at Techstars

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Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.

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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

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Non-profit organizations such as Asan Nanum Foundation , established by Hyundai Group, and D.Camp , as well as startup founders and executives, including the co-founder and former CEO of Krafton, Gang-Seok Kim , also joined Sopoong’s climate fund, Han continued.

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Leverage Edu raises $6.5 million to help Indian students land in top colleges abroad

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Chaturvedi, 30, began exploring this idea for this startup in 2015 and spent a little more than a year experimenting with different models. One of the earliest iterations of Leverage Edu offered mentorship to students and rewarded counselors with points. “It’s one digital dashboard.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

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What you want, however, is to increase the chance that such a founder winds up in your locale—that not only is it routine to find such a person, but there’s also a path for well meaning, aspirational folks just starting out their career to grow into that founder through learning, experience and mentorship.