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Urban Innovation Fund, VMG Catalyst among female-led firms raising new funds

TechCrunch

Two firms stuck out in recent days, including Urban Innovation Fund , which closed with commitments of $101 million for its Fund III and $20 million Opportunity Fund, and VMG Catalyst ‘s $400 million Fund II. Both firms are led by women, Clara Brenner and Julie Lein at Urban Innovation Fund, and Brooke Kiley over at VMG.

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How Antler East Africa is building early-stage startups with experienced professionals

TechCrunch

” It helps founders build complementary co-founding teams, provides support with deep business model validation and a global platform for scaling their businesses. After six months of incubation, the firm invests in the teams they can help further. To date, Antler has invested in and helped build over 250 companies.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Lordstown Motors’ woes, how co-CEOs work, Brian Chesky interview

TechCrunch

The startup’s history is tied to places representative of San Francisco: The founding team worked out of Peet’s Coffee on Mission Street for a few months, then crashed at a penthouse lounge near the 4th and King Caltrain station, followed by a tiny office and then a slightly bigger one in the Flatiron building near Market Street.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

In addition to running our robotics coverage, I also run TC’s hardware coverage overall, including all the consumer news and reviews. That involves due diligence, some research and choosing the stories we deem most relevant to our readers. How best would an adversary attack innovation in robotics?

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AI & Business Analytics: A Smart Guide

Sunflower Lab

With Business Analytics becoming more and more intelligent with time and further innovative with the usage, it is an inevitable instance where your data will not be needing any manual manipulations and actions, as it will be all taken care by the automated machine learning programs. Explore Our Expertise.

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Executive Round Table with Kent Barner and Jay Reed

TechFides Blog

At CIO Suite, Kent’s team (2 resources) offers four core services: IT Solutions Health Check Fractional CIO Services (i.e. The other pillars are Mergers and Acquisitions, from buy-side due diligence and post-transaction integration. And then lastly, G.S.D., But it takes a long time, especially in a fractional relationship.

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List of Best Companies in Dubai

Xicom

Whether it is software development, website development or mobile app development, businesses require services of IT companies from time to time. Sector: IT, Software Development Website: [link] Founded: 2002 Location: Dubai, India, US. Xicom is also one of the top app Development Company in Dubai.

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