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AWS launches new $30M accelerator program aimed at minority founders

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. Programs like AWS Impact Accelerator amount to more than lip service. saw almost no progress in venture capital funding from 2013 to 2020.

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Daily Crunch: New Starbucks Odyssey loyalty program ‘happens to be built on blockchain and web3’

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2001, a Starbucks Odyssey : In August, Starbucks got things percolating with plans for a blockchain-based loyalty program and NFT community. Olsen spent six years with Sequoia Capital in California before co-founding Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio, in 2013. The TechCrunch Top 3. Sarah has more on this steamy, hot cup of rewards.

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Oma Fertility to speak on building a better IVF experience on TechCrunch Live

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She spent nearly six years at Apple, where she was an engineer program manager for five years. After leaving Apple in 2013, she spent a year as an engineering program manager at Square before joining up with Pearl Automation, where she was a founding team member at the ambitious startup. Chrissy Meyer knows hardware.

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Uber launches private chartered boats in Mykonos

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Uber has offered other boat products before, including the brief “Boat to Work” program in San Francisco way back in 2013 and more recently, Uber Boat in London, which is primarily for commuters. That’ll be the first supported location in Greece, with potentially more to come in the future.

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Oma Fertility to speak on building a better IVF experience on TechCrunch Live

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She spent nearly six years at Apple, where she was an engineer program manager for five years. After leaving Apple in 2013, she spent a year as an engineering program manager at Square before joining up with Pearl Automation, where she was a founding team member at the ambitious startup. Chrissy Meyer knows hardware.

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Miami-based Ironhack raises $20 million for its coding bootcamps as demand for coders continues

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Ironhack , a company offering programming bootcamps across Europe and North and South America, has raised $20 million in its latest round of funding. Last year, Lambda School raised $74 million for its coding education program. Ironhack isn’t the only bootcamp to benefit from this growth.

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A CTO’s Guide To The Top Federal Technology Topics of 2013

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By Bob Gourley You know the top federal IT news of 2013, after all, you probably lived it. We all tracked topics like the Shutdown and its impact on IT, HealthCare.gov, NSA programs, Data Center consolidation efforts. The Top Federal Technology Topics of 2013. This is the big data news of 2013, from a technology perspective.