| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.09.2022 | The Cru Wants Companies To Tackle Loneliness And Boost Your Career. | Tiffany Dufu, founder and CEO of The Cru, has acquired The Mentor Method to accelerate enterprise ... [+] sales.Forbes |
| 02.02.2022 | A Black woman’s guide to venture-capital fundraising: How to pitch investors, build a support network, and raise millions. | . Diaundra Jones
Raising venture capital is a daunting experience for Black women.
Before 2021, only 93 Black female founders had raised $US1 ($AU1) million or more in venture capital.
Insider compiled a guide to help Black women through th... |
| 02.02.2022 | A Black woman's guide to venture-capital fundraising: How to pitch investors, build a support network, and raise millions. | Raising venture capital is a daunting experience for Black women.
Before 2021, only 93 Black female founders had raised $1 million or more in venture capital.
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| 11.06.2021 | In DiDi IPO, a one-time rival Uber stands to gain | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
A few years ago, local ride-hailing upstarts in countries including Southeast Asia and China defe... |
| 31.01.2020 | MassChallenge Texas Begins Accepting Applications for its Austin and Houston Programs | At the South Congress Hotel last week, MassChallenge Texas officially kicked off its next application cycle for its accelerator programs in Austin and Houston. |
| 26.01.2020 | 25 of Austin’s Hottest Startups to Watch in 2020 | Austin had another outstanding year with startup activity overall on the rise. |
| 07.03.2019 | ClearBlade Wins $100K in Ingram Micro’s Comet Competition | Austin-based ClearBlade won the first place prize of $100,000 in the Comet Competition contest sponsored by Ingram Micro. |
| 17.12.2018 | SEED SPOT is looking for entrepreneurs to join its spring accelerator program | SEED SPOT, the social-impact incubator, is recruiting impact-driven entrepreneurs for its second spring Impact Accelerator program in D.C.
Are you ready to take your impact-driven venture to the next level? Apply to our 8-Week Impact Accele... |
| 02.10.2018 | The Mentor Method and Rectify Win Capital Factory’s $100,000 Awards at the Women in Tech Summit | |
| 16.08.2018 | MassChallenge Texas Awards $510,000 and Prizes to 10 Startups | By Laura Lorek
Publisher of Silicon Hills News |
| 16.08.2018 | MassChallenge Awards $510K to Eight Startups in Texas Accelerator | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Austin—[Updated 2:11 p.m. See below.] MassChallenge gave out $510,000 in cash to eight startups Wednesday, including to six early stage companies from Texas.
During an award c... |
| 16.08.2018 | MassChallenge Texas Awards $500K in Equity-Free Cash Prizes to Top 8 Startups in Inaugural Cohort | (AUSTIN, Texas – Aug. 16, 2018) - MassChallenge, a global network of zero-equity startup accelerators, last night awarded $500,000 to eight of the highest-impact startups from the MassChallenge Texas accelerator program. Announced at the Ma... |
| 26.07.2018 | MassChallenge Texas Names Top 16 Startups From Inaugural Cohort | (AUSTIN, Texas – July 26, 2018; source: Juice Consulting) – MassChallenge, a global network of zero-equity startup accelerators, today announced the top 16 startups from its first Texas-based program, MassChallenge Texas. Representing some ... |
| 21.02.2018 | MassChallenge Texas Announces Inaugural Class of Startups | AUSTIN, TEXAS MassChallenge, a global network of zero-equity startup accelerators, today announced that 84 of the worlds highest impact, highest potential early-stage startups will come together in Austin, Texas for the not-for-profit's fir... |
| 22.12.2017 | A New Year’s resolution for the #dctech community | New Year’s resolutions often build on what’s already happened. So it’s fitting that as they looked ahead to 2018, members of the #dctech community said they are looking to build on what happened in 2017.
A focus on diversity was quickly ide... |
| 06.12.2017 | These 8 impact-minded startups are getting investor-ready | As a special education administrator in DC Public Schools, Brandon Best has seen struggles with a lack of communication between parents and teachers for over a decade. That’s why he founded PT Chat, a platform designed for Title I schools t... |
| 18.09.2017 | For diversity and inclusion in tech, ‘This opportunity is too big to miss’ | Between the big and small ideas for approaching the yawning inclusion gap in tech, one of the consistent needs is to ask the right questions.
Think about job descriptions. List a college degree or a certain number of years of experience, an... |
| 11.09.2017 | Introducing the 2017 50 on Fire Winners | DC Inno's 50 on Fire honors the hottest companies, organizations and people from across a number of categories, each one operating within or around the city's innovation economy.
You might be looking at this list and think "Huh, this i... |
| 18.08.2017 | Multiplying meetups look to the collective | Consider the power of a collective.
Just about every growing tech community goes through periods of alternating between expansion and consolidation. One group surges to become a vital flag bearer, others grow to serve specific constituencie... |
| 01.06.2017 | I’m reversing 8 years of corporate assimilation and it’s so hard | Two months ago at a pitch competition, someone I deeply respected called me out for being inauthentic. I knew I needed to figure out why I was only comfortable dancing around my background, and not comfortable being vulnerable and truly sha... |
| 20.04.2017 | Here’s who is part of SEED SPOT’s inaugural DC cohort | On Wednesday night, 10 early-stage social impact ventures took the floor, and the mic, at WeWork White House to introduce themselves to the broader #dctech community. Collectively, this group is part of SEED SPOT’s first full-time cohort in... |
| 10.01.2017 | How this founder’s immigrant parents made her a better entrepreneur | I’m proud to be the child of immigrant parents. I’m first-generation American from the Congo. Coming from extreme poverty, my parents dove into their studies to earn college scholarships to come to the U.S. in the 70s. They knew very little... |
| 04.01.2017 | Regardless of your industry, community matters: Laura Lopez | As the year drew to a close we looked back at all that has happened in #dctech — this post is part of our 2016 year in review series. See the full list here.
Love them or hate them, yearly recaps make for a concise way to look back on the y... |
| 16.08.2016 | This DC startup wants to make finding a mentor as easy as finding a date | Janice Omadeke is smart and driven and ambitious, so right out of college she knew she needed to find mentors in order to propel her career forward. The only problem: this was easier said than done.
Even as an outgoing, active person Omadek... |
| - | How Black women can navigate difficult pitch meetings with confidence, according to 8 founders who've raised more than $5 million in venture capital | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Conversing and connecting with investors is important when it comes to raising money.
But this can pose problems for Black women, who often... |
| - | A Black woman's guide to venture-capital fundraising: How to pitch investors, build a support network, and raise millions. | Diaundra Jones. Diaundra Jones
Raising venture capital is a daunting experience for Black women.
Before 2021, only 93 Black female founders had raised $1 million or more in venture capital.
Insider compiled a guide to help Black women throu... |
| - | Here are 49 Black women who raised $1 million or more in VC funding last year | Ami Colé founder Diarrha N'Diaye Katherine Pekala This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Fewer than 200 Black women have ever raised $1 million or more in venture-capital funds.
... |
| - | Black women face an uphill battle when raising capital. Six founders who've raised more than $5 million share the ways they craft pitch decks to win over investors | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Black women must craft their pitch decks differently in order to raise investor money.
The stakes are high — their median seed round is $12... |
