Tag: funding
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World Bank launches loan program for women entrepreneurs
Participants of the ”Launch Event Women’s Entrepreneur Finance Initiative’, among them the daughter of the US President Ivanka Trump (front) and (second row L-R) World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim (Front L), Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, US President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela…
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The unconventional way the investor choose startup investments
Image Credit: chompoo09 / Shutterstock I recently retired after working for 40 years at publicly held companies where my fiduciary duty was to my shareholders. For those 40 years I was tasked with delivering the highest possible return to my investors, without engaging in anything illegal or unethical. While I balanced short-term results with long-term…
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Onde estão os projetos de IoT – Internet das Coisas ? Está sobrando verba de apoio no BNDES
É comum ouvir reclamações de empresas nacionais sobre a falta de incentivos para criação da Internet das Coisas (IoT). No entanto, a chefe do departamento de TIC no BNDES, Irecê Fraga Kauss Loureiro, acredita que a história é outra. A executiva entende que muitas companhias estão esperando pelo Plano Nacional de Internet das Coisas…
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Fapesp investirá mais de R$ 15 milhões em projetos tecnológicos envie o seu!
SÃO PAULO – A Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Fapesp) está recebendo propostas para o desenvolvimento de pesquisas tecnológicas a serem apresentadas durante o 3º Ciclo de Análise de 2017. Por meio do Programa Pesquisa Inovativa em Pequenas Empresas (Pipe), a entidade vai investir mais de R$ 15 milhões nos projetos aprovados. Serão…
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Couple donates $20 million to encourage innovation at Sutter Health
Do you have $20 million to spare to give to a cause you love? Michael and Judith Gaulke apparently do. The Silicon Valley couple has donated that amount to create the Michael and Judith Gaulke Innovation Hatchery Endowment Fund at Sacramento, California-based Sutter Health. It’s the single largest donation in Sutter’s history, and it’s geared toward breathing air…
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Citi appoints new innovation head for Dublin lab
Citi has appointed a senior banker from its Turkey business to head up the bank’s innovation lab in Dublin. Sample the FT’s top stories for a week You select the topic, we deliver the news. Select topic Enter email addressInvalid email Sign up By signing up you confirm that you have read and agree to…
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Startup Canada Innovation Forum 18 may
Are you one of Canada’s top industry executives? Register to attend the Startup Canada Innovation Forum in Toronto on May 18, and build the future of Canada’s small business economy. This exclusive event brings together, celebrates and creates a platform for influential executives, high-growth entrepreneurs and government decision makers to share and spread ideas on the role of industry in building…
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Canadian Innovation: How to get back in the game
Lakshmi Raj had almost everything she needed to grow her company. She had the idea (a cloud-based time-tracking software for businesses), the money ($22 million raised since launching in 1995), and the tech talent (155 software engineers). But she was missing one very important component: a robust marketing team. Raj’s company, Replicon, is based in…
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Canada will launch a competition to invest $ 800 million in innovation projects
Justin Trudeau Canada’s federal budget will launch a competition to pick about a half dozen research clusters that will receive hundreds of millions in government funding, people familiar with the plans say. Innovation and skills training will be a key theme of Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s second budget, due for release March 22 in…
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Airbnb levanta US$ 1 bilhão em rodada de financiamento
A Airbnb informou nesta quinta-feira que levantou 1 bilhão de dólares em uma rodada de financiamento, o que levou o valor da companhia para 31 bilhões de dólares. A empresa captou 447,85 milhões de dólares, afirmou à Reuters uma fonte próxima da Airbnb. Em setembro, a empresa disse que tinha levantado cerca de 555 milhões de dólares,…
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