This year’s International Women’s Day aims to celebrate “gender equality today for a sustainable future”. The theme focuses on empowering all women and girls in the context of climate change, Generation 5 women leaders who were unstoppable during the Covid crisis. Many entrepreneurs, men and women, had gone out ofRead More →
“I’m not a bad guy,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) insists at the end of “The Social Network,” the 2010 film that defined the cultural response to young tech billionaires. Zuckerberg’s thoughtful lawyer (Rashida Jones), a made-up persona who is largely used to judge Zuckerberg’s personality, assures him thatRead More →
Earlier this month, we caught up with VF’s Venture Foundry Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR), Jean Pierre (JP) Aramouni (link). Today we share insights from Tana Hoffman, founder and CEO of ILLA, and another of the foundry’s EIRs. Find out what Tana had to say about women in the outdoors and how herRead More →
Earlier this month, we caught up with VF Venture Foundry’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR), Jean Pierre (JP) Aramouni. Today we share insights from Tana Hoffman, founder and CEO of ILLA, and another of the foundry’s EIRs. Find out what Tana had to say about women in the outdoors and how her newRead More →
After a successful five-year stint with Inasmuch asPARJU’SInasmuch asor Krithika Srinivasan set up admissions counseling services, she co-founded the startup edtech Inasmuch asCareer LabsInasmuch as with PN Santosh and Prasanna Alagesan in 2019. Krithika did not start her career in education and recruitment. A gold medal-winning engineer who graduated inRead More →
HUMACAO, Porto Rico, February 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: RCAT) (“Red Cat” or the “Company”), a provider of hardware-enabled software for the drone industry, today announced that Christopher R. Moea seasoned business executive, was appointed to its board of directors. “Christopher’s extensive experience in operational finance,Read More →
A former director of the Nottingham-based auction house giant, John Pye, has launched a new start-up with the backing of Silicon Valley venture capital. Sheldon Miller leads Global Sustainable Markets (GSM). The fledgling company recently oversubscribed its target pre-seed round by $1 million, surpassing $1.5 million, with Silicon Valley ventureRead More →
Wemimo Abbey works to close the racial wealth gap through his credit-building startup, Esusuwhich was designed to create equitable financial access for all. Esusu raised $130m in venture capital at a $1bn valuation according to Forbes, making it one of the few black-owned tech startups to ever achieve “unicorn valuation.”Read More →
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) seized more than 94,000 bitcoins believed to have been stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex crypto exchange hack and arrested a married couple suspected of laundering the money, the ministry announced today. The couple – Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and Heather Morgan, 31 – face chargesRead More →
Nataly Kogan is still a little surprised to be the founder and CEO of a company called Happier. Before her own debilitating battle with burnout seven years ago, she would have rejected the idea of executives taking classes to improve their emotional well-being. “I used to think happiness was forRead More →
Princeton Review and software data company PitchBook salute the University New rankings salute the training of BU entrepreneurs and former entrepreneurs Princeton Review places us 25th out of 250 schools for graduate programs Software firm PitchBook rates BU highly, especially for female entrepreneurs Two evaluators of entrepreneurship in education—one evaluatingRead More →