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Disney Accelerator Shows Off First Class Of Startups

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Disney offered up up to $120K in investment capital, access to entrepreneurs and executives at Disney, and other resources to its startups. Among the announcements at the demo day were the funding of smartphone toy company SnowShoe , and an acquisition of Smart Toy , a developer of an interactive toy. in its seed funding round. READ MORE>>.

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Snap accelerator names its latest cohort

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Mogul Millennial — this Dallas-based company is a digital media platform for black entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. This class shows us that there’s no shortage of innovation at the intersection of creativity and technology, and we’re excited to be part of each company’s journey.”. Hardworkers — a Cambridge, Mass.-based

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

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With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation. Mogul Millennial : a media startup sharing professional resources for Black entrepreneurs. Yellow investment SketchAR.

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Why an Atlanta-based Black influencer collective swapped their collab house for a studio

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A few minutes away from downtown Atlanta, Collab Studio ATL describes itself as “a tech-based one-stop shop for content creators, HBCU students and young entrepreneurs to achieve their business goals.” “I feel like the studio has the potential to be a great place for creators like me to thrive.

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Digest 5/16-22: Raises for PatientPop, SpacesVR; Disney VR, Littlstar, Vntana

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SNAPCHAT Preparing Its Own Algo ( link ). SNAPCHAT to Redesign Discover Channel in June ( link ). WorthyWomen " class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> " class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> pic.twitter.com/v0Z3Qvy5AP. NFTE Hosted Their Annual Entrepreneur Competition.

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Announcing The socalTECH 50, 2015 Edition

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Phillipe Browning , SnapChat. Congratulations to our third class of the socalTECH 50! Julien Bellanger , Prevoty. Chad Billmeyer , Panjo. Mike Bonin , Council Member, City of Los Angeles. Daniel and Michael Broukhim , FabFitFun. Howard Brown , RingDNA. Brent Bushnell , Two Bit Circus. Cavan Canavan , FocusMotion. Renee Dua , Heal.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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The poor performance of the asset class (this analysis has largely been wrong as I pointed out here –> most analyses were clumsy rear-view mirror looks at the data). But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). On the surface the narratives have been.