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Mark Jones; Matter.vc; Naj Austin; Skye Gould/Insider This Black History Month, theres a heightened call to dismantle systemic racism. Insider and the National Black Chamber of Commerce highlighted leaders advancing racial equity. These leaders shared their influence on Black and brown communities and their future goals. This Black History Month seems different from those of recent years. Theres an overwhelming outcry from the American public, specifically from Bla...

Harry Alford. Sam Hurd Harry Alford and his team at Humble Ventures have funded more than 50 Black-owned businesses in 2020 alone, some of which include a social network that centers communities of color and a fast-casual restaurant whose mission is to redefine healthy and affordable food for all. Alford said the Black Lives Matter movement validated his companys mission and gave him added motivation to keep investing in Black entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color. While he is optimistic abo...

by Chantal Allam — February 10, 2021 . RALEIGH – From the entrepreneur who developed the technology behind Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant comes a new platform promising to make chatbots a whole lot chattier. Pryon, an artificial intelligence startup (AI) led by veteran Raleigh entrepreneur Igor Jablokov, is launching its first commercial product, a natural language processing (NLP) platform that helps companies add capabilities to their AI assistants, chatbots and helpdesks. “Today’s...

Swiftarc Venture Labs Announces Investment in Music Creation Innovator Artiphon Makers of multifaceted instruments enabling music creativity for novices and pros alike News provided by Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Swiftarc Venture Labs has completed an investment in Nashville-based Artiphon, a consumer electronics company pioneering the future of music creation. As true innovators in the space, Artiphon designs interactive musical experiences by...

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Share this article WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  Class Technologies Inc., the company that created Class, a software that integrates teaching and learning tools with Zoom, announced it has raised $30.75 million in a Series A investment round co-led by Insight Partners and Owl Ventures, with continued support from all previous investors. This financing comes on the heels of the companys launch and a $16 million round of seed financing announced during the third quarter of 2020, brin...

Close icon Two crossed lines that form an X. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Jeff Bezos poses with a Pikachu doll and drill in 1999. Chris Carroll/Corbis/Getty Images Bezos was among the few founders of major tech companies still running their "startups." Heres what the former founder-CEOs of Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants are up to now. Jeff Bezos started Amazon in his garage in 1994 as a...

AppHarvest AppHarvest had not yet grown a single product when it announced it would go public via a reverse merger of SPAC that values ​​the start-up fund at over $ 1 billion and is on track to raise $ 460 million when it starts trading next week. That’s pretty meager figures for a 60-acre indoor farm that started shipping its first crop last week, with batches of organic vine tomatoes going to early investors including Martha Stewart and best-selling author JD Vance, as well as the bran...

KMSI to Host a Free Webinar: Leveraging New Technologies to Support and Grow Associations and Non-Profit Organizations Share Article KMSI, a leading learning & talent management technology provider, will host a free webinar designed to enable associations and non-profit organizations to leverage new technologies to support their members and improve organizational performance! Past News ReleasesRSS BALTIMORE (PRWEB) January 28, 2021...

CNBC Disruptor 50 list opportunity is bigger than ever, and less tied to Silicon Valley CNBC 1/22/2021 Julia Boorstin Since CNBC chose the 2020 Disruptor 50 list last June, eight of the companies have gone public and several more are planning IPOs and SPACs, opening space on the list for more new companies. The stock market returns generated by Disruptor companies, such as Airbnb, Snowflake, C3.ai and Affirm, have outperformed the Nasdaq by a wide margin. More of that entrepre...