The Greenville startup is a B2B identity infrastructure company that helps customers, primarily live event organizers and experience creators, transparently aggregate, manage and store customer identity information. The money will be used to help the company, founded by Harold Hughes, fund further development and expand its workforce.
“Their founder had an idea, took advantage of technological advances, and created a needed service in the events industry,” said Lee MacIlwinen, SCRA investment manager in a news release. “Bandwagon’s flagship product,
Aura, has been used internationally to manage and store customer information, in a transparent and secure manner.”
Bandwagon’s platform uses permission-only blockchain, encryption and multi-party computing to help customers partner with other stakeholders to safely and securely gather large groups, both in-person and virtually.
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Google launches $2m fund to help bridge funding gap for Black tech founders
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The Google for Startups Black Founders fund, worth £1.5m has opened in the UK to address the lack of black talent in tech start-ups, after only 38 black founders received venture capital funding in the last 10 years.
Under the scheme which closes on 21 March, selected European startups in the Google for Startups network will receive $100,000 in non-dilutive cash awards and up to $220,000 per startup in Google Ad Grants.
To be eligible, tech startups need to have one or more founders that self-identify as Black and the startup must already have a product in the market.
Music Tech Works launches a database to help identify rights holders for syncs
UPDATED: Being able to accurately find the controlling publisher and label information of a music track destined for syncing has been an issue plaguing the music industry for far too long – an issue which Jarett Hines and Bryson Nobeles of Music Tech Works may have solved.
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Jarett Hines and
Bryson Nobles, co-founders of
Music Tech Works, believe they have solved one of the critical problems facing synchronisation licensing: finding the controlling publisher and label information of music tracks to be used for syncs.
They have set up
by Chantal Allam February 23, 2021 .
RALEIGH – Courtroom5 is scaling quickly after landing the backing of the women’s investment group SheEO.
The Durham-based, Black-owned legal tech startup that offers a “legal toolbox” for people who can’t afford a lawyer in court, confirmed it has been named a SheEO U.S. Venture for 2021.
SheEO is a global community of “radically generous women” building a $1 billion perpetual fund to support women and non-binary entrepreneurs. It selects just five organizations each year to provide activation resources, coaching and funding to aid in growing their businesses.
Debra Sloane and Sonja Ebron
As an official SheEO U.S. Venture, Courtroom5 will receive access to SheEO’s activators, a global community of women who activate their buying power, networks and expertise to support the selected ventures. In addition, SheEO will provide a zero percent interest loan to advance Courtroom5’s mission to make the often-complex legal syst