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Fund also announces partnerships with city's Fortune 500s to connect corporations to startups.

Scott Shane, managing partner of Comeback Capital. Comeback Capital, a venture capital firm operating out of Cleveland, is launching a $10 million rolling fund via AngelList positioned to invest in technology-based startups across the country. The rolling fund opens to investors July 1. Its purpose is to fund early stage companies beyond the Midwest, Comeback Capital's flagship and primary region of focus. Comeback itself launched with a $2.3 million fund that was unveiled during a press event at the Youngstown Business Incubator in October 2018. The firm says it has invested in 25 companies...

Fairview Health Services has elected four new members to its Board of Directors: Myron Frans, senior vice president of finance and operations for the University of Minnesota; Shawntera Hardy, cofounder and chief strategy officer of Civic Eagle; David Levy, vice president of U.S. government, nonprofit and healthcare for Amazon Web Services (AWS); and Stephen Swensen, M.D., senior fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement. “I am thrilled strategic thinkers, proven leaders and healthcare innovators like David, Stephen, Myron and Shawntera have been elected to join the Board of Directors,”...

  For nearly three years, Ogundipe had toiled to gain traction with his company Civic Eagle, which used a consumer-facing app to try to counter the political apathy Ogundipe and his cofounders, Yemi Adewunmi and Shawntera Hardy, found so prevalent in state and local matters.   “We wanted to create a world in which political information was easily accessible and would empower voters to take political action and become more civically engaged,” says Ogundipe, citing the August 2014 police shooting of a Black man named Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, which sparked widespread social unrest, a...

Meet the Black Female Founders from TC Include at TC Sessions: Justice 2021 On March 3, we’re hosting TC Sessions: Justice 2021, a day-long virtual conference dedicated to examining diversity and inclusion in tech. Tune in to presentations, panel discussions, breakout sessions and interactive Q&As with key tech leaders. Topics range from accessible product design and fighting algorithmic bias to the justice system, workplace organizing and support for underrepresented founders — and that’s just for starters. Don’t miss your chance to meet some founders currently participating in TechC...