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Can Private Equity save the world through ESG Investing?

Asking any one industry to save the world is, admittedly, hyperbolic. But the fast-growing private equity industry is, in many ways, uniquely positioned to use its strengths, market position and ...

STEM Talent Challenge Awardees Announced

EDA is pleased to announce today that seven organizations from across the United States have been awarded a total of $2 million in grants through the inaugural STEM Talent Challenge, which aims to ...

Md. Department of Commerce eyes changes to to tax credit programs - Baltimore Business Journal

After a bitter battle with Democratic lawmakers last year, the Department of Commerce is looking to alter the biotech, cybersecurity and research and development tax ...

A U.S. Grand Strategy for the Global Digital Economy | ITIF

For America to remain the global leader in IT, the U.S. government must formulate a grand strategy grounded in a new doctrine of “digital realpolitik.” The first priority should be advancing ...

6 Sources of Help For Early Stage Concept Exploration - Startup Professionals Musings

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for ...

Venture Capital Funding Report Q4 2020 - CB Insights Research

2020 INVESTMENTS HIT NEW ANNUAL RECORD DESPITE THE PANDEMIC US-based, VC-backed companies raise nearly $130B in 2020, up 14% year-over-year (YoY) from 2019, despite the impacts of Covid-19 ...

3 Essentials To Step Into Entrepreneurship And Live Your Dreams

In a world where job opportunities are limited as well as limiting, entrepreneurship is a journey that many have opted to traverse. Some successfully: Tom Moyal, CEO of Digital Event, and Jay Awal, ...

Learn how to leverage the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's new translational grant funding programs to accelerate the development of your preclinical heart, lung, blood or sleep technology

Registration Link: NHLBI Catalyze webinar Topic: The NHLBI Catalyze Preclinical Program informational webinar Time: January 26, 2021 3:00 PM EST Description: The National Heart Lung and Blood ...

NAS, Council of Competitiveness unveil recommendations to boost American innovation | SSTI

Nearly 75 years ago, the head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush, published what became a seminal report in the science community. The report chronicled the ...

Best U.S. Cities For Working From Home: 2021 The Best Small, Medium And Large Cities In All 50 States - InMyArea.com

In the aftermath of COVID-19’s first wave in March-April 2020, an astonishing 62 percent of employed Americans said they’d worked remotely for at least a portion of the first few weeks of the ...

10 Keys To Building Unstoppable Startup Partnerships - Startup Professionals Musings

A common challenge faced by every entrepreneur is that they don’t have the bandwidth, interest or skills to do everything that is required to build their startup. Of course, they can outsource ...

Silicon Valley’s share of venture capital may drop below 20% in 2021

The pandemic has upended the U.S. economy and it has also had a far-reaching effect on Silicon Valley, the venture capital industry and the entrepreneurial ecosystem in America. According to ...

Silicon Valley Shifts To London In U.K. Tech Boom

Undeterred by Brexit or the Covid-19 pandemic, technology firms in London attracted $10.5 billion in venture capital money last year, a new record for the U.K. and Europe. Fintech (financial ...

Dan Lok Explains the Difference Between Angel Investors and Venture Capital Firms | The American Reporter

When companies are looking for funding, they may be interested in working with an angel investor or venture capital firm. Some business owners may believe that angel investors and venture capital ...

21 Canadian tech entrepreneurs to watch in 2021 - MaRS Discovery District

The COVID-19 pandemic challenged Canadian tech entrepreneurs like never before. But through great resolve and business savvy, Canada’s innovation community weathered the storm, adding roughly ...

Harvard, MIT and Boston-area hospitals get $76M for health innovation center

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's joint biological innovation center has secured $76 million and signed a lease for a new facility in Watertown, Mass., according to ...

US Venture Exit Value Achieved $290 Billion in 2020 Alongside Record Years for Investment and Fundraising Activity

SEATTLE, January 14, 2021 – Though the past year had a lot of uncertainty brought on by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the US VC industry demonstrated its resilience and long-term mindset, ...

How to identify key traits of innovators

The term VUCA—short for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity—originated with the U.S. Army War College to describe how the world was changing in the wake of the Cold War. Since then, ...

Startup Professionals Musings: 6 Ways To Calibrate Your Fit To The Right New Venture

Being an entrepreneur seems to be one of the most popular lifestyle aspirations these days. According to most definitions, anyone who starts a business is an entrepreneur, but most people don’t ...

Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement | TechCrunch

Context is always important. In the grand scheme of things, I have privilege: I was born a male, in the most powerful country in the world, during the most prosperous time in history, to parents who ...

What makes immuno-oncology therapies attractive investments?

January 12, 2021 -- Although immuno-oncology therapies have been around for many years, investors are excited to partner with innovators in the space who can push the boundaries of what these ...

Biden names geneticist Lander for new Cabinet-level post, elevating role of science | Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden named pioneering geneticist Eric Lander as the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy on Friday, elevating the post to ...

Venture Capital’s Best Year Ever | Institutional Investor

By every measure, 2020 was a big year for venture capital — at least for the established players. U.S. venture capital funds set new records in deal making, exits, and fundraising last year, ...

White House Establishes National AI Initiative Office; Michael Kratsios Quoted

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has established the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office, which will advance artificial intelligence research and ...

Venture Capital Funding Report Q4 2020 - CB Insights Research

2020 INVESTMENTS HIT NEW ANNUAL RECORD DESPITE THE PANDEMIC US-based, VC-backed companies raise nearly $130B in 2020, up 14% year-over-year (YoY) from 2019, despite the impacts of Covid-19 around ...

Amalgam Rx Announces Acquisition of Avhana Health (BHI client acquired participant in our Dreamit Health Accelerator )

Amalgam Rx, Inc., a leading Digital Therapeutics and Patient Support company, announces the acquisition of Avhana Health, a privately held clinical decision support (CDS) company, which has deep ...

The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2020 | First Round Review

Here on the Review, we have an annual tradition that we look forward to each January. We press pause, pour ourselves a big cup of coffee, and pore over each article we published the previous year, ...

Alternatives to studying abroad during the pandemic | Million Mile Secrets

In the 2017-2018 academic school year, nearly 342,000 students from the U.S. studied abroad for credit, according to the NAFSA. However, a clampdown on international travel due to the coronavirus ...

These Will Be the Biggest Health Trends of 2021 | Outside Online

Around this time last year, in keeping with recent tradition, we reached out to our network of health and fitness experts to forecast some industry trends for 2020. It was December 2019, just as ...

Could the ocean hold the key to reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? - ScienceBlog.com

Most experts agree that halting climate change — and the global warming, extreme heat events and stronger storms that come with it — will require the removal of carbon dioxide and other ...

6 Market Environments Where Execution Trumps Planning - Startup Professionals Musings

As a business adviser, I often see entrepreneurs practicing what Tom Peters calls the “ready-fire-aim” go-to-market strategy to their detriment. Yet even I have been known to recommend that ...

The connection between play and creative innovation in the workplace

For many, mundane workplace practices that were once taken for granted: Commutes, watercooler chitchat, coffee breaks, small talk with the boss. Now, these formerly commonplace activities stir up ...

The urgent need for sophisticated leadership

In the 2019 PwC Global Crisis SurveyPDF, 69 percent of respondents said they expected a global crisis in the next five years, most likely due to a financial meltdown or technology failure. Little ...

How many people need a vaccine to make COVID-19 rates slow down?

As with the many other questions that still remain about the coronavirus, no one is precisely sure of the answer to one of the key questions: how many people will need to be vaccinated to achieve ...

How the Discomfort of Paradox Can Unlock Creativity | INSEAD Knowledge

The Covid-19 pandemic has crammed a great deal of pressure into our lives, but it has also created an unprecedented opportunity to revisit our own assumptions about how we should live and work. ...

Humans Won't Be Able to Control Artificial Intelligence, Scientists Warn

The most recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have raised several ethical dilemmas. Perhaps one of the most important is whether humanity will be able to control autonomous ...

Chris Mathia, Chief Executive Officer, Innara Health, and Keith Molzer, Managing Partner, Flyover Capital, join Rich Bendis from Kansas City on BioTalk - Biohealth Innovation

While home in Kansas City for the season, BioTalk host Rich Bendis virtually sits down two local business leaders. Innar Health CEO, Chris Mathia, and Flyover Capital Managing Partner, Keith Molzer ...