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Practical Steps To Combat Discrimination In VC: A Q&A With DivInc’s Preston James — Link

- Crunchbase News’ Mary Ann Azevedo

“At the very basic level, a key challenge is that founders of color/women typically do not travel in the same circles/networks as white venture capitalists or even angel investors. This is especially true for new/first-time founders of color. As a result, it is going to take us longer to get the network connections and build relationships within those networks. These network connections are key to getting those “high valued” warm introductions. Almost all VCs take warm introductions over cold introductions 9 out of 10 times. So, if we don’t have those warm introductions, we have a real tough time getting meetings with investors. If we are not getting meetings with investors then we are not securing investment funding nor are we getting access to referral opportunities. So, it is a major hustle to make the connections and build relationships with the investor community for any founder, but even more so for people of color. Most would say fundraising is a full time job.” — Preston James

Localeur CEO Joah Spearman Discusses Hurdles Black Entrepreneurs Face — Link

- Crunchbase News’ Mary Ann Azevedo

“One of the most challenging parts about being a black entrepreneur and explaining the ways racial biases challenge your experiences, particularly with fundraising, is that the offenses aren’t as overt as being killed by police as George Floyd was or chased in the street as Ahmaud Arbery was or even profiled as Christian Cooper was in Central Park by Amy Cooper.

It’s far more subvert; like a VC taking a vanity meeting with you not because they will invest in you, but because they’re speaking on a conference panel the next day and want to say they are regularly speaking with black founders (though seldom if ever investing in them) or an investor comparing you to another founder of color in a completely different industry rather than looking at your actual industry peers.” — Joah Spearman

Intro to Fundraising in FemTech & AMA with Juliana Garaizar and Dr. Brittany Barreto

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• Innovation Today — Link
  - MassChallenge Texas’ Mike Millard
• MassChallenge Texas in Austin Announces 2020 Cohort — Link
• BuildGroup Expands Ecosystem to Include Small-Cap Public Companies, Announces First $80m PIPE Deal — Link
• 15 Hottest Startups from Austin, Texas. Do you know them? — Link
  - Ideamotive’s Michał Rejman
• Austin’s Top YouTube Creators Share Lessons — Link
  - 3rd & Lamar’s Omar Gallaga
• Ecliptic Capital’s Christy Cardenas is Focusing on the Pandemic’s Silver Lining and an Opportunity to Build a Better Future — Link
  - Silicon Hills News’ Laura Lorek and Susan Lahey
• Hrish Lotlikar — Cofounder Super-World & The Rogue Initiative — Youtube
• TeleVet® Partners With Hill’s Pet Nutrition to Make Telemedicine for Pets Widely Available — Link
• LiveOak Venture Partners Adds Creighton Hicks As Principal — Link
  - FinSMEs
• National Instruments Acquires Israel-Based Data Analytics Startup Optimal Plus for $365 Million — Link
  - CTech
• Black-Owned Businesses to Support in Austin — Link
  - Texas Monthly’s Rosie Ninesling
• Council boosts direct economic aid in spending plan for federal Covid-19 money — Link
• Council opens public right-of-way for safe business with amended special events pilot — Link
• Amid criticism, Music Commission looks to revise eligibility for $1.5M grant program — Link
• ‘Smart cities’ advocates see Covid-19 policies as opportunity for change in Austin — Link
  - Austin Monitor
• Texas County earmarks $30 million to biotech VC fund — Link
  - Pensions & Investments
• Donate, Watch, Read: Resources in the Fight Against Racial Injustice — Link
  - SXSW
• City of Austin website down — ‘Anonymous’ hackers claim credit — Link
• University of Texas at Austin will limit class size to 40% capacity this fall, offer 2,100 classes online — Link
  - Austonia
• Masks required in UT-Austin buildings this fall, planning official says — Link
• UT-Austin to hold as many as 19% of classes online this fall — Link
• UT plans to move 400 biggest classes online this fall — Link
• Strategic Redundancy Can Prevent Collapse of Supply Chains During Global Crises — Link
• Putting the Customer First is No Longer the Best Marketing Strategy — Link
• Patients Who Use Doctors’ Online Portals Stay Healthier — Link
• Researchers Map Houston Areas Most Vulnerable to COVID-19 — Link
• New Online Master’s Degree in Data Science is a First for The University of Texas at Austin — Link
  - University of Texas
• Austin’s startup ecosystem bands together to fight racial injustice — Link
• Stitch Fix layoffs in California could bring jobs to Austin and Dallas — Link
• Your old posts: How Austin’s Yourself Online helps delete the past — Link
• 58 startups selected for MassChallenge Texas, including at least 16 from Austin — Link
• Women’s coworking startup The Riveter shuts down in Austin and elsewhere — Link
• The top Austin tech and startup executive hires and layoffs (May 2020) — Link
• The top venture capital funding rounds for Austin tech startups in May 2020 — Link
  - Austin Inno’s Brett Wistrom — Subscribe Here
• Local judge rules law enforcement needs a warrant to look at your phones lock screen — Link
• Google gets sued for misleading name ‘Incognito mode’ — Link
• ‘Small’ business was once a stigma, but is now a growing point of pride — Link
• Pier 1 couldn’t weather the storm so they’re shutting all ports for good — Link
• Samsung shines a new light on indoor health with artificial sunlight — Link
• Will startups ever fully return to offices? — Link
• How business owners should handle the trend of COVID-19 surcharges — Link
• Google begins evolving Hangouts into Google Chat — Link
• Tool simplifies vender payments, saves small businesses tons of time — Link
  - American Genius
• The Search Ends Here: These Companies Are Hiring in Austin — Link
• Weekly Refresh: SKU’s Virtual Demo Day, Apple’s Austin Hotel, and More — Link
• Ethyl Ambrosia Raises $450K for Its Vegan ‘Boozy Bites’ — Link
  - BuiltinAustin
• How Austin plans to spend $103M in economic relief funds — Link
• Capital Gains: Recognition for small giants, future unicorns & Covid-19 relief — Link
• Now available in Austin: New ways to donate to social justice groups, support change-minded entrepreneurs — Link
• Notley, DivInc wade into fight against social and racial injustice — Link
• Here’s what corporate travelers say about going back on the road during the Covid crisis — Link
• As Tesla hunts for land, here are 6 Central Texas sites prime for big industrial projects — Link
• Higher ed faces an existential crisis. One university’s explosive growth may point the way forward. — Link
• Austin’s classrooms of the future may look a lot like those in today’s crisis — Link
• Why disinfection alone isn’t enough to keep your workplace safe — Link
• Many startups are skating near the edge during the pandemic, with under 6 months of runway left — Link
• BuildGroup expands investment strategy, pours $80M into publicly traded software company — Link
• Journal Profile: How Nikki England is preparing the next generation of Austin workers — Link
• Amazon’s latest bite in Central Texas real estate feast: Entire suburban business park — Link
• Bank of America commits $1B to combat economic, racial inequalities heightened by pandemic — Link
• Nasdaq-listed phone maker moves HQ to Austin, looks to raise $20M — Link
• M&A wrap: NI to spend $365M on new software; Renewable energy group gets bigger — Link
• As protests mount nationwide, Austin business leaders address country’s racial divide — Link
• What businesses damaged in riots need to know about insurance claims — especially this year — Link
• ‘Being silent is being complicit’: Tech giants get more political — Link
• Businesses clean up after unrest in downtown Austin — Link
• Female-focused coworking spot shuts down — Link
• Why deep-pocketed investors like Brett Hurt, Walter Robb backed a Chinese food delivery business — Link
• Losing a job doesn’t have to mean losing health insurance — Link
• In the money June 1: More than $2M raised for cannabis, vegan jello shots — Link
• How dating app The Round launched during the pandemic — Link
• Businesses boarded up in Austin again — this time for fear of looters — Link
  - Austin Business Journal
• What Austin tech leaders are saying about racial justice, Black Lives Matter movement — Link
• PANDEMIC DATING: Outbreak has dating app makers like Austin’s Bumble adjusting their tools to fit the new normal — Link
• MassChallenge accelerator picks startups, will begin Austin program virtually — Link
• ‘Women especially are going to pay the price.’ Parents going back to work face child care crisis. — Link
• Amazon signs lease in Round Rock industrial project — Link
• Amazon workers go back to pre-coronavirus pay, with cuts to hourly pay raise and other emergency measures — Link
• Outbreak leads Texas to hold off on revamping Internet sales tax policies — Link
• Many businesses promise to ‘deep clean’ offices before reopening. But what does that mean? — Link
• Smithville chamber offers grants to businesses struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic — Link
• JCPenney, Tuesday Morning, Pier 1 going-out-of-business liquidation sales different because of COVID-19 — Link
• Austin’s National Instruments buying data analytics firm for $365M — Link
• Demonstrations deal blow to downtown businesses reeling from pandemic — Link
• Austin-area community bank raises $8M for growth — Link
  - Austin American-Statesman

SAN ANTONIO

• In This Together San Antonio — Link
• Michael Girdley’s Four for Friday Podcast — Link
• San Antonio Black Entrepreneurs, Experts Who Can Speak at Your Next Event — Link
• Scaleworks Co-Founders Launch Regenerative Agriculture Company Called Soilworks, Acquire PastureMap — Link
  - Startups San Antonio’s Iris Gonzalez
• Connectivity Critical for Older Adults Isolated During Pandemic — Link
• Presa House Gallery Goes 3D to Survive, Support Artists — Link
• Most Fall Classes at Texas A&M-San Antonio Will Be Online — Link
• Pandemic’s Economic Toll Spells Uncertainty as San Antonio Schools Plan Budgets — Link
• First-Ever Online Pecha Kucha Event Focuses on Life Before and After Coronavirus — Link
• ‘Time is of the Essence’: Council OKs $191M COVID-19 Recovery Spending Plan — Link
• Council to Weigh $80M Workforce Development Program, Small Business Aid — Link
• PechaKucha San Antonio Goes Virtual for Vol. 38 — Link
• Scaleworks Founders Launch New Ag-Tech Company — Link
• San Antonio Tech Museum’s New Leader Aims for Growth in New Facility — Link
• SwRI Awarded $1.9M Grant to Boost Search for COVID-19 Treatment — Link
  - Rivard Report
• Study: H-E-B scores highest in consumer satisfaction report for COVID-19 precautions — Link
• H-E-B further reduces purchasing limits on meat across Texas — Link
  - San Antonio Express-News
• Designed to Inspire the Innovators, Creators, and Leaders of Tomorrow — Link
  - San Antonio Current
• San Antonio-based VC firm Active Capital commits resources to black initiatives — Link
• City’s $191M recovery plan to aid small businesses and workforce training — Link
• SA data center builder sues Microsoft — Link
• Q&A: New head of local office for recruiting firm looks to grow IT, cyber business — Link
• Amrock may get second shot at contesting $700M tech theft verdict — Link
• Medical manufacturer declares bankruptcy — Link
• Internship program with SA startups shifted to digital format due to Covid-19 — Link
• East SA business leader: Pandemic, protests expose economic injustice — Link
• Here are the companies selling Covid-19 supplies to the city — Link
• H-E-B lays out mask recommendations for employees and customers — Link
• San Antonio Food Bank leader stays humble in fight against hunger — Link
• Port San Antonio will be “more than OK” CEO says — Link
• County adds $5M to small, micro business grant program — Link
• San Antonio coworking spaces reopening — Link
• SwRI gets $1.9M for Covid-19 screening — Link
• Scaleworks’ founders launch new venture in regenerative agriculture — Link
• From novel to sobering: When the world changed — Link
• The big pivot: Plenty of screen time — Link
• The facilitators: A support network in need of support — Link
• Fight or flight: Rolled sleeves, dirty hands and well-worn bootstraps — Link
• What San Antonio businesses damaged in protests need to know about insurance claims — especially this year — Link
• Local marketing company raises $13M in growth capital — Link
• Double-edged scalpel: A health-care industry pushed to the breaking point — Link
• Timing was everything: From high hopes to low expectations — Link
• Dallas Fed survey shows majority expect increase in nonperforming loans — Link
• Q&A: Black owners of small downtown business weigh in on protests — Link
  - San Antonio Business Journal

• Let’s Grow North Texas Business — Link
• Apply to Health Wildcatters Accelerator 2020 — F6S — Link
• Texas startup managing animal health from the clouds — TechLink — Link
• Fort Worth says it can be tech hub with $70 million tax incentive to this motor company — Link
  - Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Luke Ranker
• Commentary: Fort Worth’s economic recovery should emphasize startups and entrepreneurs — Link
  - Fortworthbusiness.com
• UT Dallas students’ nonprofit helping local restaurants, hospital staff during coronavirus pandemic — Link
  - The Dallas Morning News
• How to Support the Black Community in Dallas Right Now — Link
  - Thrillist’s Steven Lindsey
• Black-Owned Businesses You Can Support Right Now — Link
• Catalyze Dallas looks to grow South with innovative aerospace tech — Link
• Addison software developer acquires Atlanta’s Big Nerd Ranch — Link
• Newly launched HomematchX looks to take the home buying market digital — Link
• ‘We’re going to fail fast and we’re going to invest in the things that work’ — Link
• Stitch Fix layoffs in California could bring jobs to Dallas and beyond — Link
• 58 startups selected for MassChallenge Texas, including at least 5 from DFW — Link
• With NASA help, Designplex Biomedical makes Covid-19 ventilators — Link
• Nanoscope Technologies lands $2M grant to give sight through lasers — Link
• Women’s coworking startup The Riveter shuts down in Dallas and elsewhere — Link
• Tracking the dollars: The North Texas funding rounds, M&As and VC activity in May — Link
• Comings and goings: The North Texas tech hires in May — Link
• Meet the local innovators fighting the Covid-19 pandemic in May — Link
  - North Texas Inno’s Kevin Cumming
• The DEC Network Creates Fund to Aid Local Small Businesses — Link
• What Should Dallas Do With This Moment? — Link
• Executive Perspectives: Amy Power — Link
• Executive Perspectives: Michael Newman — Link
• Executive Perspectives: Robert Quick — Link
• Trade Supply Continues to Impact DFW’s Construction Industry — Link
• Business Briefs: AECOM Hires Executive to Grow Transportation Business in North Texas — Link
• What is The Future of Work in a Post-Pandemic World? — Link
• Former Haynes and Boone Lawyer Creates Tinder App for Law Students, Sorta — Link
• UTA Professor Arrives with $2 Million in Cancer Research Funding — Link
• Dallas Is Nearly Twice as Deadly as Houston for COVID-19 Patients — Link
• Join Us on June 10th For D CEO & Shields Legal Group’s Virtual Panel: Preparing for the Post-COVID Economy — Link
  - D Magazine
• DI People: AECOM, Surgical Notes, Mohr Partners, and More Make Moves — Link
• A New Sabre: Southlake Tech Travel Giant Realigns Business, Implements Remote Work Program, and Cuts Staff — Link
• Feed the Front Line and Soulgood Partner with DISD to Feed Southern Dallas Families — Link
• MyndVR Launches an At-Home VR Solution for Seniors Stuck in Isolation — Link
• Plans for Dallas’ Newest Entertainment District Pushed to 2023 — Link
• Fort Worth Could Be the Future of Energy 2.0 With a New First-of-its-Kind Partnership — Link
• Transplace Acquires Leading Parcel Management Provider to Expand its Logistics Platform — Link
• Bank of America Pledges $1B to Help Local Communities Fight Economic and Racial Inequality — Link
• The Reopening: Texas Emergency Management Division Offers Tips on Easing Employees Back to the Workplace — Link
• Dallas Invents: 141 Patents Granted for Week of May 19 — Link
• Capital Factory Launches $100K Human Performance Challenge for Tech Startups — Link
• The Era of Social Distancing: Polte’s New IoT Wearable Keeps Coworkers 6 Feet Apart — Link
• Polsinelli on the Future of Healthcare: Systematic Mergers and Acquisitions Will Rise — Link
• AT&T Launches Enterprise-Level Internet Solution for Employees Working from Home — Link
• Two TechFW Clients Receive Awards from NASA and the National Eye Institute — Link
• Look Inside the Architectural Plans From the Winners of AIA Dallas’ 2020 Unbuilt Design Awards — Link
• Dallas Innovates’ 10 Most Popular Stories in May — Link
  - Dallas Innovates
• Looking to cut costs and shift to permanent work-from-home, Bay Area companies may be eyeing business friendly Texas — Link
• More growth? Here’s what lies ahead for DFW’s biggest coworking firms — Link
• Home buyers warm up to virtual home touring, survey finds — Link
• Attention North Texas colleges: This school is trying to eat your lunch — Link
• GameStop sales falls steeply in quarter, shutters roughly 90 stores amid social unrest — Link
• Deals Day: Frisco gets Amazon fulfillment center and $1B mixed-use project — Link
• Form-D Friday: Higginbotham raises $1.7M — Link
• Job losses hitting all education levels; high unemployment here to stay — Link
• Texas Central’s high-speed rail project ‘could require some stimulus money,’ CEO says — Link
• Charles Schwab takes big steps toward buying rival, moving HQ from California to Westlake — Link
• DFW business-cycle indexes fall to 1978 levels as employment declines expected to continue — Link
• Deals keep flowing for some of DFW’s largest manufacturers — Link
• Technology company aims to hire about 100 in next year as it more than doubles local space — Link
• World’s largest theater chain warns it may have to permanently close its doors — Link
• Luby’s to put business and assets up for sale — Link
• Sabre cutting 800 more jobs amid challenges in travel industry with COVID-19 — Link
• Local lenders and leaders weigh in on the Fed-backed Main Street Lending Program — Link
• Fossil, after being pounded by COVID-19, is focusing more on digital sales — Link
• Roundup of recent deals and dollars: Transplace acquires Austin company — Link
• Silicon Valley’s Stitch Fix is cutting workers in California — and Dallas is set to benefit — Link
• Here’s how much alcohol sales fell during April (Hint: It’s a lot) — Link
• Plano chip firm gets $670M credit deal in ‘important step’ for large acquisition — Link
• With PPP dollars still on the table, local SBA district director weighs in on loan forgiveness, what’s next for the program — Link
• On the agenda: COVID cases rise, small business grants up for renewal — Link
• Local startup unveils social-distancing, contact-tracing service as it plans more funding — Link
• This Dallas-based firm is betting on inefficiencies in the marketplace — Link
• North Texas graduates hitting tough job market forced to change plans — Link
• CAZ Investments founder and CIO discusses current strategy — Link
  - Dallas Business Journal

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• This Security Firm Wants to Be the Model for Reopening Safely — Link
  - Alice
• Tech incubator aims to bolster El Paso-Juarez border economy through innovation — Link
  - The Sociable
• How Texas Medical Center Accelerates Medtech: Interview with Tom Luby, Director of TMC Innovation — Link
  - Medgadget
• Bluware Signs New Agreement with BP to Support Innovative Deep Learning Workflow in Subsurface Data Interpretation — Link
• Wolff Entrepreneurship Program Establishes Internship At Celebration Company — Link
  - Jewish Herald-Voice
• Techxans Helping Techxans ft. JoyLab — Video
• Free, driverless prescription drug delivery set to roll out in Houston — Link
• Houston expert shares why prototyping is so important to startups — Link
• Texas travel company revs up for out-of-state expansion — Link
• 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week — Link
• Houston’s fund of funds expands its portfolio and team after reaching benchmark with local investment — Link
• Houston founder’s corporate training app shifts to enhance remote learning for employees — Link
• 15 more COVID-19 research projects receive funds from Houston university — Link
• Houston startup uses AI and data to predict energy usage across sectors — Link
• Here’s what challenges — and opportunities — Houston startups are facing amid COVID-19 — Link
• Houston accelerator leader shares how the cohort has seen success through virtual programming — Link
• Exclusive: Houston entrepreneurial hub set to acquire local fintech startup — Link
• Houston home tech startup emerges from stealth with $10M series A round — Link
• MassChallenge names 56 startups to newest Houston cohort along with new space and sports tracks — Link
• MassChallenge names 56 startups to newest Houston cohort along with new space and sports tracks — Link
• 10+ can’t-miss virtual business and innovation events in Houston for June — Link
• Houston earns mediocre grade in ranking of best metros for college grads — Link
• 3 Houston innovators to know this week — Link
  - InnovationMap’s Natalie Harms / Culture Map Houston
• Jan Odegard named interim executive director of the Ion — Link
• ‘Sheer awe’: Rice group raises almost $100,000 to fight anti-black violence — Link
• Egg-based coating preserves fresh produce — Link
• Rice team’s cancer-treatment device scores major award — Link
• Meet the Rice alum in charge of NASA’s prelaunch quarantine program — Link
• An accelerated COVID-19 vaccine? Not so fast — Link
• AMD gives supercomputer to Rice for COVID-19 research — Link
• Three Rice students receive Hertz Fellowships — Link
• Webinar to explore how COVID-19 might change cities forever — Link
• Four decades of changes in Houston chronicled in new book by Rice’s Klineberg — Link
• Rice’s OpenStax Institutional Partner Program to offer expanded benefits, support in 2020–21 academic year — Link
  - Rice University
• All UH classes, finals moving online after Thanksgiving break — Link
• Craving connections: Pharmacology professor copes with ‘our new reality’ — Link
• From TV to online: The evolution of remote learning at UH — Link
• Despite shutdown, delivery robots will be back on campus in fall — Link
  - University of Houston
• Coworking company to open first Houston location in Energy Corridor — Link
• GHP shares 4 steps companies should take if a worker has Covid-19 — Link
• Schlumberger puts 21 surplus properties on the auction block — Link
• Three tips to optimize your resume during the pandemic — Link
• Op-ed: Houston business leaders have a responsibility to listen — Link
• Former Enron CEO reportedly starting digital energy marketplace — Link
• Houston colleges, universities prepare for an uncertain fall semester — Link
• After 40 years, electronics manufacturer to exit Houston region with plant closure — Link
• Texas ranks №2 in PPP loan volume through May — Link
• Houston-area energy services businesses close multibillion-dollar merger, name new board members — Link
• Local university president appointed to Dallas Fed’s Houston Branch Board — Link
• Longtime CFO of major Houston-based auto co. to retire, replacement named — Link
• Houston’s unemployment rate skyrocketed in April, but other cities’ rates are even worse — Link
• Financial services firm founder and CIO discusses current strategy — Link
• CEO: Houston solar co. not tempted by M&A right now — Link
• Local esports firms thrive during Covid-19 pandemic — Link
• Startup accelerator adds program tracks for 2020 Houston cohort — Link
• Houston AC startup raises $10M funding round — Link
• String of restaurant closures will continue as current business limitations not sustainable, experts say — Link
• Montgomery County approves $500 stimulus check plan for residents — Link
• Bank alleges Houston health care co. misrepresented finances while obtaining loan — Link
• Houston software co. closes one of its largest acquisitions ever — Link
• Exclusive: Houston solar co. looks to hire as it shakes off Covid-19 slowdown — Link
  - Houston Business Journal
• Got Spot helps small businesses share space as more work from home — Link
• How messaging technology is helping to fuel global protests — Link
• Reddit co-founder leaves board, urges black replacement — Link
• Activists use informal tools to keep the peace at protests — Link
• BMC closes deal to acquire Compuware — Link
• AC monitoring tech firm closes $10M investment round — Link
• SpaceX adds visors to its Starlink satellites — Link
• Houston’s annual commercial space conference to be virtual, in-person event postponed to 2021 — Link
• NASA astronaut captures flag from shuttle missions — it will return with Crew Dragon — Link
• What’s it like riding a Dragon? Astronaut Bob describes it — Link
• International Space Station: microgravity home and lab — Link
• SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with International Space Station — Link
  - The Houston Chronicle’s Andrea Lienfelder / Techburger Blog’s Dwight Silverman
• StartUp Texas finalists announced — Link
  - Brownsville Herald

• The Weaponization of Diversity — Silicon Hills Lawyer’s José Ancer — Link
• Presentation Rules — Jilles Oldenbeuving — Link
• Texas Is Showing the World How to Reopen Cautiously — Bloomberg — Link
• Texas’ Big Post-Covid Opportunity to Modernize Its Power Grid — Alex Rozenfeld — Link
• Innovation in the Age of the Pandemic — Ganesh Padmanabhan Chief Revenue Officer Molecula — Link
  Visualizing Layoffs at Prominent Startups Triggered by COVID-19 — Infographic
• VMware To Acquire Lastline, Marking Thomvest Ventures’ Second Exit In A Week’s Time — Crunchbase News’ Mary Ann Azevedo — Link
• SoftBank Reveals $100M Fund To Invest In ‘Founders Of Color’ — Crunchbase News’ Mary Ann Azevedo — Link
• Report: 2019 Was A Record Year For VC Funding In Emerging Markets — Crunchbase News’ Mary Ann Azevedo — Link
• Houston’s History: Becoming the Oil and Gas Capital of the World — Kirk Coburn — Link
• The Charging Station — Considering Venture Capital’s Role in the Energy Transition -
  Issue 27 — Kevin Stevens — Link
• In Praise of Lesser-Sung Life Sciences Clusters — Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News — Link
• ‘Video is fine’: venture capitalists find the benefits in digital due diligence — Financial Times — Link
• Entrepreneurs in The Age Of Covid: Q&A with America’s Leading Startup Thinker, Carl Schramm — Forbes — Link
• Rethinking Work: A Proposal for a Universal Infrastructure — Will Haering — Link
• Betterview Secures $7.5 Million Investment — Link [Congrats to former Houstonian David Lyman]
• Is it Better to be Located in a Major City? — Startups.com’s Wil Schroter — Link
• Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving — Harvard Business School’s Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones — Link
• It Doesn’t Take a Rocket Scientist to Solve the Racism Problem in Business Entrepreneur Magazine VIP Contributor Mary Spio Founder, CEEK VR — Link
• Pre-Money and Post-Money Valuation Calculator — Mateusz Mucha — Link
• The Comeback of a Fallen Tech Unicorn CEO — Forbes’ Amy Feldman — Link
• How to Get Your Team Focused on Delivering Real Results — Inc.’s Soren Kaplan — Link
• Embedded Rules of Thumb — Link
• Case Study: How This Texas Mother of 6 Took Her Startup From a Garage to $6 Million in Sales Inc. Magazine’s Kimberly Weisul — Link
• Ultimate list of Professional Online Communities — Link
• OurCrowd To Raise $100 Million For Pandemic Innovation Fund Investing In Y-Shaped Recovery — Forbes’ Gil Press — Link
• Here’s How Marketing Agencies Are Helping Clients Manage & Recover From COVID-19 — Spela Mlekuz — Link
• Black Business Owners: Leveraging Community in Crisis — Inc.’s Kimberly Weisul — Link
• Enabling Founder-Access to Investors + Capital Through Our Startup-Investor Matching Tool — Lolita Taub — Link

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