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VCs and university endowments should partner to make venture more diverse

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Since joining the Yale Investments Office in 2007, one of Mendelsohn’s core focuses has been venture capital — an asset class that has gained traction among an increasing number of institutional investors in recent years — and Yale’s investment approach has long been a model for other endowments.

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Oxfam Novib and Goodwell target East African startups with €20M Pepea fund

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Development organization Oxfam runs an SME incubation program in the three markets, while Goodwell’s funds are active in both Uganda and Kenya. Goodwell launched its first fund in 2007, and has provided equity funding to over 20 businesses including Paga , MFS Africa , Sendy , Max.ng , and Good nature agro.

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History of MongoDB

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The MongoDB development happened when the organization was putting all force into developing a Microsoft Azure-type PaaS in 2007. MongoDB is a document-oriented server that was developed in the C++ programming language. If you’re a programmer, you might hear about MEAN or MERN stacks daily. MongoDB History.

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How a band of P2P hackers planted the seeds of a unique expense management giant

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In fact, many of Expensify’s initial team actually met at Red Swoosh, which was eventually acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2007 for $18.7 “While I was licking my wounds from that experience, I was approached by Travis Kalanick who was running a startup called Red Swoosh,” he recalled in an interview.

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Booz Allen Hamilton launches $100M corporate venture arm focused on early-stage startups

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Brian MacCarthy, Booz Allen’s VP of ventures, said that the new fund will invest primarily in early-stage (seed, Series A, and Series B) companies and build on Booz Allen’s existing Tech Scouting program, which connects with entrepreneurs to vet emerging security technologies. In the U.S.,

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Hear from Oort and.406 Ventures on why cybersecurity companies thrive in Boston

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406 Ventures since 2007 and investing as a partner since 2013. I want to hear about his experiences founding Oort in Boston, and participating in MassChallenge’s Boston program. Questions I want to ask: When founding Oort, what local resources or programs made a difference? Greg Dracon has been with Boston’s.406

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John Backus Biography

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John Backus was a mathematician known for his invention of FORTRAN & for BNF notation for describing syntax for the programming language. John developed Formula Translator or Fortran, which was the first high-level programming language. His team at IBM developed the programming language FORTRAN for its numerical analysis.