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AWS launches new $30M accelerator program aimed at minority founders

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. Programs like AWS Impact Accelerator amount to more than lip service. saw almost no progress in venture capital funding from 2013 to 2020.

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Miami-based Ironhack raises $20 million for its coding bootcamps as demand for coders continues

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Ironhack , a company offering programming bootcamps across Europe and North and South America, has raised $20 million in its latest round of funding. Last year, Lambda School raised $74 million for its coding education program. Ironhack isn’t the only bootcamp to benefit from this growth.

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A CTO’s Guide To The Top Federal Technology Topics of 2013

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By Bob Gourley You know the top federal IT news of 2013, after all, you probably lived it. We all tracked topics like the Shutdown and its impact on IT, HealthCare.gov, NSA programs, Data Center consolidation efforts. The Top Federal Technology Topics of 2013. This is the big data news of 2013, from a technology perspective.

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Dovetail, the venture studio that has worked with startups like Afterpay, is raising a new fund

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million USD) fund that will be used for seed, Series A and Series B rounds in 15 of the most promising companies that have gone through its venture studio program. Before they started Dovetail, Frandsen and co-founder Ash Fogelberg’s startup, ticketing and payments platform 1-Night, was acquired by TicketDirect in 2013.

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Nubank files to go public

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Per the company’s bulletin, Nu intends to list in the United States with intent to “negotiate a program of Brazilian Depositary Receipts” in its home country. Since its 2013 inception, Nu has raised $2.3

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Efficient IT Modernization Strategies Summit 21 Nov 2013

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It is the 21 November 2013 Efficient IT Modernization Strategies Summit , which will be held at the Grand Hyatt Washington. Welcome, Introductions, and Program Overview. President, The Kevin Carroll Group and former Program Executive Officer, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS), U.S. 7:30 – 8:30 AM. Kevin Carroll.

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Uber launches private chartered boats in Mykonos

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Uber has offered other boat products before, including the brief “Boat to Work” program in San Francisco way back in 2013 and more recently, Uber Boat in London, which is primarily for commuters. That’ll be the first supported location in Greece, with potentially more to come in the future.

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