The LIFT Labs City Tour is a multi-city event featuring discussions with more than 200 founders, funders, and startup leaders. Check out the City Tour experience for highlights and top insights from all seven cities. There’s one defining attribute of Chicago’s startup ecosystem. It’s altruism, according to Neal Sales-Griffin, Managing Director at Techstars Chicago. From […]
The LIFT Labs City Tour is a multi-city event featuring discussions with more than 200 founders, funders, and startup leaders. Check out the City Tour experience for highlights and top insights from all seven cities. While COVID-19 restricted travel and in-person meetings, Atlanta’s startup ecosystem held strong. Already home to a vibrant tech ecosystem, collaborative […]
As Founder and CEO of edtech/fintech startup Finance Savvy CEO, Pressley Davis believed there was one corporation that was a perfect fit. The organization seemed aligned to her startup’s goal of closing the gender and racial wealth gap through profitable entrepreneurship. But who was the right corporate contact to approach? What specific language would make her cold-call email stand out? How might she structure a potential deal without a team of lawyers?
Last year U.S. venture capital invested a record $150 billion in domestic startups. This same year, less than 3% of VC dollars went to Black and Latinx founders and a little over 2% to women-led startups. 2020 was the start of a more concerted effort to foster more equitable representation across the ecosystem with the formation of new funds and D&I commitments.
Comcast NBCUniversal sought emerging technologies and enterprise-ready startups to enhance their existing products and services by driving differentiated experiences in the home via TV. The focus areas included: using the TV as a continuous information hub, shared/augmented/extended realities, group watching/shopping/communication, voice and facial recognition, and biometrics, enabling new consumer experiences in gaming or education and creating new revenue opportunities. During this event, you will hear from the top finalist reimagining the way we consume content in the home.