It was expected that many employers would stop offering workplace health insurance following the passage of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But that wasn’t the case recently report by the Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI). Between 2014 and 2022, the percentage of employees eligible for health benefits increased by 5%. EBRI is …
Australian venture capital firm Flying Fox Ventures is focusing on decidedly unsexy startups, its partners say, as local investors modify their strategies in the wake of the tech downturn over the past 18 months. Flying Fox led a $1.4 million ($750,000) investment round in British accounting startup Mayday, which founder Rachael Neumann says is part …
RBC joins a growing list of Canadian banks to acquire talent from the now-defunct SVB Canada. The Royal Bank of Canada’s technology and innovation arm, RBCx, has hired four former Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Canada employees, becoming the latest in a growing list of Canadian banks to poach employees from the collapsed tech financier. …
In India’s booming startup ecosystem, female founders have also turned their entrepreneurial journeys into successful enterprises. According to WISER’s Women’s in India’s Startup Ecosystem Report, the number of women-led startups in India has increased to 18% in the last five years. In 2017, there were approximately 6,000 startups in India, of which 10% were run …
Mohit Agarwal Associate Mohit Agarwal is the leader of a global consulting firm based in New York, where he leads large business transformations. More posts by this author Adapting to a world of higher interest rates – a guide for startups This is now close to the gospel that online advertising and B2B SaaS are …
Application deadline: November 15, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. CAT Hanga Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Programme. was created by the Government of Rwanda in 2022 as part of the HangaPitchFest to explore the opportunities that exist for technology-enabled start-ups to solve key problems in SRH to accelerate better outcomes. This year …
Image credits: nothjc/Getty Images House Fund, a pre-seed and early-stage venture capital fund for UC Berkeley startups, particularly artificial intelligence startups, today announced that it has closed the third tranche of Fund III for $115 million. With the closing of Fund III, Ken Goldberg, a University of California, Berkeley professor and prolific roboticist, will join …
Dennis Musau Published: October 25, 2023 12:44 (EAT) Standard Chartered has awarded a total of Ksh9.8 million to seven ventures under its Women in Tech incubator program. PHOTO: Leaflet Seven Kenyan women-led startups on Wednesday received seed funding of Ksh 1.4 million each at the sixth graduation ceremony of the Women in Tech incubator program. …
WalmartIncubation arm Store N8 and Outlier Ventures, a global Web3 accelerator, announced the first cohort for its accelerator program aimed at supporting startups that focus on building decentralized solutions to improve the global retail and commerce experience. The Store N8 dCommerce Base Camp acceleration program received hundreds of applications, and five startups were selected to …
Image credits: RevRoad Capital RevRoad was founded in 2017 as a venture services company for startups in Utah. The organization offered a two-year program providing access to 12 resources, from legal services to sales assistance to mentoring in exchange for equity capital. However, unlike many entities, it did not have capital to invest in start-ups …