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Business incubator. A business incubator is an organization that helps startup companies and individual entrepreneurs to develop their businesses by providing a fullscale range of services, starting with management training and office space, and ending with venture capital financing. [1] The National Business Incubation Association (NBIA ...
Welfare in America. In the United States, the federal and state social programs including cash assistance, health insurance, food assistance, housing subsidies, energy and utilities subsidies, and education and childcare assistance. Similar benefits are sometimes provided by the private sector either through policy mandates or on a voluntary basis.
Y Combinator interviews and selects two batches of companies per year. The companies receive a total of $500,000 in seed money as well as advice and connections. The $500,000 in funding is made up of $125,000 on a post-money SAFE in return for 7% equity and $375,000 on an uncapped SAFE with a "most favored nation" ("MFN") provision (i.e.: "we get the same best terms you give anyone else in the ...
List of American exchange-traded funds. This is a table of notable American exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. As of 2020, the number of exchange-traded funds worldwide was over 7,600, [1] representing about 7.74 trillion U.S. dollars in assets. [2] The largest ETF, as of April 2021, was the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE Arca: SPY), with about $353 ...
Maveron. Mayfield Fund. Menlo Ventures. Meritech Capital Partners. Morgenthaler Ventures. New Enterprise Associates. Norwest Venture Partners. Oak Investment Partners. Optimize Capital Markets.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) [a] is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington , it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the second largest charitable foundation in the world , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [ 4 ]
Startup accelerator. Startup accelerators, also known as seed accelerators, are fixed-term, cohort-based programs, that include mentorship and educational components, and (sometimes) culminate in a public pitch event or demo day. [1] While traditional business incubators are often government-funded, generally take no equity, and rarely provide ...
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a Linux Foundation project that was started in 2015 to help advance container technology [1] and align the tech industry around its evolution. It was announced alongside Kubernetes 1.0, an open source container cluster manager, which was contributed to the Linux Foundation by Google as a seed ...