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Meet the expert: HATTY FAWCETT

My name is Hatty Fawcett and, as the founder of Focused For Business, I am on a mission to make it quicker and easier to raise a Seed or pre-Seed funding round. I have worked in three startups, raised investment for my own startup and now I run a Funding Accelerator for founders raising their … Leer más

Carbon Credits and Green Financing: Paving the Way to a Sustainable Future

In order to tackle climate change and boost the transition towards a more sustainable future, new mechanisms have been recently put into place to incentivize and promote decarbonization. Among them, carbon credits may be extraordinarily powerful if used and deployed adequately, but there is a growing controversy about their use. Something that carbon credits may prevent … Leer más

Who are the biggest AI investors in Europe?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a solution to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges such as anticipating cybersecurity threats, detecting natural disasters or treating chronic diseases. The creation of AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion has given visibility to AI, which is becoming more and more popular, and, consequently, is changing … Leer más

America’s Seed Fund: SBIR/STTR programs

America’s Seed Fund is composed of two programs: the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR). SBIR/STTR programs were to expire in 2022, however, in September 2022 President Biden signed the SBIR and STTR Extension Act of 2022, which authorized the SBIR/STTR programs to continue through fiscal year 2025, so these two … Leer más