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The 128 Innovation Capital Group has been meeting continuously for over 28 years, fulfilling its mission of fostering an environment where innovation flourishes. The 128 Innovation Capital Group provides the forum where Entrepreneurs can meet Investors, Talented and Experienced Managers and Service Providers who will enable their organizations to become successful enterprises.
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The Angel Venture Forum is a group of active angel investors with a shared vision to encourage the growth of emerging business. The mission of AVF is to discover and develop strong companies and to connect them with human resources - financial and experiential - who assist companies in becoming ultimately more successful in the attraction of capital and positive exits. The Angel Forum is a new and efficient, as well as effective, way to assess and build early stage companies.Click here to visit their site and learn more about them.
Our name says it all. Astra Women’s Business Alliance is a dynamic network of women-owned businesses, corporate and government agency supplier diversity professionals, and other partner organizations who share a singular mission: to advance opportunities for women in business.
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AUTM is a living, dynamic, global network of more than 3500 technology transfer professionals and its core purpose is to support and advance academic technology transfer globally.
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Are you a healthcare entrepreneur or do you have a health or healthcare idea? Blueprint Health is a TechStars affiliated startup accelerator program based in NYC that helps early stage healthcare companies get started. Surround yourself with nearly 100 mentors – healthcare entrepreneurs, VCs and innovators – that want to help you succeed! Over the course of a 3 month program, we support entrepreneurs who are building innovative companies at the intersection of health and technology by providing capital, office space and most critically, access to the most robust community of healthcare mentors of any accelerator program.
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The Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards is an international business plan competition for women entrepreneurs. Since its inception five years ago, it has provided support, visibility and coaching to 76 women heading businesses in countries across the globe.
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CincyTech is a venture development organization whose mission is to strengthen the regional economy by driving talent and capital into scalable technology-based companies in Southwest Ohio.
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The Founder Institute is a global network of startups and mentors, that help entrepreneurs launch meaningful and enduring technology companies. Through our four month idea-stage incubator program, you can launch your dream company with expert training, feedback, and support from experienced startup CEOs, while not being required to quit your day job. Our unique Bonus Pool also shares equity upside with all participants, creating local, teamwork-based ecosystems where great startups can flourish.
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Fuentek is the industry leader in high-quality, effective intellectual property (IP) management and technology transfer services for university, government, and corporate tech transfer offices (TTOs). We specialize inunique, strategic, and innovative processes with results-oriented success, helping you be a proactive, effective, and cost-efficient TTO. Whatever your technology transfer or open innovation goals, Fuentek can help you achieve them.
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Girls in Tech is an organization that is focused on women’s innovative and entrepreneurial achievements in technology.
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Golden Seeds is an investment firm dedicated to delivering above market returns through the empowerment of women entrepreneurs and the people who invest in them. Its angel network consisting of 250 men and women is the fourth largest in the US and was the third most active in terms of deals done in 2011. Its venture capital group of eight Managing Partners currently has two funds with $30million under management and investments in 26 portfolio companies. The firm also provides training in angel and venture investing through an academy consisting of over 30 educational modules. Started in 2004 and headquartered in New York, with offices in Boston and San Francisco, the firm also has investor groups in Los Angeles and Dallas.
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Healing Innovation is a resource for clinician innovators (i.e. “Lead-Users”). Clinician Lead-Users are motivated to find a solution to their needs – and thus innovate. Clinician Lead-Users are at the leading edge of important trends in the medical market – and so are currently experiencing needs that will later be experienced by many clinicians. Bringing a medical device idea from concept to the clinic is no small endeavor. If you have a great idea that can improve healthcare, however, you can not only affect your patients, but patients around the world. Healing Innovation provides an overview of the various aspects and issues facing clinician innovators. The site also contains a forum intended to allow clinical innovators to learn from industry, legal, and clinician entrepreneur experts, as well as have free exchange of tips, thoughts, and connections.
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Hot Mommas = Dynamic women. Got women and girls in your life? We increase their confidence, courage, and clout. The Hot Mommas® Project is an award-winning social venture that pairs the world’s largest digital case study library of female role models with cutting-edge teaching tools. The result? Confidence and key success factor increases of up to 200 percent among women in Gen Y, Gen X, and beyond.
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InTheCapital brings you the view from inside D.C. tech, startups, politics, media, and city life. Launched January 2012, InTheCapital is Streetwise Media’s newest property. InTheCapital’s local online news model follows Streetwise Media’s BostInno.com, New England’s fastest growing online news property launched in December 2009.
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Innovate Carolina’s mission is to build a culture of innovation that permeates every corner of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s campus, from the chemist in Caudill labs to the poet in Greenlaw Hall. Carolina is both compelled and poised to accelerate and apply its innovative and entrepreneurial mindset to help solve the world’s most recalcitrant problems. Our strength comes from fostering creativity and discovery in the classroom, the lab, and the studio, as well as in communities beyond our campus.
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Investor's Circle is a network of 150 angel investors, venture capitalists, foundations and family offices that are using private capital to promote the transition to a sustainable economy.
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KGI educates future leaders of the bioscience industry through distinctive Professional Science Master's and PhD programs offering integrated life science/engineering/business curriculums and focusing on industry projects and collaborations.
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MassChallenge, an annual $1M global startup competition and accelerator program, catalyzes the launch and success of high-growth, high-impact new companies.
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New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) is a nonprofit membership organization for professional women in film, television and digital media. A champion of women's rights, achievements and points of view in the entertainment industry, NYWIFT is an educational forum for media professionals, and a network for the exchange of information and resources.
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NewsonWomen.com spotlights 6,000 hard-working Women. NewsonWomen is the largest search engine of women achievers.
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The North Texas Regional Center for Innovation & Commercialization (NTXRCIC) is a 501(C)(3) not-for-profit corporation committed to providing resources to the entrepreneurial community of North Texas. Through providing educational forums, coaching and mentoring, valuable network resources to entrepreneurs and our client companies, the NTXRCIC is fostering a community for technology advancement and the building of successful businesses.
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NYC Health Business Leaders was formed to showcase the city’s thriving health economy and increase the visibility of the people who make it happen. Through our relevant and inspiring programming, we provide healthcare leaders with access to thought-provoking ideas and people. Our events attract the best and brightest from the C-suite and upper levels of management as well as physicians, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, researchers, scientists, consultants, attorneys, academics, and many others. Few groups try to bridge the gap across sectors, but that is what NYCHBL does so well. We encourage communication across healthcare sectors to help break down silos and foster collaboration.
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PROPEL helps guide the development of formation-stage and early-stage life sciences companies by providing entrepreneurs with access to specialized resources and expertise. Industry, academia, service professionals, entrepreneurs and government agencies connect to create and support a vibrant entrepreneurial community in Illinois and throughout the Midwest through PROPEL programs. The biotechnology industry in Illinois includes world-class research, management talent, an educated and trained workforce, state-of-the-art facilities, easy access to markets and scientific collaboration and advanced services infrastructure. iBIO and the iBIO Institute created PROPEL in 2007 to develop these attributes into a self-aware, highly interactive community. In addition to the iBIO Institute and iBIO support staff leading PROPEL, PROPEL depends on the time and expertise of the life sciences community, serving PROPEL as coaches, technical experts, subject matter experts, panelists and in many other ways.
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Ramp-up your own company. The Ramps™ is a training, coaching and networking program for women who are or who want to be entrepreneurs.
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The San Jose BioCenter (BioCenter) is a state-of-the-art facility equipped with wet laboratory and office space that provides world class business and facility services to high potential life science, nanotech and cleantech companies. BioCenter members have access to an extensive range of products, services and equipment that enables them to grow and scale successful businesses.
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SheEOs is an amazing group of women who are creating and running high impact, high growth companies in the Boston area. We meet every last Wednesday of the month in person - alternately for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We meet to share experiences around the challenges of growth companies: hiring, marketing, financing etc.
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For more than six decades, SWE has given women engineers a unique place and voice within the engineering industry. Our organization is centered around a passion for our members' success and continues to evolve with the challenges and opportunities reflected in today's exciting engineering and technology specialties. We invite you to explore the values, principles, and priorities that guide our initiatives and learn how together, WE can continue to make a lasting impact on the future.
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Springworks, a San Francisco based organization, focuses on creating pathways for under-targeted groups to have a greater role in the innovation community. Since 2009 the founder, Jorge M. Calderon, has established a combination of programs and initiatives that actively identify, develop, inspire and provide resources for a range of students and professionals.
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Headquartered in Boston, Standish is a leading investment management firm dedicated to serving sophisticated fixed income investors. Our investment strategies span the wide range of fixed income disciplines and are complemented by a demonstrated ability to design innovative, effective solutions to satisfy our clients' needs.
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The mission of the SUNY Levin Institute is to support New York’s and the nation’s economic and social vitality through innovative and competitive responses to the challenges of today’s global economy. We do this by: Delivering new models of learning for students and working professionals to develop the needed skills to compete successfully in the 21st Century world; Conducting relevant research and public engagement projects to deepen the knowledge and raise the awareness of the challenges and opportunities of the global economy; Identifying needed and appropriate action to provide for a sustainable economy and society in New York and the nation; and, Fostering global and local collaborative relationships among institutions of higher education, and other entities in the public, private and non-profit sectors.
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Tech Cocktail is a literal “cocktail” of emerging technology and startup events, news, resources and reports for the entrepreneurial minded, tech enthusiast. The media company, founded and lead by former Aol product strategist, long-time tech blogger and new media pioneer Frank Gruber, focuses on celebrating entrepreneurs, emerging technology and innovation. Along with the leadership of long-time technology producer, Jen Consalvo, Frank and his team of tech analysts and curators bring a unique point of view to TechCocktail.com as they scour the web and world in search of new products and services, fresh voices, interesting leaders, hot news and trends, how-to’s and more. Founded in 2006 as a simple community-building event, Tech Cocktail has morphed over the years into a full-fledged tech news blog and media company with thousands of fans, followers and supporters across the globe. Tech Cocktail has hosted local mixers, breakfasts, conferences, festivals and other events across the country that have attracted thousands of attendees, helping entrepreneurs by educating as they showcase their latest achievements and the local technology communities they live in.
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Tech Collective is the technology industry association of Rhode Island. We are an Industry Partner with the Governor's Workforce Board of Rhode Island for the Information Technology and Bioscience industries. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, we derive our funding from membership, fundraising and grant awards.
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At Tech Columbus growth drives everything we do. We help start-ups grow their concepts, their maturity, their abilities, and their ambitions. We help established companies grow their business, their capabilities, their connections, and their knowledge. And we help individuals grow their careers, their expertise, their networks, and their confidence. Every day, TechColumbus provides the people, information, and funding critical to a thriving innovation economy.
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The Capital Network is Boston's leading non-profit organization providing extensive educational programs and a community to help early-stage entrepreneurs master the entire funding process and successfully raise seed capital for financing their high-growth startup.
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The Commonwealth Institute is unleashing the potential of women leaders to change the face of business. Since 1997 The Commonwealth Institute has helped over 1,000 women grow their businesses. Through membership, educational seminars, topic-specific programming and signature events, The Commonwealth Institute (TCI) has gained the reputation of being a leading women's organization in Massachusetts and South Florida. The cornerstone of the TCI approach are CEO and Corporate Forums, which feature facilitated peer mentoring. In 2009, TCI expanded membership to include CEOs in New Hampshire and CEOs of nonprofit organizations.
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The Daily Muse is a rapidly growing community of women who believe that kicking ass and taking names is all part of the job. We’re serious about your career. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, work for a Fortune 500 company, or anything in between, what we have in common is this: we’re all passionate about doing great things, at work and in life. Beyond the smart content you’ll find on these pages, we’re hard at work behind the scenes building you a job search tool that will blow your mind. (Check out our sneak peek!) So buckle up, Muses, and get ready for the ride.
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The Next Women is the Female Business Brand for entrepreneurs, executives and investors. We inform, inspire & connect a global & local community of ambitious entrepreneurial women on their business needs -online & offline. How? Via our Products: The Next Women Media, The Next Women Services & The Next Women Licenses.
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At The Story Exchange, we’re inspired by the fact that women around the world are starting businesses at ever higher rates in an astonishing range of fields – from biotech and wine-making, to construction and cakes. We also know that women highly value women role models and that’s what The Story Exchange is all about. It’s women inspiring women to live their dreams and uncover their full potential. The women we profile at The Story Exchange agreed to share their stories about why they began their companies and what they’ve learned along the way to encourage you to start your business. We’ve started with women in the U.S., Hong Kong and Singapore, places known for their business-friendly environments. We’re going to keep adding new stories from new countries, including many where women face much more challenging conditions. We want you to respond by sharing your experiences, questions and observations. Use The Story Exchange however you want – watch the videos, exchange ideas in our online discussions, get inspired, and tap into the resources you need to start your own business.
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The Texas Conference for Women provides connection, motivation, networking, inspiration and skill building for thousands of Texas women each year. The non-profit, non-partisan event features inspirational keynote speakers, skill-building breakout sessions and ample opportunities to develop new relationships with other women. With sessions ranging from personal finance to health and wellness to career advancement, this unique event offers something for everyone.
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Ventureneer cares about the success of values-driven businesses. We’re one ourselves so we know the challenges and the rewards. Ventureneer offers social enterprise, nonprofit, and small business advice from experienced sources, both professional -- marketing, accounting, financing, law -- and from your peers, who have real-world experience.
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We Media: We’re strategic and creative advisors. We inform, advise and work side-by-side with businesses, NGOs, social ventures, entrepreneurs and startups ready to launch new things or re-imagine old ones.
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Launched in 2000, the WEST organization provides a forum for women in science and technology industries to network and share information about career advancement and skill development. Uniquely tied to this highly educated, influential community, the WEST leadership has long provided a supportive environment for mid-career women in these vital sectors, allowing them a unique opportunity to acquire the skills necessary to become business leaders in their fields.
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Women 2.0 distributes its intellectual capital across multi-platforms online (mobile, social, web) and offline (events, workshops, conferences). Women 2.0 is a global network and social platform for influencers that drive trends and decisions — as startup founders and as consumers.
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Women In Bio (WIB) was founded in October 2001 by four women with the goal of bringing female entrepreneurs and executives together to support each other in developing successful biotechnology or life sciences businesses. Since its creation, the WIB membership has expanded to include women of all generations at all stages of their careers. Today, this vibrant national organization includes women executives, entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, students, and women in professional fields that serve the life sciences industry, all of whom share an interest in science and entrepreneurship.
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Women in Film & Video (WIFV) of Washington, DC is dedicated to advancing the professional development and achievement for women working in all areas of film, television, video, multimedia and related disciplines. WIFV supports women in the industry by promoting equal opportunities, encouraging professional development, serving as an information network, and educating the public about women’s creative and technical achievements. WIFV, a 501(c)(3) non-profit community benefit organization founded in 1979, is the premier professional resource for women who want successful media production careers in Washington, DC. Our resources, connections and advocates support a vibrant, creative media industry.
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Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) is the first startup accelerator and mentorship-driven program designed for women-founded companies in mobile technology. WIM's goal is to provide women entrepreneurs with the guidance, feedback and connections needed to make their startups best in class companies and formidable business concerns.
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The mission of the Women's Business Council - Southwest is to facilitate mutually beneficial procurement opportunities among women's business enterprises (WBE) and Sustaining Members. Women-owned businesses represent one of the fastest-growing segments of the business environment, not just locally but nationally and internationally as well. The Women's Business Council - Southwest offers certification, procurement, networking and educational programs that help WBEs grow. The programs are offered throughout a four-state region, which includes Texas, Arkansas, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
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The Women's Capital Connection is a local network of women who are accredited angel investors. It officially launched in January, 2008 with 32 founding investors committed to investing in women-led ventures in our region. Since 2008, 47 women investors have been involved in supporting angel investing. Sixty-six women-led ventures have applied for angel funding with 17 companies moving forward for investor presentations. To date, three companies have received funding.
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The YEC, an invite-only nonprofit membership organization, promotes entrepreneurship as a means to overcome youth unemployment and underemployment. Our mission is to spark an entrepreneurial revolution in America—and help rebuild the economy in the process. Today, with 1 out of 2 new college graduates unemployed or underemployed, young Americans must find a new way forward. To that end, the YEC seeks to put the tools and resources aspiring young entrepreneurs need directly in their hands, so they are empowered to create thousands of new businesses (and jobs).
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Affiliate Organizations
 JumpStart is a nationally recognized non-profit creating economic transformation by efficiently securing and providing resources to entrepreneurs leading high potential, early-stage companies.JumpStart’s primary resource is intensive entrepreneurial assistance delivered by former successful entrepreneurs. They also selectively invests in the highest potential companies through one of its programs. JumpStart is a champion for entrepreneurs, aggressively advocating for the entrepreneurial economy in order to secure a continuous stream of resources for entrepreneurs. They engage and act with federal, state, and community policy makers, civic leaders, and leaders in the venture capital and angel investing communities to secure the resources necessary for growth. Often times, those resources go to entrepreneurs directly or are deployed by other non-profit economic development organizations or investors. In everything they do, JumpStart maintains a specific focus on economic inclusion and activities that increase the success of minority and women entrepreneurs in growing high impact companies. |
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The mission of the Path Forward Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is to develop and deliver innovative programs that help women expand economic opportunity through entrepreneurship. They focus on businesses that have the potential to leverage technology as they grow beyond the founder to create jobs, increase opportunities, and improve the world. The Center's results-oriented programs, available globally through select partners, cover the entire business life-cycle, from entry to exit, and include:
- Get Sparked™: Where do you find business ideas that are true opportunities? Great for building new business pipeline or helping existing entrepreneurs to think BIGGER.
- Get Real™: How do you filter through all the ideas to find the best and then create a plan to make it a reality? Ideal for entrepreneurs who have one or more ideas and need to 1) filter through them to find the most probable opportunities for success and 2) chart out the path to get there. Includes the award-winning ACTiVATE® program which we have licensed from UMBC to roll out internationally.
- Get Results™: Entrepreneurial business execution with support and advisory assistance (online and in-person). This includes training and mentoring in operational topics such as strategy, alignment, marketing, sales, human resources, and financial management.
- Get Funded™: Access to capital, through partnership with the internationally-acclaimed Springboard Venture Forums and Boot Camps to prepare women for presenting to potential investors.
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