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The Next Generation Of Funding For The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Another is Google Ventures, which works with portfolio companies full-time on design, recruiting, marketing, and engineering. Network Redux, a managed-service provider in Portland, Oregon, serves more than 1,100 clients globally, but could not secure credit after the 2008 credit crisis despite a 100 percent year-over-year growth rate.

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

Several of us are excited about the interested use cases in art and design. One worked at a different quantum dot startup based in the UK that’s now publicly traded, another built a vertically integrated cannabis company in Oregon. We’ve filed patents on use cases in medical diagnostics; imagine a real-time cancer detector!