Bronze Valley provides grants to five Black founders
Bronze Valley announced on February 1 that it will provide non-dilutive grant capital of $10,000 each to five Alabama-based startups led by Black founders. The grants are made possible through funding provided by Appalachian Community Capital , in partnership with Wells Fargo’s Open for Business Fund . “We are pleased to be able to support these emerging startup companies and their founders in this way,” said Neill S. Wright, president and CEO of Bronze Valley. “We’re grateful to Appalachian Community Capital and Wells Fargo for furthering Bronze Valley’s mission by providing this sort of agile investment capital.”
The grant recipients are:
Prismm , a platform that digitizes critical documents such as account and insurance information, providing a single place with regulated access for individuals and families in times of emergency. Founder: Martha Underwood. Peak U , which provides busy professionals with on-demand fitness programs, including live training sessions, diet and motivational tools, and a library of expert-led training regimens. Founder: Reggie Jackson. Babypalooza , an online community for new, expectant, and hopeful moms seeking personalized connection to products, information, and each other. Founder: Cecilia Pearson. City Detect , which uses mounted cameras and artificial intelligence to document blight indicators in a given area and share reports and maps with officials empowered to act on the data provided. Co-Founder: Gavin Baum-Blake. Ziscuit , a grocery search engine that provides savings for shoppers and high-value traffic for its retail partners, helping to reduce food insecurity by increasing the accessibility and affordability of good food. Founder: Mark Peterson. Bronze Valley is a nonprofit, 501(c)4 community development financial institution ( CDFI ). It is the only CDFI in Alabama focused on venture capital investing.

Neill S. Wright, President and CEO, Bronze Valley.
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2024 marks another halving event for Bitcoin, which usually coincides with a market-wide boom. During this period, most cryptocurrencies reach new all-time highs. While Bitcoin’s halving is crucial in igniting the bull run, there are always several altcoins that also contribute significantly to the surge. Market analysts believe Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Pulse Valley (PVC) will be key drivers in the impending bull run. While the two bring different values to the market, they have one thing in common: growth potential. This article will discuss three reasons why Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Pulse Valley (PVC) will likely ignite the 2024 bull run. Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Pulse Valley (PVC): An Overview
Shiba Inu (SHIB) is a decentralized meme coin launched in August 2020 as an Ethereum-based alternative to Dogecoin. Shiba Inu (SHIB) was created by an anonymous developer or group of developers using the alias Ryoshi. SHIB is attractive for its low price and large and active community, the SHIB Army. Pulse Valley (PVC) is Blockchain’s first exclusive iGaming club. Pulse Valley (PVC), also based on Ethereum, allows users to earn a passive income from its iGaming platform by holding a Pulse Valley NFT. Furthermore, Pulse Valley (PVC) is scheduled for launch in less than 24 days, giving an immediate return of 3x (300%) upon its release. Why will Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Pulse Valley (PVC) ignite the next bull run? Strong fundamentals
Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Pulse Valley (PVC) tokens have strong fundamentals. SHIB is a decentralized cryptocurrency promoting community involvement and governance in the SHIB ecosystem. The SHIB ecosystem features a DeFi product package that includes a decentralized exchange, an NFT marketplace, and a layer-2 scaling solution. On the other hand, PVC is the main in-game currency for the Pulse Valley ecosystem. Players who lose their tokens must purchase more to continue playing, increasing the token’s price. PVC is highly deflationary, meaning that with each passing moment, the token becomes rarer, rising in value and bringing profit to the investors who hold it. Deflationary Tokenomics
Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Pulse Valley (PVC) have a finite supply of tokens. Shiba Inu has a fixed supply of one quadrillion tokens, while Pulse Valley has 1.3 billion tokens. The supply of SHIB and PVC tokens will diminish over time, increasing demand and, as a result, driving up prices. A limited supply of tokens also incentivizes investors to hold them for a long time. In addition, both Shiba Inu (SHIB) burn some of their tokens, further lowering the circulating supply. Pulse Valley (PVC) burns 2% of the tokens from each play, making the PVC token more scarce and valuable over time. Additionally, Pulse Valley uses a portion of the funds raised from tournament ticket sales to buy back and burn PVC tokens, consolidating PVC’s token deflationary nature even further. It’s important to underline that Shiba Inu (SHIB) has a very low and often inconsistent burn rate. Given its supply of 450 trillion and the fact that more SHIB tokens are issued on the market, it becomes challenging to achieve considerable deflation. Pulse Valley (PVC), on the other hand, does not issue new tokens on the market and is purely deflationary. Furthermore, its supply is only 1.3 billion, making it suitable for unlimited growth. Low market capitalization
Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Pulse Valley (PVC) sit at different ends of the market capitalization spectrum. High-cap cryptocurrencies like Shiba Inu (SHIB), which are already well-known, tend to have less room for exponential growth. Indeed, SHIB currently has a market capitalization of $4.68 billion, compared to its nearly $40 billion market cap in 2021. This makes it more challenging for SHIB to create new millionaires from small investments. On the other hand, Pulse Valley (PVC) will be launched with a market cap of only $20 million, suggesting a much greater potential for price appreciation. For a token like PVC with an even smaller market cap and a fixed supply, it’s easy to predict price movement. This is because volatility is low, and there is no uncertainty over the number of tokens in circulation in the future. PVC is currently trading in presale for $0.01. The presale will conclude in less than 24 days. Immediately afterward, Pulse Valley (PVC) will launch on Uniswap at $0.03, translating to a 3x return for investors. There’s no vesting period, which means you can join the presale now and sell your PVC for a 3x profit in less than a month!

3 Reasons why Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Pulse Valley (PVC) will Drive the Next Bull Run in 2023

BY JOHN COXjcox@bakersfield.com
Nicholas Ambrosini is president and CEO at Valley Strong Credit Union. Shontay Smith-Sweeney has been appointed head of Valley Strong Credit Union’s new community development financial institution. The B3K Prosperity economic collaboration notched a success Thursday as Bakersfield-based Valley Strong Credit Union announced it has been awarded federal certification as a community development financial institution ready to offer services and products geared toward underserved communities. Launching a Kern-based CDFI has been a goal of B3K for close to three years after a local needs assessment led by the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution found the county’s small businesses suffer from a lack of access to capital. Although outside CDFIs have operated in Kern in recent years, and Ridgecrest-based AltaOne Federal Credit Union launched one about a year ago, Valley Strong’s alone grew out of B3K’s vision for economic revitalization. “Expanding access to capital is vital to supporting local entrepreneurs and small businesses,” B3K Executive Director JP Lake said in a news release. “We’re proud to have served as the convening force behind this initiative and excited to see entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds have the ability to access funding to grow successful companies in the Bakersfield-Kern region.”
Valley Strong President and CEO Nicholas Ambrosini, who has been active in B3K while concentrating some of the credit union’s philanthropy on related initiatives such as next-generation energy education, said in Thursday’s release that the institution is proud the U.S. Treasury Department has recognized its efforts to support local underserved markets. Different CDFIs help their communities in different ways, such as supporting specific types of projects. Ambrosini has said its CDFI could expand later to serve other goals but that its immediate aim would be to provide early-stage capital for small businesses that have been unable to secure a business loan. Among CDFIs’ benefits is that the federal government makes grants available specifically to them — and Valley Strong said it intends to apply for more than $7.5 million through the upcoming grant-funding round. In the meantime, the credit union said its CDFI will deploy a revolving loan fund through Kern Venture Group, Kern’s only angel investor organization. The CDFI will be headed by Shontay Smith-Sweeney, a longtime banker and former community manager with JPMorgan Chase & Co. She said in the release she’s looking forward to kickstarting the organization. “Business owners across our county will have more options to access capital than we’ve ever had in the history of Kern County,” she stated. President and CEO Richard Chapman of Kern Economic Development Corp. called the CDFI’s certification a “critical funding mechanism” that will focus much-needed local capital on small businesses in support of the county’s entrepreneurial community. B3K — short for Better Bakersfield and Boundless Kern — formed in early 2020 as a local response to regulatory and market challenges facing the county’s economic pillars of oil and agriculture. It has rallied dozens of leaders in local business, government and civic life in support of advancing opportunities in energy, manufacturing, aerospace and business services, as well as entrepreneurship in general. Its stated goal is to create 100,000 upwardly mobile, accessible, good-paying jobs by 2031. Valley Strong has grown quickly in recent years and now operates 32 branches in Kern, Kings, San Joaquin, Solano and Tulare counties. With more than $4 billion in assets, it serves more than 293,000 members. Deaths: 2,651
Percentage of all cases that are unvaccinated: 70.82
Percentage of all hospitalizations that are unvaccinated: 83.10

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He was the program director of the festival for more than twenty years. Died Aniko Pallagi, one of the dreamers of the Valley of the Arts festival. About his death István MártaFerenc Prize-winning composer Erkel reported on his social media page. In addition to the composer, Pallagi was one of the founders of the Valley of the Arts, after which he worked as the program director of the event for more than twenty years. He was an honorary citizen of Kapolcs and a member of the Kapolcs Cultural and Nature Conservation Society. “From the Valley of the Arts, the locals learned how to organize the power inherent in the community, and how to carry it out if they decide to do something. He revived the talent and knowledge that goes back several generations, how to communicate with strangers, be good and maintain friendships. The local youth have developed skills that can then be used for all kinds of other things. A number of civil organizations were also established locally, from the youth theater association to those with large families”
– said Pallagi in an interview about the Valley of the Arts, which was quoted by Színház Online. #Anikó #Pallagi #founders #Valley #Arts #died
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20VC: Why The Future of AI Is Open Not Closed, Why We Are Years Away From AI Being Autonomous, Why AI Founders Do Not Need to Move to the Valley & Why Founders Should Not Meet Investors in Between Rounds with Clem Delangue @ Hugging Face
Posted on 12th May 2023 by Harry
Clem Delangue is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Hugging Face , the AI community building the future. To date, Clem has raised over $160M from the likes of Sequoia , Coatue, Addition and Lux Capital to name a few. Prior to Hugging Face, Clem was in product and marketing at two different startups both of which were acquired. From Tamagotchi to Leading the World of AI:
How did a Tamagotchi startup turn into one of the hottest AI startups in the world? What does Clem know now that he wishes he had known when he started? What are Clem’s biggest pieces of advice to founders on pivoting? 2. AI: Trend or Transformation:
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Why does Clem believe the future of AI will be won by open-source? What is his reasoning to suggest closed is fundamentally a weaker model? Does Clem acknowledge that in the short term, enterprises will buy from a closed model with greater ease? How does he plan to tackle this? 4. Regulation: What Happens Now:
What regulatory changes need to be made in the world of AI most urgently? Is Elon Musk right to suggest the immediate pausing of developments in AI? What does Clem believe to be the most likely scenario to AI regulation in the next 12 months? 5. Fundraising: Lessons and Reflection on Raising $160M:
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