The 100 Women Building America’s Most Innova...
The entrepreneurs on Inc.’s second annual Female Founders 100 list have transformed every major industry in America. Meet the boundless dreamers making the biggest difference in 2019.
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Felicia Curcuru is re-inventing foster care and ad...
Tonight, thousands of kids will go to sleep in loving households thanks to our guest Felica Curcuru. Felicia’s company, Binti, replaces mountains of paperwork with streamlined software and helps state agencies recruit and approve foster parents more quickly.
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Can “Govtech” Save the Government—and Tech?
When San Francisco asked Nath to help the county find more people willing to be foster parents, he introduced the Human Services Agency to Felicia Curcuru, a former McKinsey analyst who was trying to use tech to help …
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2019 GovTech 100
The GovTech 100 is an annual list compiled and published by Government Technology as a compendium of 100 companies focused on, making a difference in, and selling to state and local government agencies across the United States. In 2019, as detailed …
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Eight Ways to Keep Foster Parent Candidates Intere...
At Binti, we work with more than 40 agencies across the country, who serve over 40,000 children in care. In the past year alone, we’ve helped our agencies process more than…
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Female Founders Join Forces with Female VCs to off...
Today, I’m thrilled to announce that 120+ female founders who’ve raised over $4 billion in capital are joining forces with the 30+ women VCs of All Raise, to offer office hours to female founders. The goal is to …
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Three Strategies That Helped San Francisco Increas...
The San Francisco Human Services Agency (HSA) was getting about four to five inquiries about foster parenting each month. Today they routinely get more than 20 per month. Here are three strategies San Francisco and Binti employed in developing a wider network of resource families…
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Startup in Residence Program Expands to 12 Jurisdi...
Startup in Residence (STiR), a program created in San Francisco in 2014 to make it easier for tech entrepreneurs to work with government, is expanding to 12 jurisdictions across the country, the largest of which are Washington, D.C., …
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5 Ways Anyone Can Get Involved to Help Foster Kids
It’s National Foster Care month in May and I wanted to highlight some ways anyone can get involved, no matter what your life situation is. There are about 400,000 foster children in the US. Less than 5% of …
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A call to action for tech
This is a historic moment. A movement of this matter and magnitude in tech is unprecedented. As a founder of Bayes Impact, a nonprofit at the intersection of tech and social services, I’m energized by the prospect of uniting with technologists across the industry to fight for the rights and well-being of Americans.
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