Enrique Allen partnered with 500 Startups to create the Designer Fund, a community of designers who invest in designer founders through mentorship, funding, and access to their network. 500 Startups is a sponsoring partner of the…

Women, We Want YOU… To WIN!

Tonight we’re announcing an important initiative — the WIN Challenge. (Women Investors Now) [Link to Dave’s…

This week, we wrapped up the last of three Demo Days in 3 different cities. Hundreds of investors, press, and techies-at-large laughed, tweeted, analyzed, and pulled out their checkbooks as the 27 companies of our Spring 2012 Accelerator…

This story is by Manolo Diaz on how he started working with Alberto Colin on Yogome.Yogome makes awesome educational games for kids on web browsers and the iPad. You can follow Yogome on…

Our favorite chimps at MailChimp are giving away a free ticket to unSEXY to the joker who provides the best caption to the pic below (btw — Ben Chestnut, Founder of MC will be speaking at unSEXY):

Last week at Demo Day SF, we announced the WIN (Women Investors Now) Challenge.In an effort to increase the number of women angel investors, we challenged women to invest in 3 startups at a minimum of $5,000 each over the next year. Since then, more than 100 have taken the challenge and WIN has…

This story is by Mo Yehia on how he met Avand Amiri. Mo and Avand are co-founders of Sqoot, a local ad network & analytics tool. Sqoot is part of our current Spring 2012 accelerator batch. Follow Sqoot on Twitter here.