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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

Success

Working for Verizon Ventures, Pitts learned about Hamilton’s startup and met with her, thinking the fledgling company would be a perfect match for Verizon’s strategic focus on diversity. That didn’t work out, but in August 2017, Pitts left Verizon to become Hamilton’s full-time partner.

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How Big Corporations Are Cutting Their Energy Usage

Eco-Office Gals

Its focus is to train 100 graduate students each year about the fundamentals regarding energy efficiency so that they will be well-equipped to go into Corporate America and share the knowledge that they have with the places where they intern.

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