Chilean Government Seeks to Boost Female-led Start-ups

Drawn in by equity-free financing and promises of hands-on mentoring, dozens of female entrepreneurs will head to Chile in the coming weeks to participate in what the government says is the world's first state-run start-up program solely for women. It's not the first attempt by Chile to catalyze its start-up scene. Since 2010, the government has awarded over $40 million in seed capital to thousands of up-and-coming innovators, according to its own statistics. But The S Factory,...

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