The Rhode Island Foundation announced the first winners of its Innovation Fellowships, funded by philanthropists John and Letitia Carter, providing entrepreneurs with $300,000 for three years to develop, test and implement innovative ideas that can improve Rhode Island life.
The winners are Soren Ryherd who has proposed a series of online businesses that would evolve into retail stores and Allan Tear who wants to create nothing less than a start-up revolution.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.