City teaming with VC firm on new tech and climate-change fellowships

The New York City Economic Development Corp. is teaming up with Company Ventures, a local venture-capital firm, to create 12 fellowships for minority and female tech entrepreneurs.

Starting in January, the City Fellowship at Company Ventures will give minority- and woman-owned startups, nonprofits and small businesses an opportunity to collaborate in a physical community.

The program is designed to facilitate pilot opportunities at city agencies and workforce development partnerships at the City University of New York.

“This is a way to evolve and push things we’ve done in the past that uniquely focus on people of color,” said Lindsay Greene, executive vice president and chief strategy officer at

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