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IDG CAPITAL INNOVATION CENTER HELPS EX-INCARCERATED JOB SEEKERS

MIT NEWS
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Surge Employment Solutions, a startup operating out of the BUild Lab IDG Capital Student Innovation Center at Boston University, is building a business in Massachusetts to help formerly incarcerated individuals find both well-paid and high-skilled jobs. Other Surge partners include the Boston Mayor’s Office of Returning Citizens, the Massachusetts Parole Board, the Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corp. and Strive Boston. Launched in 2017, the IDG Capital Student Innovation Center at BU encourages students from multiple  disciplines to learn, innovate and solve problems. Both IDG Capital and IDG Capital’s Global Co-Chairman Hugo Shong, a Boston University alumnus and Trustee, are providing ten-year funding for the lab.

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