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/* Accelerator programs: concise context and original event photography. */
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/* Founder programs: paired portraits below the copy, HBCU gallery alongside. */
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/* Compact section headings and a dark, luminous ideas contact panel. */
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.feedback a{color:#b9dcff}

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