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Investing in a More Inclusive Innovation Economy

Revolution

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley).

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Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz invested more in fintech than any other sector in 2022

TechCrunch

. — Mary Ann Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights. Sequoia apparently was fairly active overall last year despite the global downturn, with over 100 investments. But wasn’t that true for every sector?

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Investing in Yellow

Andreessen Horowitz

This could radically reduce the cost and skill barriers to high-quality character creation while enabling far greater scale, variety, and personalization. When we first met Yellow’s founder, CEO Mandeep Waraich in early 2022, we were astounded by his infectious energy and drive to tackle this challenge.

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Investing in Tennr

Andreessen Horowitz

In 2022, as LLMs took the world by storm, the market was trying to navigate the right way to build solutions on top of the many models becoming available. Today, we are excited to announce we’ve led their Series A. Trey kept the team focused and spent months obsessing over novel applications of new open source models.

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BankTech Ventures’ Fintech Investing focuses on Community Banks

American Entrepreneurship

as of December 31, 2022, according to the FDIC. Strategic investment fund BankTech Ventures invests in companies that are developing innovative technologies that enhance the ability of community banks to serve their customers. The Fund just announced their investment commitment of $13.5

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6 cloud trends to watch in 2022

TechCrunch

This momentum is expected to pick up in 2022 and beyond. Gartner projects that global spending on cloud services is expected to reach over $482 billion in 2022, up from $313 billion in 2020. Gartner projects that global spending on cloud services is expected to reach over $482 billion in 2022, up from $313 billion in 2020.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. Ignitepost IgnitePOST is a service that enables sales & marketing teams to boost conversion rates by 15X.

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