TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

One of the ways that those pots of cash are being invested is through venture capital, which means the money flows to the coasts — New York, Boston, Silicon Valley. For the past decade, Gener8tor has been working to shift that by spinning up accelerators in local communities that have money but are underserved in terms of startup support.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Africa’s largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), is launching a $15 million accelerator program, dubbed The Edtech Fellowship Program, to back and support 72 startups across Nigeria and Kenya over the next three years, TechCrunch has learned.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). How to find a job as a VC scout. How to get a job in venture capital.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. Rather than compete for the #1 market, Techstars made a virtue of supporting nascent startup ecosystems in the other major tech and financial hubs in the US, and eventually, around the world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

To put it mildly, the meteoric collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has been a historic time of confusion for everyone the startup ecosystem touches. Niko Bonatsos, MD, General Catalyst While many founders and VCs have shared similar experiences as they try to navigate this confusion, the future ahead is even hazier.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

According to Startup Genome , Beijing, London, Silicon Valley, Stockholm, Tel Aviv are some of the world’s best startup ecosystems. The data and research organisation uses factors like performance, capital, market reach, connectedness, talent, and knowledge to produce its rankings.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

That’s why the unicorns and megadeals should come as no surprise: They’re the natural evolution of the ecosystem, of more capital generating more success after years of hard work. VCs have more money than ever, and it’s getting increasingly expensive to invest in North America. Investors should look for younger markets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I am no stranger to this gender gap within the VC space.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

VC Lab , an accelerator for venture capital firms, wants to create investors who will back the rest of the world. Today, VC Lab is providing a set of freely available boilerplate documents intended to streamline the process, save everyone time and money and make fund governance structures more accessible.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

The Yozma Programme (Hebrew for “initiative”) from the government, in 1993, was seminal: It offered attractive tax incentives to foreign VCs in Israel and promised to double any investment with funds from the government. At the start of 2020, Israeli startups and technology companies were looking back on a good 2019.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For years, tech companies, talent, and venture capital were concentrated on the coasts — a precedent the pandemic tipped, if not flipped. Collaboration is the hardest, but arguably the most important. Dynamism creates vitality and job opportunities that are key to a city’s success.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? It is accelerating the inclusion of the unbanked and underbanked population into a formal, secure economy.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Register Multi-stage global venture capital firm MSA Novo , announced that it has invested more than $16 million in six Indian startups and plans to further inject funds into the Indian startup ecosystem by the end of 2023. We are incredibly bullish on investing in India.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Through a joint announcement, the entities unveiled their intention to combine conventional bank credit with venture capital investment, all while ensuring minimal equity dilution for shareholders. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Our findings confirmed a significant shift away from the traditional tech hubs of the Bay Area, New York City, and Boston, with the proportion of seed- and early-stage VC dollars funneling into the Bay Area falling below 30% for the first time in more than a decade. marking its highest level since 2017. Infrastructure touches everything.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? It is accelerating the inclusion of the unbanked and underbanked population into a formal, secure economy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Having local expertise in the category every VC wants to invest in right now doesn’t hurt, either. Startups in the city raised more than $534 million through December 12, 2022, according to PitchBook, which, while not a lot of capital, is better than 2021, when they raised $336 million. You can give it a listen here.).

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Revolution

AUGUST 2, 2022

What we did: Revolution Growth Vice President, Nancy Hilliker , participated in the 2022 Dig-South Tech Summit, where she discussed supporting a more diverse innovation landscape and the acceleration of connections between VCs and founders in non-traditional tech hubs. Where we went: Chicago, IL ??

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . I’m very interested in the tech stack of private equity/VC firms , both to improve the efficiency of Versatile VC and also as a focus area for our investing.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 11, 2023

During the launch event on December 4, 2023, the DTI revealed the Incubation, Development, and Entrepreneurial Assistance (IDEA) Program and the Accelerating Development, Valuation, and Corporate Entrepreneurship (ADVanCE) Program. Both initiatives are specifically tailored to push the creative sector.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Flexible VC: A new model for startups targeting profitability. Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. Revenue-based flexible VCs.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

It''s my favorite thing to teach as well--and I''ll be giving a class at Startup Institute this Tuesday night about it. They''re a career accelerator, which is a pretty neat concept--doing what YC and Techstars do for startups, but for your career. When I took the job, the New York startup ecosystem was nascent.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

A close look at Singapore’s thriving startup ecosystem. As of October, climate-tech startups had raised over $32 billion in 2021 and, according to Dealroom and London & Co., VCs invested nearly $50 billion in climate-tech companies between 2020 and 2021. More posts by this contributor. Abrar Chaudhury. Contributor.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The startup ecosystem is a terrific manufacturer of bad fundraising advice. Any VC will tell you that the ones they said yes to, they mostly got there right away—and that there are very few “maybe” deals that get tipped over the fence. Or that venture capital is a meritocracy? That adds risk.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Luisa Rubio Arribas is the head of Wayra X , Telefónica’s digital innovation hub offering funding, connections and expertise to mass-market-ready B2C startups. Corporate venture capital investments (CVCs) now represent more than a fifth of global venture. Corporate investment arms have gotten stronger.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

The head VC guy seems a little bit… weird. Since then, I’ve raised 5 more times for my companies and also advised various VCs and accelerators on tens of deals. First, raising investment won’t solve any issues that a startup has, even if that issue is that we’re running out of money.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Imagine being a tech reporter coming back after a few lovely days at Disney World with the family, only to discover that the entire startup ecosystem is in turmoil after a major bank collapsed. Startups and VC Caught in the wake of the shock collapse of erstwhile rival Silicon Valley Bank, shares of First Republic fell 62% yesterday.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Register Kickstart Ventures , one of the most active venture capital firms in the Philippines, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a renewed commitment to invest in startups across the Philippines, and in major innovation hubs in Southeast Asia and beyond. on its first year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

startup ecosystem lost an important business partner. If more lawmakers become convinced that Silicon Valley companies require greater supervision, the consensus could embolden the SEC to accelerate its agenda for increasing regulation in the private markets and fundamentally altering venture as we know it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

history is going to reshape the startup ecosystem for years to come. Who’s most vulnerable, who stands to benefit, and what are some of the long-term implications for VC? Hopefully, after Silicon Valley Bridge Bank winds up its operations, a viable business will move in. But that’s just one street corner.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Register South Korea’s leading accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , considered ‘a gateway’ to do business in Asia, invites global startups to participate. Thriving Startup Infrastructure: Korea is a country that has 18 unicorn startups. trillion won (US$6.4 billion).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

In February 2020, as the world was shutting down, and as businesses downsized on account of the Covid pandemic, John Kamara was busy establishing another new startup Adanian Labs in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape. How Adanian Labs started.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Curry has spent the past two years building out the nascent platform, tracking down brand partners, navigating accelerator programs, enticing users and pounding the pavement to find investors willing to bet on his vision. College Cash has raised $105,000 to date, and is hoping to eventually wrap the funding into a $1 million seed round.

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