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Marie Ekeland launches 2050, a new fund with radically ambitious, long-term goals

TechCrunch

She invested in adtech firm Criteo, which later became a public company in the U.S. While she’s no longer involved with Daphni’s day-to-day activities, she still follows her own investments in Daphni’s first fund. Her investments include Shine , Swile , Holberton School and Lifen. Investment is self-fulfilling,” Ekeland told me.

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Founders from MIT With a Plan to Change How We Grow and Eat Food

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Tack on the challenges with land, bee population decline, heavy use of ecologically destructive fertilizers and pesticides and extreme food waste and this adds up to a real global challenge. . The initial investment certainly wasn’t a consensus decision at Upfront, but that’s how we invest. We loved the idea. With conviction.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

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But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. A CHF 1-2 million Series A or a CHF 5 million Series B investment is common. Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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Entrepreneurs reflect on value of i2E’s e3 mini-accelerator

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We have a mission at i2E to invest in entrepreneurs and help them build successful high growth companies right here in Oklahoma. PLANT SEADS – Tulsa-based Plant Seads – an acronym for Sustainable Ecology, Adaptive Design – has a mission to create long-term sustainable vertical gardening solutions to benefit the environment.

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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

One such portfolio can consist of 20–40 investments. The number and size of investments matters — because eventually the returns on them are known to form a power law distribution. The top quartile of VCs invest in outliers, the median doesn’t. These outcomes are called ‘unicorns’ for a reason. They are mythically rare.

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Rebuilding the California Dream 

Andreessen Horowitz

And because we didn’t do that, even the communities in the Bay Area were beginning to completely break in terms of social fabric. And we think that, particularly with American Dynamism and this revival in interest in investing in defense innovation, there’s a real opportunity to bring some of that back to Northern California.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

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In terms of who is here and what does get funded, the average entrepreneur spends way too much time doing after investors that have a shingle on their door that says angel investor or VC. Much of the equity investment that goes on happens through people you’d never think of. Do you have a Bose radio at home?

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