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Meet the Talent x Opportunity Fall ‘23 Cohort

Andreessen Horowitz

A few weeks ago, we kicked off the Talent x Opportunity (TxO) Fall 2023 cohort in San Francisco. We continue to be amazed by the visionary entrepreneurs TxO has had the fortunate opportunity to collaborate with since launching the initiative in 2020. As crypto emerged, he saw it as a potential avenue for loyalty and branding.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

But how can biotech teams effectively communicate to investors and partners how they will, with each round of financing, incrementally reduce the risks of discovering and developing successful new drugs? How much of the total financing is allocated towards the lead program?

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Layoffs spell opportunity for some fintech startups

TechCrunch

Collective , an all-in-one back-office finance platform for the self-employed, which has raised over $28 million in funding, is hiring for five roles across engineering, marketing and member services (tax, accounting). Stay tuned, and please feel free to share with anyone looking for a new opportunity!

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NJEDA Establishes Diversity Finance Advisory Board

American Entrepreneurship

September 21, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) today announced the establishment of the Diversity Finance Advisory Board (DFAB) which will work to increase access to institutional capital for women- and minority-owned startups.

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GetVantage offers revenue-based financing to India’s founders

TechCrunch

That’s the gap that revenue-based financing platforms like GetVantage want to fill. GetVantage says this includes several debt lines with non-banking financial companies to help scale its financing platform. Vasa said companies typically repay financing in about six to nine months.

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BarbAIrians at the Gate: The Financial Opportunity of AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Popularized by Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert, the invention wasn’t all that complicated: issue bonds with very high interest rates and correspondingly high risk, and use that capital to finance the wholesale acquisition of mismanaged, inefficient, and sclerotic companies. billion, against almost $2.8

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Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers

TechCrunch

million seed round and a student loan financing facility of $25 million from Nigerian financial institution Sterling Bank. The student loan financing takes care of that, and students who take that option are expected to repay N3 million (~$6,000) in the space of three years. Today, Decagon is announcing its $1.5 also took part. “We

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