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Women entrepreneurs find success despite lack of access to investment capital

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Since 2007, the number of businesses owned by Black women has grown by 163%. Despite the growth in women-owned businesses, venture capital is still funneled to mostly male-owned businesses. of venture capital funds went to women-owned businesses in the U.S. That’s more than double the percentage in 1997.

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Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce

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Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One, bringing the company’s total raised to $740 million. Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

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Kontent, a platform designed to help companies manage business-related content in the cloud, today announced that it raised $40 million from Expedition Growth Capital as part of a growth capital infusion. Kontent competes against Contentful , Contentstack , Strapi and Storyblok in a headless CMS software market that could be worth $1.6

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? Until we weren’t.

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Half Of All VCs Beat The Stock Market

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And I suspect it is getting more profitable, not less, as the capital markets and M&A markets are providing robust liquidity options for managers. These are the gross return multiples of all of the funds that are “mature” meaning the returns are pretty clear now: Multiple Year Of Initial Investment 8.66

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Want to Raise Venture Capital More Easily? Clean Up Your Own Shite First

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If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. It’s a bit like if you bought a $1 million home in 2007 and want to sell it for $1 million today.

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TechCrunch Live is going to Boston, and you’re invited!

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Investors will speak on the best way to raise capital from local firms, and they’ll talk about what sort of startups are most likely to get funding. Agenda: TechCrunch Live 11:00 – 11:30am PT A conversation with a local established startup and early-stage investor to talk through running a startup and raising capital in Boston.