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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. the free YC Startup School courses). Concurrently, the number of funds raised in the eight-year period up to 2022 was 2,700 , up from 883 in 2010. Finally, the talent pool for tech startups has broadened immensely.

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Next Level Entrepreneurship: Investing in a New Generation of Startups

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation. The EO Accelerator program is the catalyst that enables first-stage entrepreneurs to catapult their business to the next level.

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Singapore’s Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India Raise $541M, Prioritizes Women-Led Startups

AsiaTechDaily

VVSEAI Fund V’s substantial corpus includes a dedicated co-investment envelope of $50 million, which will be utilized to invest alongside the primary fund in startups led by women founders. More than 35 percent of startups in VVSEAI Fund IV boasted at least one woman founder.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders.

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The Venture Capital Diversity Gap and Why It Matters

StartupNation

Along with founding multiple angel investment networks and venture funds, my experience in the world of VC has allowed me to work with hundreds of global companies to inject millions of dollars of capital into the startup ecosystem. I’ve created 15 funds in the last year alone. .

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Why I Angel Invest

Angel Capital Association

Our Leadership Team started noticing something interesting around 2010: many of our customers were VC-backed startups. It made sense because a common playbook for consumer-facing startups was to build the product, prove PMF, raise capital from investors, and then deploy some/much/most of that capital in paid media to grow quickly.

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One Decade In, Saying Hello to the Next One: Announcing Founders’ Co-op IV

Founders Coop

Some friends in Boulder were experimenting with an idea for a “startup accelerator” they called Techstars. We asked if they’d be willing to let us try a version of it here in Seattle and they agreed, so we launched the first Techstars Seattle class in the summer of 2010. We can’t wait.

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