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

AsiaTechDaily

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (VVSEAI) was founded in 2010 to drive innovation and support scalable businesses in the Southeast Asian and Indian regions. With a strong focus on identifying and backing high-growth, early-stage startups, VVSEAI has become a prominent player in the Southeast Asian and Indian startup ecosystems.

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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. “We Plus, through partnerships with India’s leading startup enablers, the program gives younger organizations in India an additional advantage. “EO

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

TechCrunch

the free YC Startup School courses). Network effects have evolved, moving away from the traditional physical spaces to digital ones. Concurrently, the number of funds raised in the eight-year period up to 2022 was 2,700 , up from 883 in 2010. Flyover Tech ) have played a significant role in this shift. growth from 2020 to 2021.

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How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds

David Teten VC

Expert Networks. Expert Network firms source subject matter experts from various domains and pair them with clients seeking topical or industry insights. I founded Circle of Experts, an expert network which I sold to Evalueserve.). The expert network industry has grown an average 4.5%

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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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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.