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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. two founders in a garage?—?(HP dot-com bonanza. HP Style) are dead.

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Tech Nation looks for new home as UK Gov hands tech ecosystem contract to Barclays

TechCrunch

Tech founders and investors are already being attracted by the $369bn on offer under the US Inflation Reduction Act for technology startups. And in a survey by industry body Coadec of more than 250 UK founders, the majority said the cuts made the UK significantly less attractive. Tech Nation has long been embedded in the U.K.

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VC meets the land of opportunity

TechCrunch

She is also the co-founder of Build In SE , a community of founders, funders and ecosystem partners committed to company building in the Southeast (#BuildInSE). Meanwhile, VCs will approach founders saying, “We are now looking into markets beyond Silicon Valley.”. Share on Twitter. and Canada. Follow the money.

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Data obscures positive trends in VC dollars reaching women-founded startups

TechCrunch

Doing so ascribes all the fundraising success and the leadership work underpinning it to the founders who are men, effectively propagating gender bias. Of 4,375 deals, 3,659 disclosed founder identities, and 895 were either women-led or led by individuals of both genders.). (Of from 2011 to 2016 and 3.8x The rest is noise.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Now the bad news: some venture capitalists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. no-equity stipend + corporate pilot opportunities with our founders.

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