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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011.

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

TechCrunch

Tech City UK, its predecessor, was launched in 2011 by former prime minister David Cameron and concentrated largely on the London ecosystem until 2018 when it merged with Tech North (based in Manchester). “There’s such a gap in equity for Northern funders still. Tech Nation has long been embedded in the U.K. and abroad.

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VC meets the land of opportunity

TechCrunch

Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S. 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). and Canada. More posts by this contributor. And yet, here we are.

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

TechCrunch

In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% from 2011 to 2016 and 3.8x from 2006 to 2011, respectively.¹ We need better funder-side reporting. Mimi Aboubaker. Contributor. Share on Twitter. The rest is noise. compared to 1.4x

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people [under 22] who want to build new things. From 100% loss capital (e.g.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people [under 22] who want to build new things. From 100% loss capital (e.g.

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