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Silicon Valley is a surprisingly clubby ecosystem: FC's Alex Mittal

FundersClub

So how is Funders Club different than other VCs? And then we also have a growing portfolio of entrepreneurs in about 20 countries now. We want to harness that network effect for best optimizing the discovery of great ideas and great entrepreneurs. In Silicon Valley, you bump into entrepreneurs literally anywhere you go.

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

TechCrunch

Mimi Aboubaker is an entrepreneur and writer. Specifically, we need to be tracking as metrics: (i) the number of first institutional round venture deals, (ii) the demographics of the founders of those companies and (iii) the composition of the funders on an annual cohort basis. We need better funder-side reporting. Contributor.

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