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Foreign investors have a bigger role to play in growing Latin America’s startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

So they’re looking to diversify their investments with high-potential opportunities abroad. Investors should bring a local strategy that makes them an asset to Latin America’s startup ecosystem. Most Latin American companies reaching unicorn status and going public now were started around 2012.

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The Venture Capital Diversity Gap and Why It Matters

StartupNation

Creating opportunities for women and minorities to grow. This passion was one that I would foster and come to utilize within the VC space in order to support women from diverse and underserved backgrounds and communities so that they wouldn’t hesitate in the face of opportunities out of fear of not feeling like they belonged.

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Karin Tsai, director of engineering at Duolingo, will be speaking at TechCrunch City Spotlight: Pittsburgh on June 29

TechCrunch

Tsai joined Duolingo in 2012 as one of its first engineers, and firsthand witnessed the growth of the company from a scrappy startup into a 400-person global business. If you’re an early-stage startup founder based in Pittsburgh, you should apply to pitch your startup ( click here to apply ).

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Golden Gate Ventures forecasts a record number of exits in Southeast Asia

TechCrunch

Despite the pandemic’s economic impact, Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem has proven to be very resilient. Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem was not immune, and had less exits, but it still did relatively well, with $8.2 SPAC opportunities. Grab to go public in the US following $40 billion SPAC deal.

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“If I never again have to read a bunch of entitled tech bros mansplaining on twitter about their way of working is the only way, I will die a happy man.” Canadian Investor Chris Neumann on Venture Vibes, Who Helped Him Along the Way, and the Qualities of a Founder Who Could Fail But He’d Back Again

Hunter Walk

500 Startups was looking to add someone with an enterprise background to their investing team, so I made the leap into venture at the start of 2017. At 500, I had the opportunity to work with early-stage founders from around the world and quickly realized that this was where I wanted to spend my time. We didn’t overthink things.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. misses an opportunity. Securities Regulation. Intellectual Property.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Around $400 billion of imports & exports pass through the LA ports each year, which set the national high-water mark in 2012.