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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of audiovisual startup Chroma

TechCrunch

The company announced today that Twitter and Medium co-founder Biz Stone, previously an angel investor in Chroma alongside Pinterest’s founders, will join the company’s board of directors to contribute his expertise in areas like design, product development, filmmaking, and scaling brands. Chroma had previously raised 1.6

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Mr Eazi, Black Coffee and Ajebutter22: The African music artists backing startups

TechCrunch

“Some of the investments I’ve made in the music space have been through that mentality of seeing an artist or project as a fast-growing vehicle,” said Ajebutter22 in an interview with TechCrunch. . In 2013, he flirted with an idea for a platform that could help people pay for songs on their phones.

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6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021

TechCrunch

According to Briter Bridges , another publication that tracks VC investments in Africa, only 3% of the total funding raised by startups in Africa since 2013 has gone to all-women co-founded teams. Oh yes, I plan to make angel investments exclusively to female founders as soon ?as as yesterday! It’s a two-way street.

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Why I Angel Invest

Angel Capital Association

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?”