TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Electrical engineers have been designing custom circuit boards on computers for years, but this approach simply moved the paper and pencil method to digital. Jitx , a startup from three Berkeley alumni, recognized that the digital approach to board design hadn’t changed much and they saw an opening. Image Credits: Jitx.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. Ten years on much has changed.
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Angel Capital Association
APRIL 30, 2023
Y Combinator, a leading incubator, invented the original (pre-money) SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) in 2013 to provide an easy, fast and cheap way to fund the dozens of startups comprising a Y/C batch. This has recently and amply been demonstrated by the reappearance of Boards and serious governance as critical deal terms.
TechCrunch
MARCH 15, 2022
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. I would say the biggest challenge I faced was getting a lead investor on board, especially because insurtech wasn’t seen as exciting as it is now.
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