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Startup Business Funding: 5 Business-Breaking Misconceptions

Dream It

Being self-sustainable has given us a new perspective on startup funding, especially compared to what I experienced on my first accelerator run. 4- Any startup can raise venture capital I've also seen a misconception on business types, versus their ability to raise venture capital. The plan-sort of worked.

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Sketchy wants to replace boring textbooks with ‘Pixar-like’ videos

TechCrunch

To charge this growth and break into new content verticals, Sketchy is taking venture capital on for the first time in its seven-year history. Today, some of those shares were sold in a secondary transaction Reach Capital, which now accounts for $3 million of the financing. The story. We’ve always been there and been growing.”.

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The Midwest’s Top Female Founders to Watch in 2021

StartupNation

Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. In the third quarter of 2020, venture capital funding for female founders dropped to a three-year low. She’s also the founder and CEO of Middle Third, a boutique consultancy focused on mobility strategy.

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A decade of fintech failures: 4 innovations that didn’t live up to the hype

TechCrunch

Grant Easterbrook Contributor Share on Twitter Grant Easterbrook is a fintech consultant based in Amsterdam. But lost in all of the celebration of success and the billions of dollars in venture capital funding are the ideas that did not succeed. Screenshot of buy/sell/hold recommendations on FutureAdvisor from 2013.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

billion of total venture capital. List of 60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms The following includes venture funds founded by women or those that have a focus on funding women-founded or gender-mixed startups and early-stage companies. According to the PitchBook data, in 2022 U.S.-based

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Big Cabal Media, parent company of TechCabal and Zikoko, raises $2.3M seed funding

TechCrunch

However, for all their effort and importance to the tech ecosystem, raising significant venture capital seemed elusive to startups in Africa’s digital media landscape that rely on grants and personal funding to scale. BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013.

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