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.
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. They’re apparently everywhere. And it is easy to understand why this perception persists. Their rationale was simple.
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FundersClub
JUNE 12, 2017
So how is Funders Club different than other VCs? There's actually a lot of other things that we look for specifically we look for technology enabled businesses, technology differentiated businesses, and so we often will gravitate toward teams who have that competency in house. Everything that will go wrong, will in fact go wrong.
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. Okra simply enables developers and businesses to build personalized digital financial service products. as yesterday!
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