Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

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. THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

As a partner at Wing Venture Capital, Zach Dewitt focuses on early-stage investments in transformative enterprise technologies. After winning the 2013 TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off , I decided to drop out of business school to pursue my startup full time. As many founders can attest, the startup journey can be lonely at times.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? .

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Register Transport Capital , a globally-recognised investment management and advisory firm focused on the maritime and aviation industries, has launched its new venture capital arm named TC Ventures. TC Ventures invites founders around the world who are seeking to disrupt and reimagine the maritime and aviation industries to connect.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 25, 2023

Tomas is a business speaker and the founder of InCorp Vietnam (formerly Cekindo) , a market entry consulting firm that also provides business process outsourcing. In addition, the country is home to some of the world’s biggest names in finance, risk management, insurance brokering, offshore insurance, and captive insurance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Alternative investments are having a moment. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

To help the finance sector meet those demands, an Amsterdam-based startup called Fourthline has built a set of AI-based solutions to help with identity verification, help businesses comply with anti-money laundering rules and more. “We’ve invested a lot to do this.” At least not right now.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments. What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. David Teten.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Ben Doherty and Zachary Maurais, former founders of the delivery app Favor, launched Sunroom in May 2018 with the mission of “boosting the profitability” of mid-size property managers and apartment owners by giving them a way to outsource their leasing operations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Stacked , a web-based platform that provides passive investment tools for retail investors interested in crypto, just announced it raised a $35 million Series A co-led by Alameda Research , a crypto trading firm owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. Investments are made in high-growth companies with women leaders, following their successful completion of the firm’s Expert Sift process.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Derek Zanutto is a general partner at CapitalG , Alphabet’s independent growth fund, where he invests in data, security and SaaS-based enterprise software. It was 2013, and I’d been camping out in Uber’s San Francisco offices for weeks. Despite our valuation concerns, we ended up making the investment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Robinhood launched a decade ago as a stock trading and investing app. During that time, it’s become a retail investment behemoth — but not without its share of controversy, including the GameStop trade freeze of 2021 and two rounds of layoffs last year. Prior to Robinhood, Tenev started two finance companies in New York City.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff speaks with Angela Barbash, CEO of Ypsilanti-based company Revalue, about how she helps individuals make for-profit investments that have a positive impact on society. Angela: We provide financial planning and investment management and research and due diligence services for value driven investors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach. What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Founded by Sheel Mohnot and Jake Gibson in November of 2019, San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures ( BTV ) has allocated $150 million to invest in startups at the pre-seed and seed stages. It has also reserved $75 million for an opportunity fund for follow-on investments. The personal finance company went public last year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Valour, a Zug, Switzerland-based issuer of investment products, brought in Biggs, the former Private Banking Global Head of Innovation for HSBC, as CEO after recently launching Bitcoin Zero , a fee-free, digital asset ETP product that trades on the NGM stock exchange.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

There’s no simple test to determine which aspiring founder can turn their idea into a billion-dollar business, but VCs who know which questions to ask can uncover the right mindset, says Sanjay Reddy, a co-founding partner at Unlock Venture Partners. Do you have control over your finances, both personal and business?” “How

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Investors involved in the merger have committed $415 million in PIPE financing. Created in 2013, the company originally wanted to create a mainstream bitcoin payment platform. From the day we founded the company three years ago we’ve focused on trying to build a new consumer finance company. at the time.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

million Series A financing led by i2E Management Company Inc., with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. iMCI) is a private, for profit investment and fund management company operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of i2E, Inc. . – September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc., About PhotoniCare.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) led Fundbox’s Series D financing, which brings the company’s total equity raised to $410 million since its 2013 inception. Since the company launched its first product in 2013, it has “connected with” over 325,000 small businesses and transacted over $2.5

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Founders Coop

AUGUST 7, 2018

With Aviel’s announcement last week, and a new website up at Founder’s Co-op reflecting our new partnership, I thought it was a good time to revisit the themes from my 2013 keynote at the Geekwire Awards: Turtles and Flywheels. Seattle in 2013 was a different place. Founders’ Co-op has grown along with Seattle.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services. If they win, we win,” said Sebastián Núñez Castro, CEO and co-founder of Geopagos.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

Founded in 2013 (or 2014 depending on the source), the Chicago-based company has raised over $82 million in funding over its lifetime from investors such as FinTech Collective and Oak HC/FT , according to Crunchbase. ” The move is an interesting one as the investment giant has for years been strategically scooping up fintech companies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Abraaj bought Vine Pharmacy in 2013 when it was the largest pharmacy chain in Uganda. We are buying out the stake that Abraaj held,” mPharma co-founder and CEO Gregory Rockson told TechCrunch. s development finance institution, last year. and Daniel Vasella, ex-CEO and chairman of Novartis; both are members of the board.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

million pre-seed funding it has raised from the Founders Factory Africa, FrontEnd Ventures, Adaverse, Gullit, Five35, Renew Capital, Changecom, XA Network, Ajim Capital, Artha Ventures, Daba Finance, Google Black Founders Fund, and several angel investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

billion, figures provided to us by CEO and co-founder Markus Villig. Last year alone it invested $22 billion in companies, it said. For example, it has also invested money into CurrencyCloud , Remitly , CompareAsiaGroup and Kreditech , among others. “We billion, based on a 1.5x multiple on GMV of €3.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

I have talked at great length with the founders of Brex and Ramp in the past, as well as the individual in charge of that segment within TripActions. Image Credits: Ramp co-founders Karim Atiyeh and Eric Glyman. So will Ramp end up buying Pluto like Brex bought Weav , the Israeli company it had invested in just months prior?

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Tiger Global Management, Battery Ventures, Zeev Ventures, 01 Advisors as well as existing backers Norwest Venture Partners and Citi Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings the New York-based company’s valuation to over $1 billion. With the latest round, HoneyBook has now raised $215 million since its 2013 inception.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. It wasn’t a bad year, though. African startups nearly raised $1.5 billion and $2.8

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment? Mr. Eazi (founder of Empawa Africa and investor in PawaPay). Europe and globally. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

The products are currently under development, however, the plan is to also lend to bigger businesses in the agri-value chain, as the company expands its reach from micro-sellers, who have been their target market since launch in 2013. Fintechs in Africa continue to overshadow all other startups in funding gained.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Brian Dally, a former mobile network exec, and Nick Bhargava, a co-author of the bipartisan JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act, founded Groundfloor in 2013. Groundfloor’s platform offers investments in real estate debt to its 150,000+ users, with a minimum investment of $10. in convertible notes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new funding, mPharma co-founder and CEO Gregory Rockson told TechCrunch, will be used to build the startup’s data infrastructure, triple its talent pool over the next three years and support expansion plans in its current and new markets. ’s development arm CDC Group, Breyer Capital and Golden Palm Investments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

By 2013 it would be bankrupt and one of the many casualties of the first wave of cleantech investing. In 2013, there were 220,000 electric vehicles on roads, according to data from Statista , a number which had grown to 4.8 Bacon, founder of the multibillion-dollar hedge fund, Moore Capital Management. million by 2019.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Alisee de Tonnac is co-founder and co-CEO of Seedstars , a Swiss-based group with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. There is an unmet need of $260 billion to $320 billion for women-owned company funding, according to a 2013 study conducted by the International Finance Corporation.

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