Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 29, 2020

Personally, my challenges have included the lack of, or limited access to, quality entrepreneurial tools and resources, and difficulty accessing business loans and capital, which has forced me to bootstrap my entrepreneurial ventures. Being a woman in leadership is a never-ending uphill battle — one that I continue to persevere through.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Long before that, the company engaged in anti-competitive practices and antagonized critics, especially female journalists like Sarah Lacy, who called out years of the company’s toxic issues as early 2014. It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely. I continue to emphasize that as an investor today. VC David Sacks tweeted “??

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2024

Charting the Path to Success in Tech Investing: An Exclusive Interview with GoAhead Ventures’ Founding Trio GoAhead Ventures (“GoAhead”) is a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm founded by three Stanford graduates: Takeshi “TK” Mori, Clancey Stahr and Phil Brady (the “Managing Partners”). How did you break into tech investing?

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Mathilde Collin, co-founder and CEO at Front, a customer communication platform, is known for her values-driven leadership style and for championing top-down radical transparency. Since founding the company in 2014, Collin has raised more than $138 million in venture capital funding, including a $65 million Series D round last month.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Period, full-stop.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Through ACA’s strong and experienced public policy leadership team, ACA has been able to gain more diverse voices as both investors and entrepreneurs. In 2014, then-House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) began to pursue updates to the tax code that would streamline the code and better reflect the majority’s priorities.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Participants of this program gain access to capital and operational resources. Founded in 2014, the family-owned business operates dispensaries rooted in a patient-centric approach. At the leadership level, 38% of management is female, and 44% identify as a member of a minority community. The fund provides two phases of support.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

If you track the global AI race, you’d be forgiven for thinking that there are only two nations fighting for leadership. Angular divides venture capital activity into two buckets that are useful for broad comparisons. China issue.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

It plans to use the capital to expand its international footprint and make acquisitions, it said. Aquiline Capital Partners, a new backer, led the investment, with previous investors Barclays, Chrysalis Investments, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, DWS, and Natixis Investment Managers also participating.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Existing backers also participated in the round, including Foundation Capital and Mountain Nazca. Looking ahead, Jüsto plans to use its new capital to expand across Mexico and Latin America as a whole, enhancing its last-mile logistics infrastructure and marketing initiatives.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The fund is targeting $250 million and has raised 65% of that capital so far, mostly from limited partners who invested in ACV’s previous funds. Founded in 2014, ACV’s portfolio now has over 120 investments in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia. Half of ACV’s leadership team are women and across its portfolio that figure is 40%.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Mixpanel was a hot startup in 2014 when it nabbed a $65 million Series B on an $865 million valuation, a sizable B round and valuation for those days. billion valuation from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities. Today, seven years after that announcement, the company finally has a C round, a $200 million investment on a $1.05

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2019

By Manny Padda, the founder of New Avenue Capital and an EO Vancouver member. Contrary to popular theories, leadership isn’t about whether someone is introverted or extroverted, an idealist or a pragmatist, or even whether they have a gold-plated resumé. Manny Padda has been an EO Vancouver member since 2014. Sh*t happens.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

investors Princeville Capital and Woodline Partners, as well as JIC Venture Growth Investments, Green Co-Invest Investment, and Yamauchi-No.10 Existing investors participating in this round included ACA Investments and SMBC Venture Capital. in 2014 and expanded its local news footprint early last year. 10 Family Office in Japan.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Filevine , a startup offering a software-as-a-service product for legal case management, today announced that it closed a $108 million series D round led by StepStone Group with participation from Golub Capital and existing investors Signal Peak Ventures and Meritech Capital. software-as-a-service market.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Zingtree was founded in 2014 to make business information actionable for teams so that agents could quickly make decisions during complex service calls. The company is the latest in the customer service sector to attract venture capital. The new investment brings the company’s total funding to $18.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

For some companies, that’s led to a disconnect between lower-level employees and leadership, the latter of whom are generally skeptical of remote work. ” Launched in 2014, Robin began as a conference room scheduling app. Thanks to the pandemic, teams are more distributed than ever.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In 2014, Østhus faced this problem of feature management at Finn, the company where he was working. He sees this as a leadership challenge, and to hold them accountable, they report to the board on a monthly basis on how well they are doing from a candidate pipeline perspective. So in his spare time, he started working on a solution.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. But by 2014 much had started to change. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. She joined Mesa Global where she is doing both venture capital and investment banking.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

However, Tiger Global limited its activity in Africa from 2009 to 2014. And the bets from Tiger Global — and other investors such as Goldman Sachs, which backed Jumia in 2014, and Kinnevik AB, a Swedish firm that invested in IROKO and Konga — was that they would become big winners in the next 10 years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Image Credits: Sesamm Founded out of Paris in 2014, Sesamm has amassed a fairly impressive roster of clients from across the financial realm specifically, including U.S. Sesamm said that it’s planning to use its fresh capital to expand further into the U.S. ” Example ESG dashboard produced through Sesamm. and Asian markets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

. “When we were getting started, what we were doing was very similar to other VC firms: We were trying to do some thought leadership, do some grassroots marketing around the Stanford campus; that kind of stuff. ” 4 problems venture capital can’t solve COVID changed investing for a lot of firms.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Out of the images collected with the WingtraOne drone Investors in Wingtra’s Series B in aerial mobility fund DiamondStream Partners, EquityPitcher Ventures, Verve Ventures, Ace & Company, the European Innovation Council Fund (EIC Fund), Ace & Company and Spring Mountain Capital Founder John L.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

The following September in 2014 the company received a $3.6 This week, Onboard Dynamics was awarded the prestigious Luis Villalobos Award for Technology, which recognizes the most ingenious and innovative idea recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association (ACA.) They recently closed a $2.5M million to date.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. Buying that time and capital paid off, as Microsoft recently announced it would purchase GitHub for $7.5B. Satya strikes again. 4/ “Readjust Your Comps” With GitHub price at $7.5B

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

A spokesperson told me via email that specifically, the Truist Foundry will work on “building software solutions that drive value and market leadership for the bank.” Quona Capital sinking $332M into startups focused on financial inclusion. Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 4, 2023

First Move has a backing of venture capital firm 500 Global and in collaboration with the Consumer Tech Angel Syndicate, a close-knit group of experienced founders and executives in the consumer space. Neoh’s involvement with Prenetics dates back to 2014, when he became its initial angel investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

And not enough capital embracing these moonshots. Leadership over backbenchers? I wish I had 20% of her confidence, focus and leadership skills at 25. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. When breakthroughs of the type he has in mind are pursued, it is “not really being driven by any fundamental technical advance.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. What She’s Learned, And What You Can Learn From Her. We had overlapping circles and then became friends.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That was my mindset in 2014 as my co-founder Lee Silverstone and I started Gymtrack, a startup that lets gym members automatically track their workouts. The capital requirements were lower, and the customer value was clearer. Image: Author Startups are supposed to be about an innate drive to change the world. But not for me.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

It provides funding to such businesses to address any existing gaps when it comes to real estate and how possible it is for these businesses to access capital. 10) Backstage Capital. Backstage Capital is one of the most famous funding sources, particularly in the tech industry. 19) Harlem Capital Partners.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Godot, for the uninitiated, is a cross-platform game engine first released under an open source license back in 2014, though its initial development pre-dates that by several years. Today, Godot claims some 1,500 contributors, and is considered one of the world’s top open source projects by various metrics. Distributed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. It also has a strong baseline infrastructure for operating businesses with primarily foreign capital. We were able to bridge that lack of capital using a technology solution. They then share the profit with investors.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

In order for Uber to serve everyone it is critical that Uber not only achieve price leadership, but that the company continually search for new ways to deliver transportation at lower and lower price points. Of course, Uber is not the first company to choose a corporate strategy of price leadership. What is UberPool?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2016

Nowhere is this truer than in the IT security industry, especially in the aftermath of 2014’s endless string of high-profile network security breaches at the tech security company, Blue Coat, for example. Under Bain Capital, Blue Coat has continued to expand by recently acquiring the security startup, Elastica, for US$280 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

capital in recent months. Janet Coyle, managing director of business growth at London’s official publicity arm London & Partners, told TechCrunch that there are various financial perks that might appeal to overseas companies looking to establish a base in the capital. Cross-border investments. Indeed, despite its U.K.-domiciled

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

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. And in 2020, we actually saw a backward trend for female founders that’s preventing some really great breakthroughs.

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