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Citi backs Crowdz, a Pipe competitor that just raised $10M for its blockchain-powered invoice financing marketplace

TechCrunch

That player, Crowdz , recently secured $10 million in financing co-led by Citi and Dutch growth equity firm Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Ventures and Augment Ventures. That experience led the pair to start Crowdz, and they bootstrapped the company for its first five years.

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4 Startup Myths That Hold Innovation Back (and How to Overcome Them)

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businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007 to 2014). At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. The economists who conducted the study analyzed administrative government data on the founders of all U.S.

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Spotter raises $200M to invest $1 billion into YouTubers’ back catalogs

TechCrunch

Funders across these three rounds include Access Industries, HighPost Capital, CoVenture, GPS Partners and Crossbeam Venture Partners. Before founding Spotter, DeBevoise was an executive at Machinima, where he worked between 2006 and 2014, per LinkedIn. Not every creator economy startup is built for creators.

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4 Startup Myths That Hold Innovation Back (and How to Overcome Them)

StartupNation

businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007 to 2014). At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. The economists who conducted the study analyzed administrative government data on the founders of all U.S.

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Silicon Valley is a surprisingly clubby ecosystem: FC's Alex Mittal

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Venture capital investing offers different challenges than those associated with tech entrepreneurship, but Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of FundersClub, approached the sphere of venture capital the same way he did as a tech founder previously: is there a better way to do this? There are a lot of inefficiencies in VC.

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