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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 billion) out of approximately $238.3

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Ghost Financial whips up new capital into finance tools for ghost kitchens

TechCrunch

When Keto Kitchen had good sales in the first quarter, Meyer went to the bank to ask for expansion financing and recalled the banker asking him what a ghost kitchen was. That told him there was an opportunity for a data-driven financing tool for these types of restaurants. The project is backed by Kelli Jones of Sixty8 Capital.

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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

Both Sides of the Table

It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. So VCs made fewer investments at lower prices and generally on terms that were more favorable to investors relative to 2015. Baidu alone raised $3.2

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Architect Capital brings alternative capital to the early stage with new $100M fund

TechCrunch

Early-stage startups are increasingly looking for alternative ways to access capital, meaning not every company wants to raise money from VCs or take on debt. Specifically, the new firm aims to provide non-dilutive or less-dilutive financing options to asset-rich fintech, e-commerce and SaaS companies in the U.S.

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The oh-so-biased branding risk in venture capital

TechCrunch

One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias in venture capital has been a branding issue for some of the emerging, diverse fund managers just now splashing onto the scene. I interviewed the past and present guard over at Kapor Capital.

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Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment

TechCrunch

Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. More recently, we have seen numerous new investment models and financing instruments, including shared earnings agreements and point-of-sale capital.

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Egyptian fintech Paymob raises $50M led by PayPal Ventures and Kora Capital

TechCrunch

PayPal Ventures, the global corporate venture arm of PayPal, New-York-based venture capital Kora Capital, and London-based Clay Point led the round. These different options include bank cards, mobile wallets, QR payments, bank cards’ installments, BNPL, and consumer finance payment options.

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