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Nigerian founders-turn-investors are now running syndicate funds

TechCrunch

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. “There’s a massive early-stage funding gap for African startups.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Capita3 : co-founded by Pamela York and Sara Russick with a focus on early-stage venture capital fund investing in women startup founders in innovative health sectors such as digital health, telehealth, health tech, human health, genomics and bioIT, food-as-medicine, and other health sectors. Secretary of Commerce.

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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history.

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AM Ventures extrudes $100M to support industrial 3D printing

TechCrunch

million financing into the ultra-high-resolution 3D printing company that can print finely enough to aid in semiconductor and display manufacturing. . The fund’s LPs include family offices, asset managers, enterprises and small businesses, along with existing portfolio startup founders. The firm led the $9.5

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

Dropbox is expected to IPO in 2015 at a valuation exceeding $10 Billion. It is like a 3 month boot camp for startups. Ycombinator brings in the most successful startup founders to share their experiences building startups. They got their initial funding of $1.2M Imagine that multiplied by a hundred or a thousand.

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Extra Crunch roundup: China’s new data privacy law, fractional farming, debt vs. equity

TechCrunch

Now that the world has embraced remote work, are visas as critical for startup founders who want to succeed in the United States? Many potential founders are well-versed in startup economics — and many are completely green. Last year, startups based in Southeast Asia raised more than $8.2

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Upfront Ventures Raises > $650 Million for Startups and Returns > $600 Million to LPs

Both Sides of the Table

When we get involved in Seed investments we usually represent 60–80% in one of the first institutional rounds of capital, we almost always take board seats and then we serve these founders over the course of a decade or longer. That was a question I had been asked by LPs in 2015 when we began our Early Growth program.

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