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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S.

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Data obscures positive trends in VC dollars reaching women-founded startups

TechCrunch

In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. The rest is noise.

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Go1 nabs $100M at a $2B+ valuation to upgrade its curated enterprise learning platform

TechCrunch

The funding — which closed in May — is being co-led by AirTree Ventures and Five Sigma, with SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Salesforce Ventures, Blue Cloud Ventures, Larsen Ventures, Scott Shleifer and John Curtius from Tiger Global, TEN13, M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), Madrona Venture Group, SEEK and Y Combinator also participating.

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What is The Best Way to Explain Your Startup?

Both Sides of the Table

In 30-90 seconds you can use visuals, story-telling, music, stats and humor to get across your message. They were cute videos that often had animation and humor mixed with tech speak. And just so I’m not hypocritical, we work hard to also create a sense of what we do at Upfront Ventures. Jump the Gun. Empty Nest.

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Cameroon’s Ejara raises $2M to offer crypto and investment services in Francophone Africa

TechCrunch

While countries with currently unstable currencies like the naira are seeing immense usage, other regions using the CFA franc have sparse adoption. A region of more than 200 million people using the CFA franc, Francophone Africa is one of the most crypto-friendly markets in Africa. CoinShares Ventures and Anthemis Group led the round.

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Strapi lands $31M for its ‘headless’ CMS platform

TechCrunch

Strapi , an open source content management system (CMS), today announced that it raised $31 million in Series B funding led by CRV with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures, and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Burgy, Georget, and Laurie published Strapi on GitHub in 2015.

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Meez keeps recipes in one place so chefs can continue whipping up culinary delights

TechCrunch

CEO Josh Sharkey, a chef himself for most of his career, incorporated the New York-based technology company back in 2015. Colleagues were using everything from the standard Google or Word documents to spreadsheets, but Sharkey wanted a more digital approach. Nommi announces plans for rollout of its food bowl-making kitchen robot.

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