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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

based startups with “all-women teams” received just 1.9% (or around $4.5 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.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures Focus on Cash While the headlines in 2020 & 2021 touted many massive fundraising events and heady valuations, we believed that for savvy investors it also represented an opportunity for real financial gains. In short, In Venture Capital, Size Matters Size matters for a few reasons.

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How May Ph.D. Startup Founders Build for the Long term?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

American universities, however, decreased their reliance on full-time tenured or tenure-track staff, from 45% in 1975 to 29% in 2015. Tech itself becomes more complex and more appealing to research-minded founders. Startup Founders Build for the Long term? How May Ph.D.

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With founders hailing from Colombian unicorn Rappi, payments startup Yuno raises $10M from a16z and LatAm VCs

TechCrunch

Silicon Valley-based A16z provided an initial investment for Yuno as part of the firm’s program for fintech startup founders. Despite its only recent inception, the concept behind Yuno came to Ortega as early as 2015 when he helped start Rappi. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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Colorado-based SpringTime Ventures pivots its focus for new $25 million fund

TechCrunch

Blomstedt told TechCrunch that he originally got the idea for SpringTime after moving to Colorado in 2015 after a career in the energy business in Texas. He started attending happy hours to get to know people in his new community and met a bunch of startup founders who all shared the same problem. Blomstedt saw an opportunity.

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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. Syndicate leads are often experienced angel investors or successful startup founders.

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Upsie’s direct-to-consumer swing at the warranty space nets $18.2M

TechCrunch

Upsie , a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2 million in a Series A round led by True Ventures. . Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. Bethea’s background is not the same as a “typical” startup founder, which also was viewed as an advantage by True Ventures. “He

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