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

TechCrunch

. “We are convinced that startups will continue to be key in providing the innovation required to finally bring the digital world to the real world, and that they will help produce industrial goods in a sustainable manner and thus strengthen supply chains and tackle climate change.”. We did our first investment in January 2015.

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

Dropbox is expected to IPO in 2015 at a valuation exceeding $10 Billion. Why do startups join the Ycombinator program? 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

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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? Last year, startups based in Southeast Asia raised more than $8.2 billion, a 4x increase from 2015. Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: YC Demo Day faves, thrift shop VCs, cybersecurity product challenges

TechCrunch

Since Etsy went public in 2015, companies like Poshmark, The RealReal and thredUP followed suit, attracting even more investors to the sector. As a result, “the average Black founder raises less than around $1,000 from family and friends,” reports Dominic-Madori Davis. Median liquid wealth for a Black family in the U.S.

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Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India’s Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung

Y Combinator

I’m excited to have Vidit Aatrey, CEO and co-founder of Meesho, which was founded in 2015, and you went through YC in 2016. Yoday, Meesho is probably one of the hottest startups in India, if not the hottest startup. We have widows who were not able to sustain their family, feed their kids, et cetera.

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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.