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Brazil’s Monkey nabs $6M Series A for financial marketplace

TechCrunch

The São Paulo-based startup was founded in 2016 by a trio that includes former Citi investment banker Gustavo Müller, Bruno Oliveira (who worked in strategic planning for Telefonica) and Felipe Adorno, an ex-senior developer for Netshoes and Infracommerce. Typically these have been relationships between one bank and a buyer.

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Why Have Early Stage Valuations Remained Surprisingly High?

Angel Capital Association

Also in 2016, valuations in the $3-6 million range comprised 42% of funding, yet by 2023 that has dropped to 10%. Those micro VC funds need to be invested or they will have to return the capital, hence valuations are bid up. There may not be enough institutional memory to bring more discipline to negotiations over valuation.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Non-Dilutive Financing: Everything You Need to Know. Congratulations! Skoll Foundation. Summit Fellows.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Non-Dilutive Financing: Everything You Need to Know. Congratulations! Skoll Foundation. Summit Fellows.

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

TechCrunch

If our ultimate objective is to understand the current state of opportunity and its expansion over time, we need to, in the words of John Doerr , measure what matters : representation in early-stage financing. From 2012-2016, this number hovered around 20% and, in the mid- to late 2010s, the number was in the mid-teens. compared to 1.4x

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