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Black Innovation Alliance, Village Capital team up to support founders of color

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Resource’s “ESO Accelerator” will train startup ecosystem leaders on how to build a more financially sustainable organization, as well as help connect them to potential funders. Resource is supported by a national coalition of funders committed to supporting entrepreneurs of color.

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5 questions emerging managers should ask before selecting LPs

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In order to make those investments, venture firms must first have the money, which means they’re not only just the funders, they’re fundraisers, too. But that image is only one part of venture capital.

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Cast.ai nabs $7.7M seed to remove barriers between public clouds

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million seed round from TA Ventures, DNX, Florida Funders and other unnamed angels to keep building on that idea. Frayman has been involved with multiple startups including Cujo.ai , a consumer firewall startup that participated in TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in New York in 2016. That’s what Cast.ai The round closed in June.

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Atomic-backed Jumpcut uses data to advance diversity in film

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He was a founder of Yodle, which was acquired by web.com for $340 million in 2016. ” Once a creator is identified by Jumpcut, they can A/B test their ideas with audiences of over 100,000 potential viewers, which helps the company prove to funders through data science that these ideas can sell.

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

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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. Quona Capital and Kinea Ventures co-led the round.

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

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The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen steadily in the city since 2016, according to Northen Ireland’s Department for the Economy.

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

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Specifically, we need to be tracking as metrics: (i) the number of first institutional round venture deals, (ii) the demographics of the founders of those companies and (iii) the composition of the funders on an annual cohort basis. From 2012-2016, this number hovered around 20% and, in the mid- to late 2010s, the number was in the mid-teens.

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