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5 questions emerging managers should ask before selecting LPs

TechCrunch

When most people think of venture capitalists, they often think of investors, the people writing checks to fund startups. But that image is only one part of venture capital. To find the right investors, you first need to consider LPs’ investment criteria. As a result, capital can be concentrated in certain areas.

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

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

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

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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% From 2012-2016, this number hovered around 20% and, in the mid- to late 2010s, the number was in the mid-teens. from 2016 to 2021, 1.4x from 2011 to 2016 and 3.8x Mimi Aboubaker.

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Freightify lands $2.5M to make rate management easier for freight forwarders

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million in pre-Series A funding led by Nordic Eye Venture Capital, with participation from Tradeworks VC, Venture Catalysts, 9Unicorns and Blume Funders Fund. The company was founded in 2016 by Raghavendran Viswanathan, its chief executive officer. The startup announced today it has raised $2.5

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