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Launching Orange Collective: Exclusively Investing in Y Combinator Companies

David Teten VC

The team has founded 5 companies which participated in 5 graduating batches spanning from 2009 to 2017. Following our investments, our four portfolio companies raised $34M more in Tier 1 capital at an average 1.5x Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies before Demo Day. higher valuation cap.

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. VC David Sacks tweeted “?? I’m quite sure I didn’t get it all right.

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VC Corner: Marlon Nichols, Cross Culture VC

Startup Grind

Prior to co-founding CCV, Marlon was an investment director at Intel Capital where he completed his Kauffman Fellowship. We held a few closes prior to the final closed in February of 2017. When did you start your current fund? We started to invest out of our inaugural fund, Cross Culture Ventures I in April 2015.

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Moonshots, Momentum, and Legislative Tailwinds Beyond Silicon Valley

Revolution

Our findings confirmed a significant shift away from the traditional tech hubs of the Bay Area, New York City, and Boston, with the proportion of seed- and early-stage VC dollars funneling into the Bay Area falling below 30% for the first time in more than a decade. marking its highest level since 2017.

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VC meets the land of opportunity

TechCrunch

Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S. Getting a seat at the VC table. The wave of venture capital interest in geographies other than Silicon Valley has been building momentum over the past 5+ years. VC deals by region, as of June 2019.

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Microcredentials for the effective VC or private equity investor

David Teten VC

Historically VC has been an apprenticeship business. VC ASSOCIATIONS. Let’s Talk Ops , Venture Capital Operations Association – fund operations professionals. Let’s Talk Ops , Venture Capital Operations Association – fund operations professionals. National Venture Capital Association.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

billion of total venture capital. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. -based startups with “all-women teams” received just 1.9% (or around $4.5 billion) out of approximately $238.3