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VC meets the land of opportunity

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Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S. She is also the co-founder of Build In SE , a community of founders, funders and ecosystem partners committed to company building in the Southeast (#BuildInSE). Getting a seat at the VC table. and Canada.

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Spokn slurps out the BS in corporate internal comms and replaces it with audio storytelling

TechCrunch

Abu Seif and Davis met each other in an Egyptian jazz club in November 2017, about a week after he had quit his job. Outside NEA, other investors in the seed round included Reach Capital, Funders Club, Liquid2, Share Capital, SOMA Capital, Scribble VC and Hack VC. TechCrunch’s Equity podcast wins a Webby Award.

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Empowering Web3 Communities and Revolutionizing Fan Engagement: Meet Manuela Seve, CEO of Alphaa.io

Jason Malki

She holds widely attended community events and educational programming that connect women-run VCs and startups in Los Angeles — all from her home-headquarters in Venice Beach. Then in 2017, my first trip to Burning man completely changed my outlook on humanity as a whole. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. 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? 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

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. 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? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Silicon Valley is a surprisingly clubby ecosystem: FC's Alex Mittal

FundersClub

They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way. This is one of the insights that Laura Behrens Wu drew out of Mittal during a FundersClub Facebook Live discussion on March 30, 2017. These are angels and VCs.

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From ‘literally zero’ experience to $100M, this VC is raising his second climate tech seed fund

TechCrunch

But when the seed-stage VC — a backer of e-bike maker Zoomo and solar data firm PVcase — debuted with a $13.6 million fund in 2017, its focus was “obviously contrarian,” founding partner Rokas Peciulaitis told TechCrunch, as the “industries in vogue at the time were AI and Fintech.”

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