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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

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In late 2018, the company raised $75 million Series C from Sequoia, arguably the top VC firm in the world. When covering a story of a mishandled altercation between members of The Wing that involved issues of race, Jezebel referred to The Wing as “a glossy women’s coworking space we keep having to write about.”

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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

In fact, according to the 2018 year-end report by CREtech , funding for “proptech” startups has surged with over $20 billion invested across early and late stage venture rounds in the last two years?—?quickly quickly making real estate technology one of the fastest growing venture asset classes.

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Draper Startup House launches first accelerator program, choosing Austin as its home

TechCrunch

As founder of the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, or DFJ, Draper in 2018 introduced the Startup House concept. It is now also the new home for Tim Draper’s newest initiative to help support early-stage founders: Draper Startup House Accelerator Program.

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Brazilian workspace-on-demand marketplace BeerOrCoffee snags $10M

TechCrunch

Valor Capital Group also participated in the round, which brings BeerOrCoffee’s total raised to about $13 million since its 2017 inception. Kees Koolen, the founder of Booking.com, led the startup’s seed round in 2018. The co-working networks are partners and BeerOrCoffee is an asset light company,” he said. “As

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

TechCrunch

At TAU Ventures, we have 1,000 sq. meter coworking office space where majority of our portfolio companies and accelerator program companies sit on a daily basis. Through our coworking space, we are directly investing in our local ecosystem both supporting entrepreneurs and identifying rising entrepreneurs.

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