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The Venture Capital Diversity Gap and Why It Matters

StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color.

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Dan Teran shares Gutter Capital’s challenge of closing its first fund

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Gutter Capital , a New York venture capital firm, closed on $25 million in capital commitments for its first fund to invest in pre-seed and seed stage companies focused on affordability, economic mobility and climate change. It was way harder than venture capital as a founder,” Teran told TechCrunch. “I

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The challenges of LGBTQ+ entrepreneurship — and resources to help

Source Link

JULY 8, 2021

Access to venture capital and angel investment funds as an LGBTQ+ business owner is particularly difficult, a survey conducted by Chicago Booth Review and StartOut reports — and that gap of disadvantage only increases for those of marginalized gender and race.

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Your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology

TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. However, in 2019, the company realized that the challenge was a bit bigger than the founders previously anticipated. The Mexico City-based company emerges with new funding, $3.9

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One of Nigeria’s high profile angel investors is launching a fund for African startups

TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Olumide Soyombo is one of the well-known active angel investors in Nigeria tech startups and Africa at large. Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. ” Early-stage investing needs more work.

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He Believes in Angels: The Story of a Company Backed by 400 Angel Investors

Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Rob’s personal philosophy and growth strategy involves leveraging the expertise, relationships, and capital of angels around the world. Fast forward several years, and Rob leveraged his success with Evity to start Savara, using his own money and $1M from 10 angels. Every round of funding was oversubscribed.

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Mr Eazi, Black Coffee and Ajebutter22: The African music artists backing startups

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

While Mr Eazi learned the ropes of starting a company and scaling products during his time at Phonetrader, he also got to understand investment dynamics from Chika Nwobi, the founder of L5Lab and current chief executive of Decagon , an engineering talent recruitment platform, after attending several investor meetings. .

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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

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Bain Capital Ventures taps ex-Affirm exec as its newest partner to focus on early-stage fintech and commerce

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Melas-Kyriazi then started alternative lender Affirm in 2019, where she went on the “wild ride” of seeing the company grow from 400 people to over 2,000 by the time she left. It was that passion that drew her to angel investing about five years ago — and ultimately to BCV. I love working with founders at that stage.”.

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Allocations just got valued at $150M to help private equity funds lure smaller investors

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Advani started Allocations in 2019 as a response to challenges he faced in trying to set up his own investment funds and realizing that none of the tools available to him at the time could help him spin up funds quickly enough to stay competitive in the increasingly fast-paced private markets. Image Credits: Allocations.

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Standing Room Only: Why RFC is So Hot Right Now Part II

Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sage launched its first fund in 2019 and has actively evangelized for the RFC model of investment in many gatherings across the country since then. We have witnessed a steady increase in individuals and angel groups who are interested, but the appetite seems to have finally taken hold. million in 20 deals as of June 2023.

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Angel Returns Beat All Asset Classes But Pose Greater Risk

Angel Capital Association

MAY 25, 2023

Source: Morgan Stanley, Morningstar Direct and PitchBook; Tech Coast Angels Montecarlo simulation of 20,000 outcomes in a portfolio of 25 investments. Source: Morgan Stanley, Morningstar Direct and PitchBook; Tech Coast Angels Montecarlo simulation of 20,000 outcomes in a portfolio of 25 investments.

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Compound aims to be a one-stop shop for tech employees to manage their finances

TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

They wanted to track their assets and get help with investing and paying taxes, but they felt that traditional financial institutions and roboadvisors didn’t provide simple or holistic solutions tailored to people with these assets. . How much can they afford to angel invest? How do they diversify after a liquidity event?

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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

Making angel investments, raising small seed funds. Early stages are where relationships are formed, and those early investors can earn the right to invest more, block out their competitors, and other advantages. You wait the longest for liquidity. It is where most people start out.

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The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021 Part 2 • 2022 From a Startup Equity Seller’s to an Equity Buyer’s Market

Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset? Valuations have returned to “normal” (2016-2019) ranges.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. Angel investment from a former Erlang Systems sales manager, Jane Walerud, followed and she put Klarna’s founders in contact with a team of developers who helped build the first version of the platform.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. Angel investment from a former Erlang Systems sales manager, Jane Walerud, followed and she put Klarna’s founders in contact with a team of developers who helped build the first version of the platform.

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The Venture Capital Diversity Gap and Why It Matters

Dan Teran shares Gutter Capital’s challenge of closing its first fund

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The challenges of LGBTQ+ entrepreneurship — and resources to help

Your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology

One of Nigeria’s high profile angel investors is launching a fund for African startups

He Believes in Angels: The Story of a Company Backed by 400 Angel Investors

Mr Eazi, Black Coffee and Ajebutter22: The African music artists backing startups

Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

Bain Capital Ventures taps ex-Affirm exec as its newest partner to focus on early-stage fintech and commerce

Allocations just got valued at $150M to help private equity funds lure smaller investors

Standing Room Only: Why RFC is So Hot Right Now Part II

Angel Returns Beat All Asset Classes But Pose Greater Risk

Compound aims to be a one-stop shop for tech employees to manage their finances

The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021 Part 2 • 2022 From a Startup Equity Seller’s to an Equity Buyer’s Market

Making sense of Klarna

Making sense of Klarna

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