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How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds

David Teten VC

You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . Thank you to my co-author for this essay, Paulina Symala, a Consultant at Oliver Wyman and a past intern of Versatile VC. Expert Networks.

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How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020

TechCrunch

While most African pre-seed investments in 2020 went to fintech, there were exceptions, including Egyptian edtech startup Zedny, which raised $1.2 Yele Bademosi, who runs Microtraction , a West African early-stage VC firm, is the CEO of Bundle Africa , a Nigerian-based crypto-exchange startup that raised $450,000 in April 2020. .

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Kenya’s Uncover raises $1M to expand skincare product enterprise across Africa

TechCrunch

The new funding brings the total amount raised by Uncover, since launch in 2020, to $1.225 million. Uncover was launched after incubation at Antler. Uncover is scaling its operations in Kenya and expanding to Nigeria in January. Lee is an economist turned filmmaker.

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ChargerHelp co-founder, CEO Kameale C. Terry is heading to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021

TechCrunch

founded in January 2020 by Kameale C. she joined the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, where she developed a first-of-its-kind EV Network Technician Training Curriculum. Thousands of electric vehicle charging stations will be built around the country over the next decade. ChargerHelp! After Terry quit her job to start ChargerHelp!,

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 2

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Her thesis entitled “Towards an Ecosystem Approach to the Strategy and Performance of Incubators” received two Best Dissertation in Management and Entrepreneurship Awards. She co-supervises a PhD thesis on “Incubator Sourcing and Performance: An Ecosystem Approach”. Need a keynote speaker, a consultant, or a friendly chat?

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8 founders, leaders highlight fintech and deep tech as Bristol’s top sectors

TechCrunch

The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. cities made up a fifth of the top 20 European cities, with names such as Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh and Cambridge rising to the fore in 2020. city for tech investment.

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Top Grand Rapids Startups to Watch in 2022

StartupNation

Not only do they work in business development, market placement, and research to help develop solutions for the food service industry, but they also run their own startup incubator! Because the original idea that won $20,000 in startup funding from Grand Rapids incubator Start Garden was to provide this software tool to lawn companies.