Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. The DEI Task Force has developed and published a formal ACA DEI Policy and set its strategic goals for 2022.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Zurich tends to take the lion’s share, as the city’s embrace of startups has jump-started development, although Geneva and Lausanne are also hotspots. The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Global investment group Eurazeo invested $53 million in Pangaea Holdings for a minority investment in the Los Angeles e-commerce company rooted in creating premium men’s personal care brands. Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques invested in both Pangaea’s seed round in 2019 and Series A in 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We’ve all embraced video calls, whether it is with our work colleague or our physician, but for developers, it remains a challenge to build both real-time audio and video features into products. The company provides APIs so developers can add those features into products or websites using just two lines of code. Image Credits: Daily.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. And though they are inclined to follow the money, Endeavor wants them to look beyond usual market opportunities and map out exit pathways.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Montreal-based Equisoft , an insurance and investment software developer, today announced that it raised $125 million in venture equity. It’s a large amount made more significant by the fact that the investment climate for insurtech vendors is growing increasingly challenging. billion in Q3 to $1.01 billion in Q4. $70

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

NJ Entrepreneur Support Program provides guarantees to support investments into Garden State companies TRENTON, N.J. Qualified investors under the program must be independent from the company, and the proposed investment must not mature for at least one year, cannot require payment for at least a year, and must be unsecured.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Underneath the hype, a synthesis of trends has been brewing that could create opportunities. Principal, Investments Team, OurCrowd. Goldman Sachs estimates the Metaverse to be an $8 trillion market opportunity. The post Are you ready to invest in the Metaverse? By Josh Liggett. Gaming and social media.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2023

207 Applications Approved for over $8 Million in Tax Credits to Support Investment in 28 Companies TRENTON, N.J. October 2, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) announced today that 28 emerging New Jersey technology businesses benefitted from $63.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

According to a 2020 Statista survey , 41% of executives in the automotive and transportation industry alone said their company lost $50 to $100 million due to supply chain issues, a figure which has likely climbed higher since. . Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Sources say the company raised at a slightly higher valuation than its last $110 million valuation in 2020. . This undisclosed investment is Google’s third from the $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at the continent’s early- and growth-stage startups, which the company CEO Sundar Pichai announced last October.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Facemoji is building a plug-and-play tech platform to help game and app developers put avatar systems into their apps with the startup’s SDK. They also already have a full, diverse system of avatar art that developers can lean on out of the box if they so desire. In 2020, Roblox bought Loom.ai Image Credits: Facemoji.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

APRIL 2, 2021

“Communities seeking to grow their economy need to understand the impact entrepreneurship and small business play in economic growth.” — Grow Your Own: Entrepreneurship-based Economic Development for Local Communities, Dell Gines, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Jess suggests starting with local economic development offices.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 23, 2023

The $580 million Mayfield XVII and the $375 million Mayfield Select III follow the $750 million raised by prior funds in March 2020, bringing the Firm’s total assets under management to $3 billion. The Firm invests in companies that leverage innovation in both IT and biology. Both funds became oversubscribed in a couple of weeks.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

and abroad between February and September 2020. Not everybody can do ecosystem building; it’s a talent that is developed through experience and education, connections and networking. We asked the 40+ Unsung Heroes of Ecosystem Building which skills they would invest in to become even better at what they do. Melanie Lenci.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

NJ FAST is the fourth Strategic Innovation Center in the state and will support research and development, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the Fintech and Insuretech Sectors HOBOKEN, N.J. The two entities will oversee NJ FAST’s accelerator program with an opportunity to make equity investments into select participating companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Pipo Saude , a startup that developed a platform that sells and manages healthcare benefits for Brazilian companies, has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding. Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital led the round, marking the first time the New York-based venture firm has led an investment in a Brazilian startup.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 1, 2020

Posted by Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative – YLAI on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Even for established entrepreneurs, this is an opportunity to learn and experiment. ” Your reading and listening choices can help you change your perspective and develop a new worldview. Keep walking.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

The 10-year-old startup has also developed a database of crop tests and uses artificial intelligence to provide farmers with free-of-cost personalized advisory on what they should sow in a season. The startup, which recently made its second acquisition, is also open to exploring more M&A opportunities, said DeHaat’s Shashank Kumar.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

They were not in a financial position to purchase a home in those neighborhoods (to be clear, not many people are) either for investment or to live. But what if they could invest in homes in up and coming cities throughout the U.S.? And we wanted to give people a way to invest in it like they can in stocks, via a mobile app.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

As part of the retail giant’s self-proclaimed mission to better address underrepresentation and technology inequities, the company announced today that it is investing up to $10 million in Brown Venture Group. of total funding in 2020 , according to Crunchbase data. . Black and Latin communities were the recipients of just 2.6%

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Impact Hub

APRIL 23, 2021

To open an Impact Hub, like starting any business, takes courage – even more so in 2020, the year our world changed. From England to Bangladesh via Switzerland, we spoke to some of our fearless founders who opened an Impact Hub in 2020. Impact Hub Dhaka, one of the Impact Hubs that opened in 2020. Let’s start with why.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 22, 2020

We now have over 1,000,000 searchable profiles of developers who are interested in being contacted about a job on Stack Overflow Talent. Almost a million developers found new and useful tools after seeing a company advertise on one of our sites. . Over 40,000 jobs were posted on Stack Overflow Jobs in 2019.

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EntreWorks Consulting

JULY 10, 2019

As we get closer to the 2020 election year, DC-based think tanks are starting to float big ideas on how to jumpstart the economy in our distressed regions. Third Way has recently released a plan to create a new $60 billion Opportunity Fund to encourage venture capital (VC) investments in locations outside of America’s VC hotspots.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

What the report reveals is that NYC has a rich and expanding ecosystem of tech skills training opportunities, including K-12 and adult education. Make a significant new public investment in expanding and improving New York City’s tech education and training ecosystem. . Prioritize long-term investments in K–12 computing education. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Latin Americans seeking the ability to invest in companies trading on the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange now have a new option in Vest, a startup that has launched a mobile-first brokerage app with zero-commission trading in the Americas. Financial services for investing and cash management in the U.S. Image Credits: Vest.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. New research looking into how U.K. population. In the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

But an increasing number of startups are looking to tap opportunities in developing nations, where existing centralized financial systems have struggled to meet the needs of their users. Founders Mike Sall and Blake West previously worked together at Coinbase before starting Goldfinch in July of 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most recently, Tencent invested in FJ Dynamics, a Chinese startup selling agricultural automation solutions such as smart tractors and rice transplanters as well as unmanned vehicles for ports and factories to clients around the world. — FJ Dynamics (@FJDynamics) February 26, 2020. FJD Affordable and Mass-produced Agri-robots.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2020

Ten-Nine Technologies to onboard engineering and management talent, develop prototypes, and build production facilities to supply a leading battery manufacturer – major funding provided by i2E Management Company, Inc., investing for growth in Oklahoma, as well as Oklahoma and Kansas angel investors. May 7, 2020, 09:00 US Central Time.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

He saw an opportunity to modernize an industry desperately in need of digitization by applying the power of open APIs to get at data often locked away in various enterprise systems. Nothing was really changing in spite of the significant investment. It’s just they’re our developers now, and the complement there is fairly diverse.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. In 2020, startups in the region raised over $8.2 This begs the question: Who exactly is investing in Southeast Asia? Regional VC investment grew 5.2 billion in 2020 from $1.6

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This dynamic zone will feature IR pitches for investment attraction, conducted on a dedicated stage, and thought-provoking conferences. In addition, COMEUP has introduced an online business matching program, operational year-round, to broaden investment and collaboration opportunities crucial for startup growth.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

In January 2020, the company was in discussions with Whole Foods about launching a pilot of its meals in a few stores. We will be expanding into more channels as well as launching in new stores, gaining more engagement, developing more products and going after new opportunities,” Deerman said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The new funding was led by Alkeon Capital, an American investment firm, and included participation from new investors like Korea Development Bank, and returning backers Altos Ventures and Greyhound Capital. Over the past three months, it has signed up more than 3.5 million users. As an Asian company, reaching a $7.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

It’s a great opportunity to better explain ideas, problems and design solutions.”. The last time we checked in with Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, was in 2020 when the company raised a $50 million Series B round led by Iconiq Capital. He is also looking at M&A opportunities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Today, another YC-backed startup, Afriex — but from the Summer 2020 batch — is raising a $1.2 With the new investment, the Lagos and San Francisco-based startup is looking to scale up by growing the team and expanding to other markets. SoftBank launches $100M+ Opportunity Growth Fund to invest in founders of color.

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