Red Rocket

JANUARY 29, 2025

When businesses are unclear on what the future will bring, it often results in a wait and see approach before making any material investments. based importers, hurting their ability to re-invest in their businesses (creating new jobs), and in turn hurting the U.S. It is a vicious cycle. So, lets hope that doesnt actually happen.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Trade shows + trade fairs + expos + events Get more ROI from your investment at events. But for most […] Advice Magnify Consulting Sales and Marketing Supporter Content Five other reasons your sales pipeline has slowed October 7, 2020 #nzentrepreneur So, your sales pipeline has slowed or stopped delivering altogether.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Homebrew makes investments by consensus – it works because there’s just two of us. Second, it matters to us externally that founders know it’s always Homebrew making the investment – never a situation where one of us was excited and the other one didn’t block it.

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HPA

JULY 17, 2025

HPA is excited to announce its investment in Empirical Security ’s $12 million Seed Round alongside Costanoa. This investment leverages HPA’s expertise in cybersecurity and AI to support Empirical as they scale. Alex Brown was the Founder & CEO of 10th Magnitude, which was acquired by Cognizant in 2020.

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500

JUNE 9, 2020

Supply chains have been disrupted, businesses have had to close or operate at limited capacity for months, and even founders have had to expand their fundraising timeframes as we saw in our 2020 Female Founders Data Report. The post Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19 appeared first on 500 Startups.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? Is the market under-heated, overheated or just right?

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

We can’t claim to be building inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems unless we address the lack of investment resources available to women and minority business-owners. The COVID-19 pandemic and racial injustices that were a large focus in 2020 have had a profound effect on communities and their recognition of the importance of inclusivity.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This page shows the highlights of this sale, including a video, a link to the investment deck, and a link to the offering circular. I paid $330 for ten shares (out of a total of 1000 shares) implying a value of $33,000 for the five pairs, or roughly $6600 each.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 1, 2020

My partner Rebecca wrote about our most recent education investment, Sora , on the USV blog today. We have been investing in learning for over a decade at USV and have built a terrific learning portfolio focusing on companies that are providing services direct to the learner (as opposed to selling “ed tech” to institutions).

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 28, 2020

USV TEAM POSTS: Gillian Munson — Oct 20, 2020 Our Investment in Possible Nick Grossman — Oct 20, 2020 Making Butter with Jam Albert Wenger — Oct 18, 2020 How Much Clothing is Enough? A Personal Experiment.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2025

An analysis of their investment patterns since 2020 doesn’t just reveal the accelerator’s strategy—it provides a map to the entire startup ecosystem’s next chapter. Crypto/web3 remains around 5% of investments. Cybersecurity and industrial/manufacturing are the two fastest growing categories.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy. At the same time, many investors are being more cautious with making new investments, preferring to focus on their existing portfolio before investing in new companies. It’s important to enlist the ideas of others that are invested in your venture.

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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. After all, they are invested in the success of your shared mission too. For leaders and managers of teams, Rhett suggests involving members of your team in the problem-solving process.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 7, 2021

We were in a growth year in 2020, with the most trips we had ever sold, excited about the new travelers we would meet. But in early March 2020, they were not yet common. On March 18, 2020 we launched our first virtual, interactive cooking class with my friend, Alain, who lives in Pistoia, Italy. Our revenue stopped.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If nothing else, the 2020 pandemic has shown everybody—particularly business owners and entrepreneurs—the value of being prepared and ready to pivot. We asked members of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization what they would have done differently knowing what they know now. . Andrea Grisdale, founder and CEO at IC Bellagio.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 5, 2020

This year’s IWD falls on 8 March, 2020, and its focus is #eachforequality, which recognizes that equality is not a women’s issue—rather, it’s an economic issue. Venture funds would be crazy not to examine this possibility and in turn, invest heavily in women-led businesses.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

The investment will be used for platform R&D to further enhance patient triage and symptom checking features as well as clinical decision support analysis – including intake collection, differential diagnostics and lab test interpretation – and to expand operations in Germany and the US, where Infermedica currently has one office.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

At the start of 2020, Chelle Neff is wrapping up a decade of considerable success, growth and innovation. We have five cities so far and are bringing in the Bay Area in 2020. 5000 list twice! . You opened Urban Betty in 2005 and it’s been growing ever since. Urban Betty is a Green Circle Salon.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. It wasn’t a bad year, though. African startups nearly raised $1.5 billion and $2.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

In January 2020, the pair made the fund official, with Aboyeji as general partner and Enegesi as limited partner. Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5 The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

With 85% quarter-on-quarter and 403% year-on-year enrollment growth in Q1 2020, Wellth plans to use this new capital to support rapid scaling to address larger and broader populations of patients. link] — Wellth (@wellthapp) May 6, 2020 ?Market Wellth graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2016.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Whether it’s securing investment capital, marketing a concept, recruiting new talent or leaning on peers for support and advice, having a solid network can seriously work to your benefit. If there’s one thing we’ve learned in 2020, it’s that you really can’t be overprepared. A passion for connection. Not sure how to network?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2021

At the beginning of 2020 we decided to finally kick off our GREENAMBER initiative and go public with it. We are all very excited to go even further with GREENAMBER and invest more money in carbon-reducing projects. We started 10 years ago by using only alternative energy in our offices. GREENAMBER is bonding our team even closer.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Their heightened interest is reflected not just in their demand for ESG reports but also in surging investment volumes. Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 18, 2021

We ended up doing over 200 virtual events in 2020 and finished the year with US$1M in profit?which I’ve made a lot of investments in my 20 years of business, but none as impactful as the decision to lean in and commit myself to explore the opportunities and benefits provided by EO. which is a miracle number given the circumstances.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. It is the first investment made by the U.S.-based This investment is coming two years after the company’s $6 million Series A in January 2020. The new round of funding led by General Atlantic will fuel this continued growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. And then came March 2020 and events globally were being cancelled. Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors. It’s no wonder they’ve both performed so well. And it would be?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

The seed round follows a $620,000 angel and pre-seed round BCM raised between 2016 and 2020, bringing its total funding to over $2.9 BCM said revenue last year was 4x what the company recorded in 2020 while maintaining a CAGR of 225% over the previous four years. . “We TC Events is also a significant revenue driver for the company.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The investment comes barely six months after Chipper Cash closed its first Series C round of $100 million, led by SVB Capital , the corporate venture capital arm of SVB Financial Group. Chipper Cash is FTX’s first investment in Africa and continues the plethora of signs pointing to serious crypto growth and recognition on the continent.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 17, 2020

I woke up to a dream this morning where I was playing a game that was very similar to Turntable.fm , a failed effort to create a social music experience that had a moment back in 2011 and that I had invested in via USV. Investments that don’t work haunt me. And investments that don’t work are often failures of execution.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment? Europe and globally. . based and Africa-focused mobile payments company through Zagadat Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $10 million in Series A investment. Appzone is a fintech software provider.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Local broadband providers offer greater access to achieve economic prosperity Rural economies and communities benefit from access to fiber broadband, boosting entrepreneurship, income, and business investments. Researchers analyzed data from 2020-2022, primarily post-pandemic. communities with access to basic broadband services, 3.

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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

APRIL 3, 2023

based savings and investing startup Acorns has acquired London-based GoHenry , a startup focused on providing money management and financial education services to 6- to18-year-olds in an all-equity deal, the two companies announced today. Acorns Early lets parents, guardians, family and friends easily invest in a child’s future.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2022

Between February 2020 and February 2022 in the US alone, the unemployment rate barely shifted from 5.7 They should always be balanced with as much effort, resources, and financial investment on internal talent retention and growth. The fallout from the pandemic has left companies needing to re-strategize their recruitment policies.

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