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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. raised approximately $7 billion in 2021 , up 59% year over year. Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder.

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How Up.Labs threads the needle between corporate venture capital and accelerators

TechCrunch

One element of the 2021 venture capital apotheosis that doesn’t get enough attention is corporate venture capital. As with other forms of venture capital, CVC has pulled back some this year. TechCrunch covered an interesting new fund-accelerator-CVC-ish group called UP.Labs earlier this year.

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4 problems venture capital can’t solve

TechCrunch

Collin Wallace Contributor Collin Wallace is a Techstars managing director leading the Silicon Valley-based accelerator program. Would it have been better for many of them to have not taken excessive levels of venture capital in the first place? As an investor, my job is to put capital to work. billion into startups.

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What Is Going To Happen In 2021

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Happy 2021. It helps me invest and advise the companies we are invested in. Like our investing, I will get some of these right and some wrong. The Covid Pandemic will end in the developed world in 2021. The second half of 2021 will be marked by two conflicting trends. We will see it accelerate in 2021.

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The slow-burn standardization of venture capital

TechCrunch

It took me a while, but I’m realizing that my startup love language is discussing any attempts to standardize the opaque and often informal world of venture capital. There are funds that invest entirely based on data. Monique Woodard has closed $17 million for her debut fund at Cake Ventures. Talking points. Chat soon, N.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon. growth from 2020 to 2021. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x

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Changing The Face(s) of Venture Capital, Screendoor Hires Lisa Cawley, Our First Managing Director, to Scale Further

Hunter Walk

When 10 of us founded Screendoor in 2021 this was the plan. Lisa Cawley joins us from the LP side of the table, already having experience evaluating and investing in emerging managers as well as a broad set of venture models. In today’s vast venture capital landscape, it’s ALPHA!