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The ACA 2021 Innovation Funders Showcase Pre-Summit Kick-Off and Deeper Dive Feature Groundbreaking Companies

Angel Capital Association

Chiara Renella-Brooks, ACA Partnership Director Incredible Companies Built by Women Highlighted During the Innovation Funders Showcase Deeper Dive This year’s ninth Annual ACA Summit Innovation Funders Showcase opened ACA Summit week with many exciting new twists!

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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

In 2021, ACA launched its first formal DEI Task Force, made up of a diverse group of ACA members, board leaders, and ecosystem champions. 2021 was a year filled with more opportunities for angels to interact and learn. The Angel Funders Report is based on direct investment data solicited from all ACA member groups.

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Cast.ai nabs $7.7M seed to remove barriers between public clouds

TechCrunch

million seed round from TA Ventures, DNX, Florida Funders and other unnamed angels to keep building on that idea. The company currently has 25 employees with four new hires in the pipeline, and plans to double to 50 by the end of 2021. That’s what Cast.ai says that it can provide, and today it announced a healthy $7.7

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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

Forward Cities

25 percent or more) which can be verified in 2021 tax returns. As disruptive as COVID-19 is, new entrepreneurial opportunities will open up because of it. Evaluate the impact of these efforts, including increased access to capital, on stabilizing local entrepreneurs and small businesses across all demographics and geographic areas.

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Nth Cycle wants to revolutionize metals processing for recyclers and mine operators

TechCrunch

There, she received $500,000 in funding to scale the technology and prepare it for demonstration to private funders. Following her PhD, she was an entrepreneurial fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Innovation Crossroads, a two-year program for energy and advanced manufacturing entrepreneurs working on novel technologies.

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Angels Confront the Apocalypse: How Angels Reacted to the Great Market Inversion of 2022

Angel Capital Association

The great bull market of 2010 – 2021, fueled by cheap capital, caused a nearly unprecedented rise in the valuations of speculative assets, from real estate to angel and venture equity. By 2021 investors were paying 2x the “normal” price of early-stage deals, 4x for growth deals and 7x for late-stage deals. Did we do fewer deals?

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Emotional marketing and an e-mail titan walk into a bar

TechCrunch

Marketing in 2021 is emotional and not just transactional (2,200 words/9 minutes). All Raise, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the footprint of women founders and funders, has released its annual report for 2020. Announcing the Agenda for TC Sessions: Mobility 2021. Sydney Thomas is coming to judge startups at Disrupt.

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