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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

Fostering these entrepreneurs and the economies they impact is a direct result of ACA’s mission to fuel the success of angel investor community. ACA’s Four Pillars: Bringing ACA’s Mission to Life Community Networking The heartbeat of our community networking pillar is our diversity, equity, and inclusion effort.

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To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean

TechCrunch

In particular, the philanthropic community is just starting to recognize that there is an urgent need to support efforts to develop ocean-based climate solutions. The urgency of the climate crisis has kept passionate funders and entrepreneurs engaged in the development of solutions regardless of the state of the economy.

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A Future Worth Creating: Fiscal Year Recap and Vision for Tomorrow

Angel Capital Association

The future of our economies and our communities is at stake. We are grappling with healthcare challenges, irreversibly disrupted industries, millions of underemployed workers, and devastating racial and gender inequities. We will grow the angel investor community by expanding our strategic work in four key areas: Community Networking.

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

Angel Capital Association

With war, inflation, supply chain disruption, epidemics and the end of nearly free capital, the twelve-year party ended in 2022. The sharp reversal in 2022 from bubble to sober economics is well illustrated by Pitchbook’s index(1) of how founder or investor friendly the investing climate is. And did we see lower returns in 2022?

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

TechCrunch

All Raise, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the footprint of women founders and funders, has released its annual report for 2020. Here’s what to know: Ryan Hoover and Vedika Jain announced Weekend Fund 3, which will include a $1 million community raise. Sydney Thomas is coming to judge startups at Disrupt. million in funding.

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Regulators appear to be growing increasingly wary of banks and fintech startups getting too cozy

TechCrunch

On the fintech front, she and Anita Ramaswamy did a deep dive on the related companies in the cohort, noting that “ one-fifth of the accelerator’s Summer 2022 batch , which spans 240 companies, is working on solving issues in the financial space. You can read more on that here. TC’s Christine Hall covered its recent $5 million raise here.

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Empowering Web3 Communities and Revolutionizing Fan Engagement: Meet Manuela Seve, CEO of Alphaa.io

Jason Malki

She has been a thought-leader in tech for the past 8 years, her newsletter has 25k subscribers, she was named one of Bloomberg’s 100 Influential Latinos of 2022 , and she has spoken at numerous panels including at TechCrunch Disrupt, L’Attitude, NFT NYC, and a16z’s Google’s demo day at LA Tech Week 2023. The alphaa.io