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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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TravelPerk’s breakout Business Platform gains $104M led by Softbank Vision Fund 2

American Entrepreneurship

Another high-growth digital platform gains a significant amount of follow-on funding with the announcement by TravelPerk that it has secured over $100 million as an extension of the Series D-1 raised in January 2022. TravelPerk was co-founded in 2015 by a highly seasoned entrepreneurial innovation team.

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

TechCrunch

Founders and investors have a growing appreciation for the ocean’s potential as a resource for renewable energy and its capacity to buffer and even solve some of the climate problem. Fernandez, founder and CEO, Sustainable Ocean Alliance (Seabird Ventures) Climate change is the elephant in the room. We spoke with: Daniela V.

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SureImpact wins the TC City Spotlight: Columbus Pitch-Off

TechCrunch

Winning a free exhibition space at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 and a spot in TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 , the Ohio-based company pitched alongside Skuld and Healia Health on TechCrunch Live earlier today. Special thanks to the wonderful judges and the founders who took the stage with fire and pitch mastery.

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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. Did we do fewer deals?

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

TechCrunch

As an early-stage reporter, I honestly bet a lot on the potential of a savvy edtech founder or creative marketplace play. All Raise, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the footprint of women founders and funders, has released its annual report for 2020. Founders who don’t properly vet VCs set up both parties for failure.

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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. I left out a company! Until then, take good care!!

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