American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Head of Global Operations of The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, and the Co-Founder & COO of the Vet-Tech Startup Accelerator. “Veterans bring unmatched resilience, leadership, and mission-driven mindsets to the private sector,” said Ryan Micheletti.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

With such guardrails in place, the company may have evolved in an entirely different direction, which would have been better for both founder and investor alike (especially vs. absolute failure). It’s no coincidence that Enron happened in the late 2000s and that FTX occurred in 2022. Letting the Good Times Roll” . Theranos) is another.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2021

My question heading into 2022 is: How can the tech community sneak activation energy into startups, especially those built by historically overlooked founders, beyond capital? Don’t get me wrong, the gender gap in fundraising continues to be a blaring, embarrassing issue that venture needs to fix.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

However, by 2022 (with most pandemic restrictions in the rear view mirror and financial markets facing challenges), investors began gravitating towards perceived safe havens, as reflected in the data. Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Backed by international LPs, Southeast Asia-focused venture firms like Alpha JWC , AC Ventures and Jungle Ventures raised their largest funds yet. Indonesian venture capital firm Alpha JWC closes $433M third fund. Nium crosses $1B valuation with $200M Riverwood Capital-led round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Investors dove into financials, called customers and vetted founders. But power has now shifted toward the founders after a long run of investors holding more than half the power thanks to the commoditization of capital. The process also helps stop predatory investors from winning deals, because, well, founders talk.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It now offers more capital to chosen companies than ever and is in the process of working out how its program will operate in a post-COVID world. Like much of the venture capital landscape, Y Combinator has shrunk slightly this year. Where is Y Combinator startup-hunting in 2022? The current cohort of startups in the U.S.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

While many have gotten their burn rates way down, most startups still are losing money and will eventually need to raise capital in 2023. I believe founders and CEOS and Boards should take the pain of a new valuation (flat, down, whatever) over structure. I think web3 will behave similarly in some respects but different in others.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This week, Bill Taranto, president of Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund, wrote a TechCrunch+ article that explored six digital health trends his corporate VC fund is tracking as we enter 2022. The growing power of digital healthcare: 6 trends to watch in 2022. Here’s who we spoke to: Jonathan Martinez, founder, JMStrategy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

In EO, we celebrate the remarkable women entrepreneurs who have shattered glass ceilings and are now paying it forward to pave the way for future generations of female founders to rise. Women still only get about 2% of venture capital investment money, and we want to see that change,” said Cindy Boyd, EO Houston. “By

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

The way people fund their business has also been evolving and, in 2022, the traditional ways like angel investment and VCs will walk hand in hand with new and emerging blockchain-based options that offer loans outside the traditional banking system. Venture capital or VC. Venture capital is always an option.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 28, 2022

Here’s what I sent him: 1/ Startup = Growth by PG: [link] 2/ Competing To Win Deals by Fred Wilson: [link] pic.twitter.com/q7GG2k7UAX — Semil (@semil) March 27, 2022. So I am reposting it below: The venture capital business is highly competitive. Not this one. So you might as well play the game that way from the start.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 31, 2022

We use this public charity to put together syndicates of donors and raise more capital for our projects than would be possible on our own. It reminds me very much of the way early-stage venture capital works. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — May 30, 2022 Joseph Tainter: The Collapse of Complex Societies (Book Review).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Shanea Leven is co-founder and CEO of CodeSee , a developer platform that helps developers and development teams better understand codebases. Raising money is catastrophically challenging for female founders, and even harder for Black female founders.”. Women are still behind. There are also some amazing female angels and VCs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For the first time, the sector attracted over 1,100 unique investors in 2022, which in turn resulted in a record fundraising haul of $6.5 Having 1,000 active investors is not enough,” said Stephen Deng, founder and partner of DFS Lab. “We billion, according to data from Partech.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

This round is about seizing the opportunities ahead for our next phase of growth, including driving innovation with new products, exploring acquisitions, and ensuring long-term financial flexibility, said Immad Akhund, co-founder and CEO of Mercury. Since its last funding round, Mercury has expanded its capabilities in notable ways.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on October 3, 2022. The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2022

We started 2022 on a relatively high note. Venture capital was still readily available. valuation after ‘a nearly 10x’ YoY increase in revenue : The corporate spend startup had doubled its valuation from August 2021 to March 2022. Mega rounds were still taking place! Decacorns were born. and it wasn’t pretty.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

But 2022 was the year when this “spending” slowed and was instead more widely rebranded and accepted as actually being “borrowing.” These conditions are not conducive to inducing confidence for investors or founders. Against this background, we formed our annual review of European edtech activity for 2022.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Probably not and 10x (May 2022) seems more in line with the historical trend (actually 10x is still high). What is a VC To Do? I can’t speak for every VC, obviously.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Here’s a look at just some of the ways early-stage founders can learn to build, grow and fund their startups at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Check out everything SBF 200 founders receive and apply to the SBF 200 today ! Word to the budget-wise: don’t miss out on early-bird savings. PT and save up to $1,300.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

So In May 2020, he teamed up with fellow Digital Ocean co-founders Mitch Wainer and Ben Uretsky to startup Welcome Homes , a New York City-based company that offers people a way to design and build new homes online. DigitalOcean’s other two co-founders Jesse Mauro and Marc Hartman are advisors to the company).

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Register “Young musicians today treat music-making kind of like playing video games,” says PoChang Wu, co-founder of OurSong, an NFT-based platform for music collection and community building. Then in 2022, global markets took a huge hit, and the once booming NFT / crypto space transformed into a bloody battlefield.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Around €354 million worth of unlicensed medical cannabis will be sold in Europe in 2022, according to market intelligence firm Prohibition Partners , and this number is expected to rise to around €2.3 Yoni Meyer , partner, Casa Verde Capital. Viken Douzdjian , managing partner and co-founder, Argonautic Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

This builds on AV’s ten-year track record of $200M of investments made into female founders and CEOs, across healthcare, consumer, cybersecurity, fintech, and more. Most notable are the 100+ AV portfolio companies founded solely by females and the other 245 having had at least one female founder and/or CEO.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Justin Overdorff , partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners. Addie Lerner , founder and managing partner, Avid Ventures. David Jegen , managing partner, F-Prime Capital. Jay Ganatra , co-founder and managing partner, Infinity Ventures. Michael Gilroy , general partner and co-head of fintech, Coatue.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Where are you seeing more interest from investors and founders — residential or commercial? Where are you looking for opportunities in construction tech in Q3 2022? Are you open to backing founders who don’t have experience in the industry? Nikitas Koutoupes, managing director, Insight Partners.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market? He is also the GP of the 500 Fintech fund.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2023

Notifi founder and CEO Paul Kim falls in the latter camp. “Some believe that everything has to be decentralized and Web3-native from the get-go. In January 2022, only six months after dipping his toes into Web3, he founded Web3 communication service, Notifi.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. Local investors — and founders — stepped up their game.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. There were no ground rules other than to specify that ‘people’ could be founders, politicians, LPs, etc and that it would be default attributed but anonymous if they desired. All money is green.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The startup told TechCrunch that it will use the funding to enter Ghana and Egypt by the end of the first quarter of 2022, and other additional markets in Francophone, East and Southern Africa by the close of the same year. Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In Australia, we’ve seen similar growth, with the number of businesses owned by women increasing to over 35 percent in 2022. As an example, only 3 percent of venture capital funding went to all-female-founded startups in 2022.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

Priyanka Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Live Green Co , a Chilean food tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to suggest plant-based alternatives for meat and artificial additives in food. Here are five things green founders should remember when seeking VC funding at this moment. Priyanka Srinivas. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2022

Gumroad’s Sahil Lavingia broke into the venture world as one of the early testers of the rolling fund, an AngelList product that allows investors to raise capital on a subscription-like basis. Fast-forward to 2022 and a lot has changed. The number of pitches from founders looking to raise. That was in 2020.

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