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

Angel Capital Association

This year, our incoming board chair launched a brand-new angel investing podcast called Angels Live – giving us a great platform for bringing our community together with powerful interviews and discussions about the future of angel investing.

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Are SAFE’s Truly Everywhere? The Role of SAFEs in Angel-Stage Deals

Angel Capital Association

Y/C helped enable this by introducing the Post-Money SAFE in 2018, fixing some of the more egregious problems with SAFEs, principally the lack of transparency about valuations when multiple SAFEs convert to equity. To answer this question, let’s first identify the stage at which angels most commonly invest.

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How do you attract family offices and other large investors to your direct investing platform?

David Teten VC

I’ve been meeting lately with more and more family offices interested in investing directly into companies, in lieu of via funds. Same goes for SMB investment sites like Honeycomb Credit , The SMBX , and Worthy Bonds (business owners often fund others) and Prosper or Sofi (many funders have borrowed themselves).”.

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How to Find a Job as a VC Scout: Compensation and Which Firms Are Recruiting

David Teten VC

Versatile VC runs a no-cost community for founders in transition, “ Founders Next Move “ We have collected a wide range of resources for founders who may be considering launching a new company ; angel investing/becoming a VC ; buying a company ; joining boards ; consulting ; serving as an interim executive , or just getting a job.

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

TechCrunch

The pitches range from building the Square for micro-merchants in Latin America to creating a way to angel invest in your favorite athlete.” You can read more on that here. And in case you missed it, last week, I wrote about a similar company called Landa.

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6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021

TechCrunch

That’s why women founders are encouraged to transition into angel or VC investing to increase the number of women-led startups that get investments. Oh yes, I plan to make angel investments exclusively to female founders as soon ?as It enables us to progress towards our goal to educate the next billion learners.

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