Angel Capital Association

JUNE 28, 2023

To understand the importance of that dynamic, this article explores the 100 largest employers in the US today and breaks them into decades since their founding to reveal insights on the long-term impact of losing a generation of startups. The impact of this startup ecosystem goes well beyond the jobs created at each company.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I’ve created 15 funds in the last year alone. .

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

By: Nick Zasowski, Director at Global Startup Studio Network Startup studios are gaining steam across the angel investing landscape. As the Global Startup Studio Network (GSSN) researched last year, the early signs of studio data are just the beginning for the growing expectations. Y-Combinator: 0.5%

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

ACA also became part of the innovation ecosystem in Washington, DC, partnering with other organizations and joining White House and other Obama administration initiatives to shine a light on entrepreneurship. This letter emphasized how important patents are to startup companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 13, 2020

As a team, we are dedicated to supporting and developing the Serbian innovation ecosystem. Impact makers and innovative humans always come first. One of them are the WE Angels , leaders and mentors who represent the very backbone of our business and support us in goals such as achieving a zero-waste mindset of circular economy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

And, of course, both are home to innovation, from universities, startups and Big Tech alike. Brett Hurt is an example of a successful founder who continues to help the city’s startup scene flourish by also acting as an active angel investor. Today, Austin’s angel investing space is incredibly robust.”.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

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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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

So to find out what the startup scene in Wroclaw looks like, we spoke with local six investors, executives and founders. The country’s capital Warsaw has an angel investment scene, but founders instead often look to Germany for smaller investments because “the distance from Wroc?aw What does it lack?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem. With more support from Invest NI, the whole of Northern Ireland can be an innovation hub linked to Ireland via the startup ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. David Cohen deserves much credit for building TechStars into an internationally recognized brand name for innovation.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Most of them lose, but sometimes you invest in a “unicorn” and make 100 times your money or even more. There were no billion dollar unicorn startups. The typical tech startup would raise about $1M on a $3M valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Spain’s government is gearing up to pass the country’s first ever startup law. The process of debating and agreeing the details of this startup ecosystem support framework is expected to take between six and nine months. So — if all goes to plan — Spain will finally get a startup law before the end of this year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The real innovation was a business one, with Klarna’s young and non-technical founders, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsso, taking an old idea and reconfiguring it for the burgeoning e-commerce industry. However, what is made less explicit is that there was likely very little technology involved.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The real innovation was a business one, with Klarna’s young and non-technical founders, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsso, taking an old idea and reconfiguring it for the burgeoning e-commerce industry. However, what is made less explicit is that there was likely very little technology involved.

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