Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. Entertainers could be on tour, shooting a film, or recording an album.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Hershenson also serves on the board of trustees of Harvey Mudd College and on the Advisory Council of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. With over 20 years of leadership and entrepreneurial experience in technology and media, Jim Lanzone has a proven track record of driving growth and innovation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Boampong founded the Ghanaian fintech in 2019 and is one of Africa’s well-known serial entrepreneurs after co-launching OMG Digital , a YC-backed Ghanaian media startup, in 2016. million in equity from Insight Partners, Global Founders Capital, 4DX Ventures and ASK Capital, among others. Kinyua assumes the role of interim CEO.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 31, 2023

million in its pre-Seed funding round, backed by Global Founders Capital , MS&AD, 468 Capital, and 1982 Ventures. Launched in August 2022, Hybr1d offers a comprehensive solution for businesses to optimize their HR and IT processes, from onboarding to employee off-boarding.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 23, 2023

January 20, 2023 - ACA Leadership met with Commissioner Hester Peirce of the SEC to talk about the accredited investor definition, QSBS, and what success looks like in a thriving startup ecosystem. Joining the ACA Chair and CEO were past and present leadership of RTP Capital Associates, The Launch Place and First Flight Venture Center.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 7, 2023

Faye Sahai is Founding Managing Partner at Telosity Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in digital wellness and mental health. You can find the market guide at [link] How can our readers follow you on social media? I had the pleasure of interviewing Faye Sahai, Founding Managing Partner at Telosity Ventures.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 23, 2024

I love seeing founders mature in their leadership, finding themselves in the process. I will keep all my board seats and companies, and I’ll be there to help any of my partners, but I’m going to step back and spend some time forming theses for my next chapter. I love seeing a startup grow from a dream to a global phenomenon.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We sincerely appreciate the many contributions our Angel Capital Association (ACA) members, Angel Groups and other donors have made and continue to make to the Seed the Future (STF) Campaign. Under Dannielle’s leadership, ACA’s frequency and quality of social media and other communications, especially using video, has exploded.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The round also included continuing and new participation from Aperture Venture Capital, BootstrapLabs, Breyer Capital, Duke Capital Partners, Good Growth Capital, Omnimed Capital, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, and others. For more information, or to request a demo, visit pryon.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. Media relationships. He had made some structural mistakes in NextMedium that meant the Cap Table and leadership team was a bit wacky.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 10, 2022

Register Regional insurtech firm Igloo announced that it has raised $19 million in Series B funding led by Cathay Innovation, a global venture capital firm, with participation from ACA and other existing investors including Openspace. said Rajive Keshup, Director for Cathay Innovation in Southeast Asia and board member.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

.” When I suggested that publishers and journalists may be leery about relying too much on a third-party platform to reach their audience, Zheng argued that News Break’s incentives are very different from the big internet and social media platforms. IDG Capital also participated. “We are local-centric,” he said.”If

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Today the company officially announced its most recent round of capital ?—?having Because Bird was first to market, extremely innovative, quick to hire talented leadership and an experienced founder it was able to raise $125 million in an extraordinarily short period of time. having raised $300 million?—?less There is nothing viral!

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Forward Cities

MARCH 10, 2024

The program is designed to increase connectivity, counseling services, and capital access for underrepresented entrepreneurs in Durham/Durham County, NC. Overview The Program Director will lead the E3 (Equity for Every Entrepreneur) Durham program. This role reports to the Senior Director of Programs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

In another case, the company uncovered fraudsters using Telegram , a social media site, to make services available, such as food delivery, with stolen credentials. The company plans to use its new capital primarily to expand its product portfolio and to scale its product, engineering and sales teams.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Fellow founder and co-CEO Josh Mangel will temporarily assume the role of chief executive while Hurst leads the search and subsequent transition in leadership with the help of a global executive recruitment firm. CTO and co-founder Zain Allarakhia will remain on the board and serve as a senior advisor to the company.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Be in the room when three of the brightest early-stage crypto startups take the stage in front of a live audience — for glory, for media and investor interest, and, drumroll please, for an automatic spot in the Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2023. Prior to founding NexTravel, Lam worked with startups in leadership roles.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Michaela Villaroman is the Media Relations Coordinator for Seedstars. A survey of women from 350 tech startups reinforced this: 72% of women respondents said that they faced difficulty attaining financial capital when they were starting their businesses and nearly 80% of them had to rely on personal funding. Michaela Villaroman.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

I'm peripherally more aware of more sources of capital and what they like then I ever have been. This is thanks to my participation in social media. Here are five things that I think angel groups should take a look at, because I do think they can continue to play an active role going forward: 1) Industry Leadership.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Future, Andreessen Horowitz’s formal foray into tech media, is shutting down less than two years after first launching, according to Business Insider. We often think about the webs of venture capital in a conflict of interest type aperture — and there’s more to come on that angle in the weeks to come. Enter the latest.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

million in Series A funding in a round led by Equity Venture Partners and that included existing investors Carthona Capital and a group of angel investors. The company has 60 employees, up from 20 last year, and Taylor expects to add 40 more in the next year, including rounding out its leadership team with a head of product.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

Let’s Talk Ops , Venture Capital Operations Association – fund operations professionals. National Venture Capital Association. New York Venture Capital Association. Capria , Recast Capital – fund of funds. NVCA Venture Capital University. Wharton Executive Education Venture Capital program.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

” It was meant both as a call to those writing angel checks into other people’s companies that they ought to think about putting that capital toward themselves either by becoming a startup founder or (and this was my real point) by taking an under-market salary in a company where they can learn the right skills to do it in the future.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 3, 2019

The plan was to secure other people’s money—whether venture capital, friends or family—to get the business (the ideas) started. Getting help from business partners, boards of directors or investors is always going to be loaded, as they have a vested interest in the decisions and advice they give. So where does an entrepreneur go?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

TaskHuman , a professional development platform focused on coaching, today announced that it raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Madrona with participation from Impact Venture Capital, RingCentral Ventures, Sure Ventures, USVP, Gaingels, PeopleTech Angels, Propel(x) and Zoom Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

During his 20-year career, Todd has been involved in financing and building over 150 venture and growth-stage companies in the media, consumer, technology, education and healthcare sectors. Today, companies of all sizes are being held to a higher standard by consumers, employees, potential partners and the media.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

They developed targeted social media advertising and e-mails, which led to a more precise understanding about who would likely become future customers. The result will also be a halo effect on your advisers, board members and current and future investors. Companywide revenues dropped considerably due to the pandemic.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Learn leadership and management skills, so you don’t waste valuable time on employee churn and the hiring process. Mike Calhoun, founder and CEO of Board of Advisors ; connect with Mike on Facebook and LinkedIn. That’s a sign of strong leadership. Copyright © 2020 Entrepreneur Media, Inc. They ignore their finances.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

But through media depictions of male leadership, stories and culture, we have, for the most part, been socialized to more easily trust a white male persona, so when it comes to early-stage investing, this concept of trust is quite insidious. of venture capital is invested into them. ” No one did in either case.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Phylicia Koh, vice president at early-stage gaming venture capital firm Play Ventures , said effective fundraising is not only essential for securing necessary capital but also for demonstrating the commitment and resilience of the founding team. Another common mistake founders make when raising capital is mishandling equity.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane? And not enough capital embracing these moonshots. Leadership over backbenchers? I wish I had 20% of her confidence, focus and leadership skills at 25. Working on it. And being ambitious.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

billion pool of capital to work by backing early-stage web3 companies. with Vanessa Larco (NEA), Kanyi Maqubela (Kindred Ventures), Jordan Nof (Tusk Venture Partners), Bryan Offutt (Index Ventures) and Ulili Onovakpuri (Kapor Capital). Hear from these newly installed execs about what their leadership means for OnlyFans.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

It also has a strong baseline infrastructure for operating businesses with primarily foreign capital. A lot of the groundwork was already there and we were able to come in and operate as a connector where there are inefficiencies, and a lack of capital. We were able to bridge that lack of capital using a technology solution.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

The round is being led by Lakestar and Tiger Global, with previous backers Index Ventures and Thrive Capital also participating. I’m very proud to be joining the board of a European company with its sights set on a truly global opportunity.”. “We

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. But a casual coffee with Emily Weiss on the eve of my last day at Social Capital ultimately changed those plans.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. These are all creative processes. That’s a shame.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Unfortunately, the venture capital scene is embarrassingly backward in terms of diversity, and women and ethnic minorities are shockingly underrepresented among investment decision-makers. Beware the cult of venture capital Every industry has their Gods?—?the including 75% of those who manage to secure venture capital funding.

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