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Influence Meets Innovation: How Founders and Cultural Leaders Can Work Together

Andreessen Horowitz

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. The benefits of founder x cultural leader partnerships work both ways. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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NJEDA Establishes Diversity Finance Advisory Board

American Entrepreneurship

Board will work to increase capital to minority-owned startups, create diverse innovation economy WOODBRIDGE, N.J. The board will provide knowledge, guidance, and insights on ways to best increase capital, access, and investments in New Jersey’s diverse entrepreneurs. Harmon, Sr.,

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Jitx wants to change the way engineers design circuit boards using code

TechCrunch

Electrical engineers have been designing custom circuit boards on computers for years, but this approach simply moved the paper and pencil method to digital. Jitx , a startup from three Berkeley alumni, recognized that the digital approach to board design hadn’t changed much and they saw an opening. Image Credits: Jitx.

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Educate, Empower, Support: EO Women Entrepreneurs Are Leading the Way

Entrepreneurs' Organization

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. We’ve helped our portfolio companies with introductions with potential customers, board members, key employees, and advisors.”

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Visual collaboration company Miro valued at $17.5B following $400M in new funding

TechCrunch

CEO Khusid told TechCrunch he considers the company a “pioneer of visual collaboration,” with its early days as a digital whiteboard. Andrey Khusid, co-founder and CEO of Miro. Visual collaboration is something that allows teams in companies to better be on the same page. Image Credits: Andrey Khusid.

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Best practices for Zoom board meetings at early-stage startups

TechCrunch

Issac Roth is a seasoned entrepreneur who advises founders on open-source technology and keeping communities engaged. Board meetings are quickly increasing in their significance to foster consistent and vital interactions as an organization. Remember the board works for you, so be sure to put them to work. Isaac Roth.

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Hex scores $52M Series B to grow data science collaboration platform

TechCrunch

Hex has been moving briskly along its startup evolutionary path with its data science collaboration platform growing at a rapid pace, so much so the company attracted the attention of fundraising mega-firm Andreessen Horowitz and a pair of key industry strategic investors, Snowflake and Databricks. All of these people can come into Hex.