Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Vienna, 10 November 2021 – As the Impact Hub Network continues to accelerate the transition to a more just and sustainable future, we are excited to announce an update on our leadership team. Gabriela will continue to support our Ambition 2030 as a Board Director focusing on developing partnerships and engaging in policy efforts.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

November 21, 2023) – Last week, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board approved a new $20 million pilot program to support rising real estate developers. These predevelopment costs are necessary for the developer to incur before they can seek short-term construction financing. TRENTON, N.J.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

One of the most common questions we hear from founders is “How do I manage my board?” It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. But first, what’s the purpose of a board?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2022

I’m a straight white dude who grew up in NYC and worked in finance. What’s that investor going to be like in a board meeting when you as a female founder need their support or worse, actually their vote? Would and should you take money from people who don’t align with your values—values like privacy and bodily autonomy?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. What Has Changed in Financing? Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats. Of course we can’t.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 24, 2017

Use a method similar to the SBI Feedback Tool developed by The Center for Creative Leadership. Just because you have a clear vision of your company and where you want to take it doesn’t mean that everyone else on the team is on board with it. Besides communicating that vision, in order to get them on board, you also have to live it.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2024

I want to thank Incyte’s leadership for their commitment to Delaware.” Incyte is a company with motivated leadership that is addressing complex health needs throughout the world. Incyte’s research makes a huge difference in peoples’ lives. Incyte was founded in Delaware in 2002 and has grown steadily over the last 22 years.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

That flies in the face of numerous studies that show that women-led companies tend to perform better than those with leadership that is not gender-diverse. Our senior vice president of marketing and our director of finance are both women. By 2021, the bank will look for two diverse board members. is a woman. Certainly, it does.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

We’ve helped our portfolio companies with introductions with potential customers, board members, key employees, and advisors.” “Our membership includes a wide range of skill sets, allowing us to tap into our wider network. The beauty about being a leader is that you get to create a world where you can make a difference.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Meryem Salman, EO Turkey, partner and vice chairman +partner, Finance & Insurance and founder, Buldan Foundation. This also gives me time to give back to my local community through several volunteer boards and EO. The EO Path of Leadership for both my local chapter and now region is both challenging and rewarding.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 9, 2023

To find a pace that works for you, refer to an internal, financeable rate of growth, based on your cashflow and profit. Contributed to EO by Erick Slabaugh , a long-standing member leader of EO Seattle and former director on the EO Global Board, who is a serial entrepreneur, board member and advisor. Don’t fix what isn’t broken.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2019

Start with a hard sell to get others on board. The one thing that reorganizations have going for them is that they are supported by company leadership. It’s up to product and innovation teams, however, to figure out how to channel leadership’s involvement toward the right initiatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired. everything.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Management teams, boards and shareholders have had time to adjust to the drop in valuations and will be more amenable to an acquisition at a reasonable price. This research should include target financing, capital structure, leadership and industry reputation. Acquisition criteria. Target research.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

I was the first elected president of EO and the first chairman of the Global Board. I wasn’t the first female member, but I was the first of any gender to hold these important leadership positions—and I believe that says something important about the ethos of EO and how the organization sees everybody as equal and of value.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

There’s a lot of mystique about what happens at board meetings and a lot of imagined board-room drama. The image of boards and of investors vs. founder conflicts has been so at odds with my experiences on dozens of boards over the past 20 years that I thought it was worth sharing what I actually see. That’s true.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 31, 2023

In a statement, the startup said it will use the fresh funding to finance its platform’s technology development, personnel recruitment, and geographic expansion, particularly in Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. We recently added Richard Mumby to our leadership team. What is a reasonable payback period and how quickly do we want to grow?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Meanwhile, FI senior leaders and board members are intrigued by new products like Microsoft 365 Copilot and how generative AI can automate their internal workflows (and improve their bottom lines). Taken as a whole, FIs are at an especially receptive time for greater software adoption.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Finance for Founders – Alexa von Tobel, Inspired Capital. As a founder, you not only have to master your company’s finances, you also have to tackle your own personal finances. Leadership Culture and Good Governance – David Easton, Generation Investment Management.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. These factors are proving fertile ground for establishing and growing fintechs that focus exclusively on Islamic finance, offering products and services that follow shariah law. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Besides Riverwood, edtech-focused Owl Ventures (which led its $5 million Series A round last June), Endeavor Catalyst and Roble Ventures also participated in the financing. Federico Storani, executive director of Riverwood Capital, is joining UBITS’ board as part of the financing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. “The appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as the newest member of Sima.ai’s board of directors is a strategic milestone for the company. . “Sima.ai

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 10, 2022

said Rajive Keshup, Director for Cathay Innovation in Southeast Asia and board member. He will work alongside co-founder of Igloo, Wei Zhu, who is on the company’s board of directors. We are incredibly excited for what is to come next for the team at Igloo.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The three co-founders of alternative financing startup Pipe are stepping down from their roles as executives of the company in one of the most dramatic management shake-ups seen in the fintech startup world in some time. 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 14, 2022

Generally speaking, the best way to get company leadership on board with such investments is to highlight what competitors are doing to help them understand the competitive threat. Modernizing tech infrastructure is a difficult and expensive proposition.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Collective , an all-in-one back-office finance platform for the self-employed, which has raised over $28 million in funding, is hiring for five roles across engineering, marketing and member services (tax, accounting). It’s great to see more women in leadership roles in the fintech community. It also is quite bullish on LatAm fintech.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The finance person will have the final say on what they are seeing. From there, the user can slice and dice the data into what they need for investors, board of directors and leadership teams to make data-driven decisions.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 30, 2024

However, CMS’s First State roots, history of hiring local talent and commitment to community involvement and sector leadership here helped drive its decision to continue to expand its engineering, manufacturing and sales footprint in Delaware.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I have to ask myself, “Do the company’s core leadership team and the individual people on it have the track record of success that can carry this company forward?”. Those sorts of entrepreneurs can land a fund or board in deep water if they aren’t willing or able to change. Also by Diane Yoo: The Venture Capital Diversity Gap.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

AUGUST 31, 2022

The BBIF will offer financing to innovative technology-based startups and manufacturers in the City of Bradford, Borough of Lewis Run, Bradford Township, Corydon Township, Foster Township, and Lafayette Township. It was as true at the founding of ARG as it is today that Bradford is a town worthy of investment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

She’s been an entrepreneur, served on plenty of boards, is a contributing author at Marie Clare, has been a senior advisor to Bumble and worked as a consultant in marketing, business development and more. Operations: Finance for Founders (Alexa von Tobel, Inspired Capital). Building and Leading a Sales Team (Ryan Azus, Zoom CRO).

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Hunter Walk

MAY 11, 2022

Think Of Your First Non-Investor Board Member As a Senior Hire, And Not Your IPO Board. But one gap I see too often is leaving the Independent Board member seat unfilled for long periods of time. Every company has a Board of Directors, whether it takes financing or not. Being a CEO and running a startup is hard!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Insight Partners led the financing, which included participation from Union Square Ventures and Stripes. Insight Partners Managing Director Jeff Lieberman, who is a Sift board member, said his firm initially invested in Sift in 2016 because even at that time, it was clear that online fraud was “rapidly growing.”

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2021

Within a three-month period of time, we were really able to empower our extended leadership team,” Kate explains. Kate spends about half of her time communicating and collaborating with her executive team, her extended leadership team. These are financing and data. It just needed more communication and empowerment.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. She is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma, Leadership Oklahoma City, and is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Oklahoma City. How can a decade have flown by!

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

Angela sits on the boards of the Angel Capital Association, Crowd Supply and TIE Oregon. Event Vice Chair Marcia Dawood, Mindshift Capital As a passionate board member of ACA and a venture partner within Mindshift Capital, Marcia evaluates and mentors startup companies with a clear emphasis on women-led businesses.

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