David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence. The Centech is one of Canada’s most successful business incubators, dedicated to deeptech companies with high growth potential.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Investment terms will be discussed with final candidates, the form says. The company has invested in solo founders before their companies ever existed, but this program appears to be a more formal effort to bring folks into entrepreneurship. Notably, there is no mention of a diversity mandate or focus.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

The nonprofit P33 launched the program in partnership with Verizon and 1871, a private business incubator and technology hub, among others, with the goals “of narrowing the wealth gap in Chicago, generating thousands of tech-related jobs and giving $5 million in grant funding to Black and Latino entrepreneurs,” according to the Chicago Sun Times.

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Forward Cities

JANUARY 30, 2020

Q: What is your deeper ‘why’ behind your commitment/work to support inclusive entrepreneurship in Kansas City? . It is extremely vital to me and my team that we ‘even the playing field’ and create even more opportunities and invest in these neglected and underserved areas that are still impacted by past corruption.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 16, 2022

Bringing the direct experience of Impact Hub’s 24,000+ community members and practising social entrepreneurship around the globe, we delivered our concerns to the European Commission when the new Action Plan for the Social Economy was being drawn up.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

“The climate-oriented investment in Biden’s new plan would be roughly ten times what came through ARRA,” wrote Shayle Kann, a partner with the investment firm, Energy Impact Partners. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She is also principal of Broadway Realty, investing in, and repurposing, historic properties. Change begins with the acknowledgement that a very small fraction of the venture capital that flows to deals in Oklahoma, or nationally for that matter, is invested in women-owned businesses. How can a decade have flown by!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

These days, investing goes way beyond the stock market. And in recent years there’s been a growing number of startups which aim to give more people access to a wider array of investment opportunities. Former E*TRADE CEO Mitch Caplan, of Tarsadia Investments, led the round. These are investments that generate passive income.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Growth investors have become far more reserved when making new investments, and many are redefining how they approach valuations. The most important next step is to secure growth investment, without which many startups won’t survive. Founders must consider a new timeline for the investment process.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

“It’s a careful balance of keeping burn rate at a minimum while investing in key areas.” Crypto is altering the investing landscape for even the most disciplined VCs. With more than $32 billion invested last year, and over $11.3 Crypto is altering the investing landscape for even the most disciplined VCs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Corporate venture capital investments (CVCs) now represent more than a fifth of global venture. This approach, however, overlooks the benefits of corporate investment, especially in times of dwindling capital flows and more cautious investors. Corporate investment arms have gotten stronger.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Investment is much like dating — VCs could go for 40 coffee meetings a week with founders, but only one or two really catch their eye. Reconnect with impact investing. Boost serendipitous, strategic meetings. This kind of serendipity is much harder (almost impossible) to curate via a phone call.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

CB Insights forecasts a roughly 20% drop in total VC investments from Q1 to Q2, leaving ambitious young companies scrambling to fight for scraps. The dampened outlook for startup funding at the start of 2022 thanks to the pandemic’s lingering uncertainties has only worsened following a global market downturn and the war in Ukraine.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Meet the five winning founders from Rise of the Rest 8.0 My advice would be to pick and develop a focus in which you have competency and passion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

The Yozma Programme (Hebrew for “initiative”) from the government, in 1993, was seminal: It offered attractive tax incentives to foreign VCs in Israel and promised to double any investment with funds from the government. This will offer participating companies grants worth 40% of an investment round up to $1.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It’s all about investing in the best founders that have a unique insight and are willing to crack on those problems,” Anu Hariharan , partner at YC Continuity Fund, the accelerator’s growth stage fund, told TechCrunch. We always said YC is founded on the principles that talent is globally distributed.

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