Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. At this time I can tell you that the Brits definitely didn’t have a culture of failure. Failure in startups seems to now be embedded in startup communities like NY and LA. I’m absolutely certain it is critical to any startup community.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

How the Accredited Investor Definition Unfairly Limits Investment Access for the Non-wealthy and the Need for Reform * WATCH THE HEARING NOW, BEGINNING AT MIN 10 * Early this morning, the Subcommittee on Capital Markets held a hearing entitled “Sophistication or Discrimination? February 8, 2023 - Sophistication or Discrimination?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

How can influencers raise capital for companies or funds, without running afoul of restrictions on “general solicitation”? The 2012 bipartisan JOBS Act was supposed to empower funds and individuals to raise capital more openly: to publicly advertise their track record and what they’re selling, just like almost every other industry.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture Capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial). At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. Private Equity.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

The National Science Foundation Awarded a major grant to connect early stage capital to DeepTech innovations. This project is designed to better educate the early stage investor community on the benefits of Deep Tech investments with the intention of increasing the amount of private capital available for deployment in the Deep Tech sector.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . I run PEVCTech , a community focused on this area. Linkedin : Versatile Venture Capital / David Teten personal. Price was definitely a consideration. Some firms (e.g.,

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 13, 2023

The move should restore confidence and keep startups solvent and their employees employed, but there likely will be some longer-lasting psychological effects relating to capital risk that we should all be on the lookout for. ACA will continue to follow and support the angel community and communicate as appropriate as changes occur.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We dive deeper into the definition in our 2022 Annual Report. Louis, Missouri stands as a major hub for the agricultural sector, shaped by its advantageous location, academic institutions, industrial presence, and capital availability. Internally, we’ve begun using the term “founder-market-geography fit” to describe this idea.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s Never Been More Important to Understand Your Capital Provider’s Business Model [Charles Hudson/Precursor] – Charles is just a wonderful human and his posts about venture capital are essential for anyone who considers themselves part of the startup community.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Homebrew: Venture capital is no longer as opaque as it was 10 years ago, but a lot of what gets shared is pro-VC content marketing more than the real day-to-day reality. Of course I knew that wasn’t the whole picture, but there were definitely some things I needed to adjust to. On top of all this, I was settling into San Francisco.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

The DX event is so powerful because of the networking quality among the MyEO DX community. Our goal is to protect and retain the EO community of trust and respect so we can enjoy our “EO instimacy” at the event. You’ll be surrounded by very knowledgeable EO member investors, and you’ll definitely learn from them.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g., Family office investments increased by 5x , and corporate venture investments rose 6x , thus opening new capital avenues for founders who found it difficult to raise capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

The past few months have hit the startup community where it hurts — the balance sheet. With inflation rates at record highs, a recession on the horizon and threats of a long winter by venture capital giants like SoftBank , VC money is becoming harder to come by. ”

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 6, 2023

For Immediate Release 2023 Angel Funders Report Released Overland Park, KS (December 6, 2023) – The Angel Capital Association (ACA) has released the Angel Funders Report for 2023. The AFR continues to be the definitive source of angel investing in North America. Visit us online at angelcapitalassociation.org.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2023

I know now that I am a competent man, worthy of love and support, a person who gives back to his community and is capable of leading a team toward success. Betting on myself A few years ago, I divested myself of all of my businesses to go all-in on what would eventually become Popsmith , investing millions of my own capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Or that venture capital is a meritocracy? I’ve backed multiple Black founders and entrepreneurs from the LGBTQ community and so I’ve seen a very wide mix of founders pitch, get funded and get passed on. We know what the racial and gender wealth disparity looks like: This is a lesson taught to be by Jewel from Collab Capital.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The real super power of ecosystem mapping is how the mapping process and the actual map are used by the community as a catalyst to collaboratively strengthen the ecosystem. Most obviously, ecosystem maps can serve as a resource guide for entrepreneurs in the community. There are many benefits to ecosystem mapping.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For Black founders, who have rarely received more than 1% of total venture capital invested in startups, 2022 wasn’t kind, and 2023 doesn’t look promising given how things are going. I am keeping an eye on the economy and how it affects the speed of deploying capital to founders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome Tech , which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s Its efforts are initially primarily focused on the Hispanic community in the U.S. To not serve this community is a major failure.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Adetola Olatunji is a Columbia Business School MBA candidate, investor (formerly of New Profit and Kapor Capital), startup advisor and VC Fellow at BBG Ventures in NYC. Sharlene Guiriba is an MBA and MPP candidate at the University of Chicago and VC Fellow at Harlem Capital primarily focused on web3 and fintech. Michelle Dhansinghani.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of $2.7 Danggeun Market, which already launched its global version of hyperlocal community app Karrot in the U.K. for providing hyperlocalized community service.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

However, the investor community also recognizes that there’s still a long way to go and a slew of opportunities left to tap. “We We are slowly building a more durable capital base for African tech. We definitely noticed deals were happening slower,” said Karima El Hakim, country director of Plug and Play Egypt. “A

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

For years there has been a pervasive opinion across the entrepreneurial landscape that the US has a shortage of capital required to startup and grow new ventures. But, what evidence do we have of this shortage of capital? Let’s take a closer look at trends in government grants, angel investment and venture capital financings.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

The crypto community is tight-knit, so incentivizing repeat purchases from customers is often a key driver behind success. “Right now, there are just too many NFT projects and not enough utility [to NFT holders],” Brandon Bryant, a partner at venture firm Harlem Capital, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

billion crypto fund, Arianna Simpson is very focused on how to return that capital and much more to the firm’s limited partners. The community on there is really incredible and often one of the first places where really exciting new projects are surfaced. How did you first come across this digital horse racing business?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

They announced on Monday, November 14, the signing of definitive agreements that will allow KKR to participate as the lead investor in the $48 million Series C funding round. Other participants are existing investors MDI Ventures , GGV Capital and Telkomsel Mitra Inovasi, and new investors including Singtel Innov8.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The Series E was led by Insight Partners , the venture capital firm known for its ScaleUp program to help tech companies accelerate their growth. We had been speaking with them for years, so when they asked if we would consider raising, we agreed it was definitely worth exploring.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 9, 2023

The Radical Fund operates under the Utopia Capital Management (UCM) group, supporting more than 130 startups in emerging markets. The fund seeks startups that have the potential to deliver both scaled commercial returns and positive climate outcomes for the local and regional communities they serve.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Capitalism… is hard.” We realized we needed to do an education solution, because for education our technology is definitely good enough,” he continued. Image Credits: SLAIT School “We actively communicate with users and try to find the best prices and economic model that makes subscription plans affordable.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

“Together is spearheading AI’s ‘Linux moment’ by providing an open ecosystem across compute and best in class foundation models,” Lux Capital’s Brandon Reeves told TechCrunch via email. The number of open source models both from community groups and large labs grows by the day , practically.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Today, the startup, founded in 2017, announced it has raised $11 million in Series A funding, led by AC Ventures (ACV) with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Skystar Capital. Reku recently appointed Jesse Choi, a former private equity investor at Bain Capital, as COO. Reku’s team.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The round, which brings Vercel’s total funding to $131 million, was led by GGV Capital, with participation from existing investors Accel, Bedrock Capital, CRV, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks Capital, GV, 8VC, Flex Capital, Latacora, Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global, as well as new investor SV Angel.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

We’ve seen that remote and flexible working definitely helps us just attract more women to come work with us. While there’s definitely a lot more we can do, we are quite happy at the pace at which we are able to hire women, especially around the world, and not just in India,” he said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Intudo founding partners Patrick Yip and Eddy Chan launched the firm in June 2017 as the first Indonesia-only venture capital firm, with a debut fund of $10 million. One-third of the deals from Intudo’s first two funds were sourced from universities and the tech community in the United States. Series B round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Definitely in the top 7. Cashing in on the generative AI frenzy : In Kyle ’s second top story of the day, Fixie, backed by $17 million in venture capital, wants to make it easier for companies to build on top of language models. CEOs only : Natasha M writes that Hampton is tech’s new membership community for chief executive officers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S. She is also the co-founder of Build In SE , a community of founders, funders and ecosystem partners committed to company building in the Southeast (#BuildInSE). and Canada. More posts by this contributor. And yet, here we are.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Corruption is, by definition, fraudulent or dishonest conduct of power. Who is in your community to uplift you? If you have worked your way up, sometimes you have found that it can be lonely and you may not have the community to help provide solutions to fight against corruption. Who is in your sphere of influence?

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