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Redefining ‘founder-friendly’ capital in the post-FTX era

TechCrunch

Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital , a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. For many founders in the startup community, a “founder-friendly” investor is one who stays relatively hands off. More posts by this contributor. Factor in founder friendliness.

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NJEDA Board Approves Program to Expand Access to Capital for Emerging Developers

American Entrepreneurship

The Emerging Developer Fund will help developers gain access to capital and build additional capacity to expand their existing portfolio. Access to capital for small-scale developers in the real estate development industry continues to be a challenge.

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Daily Crunch: AI content developer Jasper now valued at $1.5B following capital infusion

TechCrunch

Venture capital funds focusing on niche sectors are “in,” according to Connie , and Will Ventures is here for it. Here’s the first batch that pitched today: NXgenPort : A Saint Paul, Minnesota–based startup that’s looking to remotely monitor cancer patients in between doctor visits using a port catheter. Startups and VC. Big Tech Inc.

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How capital-as-a-service can help you get your first check in 2021

TechCrunch

“A lot of founders mix up raising money with making money.” The company, co-founded by Michele Romanow and Andrew D’Souza, positions itself as an alternative equity-free capital solution for early-stage founders. As for if a startup takes ClearAngel capital and doesn’t make the minimum revenue? Does YC care at all?

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Social AI Platform Chai reaches 100M+ Chats, Strategic CoreWeave investment announced

American Entrepreneurship

But the race is on, and the social AI platform Chai feels they are right in the mix to succeed. Those who submit a model are compared against other teams, providing a community-based evaluation method, creating an accelerating community of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Chai currently offers $1 million in cash prizes.

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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. It is about building and recreating communities. The connective thread here is the use of technology.

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Mid-Day Squares adds some sweet capital to its ‘chocolate gone crazy’ empire

TechCrunch

Lezlie Karls and Saltarelli describe themselves as introverted, and wanted to bring in someone who could help create a community. I showed them a slide of a rock band and told them this was the strategy: We are going to become a rock band, but will sell chocolate, showing the good, bad and ugly of the business using social media.

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