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Subscription carbon offsetting platform Ecologi hits $8M total raised, includes General Catalyst

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startup Ecologi , which uses the funds to plant 1 million trees every 10 days in places like Africa and Latin America, as well as doing things like protecting peatlands in Indonesia. In April, Ecologi closed a seed investment round of $5.75 million from lead investor General Catalyst, with and Entrée Capital. million (£4.05

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Marie Ekeland launches 2050, a new fund with radically ambitious, long-term goals

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But it’s not your average French VC fund as it’s going to be an evergreen fund focused on building a better world. If you’re not familiar with Marie Ekeland, she used to be an investor at French VC firm Elaia. More recently, she co-founded Daphni , her own VC firm. The idea is that there shouldn’t be any time frame pressure.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

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But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. Andreas Iten , partner, F10.

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The Anatomy of a Pitch

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The drop off rate depends on each fund’s specific selection and rejection criteria, brand, team size, deal flow quality, volume, and the stage in a VC fund’s life cycle. Based on this distribution only a handful of companies raise 80% of total funding, and one or two outliers return 2/3 of the fund’s capital. They are mythically rare.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

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The simple fact of the matter is that most startups seeking angel or vc capital just don’t receive it—and that’s just anywhere. My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. You know what—it’s supposed to work like that! I was there, too.

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Pixxel closes $7.3M seed round and unveils commercial hyperspectral imaging product

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million seed round, including newly committed capital from Techstars, Omnivore VC and more. LA and Bangalore-based space startup Pixxel has closed a $7.3 The company has also announced a new product focus: Hyperspectral imaging. Standard multispectral imaging (left) vs. hyperspectral imaging (right) Credit: EPFL.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

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It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies. Three companies from the Studiomates community-- Sherpaa , Tinybop , and Editorially --received VC dollars in 2012. via Brownstoner. Barclays Center.