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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups.

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Upp wants to add more broccoli to the plant-protein mix using big automation

TechCrunch

based agtech startup that’s using computer vision AI plus farm-sized proprietary machinery to expand crop yields. “They’ve using a depth-sensing camera with the 3D piece in it to determine the size of that head. What is automation good for?

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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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New capital fuels Purely Elizabeth’s next natural food phase

TechCrunch

As Stein, CEO, worked with clients, she saw the need for specialized foods, like gluten-free, and what started as a side project — a blueberry muffin mix — was the catalyst for Purely Elizabeth and became her first product before moving into granola, which is what the company is known for today. billion valuation.

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

TechCrunch

Startups and VC. Venture capital funds focusing on niche sectors are “in,” according to Connie , and Will Ventures is here for it. Okay, fine, have a few more: Giving birth to a new startup : “She Matters” is the name and mission of a BIPOC-focused postpartum-care startup, Andrew reports. Startup Battlefield.

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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.” That’s why Clearbanc, a startup I have covered for years, has always had a compelling pitch. That’s why Clearbanc, a startup I have covered for years, has always had a compelling pitch. It makes money through a revenue-share agreement versus an equity stake.

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Ghost Financial whips up new capital into finance tools for ghost kitchens

TechCrunch

So instead, Meyer, founder and CEO, created Ghost Financial to initially do two things: provide what he touts as “the first cash-back credit card for food and beverage inventory” and use data and technology to underwrite restaurant expansion loans and credit limits for the card. The project is backed by Kelli Jones of Sixty8 Capital.