Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Safe & Secure Full secure payment environment, refund if the startup doesnt complete sufficient fundraising. View events Visit our Academy Startup Survival Guide Our Startup Survival Guide blog series helps you find investors & t.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Safe & Secure Full secure payment environment, refund if the startup doesnt complete sufficient fundraising. View events Visit our Academy Startup Survival Guide Our Startup Survival Guide blog series helps you find investors & t.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Safe & Secure Full secure payment environment, refund if the startup doesnt complete sufficient fundraising. View events Visit our Academy Startup Survival Guide Our Startup Survival Guide blog series helps you find investors & t.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Safe & Secure Full secure payment environment, refund if the startup doesnt complete sufficient fundraising. View events Visit our Academy Startup Survival Guide Our Startup Survival Guide blog series helps you find investors & t.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Safe & Secure Full secure payment environment, refund if the startup doesnt complete sufficient fundraising. View events Visit our Academy Startup Survival Guide Our Startup Survival Guide blog series helps you find investors & t.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Register Philippines-based Nila Capita l is the country’s inaugural student venture fund, officially launching with new opportunities for Gen Z startup founders. Nila Capital is capping its funding at $10,000 per round. It aims to help young founders in a vast network of fellow Gen Z entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. The venture capitalists who run these firms decide which startups today will develop the new platforms and technologies that will shape our lives tomorrow. We all live in a world shaped by venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

based startups with “all-women teams” received just 1.9% (or around $4.5 billion of total venture capital. List of 60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms The following includes venture funds founded by women or those that have a focus on funding women-founded or gender-mixed startups and early-stage companies.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. So, what exactly do those action steps look like? So, what exactly do those action steps look like? Sourcing deals.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Prior to joining Sequoia, Chen worked at Emergence Capital and McKinsey. Dave Samuel, the co-founder of Freestyle.vc. An experienced executive, serial entrepreneur and internet pioneer in software and media, Dave Samuel is co-founder of Freestyle.vc. Lo Toney, the founding managing partner at Plexo Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Jeshua’s audacious adventure unfolded during the pandemic, where he traveled to over 55 countries, joining Accelerating Asia and Decacorn Capital to dive deeper into the world of disruptive technology-led innovations. For founders opting for VC funding, swift closure of funding rounds is advised to maintain focus on product development.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

It took me a while, but I’m realizing that my startup love language is discussing any attempts to standardize the opaque and often informal world of venture capital. Or, as I covered this week, a tool for startups that lets companies simultaneously blast out the same application — or pitch — to multiple angel and pre-seed investors.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In recent years, calling oneself a startup founder was certainly seen as a flex. For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as a visionary, aided by a venture capital market that experienced an overextended bull run in the background.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

When I hear the realism that comes from founders with setback it elicits an understanding of what it takes to be successful at a startup that frankly can’t exist unless you’ve walked in those shoes before. In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is our startup sector which will drive this innovative progress. Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. To generate growth in a startup, it is almost always necessary to raise external capital to run the necessary. In order to understand startup governance, you need to understand risk and reward.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

In the past year, syndicates have been emerging as a key force for investing — and for startups seeking capital to get going — on the continent. This is because most of the capital in Africa for promising startups is typically distributed among many investors.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

They are sources of new capital, deal flow, and value-added services for portfolio companies. The membership community will be a resource base for the Women’s Fund, a women-centric network that will help source, invest in, and support top female-led startups. based startups with “all-women teams” received just 1.9% (or around $4.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

Third is a token-first structure, which has a “lean cap table” consisting of the startup founders that’s a pure placeholder on the road to a fully tokenized structure, i.e., the primary capital-raising vehicle, Matta said. Last year, about $32 billion of capital pooled into the crypto world, and this year, $11.35

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. Accel, Sequoia) give the Scout a small pool of capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. Don’t wait…the early bird gets the…SAVINGS: Buy a $249 founder pass and save $200 before prices increase on April 1 — that’s no joke. Here are just a few examples of the topics we have on tap.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Capital is a commodity. By July 2021, startup founders had raised $268.7 When cash is this plentiful, “capital is a commodity,” according to Charlie Graham-Brown, partner and chief investments officer of Seedstars, and Daniela Moreno, the firm’s investments marketing manager. Capital is a commodity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship. During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

If you are an entrepreneur, startup founder or business owner wondering how you can best structure your pitch to acquire a VC investment, I offer some insight as to what my own process looks like when selecting a particular company or entrepreneur. I always tell others to beware of uncoachable founders. Concluding remarks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

With venture investors committing to funding Black and minority founders, alongside the growing availability of government-backed proposals, such as New Jersey allocating $10 million to a seed fund for Black and Latinx startups , can we expect to see fundamental change? Realize you are up against an outdated system.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

During my career — spanning entrepreneurship, academia, arts management and venture capital — I’ve learned the importance of female leadership in contributing to successful outcomes. Let’s take specific actions that will result in more female leadership in the startup world. Hiring to improve results. We should also look in the mirror.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

The newly introduced MegaStudy-Yoonmin-Mark 2 Venture Investment Fund focuses on early-stage startups demonstrating significant growth and making notable contributions to the startup ecosystem. Kyungpyo Hong, CEO of Mark & Company, and Jihwan Cheon, Director of Yoon Minchang Investment Foundation, will lead the fund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There’s so many companies targeting startup founders and their wealth – there’s literally a new one launching every month or two all backed by big name VCs, but no one is focused on the business owner that is otherwise doing well but is not a startup founder or a startup employee,” he said.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

How the Midwest Startup and Tech Scene Boomed in 2021. It’s 2022 and already local VCs, angel investors, startup founders, incubators and accelerators, and more are pushing hard to make their startups go. WJR Business Beat Transcript. Good morning, Paul!

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

You’re part of a knowledgeable group of investors who work collaboratively to evaluate each startup and its ability to provide valuable, marketable solutions and good returns.” It’s inspiring,” says Luckhurst.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

War Stories with Founder Equity and Cap Tables Speaker: Sam Wong, CEO, Fundable Startups How the Fortune 500 Is Buying AI Software — or Not! War Stories with Founder Equity and Cap Tables Speaker: Sam Wong, CEO, Fundable Startups How the Fortune 500 Is Buying AI Software — or Not! Walker and Co.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2024

Founder, CEO Pilgrim Ja ckson The San Diego Angel Conference at USD has become the largest event-based angel conference in the country, with an active angel investor group of about 90 accredited investors who invest starting at $7,000 each. Funds are pooled, and investors work together to choose a winner and runners up each year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Though investment in food technology has slowed in line with the rest of the venture capital world, the industry recently achieved some milestones that suggest the sector and the government are moving into alignment. In fact, some investors feel that 2023 will be the year when alternative seafood companies and products make notable strides.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Alex Wilhelm uses his weekday column The Exchange to keep a close eye on “private companies, public markets and the gray space in between,” but one effort stood out: An overview of six API-based startups that were “raising capital in rapid-fire fashion” when many companies were trying to find their COVID-19 footing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

We’ve all heard success stories about schools like Harvard and Stanford churning out startup founders. Some of the research on image-generating AI models came out of the University of Maryland as well, and the quantum chip technology behind EeroQ stemmed from Michigan State University research.

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