TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

However, while many startups exist in cities like Turin, Bologna, Naples and Rome, Milan is generally seen as a bigger ecosystem because of its mercantile culture and a significant share of VC funds. The good news: VC funding in Italy has grown. It has an estimated 67 VC funds, with 18 of them started since 2015.

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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. Getting a seat at the VC table. Annual reporting on where venture capital dollars flow supports this discrepancy, with the majority of funds being funneled into companies based in and around Silicon Valley. and Canada.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Fast forward to today, the tech-forward company spans more than 140 stores nationwide; partners regularly with chefs , artists , and cultural icons ; caters to millions of app users; and has officially debuted as a public company on the NYSE. the first a 560-square-foot shack in our backyard. As a long-standing partner?—?Revolution

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

Having spent time around and then in the world of VC in the Bay Area during the last decade, I’ve been reflecting on how different norms in the industry have changed. At the start of 2010, there was some unwritten VC industry conventions that have been tested, challenged, and upended in the last decade. That is for another post.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

That deal is quite different from what most VC funds will take on, but we believed it to be critical to the advancement of a better food system, and we pursued it. Both cities have a growing tech scene that is not yet saturated with VC firms, and each has different focuses at the core of their startup ecosystems. Louis well.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Our Black history month mention of the day is Ijeoma Oluo’s “So You Want to Talk About Race,” which Haje read last year and which served as a bit of an eye-opener to all the things he thought he knew but really didn’t about how race shows up, ranging from police brutality and cultural appropriation to the model minority myth.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 18, 2020

Music venues, movie theaters, art galleries, restaurants, performance spaces, maker spaces, conferences, festivals, and bookshops are the places we hang out in, enjoy each other, and and connect to art and culture. Kickstarter is a platform to engage your community, reward them, and encourage them to support your work.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

culture and an economy based on raw materials, Aotearoa hasn’t stood out to investors in the Asia-Pacific region, especially not when they could set their sights on larger markets in China and Southeast Asia. In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2 or Australian) VCs or the government. or Australian) VCs or the government.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As a women-led venture capital firm, SoGal Ventures’s investment philosophy revolves around identifying and supporting world-class women and diverse entrepreneurs to build billion-dollar businesses. Partnering with Elizabeth at Stanford, they addressed the stark gender imbalance and inequity in the VC industry.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 31, 2022

This page shows the projects we have supported in our first year and who we have partnered with on them. In our case, that is change we want to see in our home, New York City, and we are committed to investing in programs that leverage community, knowledge, and culture to drive positive change for New York City.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

While finance and media are typically concentrated in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, a city of three million in the state of Bahia, is considered one of Brazil’s cultural capitals. With an 84% Afro-Brazilian population, there are deep, rich and visible roots of Africa in the city’s history, music, cuisine and culture.

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

Chris Neumann: I’ve been lucky to have been a part of 5 startups going back to the late-90s, including two that were VC-backed (DataHero and Aster Data). What are some differences between those you would line up again to support and those you merely wish best of luck to? CN: That’s a great question.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Leah Edwards is a passionate fan and connector in technology and impact, a lecturer at UC Berkeley and Stanford and a partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures , a Silicon Valley-based VC firm. As a partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures , I’m aware that the VC industry boasts about finding teams with outlying and industry-changing ideas.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 17, 2020

With barriers like these in place, it should be no surprise that 77% of founders are white, and mostly male — despite the attention diversity and inclusion initiatives receive in tech culture today. Supporting minority entrepreneurs is both a socially responsible move and an economic necessity. Diversity is the key to unlocking both.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I was also involved in litigation support engagements, concerning auditors being alleged of professional negligence for not detecting fraud happening in private companies and public listed entities. Rather than tapping traditional VC funding, emerging venture stage companies went public at early stage (e.g.

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Revolution

MARCH 8, 2023

The Founder: Helen Adeosun The Company She Built: CareAcademy , the Boston-based healthcare training platform transforming the way we support and upskill essential caregivers. The Questions Helen Wishes She Were Asked Less: “ Research has shown that female founders and male founders get asked drastically different questions by VCs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

At that time, most VC activity was dominated by the now-defunct Austin Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds. ATX will be the first midcontinent VC to have top decile performance two funds in a row,” he told TechCrunch. “It It is a true reflection of the vibrancy in the Texas ecosystem and having an operator approach at early-stage VC.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Blackbird, a VC fund based in the two south Pacific countries, on Wednesday closed a fund at over AUD $1 billion, which is about USD $640 million, which the firm says is Australia’s largest fund to date. This is Blackbird’s fifth fund, and it’s double the size of the VC’s last fund which closed in August 2020.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

BioSTL: BioSTL has introduced nationally acclaimed initiatives in startup creation and investment (BioGenerator), strategic business attraction (GlobalSTL), physical environment (including the Cortex Innovation District and BioGenerator Labs), entrepreneur support, seed and venture capital, workforce diversity, and public policy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

As members of the VC’s operational support team , both work closely with companies in the Atomico portfolio to “find, develop and retain” the best employees in their respective fields, at various stages of the business. Spend time defining what your culture is. These are all expressions of culture.

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

All the participants are running some type of program or space to support startup entrepreneurs or build the startup community in their region, from running accelerators and co-working spaces, to startup meetup groups, student entrepreneurship groups, and maker spaces, as well as University faculty and Government policy makers. Who we took.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Triet’s journey in the world of investing began as a self-taught retail trader, a path he pursued to support his college education. Triet has a wealth of experience in portfolio support, angel investing, venture scout networks, advising emerging funds and startups, and has also been a founder himself.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 6, 2023

“ What makes this worth reading is that Charles has empathy for founders (he’s been one), and will continue to show up as one of their investors in a supportive manner. Brian Josephs/New York Times] – Save the culture! So it’s not “rah rah go do the work and make me my money” bs content marketing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Startups and VC. Like customer support, but more embeddable : Plain is a new customer support tool with a focus on API integrations , Romain reports. How do they keep the culture alive? Kyle has more. How will decisions be made? 3 tips for managing a remote engineering team. by Alex.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. But over 90% of Ukrainian startups say they need financial support to survive the war.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Strong Government Support: The Korean government is constantly improving the country’s infrastructure. In 2017, South Korea established the Ministry of SMEs and Startups to systematically oversee various startup support projects to reinforce momentum. K-Startup Grand Challenge Program 2022 K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022 is a 3.5-month-long

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 23, 2023

is a previous founder in the financial technology space and has a trackrecord of supporting founders even at the earliest stages. He currently serves as a Venture Partner at Mech Ventures where they invest in the future of pop culture. He hopes to find a fulltime position in venture capital after graduation.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

If a deal has a lot of support and no strong detractors it will often but up to the sponsoring partner to know what he or she wants to do with the deal. You’d be surprised how many firms are “dictator VCs” – even those that don’t formally acknowledge it internally. ” Some firms are collegiate.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Not only do we provide the infrastructure to support the ISA financing model, but we also provide data intelligence on the employment market and a career-as-a-service platform that focuses on placing students in the right job. s longest-serving Culture & Digital Economy Minister); Firestartr (U.K.-based

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Matt, Josh and Shivaas helped me learn early in my VC career what good really looked like. Founding a company here, even with the support of local and Bay Area VCs, was ten times harder than bootstrapping my first company in San Francisco had been. As a self-taught VC I learned my most important lessons the hard way.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

A successful VC needs to think several steps ahead. For us, that means taking a look at emerging behavioral trends and shifts in culture. So we do research to see if there are supporting factors for this thing sticking around and being successful. If that answer is yes, then we can dig a bit deeper.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

So think product telemetry, think marketing and engagement data, think support engagement data, etc. million round was led by Struck Capital with participation from SCV-SBI, a joint fund between Startup Capital Ventures and SBI Holdings; Builders VC; Dig Ventures, a fund led by MuleSoft founder Ross Mason; and several industry angels.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

The one-year-old startup also has a social component, giving customers a way to support Asian-American businesses and organizations. Traditional] banking didn’t understand me or my culture or my lifestyle or what matters to me. We understand Asian users much better than anybody else because we are the user,” Lian told TechCrunch.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I *think* Daniel and I met at a VC happy hour many years ago. It might ‘exit’ again at a later point (anything from a sale to an IPO), but it’s no long dependent on VC funding. A few other things to think about: PE approaches debt very differently than VC firms. This is still very much a journey I’m on.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

So these customers don’t just want Orange Culture, they want to mix the Orange Culture with Versace. The startup has also received financing from Ada VC, Culture Capital, actress Maisie Williams and music celebrities Bizzle Osikoya and Asa Asika. These consumers dictate our brand offerings in that sense.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Tencent, which made its first African edtech bet in Nigeria’s uLesson last December, co-led this Series A round with Italy-based VC Alchimia. Kukua says the investment will support its goal to continue building an IP-centric kids’ “edutainment” universe with new Super Sema original content, licensing, merchandise and publishing offerings.

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