TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Sessions will include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, S2G, and the City of Atlanta. SaaS Stage: Considers how software-as-a-service unlocks creativity and efficiency with mobile apps, cloud-based resources, collaboration tools, creator communities, developer tools, e-commerce, low code, recurring revenue and marketing tools.

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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. She is also the co-founder of Build In SE , a community of founders, funders and ecosystem partners committed to company building in the Southeast (#BuildInSE). and Canada. More posts by this contributor. And yet, here we are.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. According to the EEOC, 83 percent of tech executives are white.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

Same goes for SMB investment sites like Honeycomb Credit , The SMBX , and Worthy Bonds (business owners often fund others) and Prosper or Sofi (many funders have borrowed themselves).”. Arno Niazi, CEO, GoingVC said, “Take, for example, our Venture Capital learning and development program, which now has more than 250 global alumni.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This was a fantastic strategy in terms of impact, raising the bar for startup excellence in key startup ecosystems and opening up access to the Venture Capital financing market to founders who couldn’t or didn’t want to relocate to the Bay Area.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

.” He’d recently left an inflation-trading job at Bank of America, where the work was “not fulfilling in the slightest,” Peciulaitis said in a nod to the bank’s reputation as a major funder of fossil fuels. In 2017, PitchBook recorded 578 climate tech deals globally, altogether worth $12.5 billion in value.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Additional investors in the newest seed round and expanded credit facility include Village Global VC, Flexport Ventures, Tresalia Capital, 342 Capital, Struck Capital, Antler LLC, Antler Elevate, Florida Funders and Fox Ventures. International Development Finance Corp.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

That player, Crowdz , recently secured $10 million in financing co-led by Citi and Dutch growth equity firm Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Ventures and Augment Ventures. Or, we can white label it out with organizations like Citi, Meta and the city of Detroit.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

In addition to founding Covariant, which develops AI for robotic automation of warehouses and factories, Pieter Abbeel is the director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab and co-director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence (BAIR) Lab. Here’s what our panelists bring to the table, and why we can’t wait to get their take on the topic.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The São Paulo-based startup was founded in 2016 by a trio that includes former Citi investment banker Gustavo Müller, Bruno Oliveira (who worked in strategic planning for Telefonica) and Felipe Adorno, an ex-senior developer for Netshoes and Infracommerce. So what does that mean exactly?

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Fearless Fund in collaboration with Amazon awards grants between $10,000 and $20,000 to black women in their B lack Business Accelerator program and the Minority Business Development Agency in the past has awarded g rants to college and universities that assist undergraduate students with entrepreneurship. Learn more here. Full list of U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

Resolved to give myself a “blank slate” before making a final choice, I left Google when I was three months pregnant and joined Accel Partners, a top Silicon Valley venture capital firm and an investor in my previous startup, in a temporary role as CEO-in-residence.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! We take tech experts, teach them the policy process through an in-residence fellowship program in the Bay Area, and encourage them to develop outside-the-box solutions to society’s problems. Congratulations!

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 10, 2023

As an example, early in QCA’s history, the group discovered a technology developed at a children’s hospital that could potentially be used to quickly prescribe the correct medication for people suffering from mental illness. Given all his experience, there are still investments and stories that stand out in a storied career.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

New developments are popping up all over the city, from student accommodation to hotels and nice apartments. INI is a big support and funder. I understand the city was growing pre-pandemic, and I believe this trend will continue once life returns to a semi-normal state. 15-20 years ago, Belfast had hardly any of this.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. According to the EEOC, 83 percent of tech executives are white.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Funder Category. Equity Ownership. Example VC.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Funder Category.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! We take tech experts, teach them the policy process through an in-residence fellowship program in the Bay Area, and encourage them to develop outside-the-box solutions to society’s problems. Congratulations!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

So despite total funding for women-founded companies reaching $834 million in 2021, per Partech Africa — a VC firm and data tracker of African investments — and the number of women in venture capital increasing, t heir representation remains minute against a faster-growing percentage of startups run by men. as yesterday!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

The deal falling through — albeit as part of a “mutual agreement,” according to the two companies — came as a surprise to many and raised a number of questions. The pitches range from building the Square for micro-merchants in Latin America to creating a way to angel invest in your favorite athlete.” You can read more on that here.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? What Does this Mean for a Venture Capital Firm?

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Obie , which has developed an insurtech platform for landlords, has raised $10.7 million in a Series A funding round led by Battery Ventures. Thomvest Ventures, Funders Club, MetaProp and Second Century Ventures also participated in the financing. If this sounds like a niche offering, that’s because it is.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures co-led the round, which also included participation from SoftBank, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, Shrug Capital, Steve Pagliuca (Bain Capital co-chairman and Boston Celtics owner), Tiny Capital’s Andrew Wilkinson. We’re also just working toward developing a much more robust API.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% We need better funder-side reporting. Without funder-side reporting that matches the rigor of founder-side analysis, coverage falls short of true accountability. Mimi Aboubaker. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

With money from the Queensland University of Technology, where he is a professor of robotics, Dunbabin’s team developed a prototype underwater robot to reseed dying reefs with tiny coral larvae. They’ve been absolutely a dream funder.”. That makes Oceankind one of the biggest non-governmental funders of ocean science in the world.

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