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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Technology solutions are now used by authoritarians to monitor and control populations, to stymie an individual company’s economic prospects or to foment chaos through demagoguery. Are we in a bubble?”

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A Future Worth Creating: Fiscal Year Recap and Vision for Tomorrow

Angel Capital Association

We are grappling with healthcare challenges, irreversibly disrupted industries, millions of underemployed workers, and devastating racial and gender inequities. Angels are nimble, identifying and supporting entrepreneurs with desperately needed new technologies and innovations. More than ever, we need innovation. We need ingenuity.

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Impact Hub: Our policy approach

Impact Hub

Our 110 communities are diverse yet they all need an enabling environment of supportive regulatory frameworks, inclusive economic development initiatives, stronger social and environmental sustainability standards, and a brave impact funding environment. To date, our community has reached over 25,000 such impact-driven enterprises.

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Miami twins raise $18M for Lula, an insurance infrastructure upstart

TechCrunch

Existing backers such as Nextview Ventures and Florida Funders also put money in the round, in addition to a number of insurance and logistics groups such as Flexport. The startup’s self-proclaimed mission is to provide companies of all sizes — from startups to multinational corporations — with insurance infrastructure.

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Silicon Valley is a surprisingly clubby ecosystem: FC's Alex Mittal

FundersClub

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. FC sees blockchain as one of the technologies that will shape the future. So how is Funders Club different than other VCs? ” In the end, venture capital is driven by capitalism.

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Regulators appear to be growing increasingly wary of banks and fintech startups getting too cozy

TechCrunch

eToro, a Robinhood competitor that describes itself as “the social investing network,” announced the introduction of ESG scores for over 2,700 stocks on its platform, “enabling its users to consider environmental, social, and governance factors when building their portfolios.” You can read more on that here. Until then, take good care!!

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. Versatile is an aggressive user of technology internally to manage the firm and make better investments. .