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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Astia Edge which invests in exceptional seed stage companies led by Black and LatinX women through an evergreen fund backed by our Corporate Partners Avestria Ventures : co-founded by Managing Partner Linda Greub, the firm invests in women’s health and female-led life science ventures.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. The DEBUT Challenge is a contest for undergraduate student teams working on innovative solutions to unmet health and clinical problems. We also recommend, at a minimum, learn the basics of coding.

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Top Ann Arbor Tech Companies and Startups to Watch in 2022

StartupNation

ArborMetrix is an Ann Arbor startup dedicated to improving health care outcomes using data models and health care analytics for improved research. Clients including Google, Coursera, Promedica, Duke Health and the University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center. Workit Health. ArborMetrix. Spellbound AR. Genomenon.

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Koa is helping African consumers make better money moves

TechCrunch

Koa is one of 20 companies competing for $100,000 and the Disrupt cup in this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition. For one, Roman sees promise in offering embedded finance and banking-as-a-service tools that would enable other startups to launch fintech products at a faster pace.

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How to Find a Job as a VC Scout: Compensation and Which Firms Are Recruiting

David Teten VC

For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. Similarly, certain Revenue-Based Finance investors (e.g., Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally. Apollo Health Ventures. Anthos Capital.

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8 factors to consider when fundraising during a downturn

TechCrunch

I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. Early-stage investments are also tightening, as investors focus on lower valuations that accommodate revised paths to an exit, and on business health, which is now becoming more important than growing at any cost.

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Newsletter: Solving the semiconductor crisis

OurCrowd

By financing small agroforestry projects, Treedom provides income opportunities for local farming communities in 17 countries. Launchpad has built an automated manufacturing process that learns and gets smarter over time,” says Gross, whose Idealab incubator has produced more than 150 successful startups. Treedom has already planted 1.8M