article thumbnail

The ACA 2021 Innovation Funders Showcase Pre-Summit Kick-Off and Deeper Dive Feature Groundbreaking Companies

Angel Capital Association

Chiara Renella-Brooks, ACA Partnership Director Incredible Companies Built by Women Highlighted During the Innovation Funders Showcase Deeper Dive This year’s ninth Annual ACA Summit Innovation Funders Showcase opened ACA Summit week with many exciting new twists!

funders 40
article thumbnail

The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. We live in a hostile world and it’s now a tech-enabled hostile world. Ten years on much has changed. The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011.

ventures 471
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Covariant, MassRobotics and The Engine discuss the road from lab to market at TC Sessions: Robotics

TechCrunch

As the co-founder and vice president for programs and community at MassRobotics — whose mission is to enable and grow the next generation of robotics companies — Joyce Sidopoulos develops high-impact programs for the robotics ecosystem.

funders 85
article thumbnail

Circularity Tales: Accelerate2030 piloting the transition

Impact Hub

Regarding lessons learned, Accelerate2030 developed a robust capacity building infrastructure and was able to validate the strong interest and need of capacity building on the topic of circular economy as a strategy to combat climate change in developing and emerging economies.

funders 36
article thumbnail

All Investing Has Impact

This is going to be BIG.

It's as if the investments that you made that aren't part of an impact investing strategy hang from the ceiling Mission Impossible style in a temperature controlled environment making no discernable impact on stakeholder's lives. Marketplaces like Etsy enable hundreds of thousands of craftspeople to find sellers for their goods.

investing 194
article thumbnail

Seven Recommendations for Rapid Response Grantmaking

Surdna Foundation

Casey Pechan of Fluxx Labs recently told the story of how Surdna shifted its grantmaking strategy to rapidly respond to the COVID-19 crisis and the needs of our grantees. Keep staff engaged by enabling them to do their work: Ensure that your staff is trained on your system. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on grantmaking.

funders 28
article thumbnail

Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten VC

Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. A range of small VCs are deploying with Flexible VC structures, but we believe the total amount of AUM deployed with this strategy is well under $50m. Funder Category. Flexible VC offers you this. Equity Ownership.

VC 45