Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

The Angel Capital Association (ACA) Summit represents a beacon for black investors, founders, and high-growth startups. This event, heralded as the industry’s flagship, convenes a diverse community of new and experienced angel investors, business leaders, and entrepreneurial minds to explore critical topics and trends in angel investing.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

Government and academic professionals also seek them out to get connected to the startup ecosystem. It needs to go house to house--founders and employees getting matched through individual e-mail intros, deals happening over handshakes, and startups getting recruited into your ecosystem one at a time.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

And yet, one of the events that generates the most momentum for long-term impact — the successful exit of a portfolio company — is not being harnessed. Because foreign and ethnic minority founders are still underrepresented in startup funding, it makes this field less competitive while harboring huge potential. Team effect.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

All VCs, including us, regularly see investment opportunities which don’t fit our mandate. Certain late-stage VCs have invested in some of my past funds, partly to motivate us to refer future investment opportunities to them. Our mission is to grow and diversify Western Canada’s technology startup ecosystem. . “If

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