TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

To continue its mission, the Miami-based trade finance company raised $7 million in seed funding and $75 million in a credit facility, led by Arcadia Funds LLC and Kayyak Ventures, to increase its credit line to $100 million. The company is able to show what kind of financing can be obtained based on the amount of data customers provide.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Doing so ascribes all the fundraising success and the leadership work underpinning it to the founders who are men, effectively propagating gender bias. To put the number in context, women-founded companies have accounted for around 24% of annual first-financing deals that we know had mixed-gender teams since 2017. The rest is noise.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

We owe a debt of gratitude to our tireless volunteers and professional staff for their leadership, expertise, and dedication to our mission. Without this support, many early-stage companies wouldn’t get off the ground. We believe in creating a welcoming, supportive environment for all, especially underrepresented groups.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

We are deeply grateful to our dedicated volunteers and professional staff for their leadership, expertise and dedication to our mission. Without this support, many early-stage companies wouldn’t get off the ground. Without you, none of our accomplishments would have been possible and our hope for the future would be unfounded.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

But if you ever forget that supporting extraordinary founders is the whole game, and that your only job as an early stage investor is to identify them and help them progress, you have irretrievably lost the plot. Step 1: Find the best founders An uncomfortable truth about this work is that not all founders are created equal.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In simple terms, the local LP community owned 70% of the fund economics, the Managing Director owned 20% and Techstars owned 10%; we also paid Techstars a $50K annual fee to support the program’s back-office operations. It’s fair to say that the Seattle startup community would not be where it is today without Techstars.

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