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How VC Fundraising Favors White Men

This is going to be BIG.

The responses I got came at a time when I've been having a lot of conversations with female founders as well about their fundraising experiences. At this moment, I'm in the process of backing three companies that have at least one female founder and I just finished a round for a black female founder in December. Ducks head.]

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Daily Crunch: Sideloaded apps coming soon to an iPhone near you in iOS 17

TechCrunch

Startups and VC Back in January, a $810 million deal fell apart to buy Angry Birds makers Rovio, but the company suggested they were still in talks with other potential interested parties. There’s an acronym for this — XaaS, or “everything as a service,” also referred to as “servitization.” for a new software update. Big Tech Inc.

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Redacted comes out of stealth with $60M in funding and a new take on fighting cybercrime

TechCrunch

Ten Eleven is a VC specializing in cybersecurity that has backed a number of other startups.) It’s always interesting when a startup comes out of nowhere with a substantial round of VC backing, but it’s almost always because that startup has some interesting pedigree — and that is the case here. Cyber Command.

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

Build trust with founders and then offer your own data-backed take on why a founder’s decision might not be the best decision they could make. Who are the best search partners to use, and let then letting you and that search firm run with the execution. Key takeaways Write a MOC. Leading by influence, not directive.

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Sanity, a platform to build and manage content flows on sites, raises $9.3M from Ev Williams, Threshold and more

TechCrunch

The funding, a Series A, is being by Threshold Ventures (the VC formerly known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, rebranded in 2019 after none of the namesakes remained at the firm), with an interesting cast of others also participating. Heavybit and Alliance Venture, which led its seed round of $2.4 million last year, also participated.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

TechCrunch

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Indeed, many Canadians refer to Toronto as “east”’ despite there being 1,900 miles between Drake and The Weeknd’s hometown and St. With every VC investment, the region’s network of startups builds the social capital that can enable the next round of funding.

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How Monica and Joe priced their new enterprise product?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Monica was glad to get back to her Jackson-Square office dry, clutching her daily cappuccino from the coffee truck around the corner, especially as she’d left her umbrella at last night’s networking event which she’d attended with her co-founder, Joe. That’s what the VC guy, Albert, told me was the benchmark for saas companies like us.”

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