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How To End Your Pitch with Your Vision

Dream It

But founders are often so consumed with talking metrics, milestones achieved, or the capital they need that they sometimes forget to talk about their overarching vision for their startups. VCs are looking for a grand slam,” according to Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit Ventures. It’s not about the slide deck.

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Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice

This is going to be BIG.

I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? This isn’t surprising.

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i2E Celebrates Success of Inaugural Bridge2 Demo Day

Innovation 2 Enterprise

During Demo Day, attendees heard pitch presentations from five founders who participated in the initial Bridge2 cohort. Each founder showcased the innovative business ideas they developed and refined throughout the Bridge2 program. The Bridge2 Program has been fundamental to the next phase of my business.

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Meet the Black Female Founders from TC Include at TC Sessions: Justice 2021

TechCrunch

Topics range from accessible product design and fighting algorithmic bias to the justice system, workplace organizing and support for underrepresented founders — and that’s just for starters. Don’t miss your chance to meet some founders currently participating in TechCrunch’s Include program. Founded by Denise Umubyeyi.

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Rebranded Toyota Ventures invests $300 million in emerging tech and carbon neutrality 

TechCrunch

Toyota AI Ventures, Toyota’s standalone venture capital fund, has dropped the “AI” and is reborn as, simply, Toyota Ventures. The introduction of these two new funds, each worth $150 million, brings Toyota Ventures’ total assets under management to over $500 million.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Video pitch decks, Didi’s regulatory struggles, Nothing CEO interview

TechCrunch

According to DocSend, the average pitch deck is reviewed for just three minutes. Even if you are lucky enough to land a meeting, it’s more likely that a junior person went through your pitch and ran it up the chain. According to Fisher, the pro forma pitch deck is a thing of the past. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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How International Founders Can Raise US Financing

Startup Grind

When I was a Y Combinator partner, I noticed that more and more of the batches were companies started by international founders. International founders typically have some combination of these three reasons: a) Access to capital The number one answer is access to capital. or incorporated here to raise capital. investors.

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