TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Currently, it’s estimated that less than 1% of venture capital goes to openly LGBTQ+ founders. There are no numbers on how much of that capital goes specifically to trans founders or how many investors identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. Open AI is a prime example.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

To be investor-ready means that the startups have strong financial models, are sourcing the right kind of human capital, and comply with regulations. We want to encourage a high percentage of capital into regions outside the four main markets (South Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Nigeria) as much as we can.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

“Starting a business is hard, but we now have a path for proptech lined with funders and advisers that can propel entrepreneurs over early obstacles through to maturity and deep market penetration.” ” Buy a TechCrunch+ membership before July 4, 2022 and save 50% on an annual subscription. Investors flowed $1.2

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. A new category of investors has emerged offering a hybrid between VC and revenue-based investment (RBI), which we call “flexible VC.” We detail below the major categories of VC: Funder category.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

Nuview is not going public with how much capital the company has raised so far, nor its investors, but Florida Funders, MaC Venture Capital, Broom Ventures and Industrious Ventures all list Nuview among their investments on their respective websites.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 10, 2023

In fact, winning the Hans Severiens Award at the 2023 ACA Summit of Angel Investing is a validation of his profound efforts to grow and support angel investing nationally through the Angel Capital Association as well as the community in which he works. CB Insights ranked QCA second out of 370 national angel organizations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S. She is also the co-founder of Build In SE , a community of founders, funders and ecosystem partners committed to company building in the Southeast (#BuildInSE). Image Credits: PitchBook/NVCA Venture Monitor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

That player, Crowdz , recently secured $10 million in financing co-led by Citi and Dutch growth equity firm Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Ventures and Augment Ventures. We are focused on how we can help the SMEs improve their cash flow so they can thrive.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Financial details of the funding were not disclosed but Alami said the round was led by East Ventures (Growth fund) and backed by returning investors AC Ventures, Quona Capital, and FEBE Ventures. With this investment, Alami plans to continue creating world class Sharia-compliant financial technology.

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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. Miami-based Marco Financial is launching a revenue-based lending service for Latin American SMEs.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2024

This historical or look back perspective is based on a survey conducted by the Angel Capital Association in Q1 and Q2 of 2021 compared to the same survey conduct two years later in 2023. The overall investment level in new deals by members increased by 42% in the 2021 survey compared to 31% in the 2023 survey when asked the same question.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Quona Capital and Kinea Ventures co-led the round. The São Paulo-based startup was founded in 2016 by a trio that includes former Citi investment banker Gustavo Müller, Bruno Oliveira (who worked in strategic planning for Telefonica) and Felipe Adorno, an ex-senior developer for Netshoes and Infracommerce.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Others may not have the experience you want and they fill up a seat that makes retaining founder control more difficult if you ultimately raise large rounds of venture capital in the future. What happens at the A-round of venture capital? With that said, no venture capital firm really wants to replace a CEO.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

And even though robotics is weathering the current slowdown in venture funding better than other tech sectors, it’s still too easy for innovative inventions to remain stuck in the lab. Abbeel’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Rolling Stone, Wired, Tech Review and (of course) TechCrunch.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Venture-backed: 42 years. There’s also been tremendous growth when it comes to dollars invested in female-founded companies. At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. Fastest growing 0.1 percent of companies: 45 years.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

There was no strategic goal to build venture backed startup companies, but yet at least three companies in her community got VC investment last year. These folks could become clients, funders, or good places to connect and work over the long term. Venture Capital & Technology'

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

A recent speech by the chancellor saw him imploring entrepreneurs to move to the UK: “If anyone is thinking of starting or investing in an innovation or technology-centred business, I want them to do it here. “There’s such a gap in equity for Northern funders still.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Systemiq’s past deals include climate data company Jupiter , shipping data firm Nautilus Labs (whose co-founder later launched Bedrock ) and ESG-focused investing startup OpenInvest. Morgan , the world’s top funder of fossil fuels. . Last year, OpenInvest sold to J.P.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion. Internally at Upfront Ventures we talk about “high consensus” vs. controversial deals with “high conviction.”

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This is currently the most common investment structure: the Flexible VC investor purchases either equity ownership, or a convertible right to equity, and a right to regularly scheduled payments based on a percentage of revenues. Funder Category.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity , an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital. Laura González-Estéfani. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Venture-backed: 42 years. There’s also been tremendous growth when it comes to dollars invested in female-founded companies. At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. Fastest growing 0.1 percent of companies: 45 years.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

VCs and fulltime angels bring a lot more than just money to the communities they invest in. You can get just about any wealthy person to part with some small portion of their wealth to put into risky investments, but these people don't contribute back to the ecosystem. On top of that, they tend to be the locus of innovation networks.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

The tech investment scene was characterized as being strong in software and life sciences, but sometimes too conservative or risk-averse. However, this seems to be changing for the better, and foreign direct investment (FDI) is an important growth factor for the ecosystem. Belfast is weak in investment and investors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

Resolved to give myself a “blank slate” before making a final choice, I left Google when I was three months pregnant and joined Accel Partners, a top Silicon Valley venture capital firm and an investor in my previous startup, in a temporary role as CEO-in-residence.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

venture market, between startup layoffs and declining venture deal counts to an essentially moribund exit environment. billion was invested across 289 deals during the period, according to PitchBook. It seems everything is doom and gloom in the U.S. The Southeast region had its best quarter for funding on record in Q2.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Venture capital investing offers different challenges than those associated with tech entrepreneurship, but Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of FundersClub, approached the sphere of venture capital the same way he did as a tech founder previously: is there a better way to do this?

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

From the beginning, we were deeply committed to Techstars’ “give first” ethos and mentorship-driven approach to startup investing. Supporting the growing roster of programs also required more administrative overhead to solve legal issues, track investments and support cross-program communications and learning.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

The great bull market of 2010 – 2021, fueled by cheap capital, caused a nearly unprecedented rise in the valuations of speculative assets, from real estate to angel and venture equity. VCs triaged their portfolios, with a survival of the fittest ethos and capital became harder to find. Did angels pull back from investing?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. Previously, we introduced the concept of flexible VC : structures that allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. Greater Colorado Venture Fund.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Jake Fingert is a managing partner at Camber Creek, a strategic venture capital firm investing in real estate technology companies. Capital is searching for good ideas and quality execution. In 2021, venture capital poured a record $11.7 Jake Fingert. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lionel Foster.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% Eighteen percent of $330 billion translates to $59 billion, or 25% of all venture transactions (e.g., We need better funder-side reporting. Mimi Aboubaker. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 7, 2020

His belief in angel funding is a direct result of his success — his third company, Evity, sold for $100M just one year after it was founded, and a single round of angel investment provided the startup capital. On average, each angel group made an initial investment and then followed-on 2.5 Access the full report here!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you ask me, climate tech investor Contrarian Ventures isn’t so contrarian anymore. ” He’d recently left an inflation-trading job at Bank of America, where the work was “not fulfilling in the slightest,” Peciulaitis said in a nod to the bank’s reputation as a major funder of fossil fuels. .”

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