TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Blantern said the Impact Rooms is also using data to help investors make decisions on which countries, industries or startups to invest in – giving an equal opportunity to startups across all markets in Africa. “We Impact Rooms is backed by US-based investment group Global Blockchain Ventures (GBV).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Funders across these three rounds include Access Industries, HighPost Capital, CoVenture, GPS Partners and Crossbeam Venture Partners. Jellysmack’s licensing of back catalog expires after five years, the same length of Spotter’s contracts, and uses an algorithm to determine whether or not to invest in a creator.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

One of the best business models ever is creating a marketplace between investors and investment opportunities. I’ve been meeting lately with more and more family offices interested in investing directly into companies, in lieu of via funds. Investors there are outsourcing the decision-making about individual investments to the GPs.).

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

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. These interactions are crucial for developing best practices, sourcing investments, and understanding group operations.

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Onevest

APRIL 1, 2015

By Michael "Luni" Libes In the traditional world of early stage, Angel and VC investing, money is local. Studies show that over 80% of funding at Angel groups and Series A VCs goes to businesses in the same city/region as the funders. Over in the impact investing space, this rule is not true. Read the original post here.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

We are excited to partner with TravelPerk and support the next stage of growth,” stated Stephen Thorne, Investment Director for SoftBank Investment Advisers. TravelPerk has attracted top financial backers who have invested in disruptive tech companies Airbnb, Uber, Slack, Twitter, Trello, Zalando, and Delivery Hero. “I’m

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 28, 2021

The immersive, multi-week ACA Angel University is virtual , too, and will start on May 17 – and you’ll save if you sign up during your ACA 2021 – The Summit of Angel Investing registration. Experience an all-new way to celebrate angel investing and the power of company support!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. That used to be called A-round investing. The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

The sharp reversal in 2022 from bubble to sober economics is well illustrated by Pitchbook’s index(1) of how founder or investor friendly the investing climate is. By mid-2022 the index had quickly reversed from a founder to investor friendly investing climate. Did angels pull back from investing? Did we do fewer deals?

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. The Angel Funders Report is based on direct investment data solicited from all ACA member groups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In order to make those investments, venture firms must first have the money, which means they’re not only just the funders, they’re fundraisers, too. To find the right investors, you first need to consider LPs’ investment criteria. How well do your target LPs understand your investment thesis?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Resource’s “ESO Accelerator” will train startup ecosystem leaders on how to build a more financially sustainable organization, as well as help connect them to potential funders. Resource is supported by a national coalition of funders committed to supporting entrepreneurs of color.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Until now, most climate funders focused on terrestrial or atmospheric issues, and ocean funders focused on important, but only tangentially climate-related ocean issues such as ending unsustainable fishing practices and establishing marine protected areas. How are you approaching the question of climate change in your investments?

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

Investments made by individual angels and angel groups continued to “fuel the tank” for entrepreneurs and kept investment pipelines flowing for venture capitalists. ACA’s angel groups made more investments in more companies despite the pandemic –continuing to risk personal capital to jumpstart businesses and ignite economies.

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EntreWorks Consulting

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Folks in the business of community building know the story when it comes to outside funders. They can raise money for specific projects, but can’t invest in their people or in building up their organizations. Let’s hope that other foundations and other funders embrace this message as well. They fund projects, not organizations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

CB Insights forecasts a roughly 20% drop in total VC investments from Q1 to Q2, leaving ambitious young companies scrambling to fight for scraps. Whether it’s dedicated impact funds or value-based venture capital firms, funders tend to back companies that have demonstrated their ability to scale.

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HPA

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Read more about the round in Chicago Inno or in Food Navigator-USA and Ag Funder News. Congrats to CEO & Co-Founder Anne Palermo and the entire Aqua Cultured Foods team! We look forward to the exciting growth ahead. The post Aqua Cultured Foods Raises $2.1M appeared first on HPA.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 1, 2022

You’ll come away from this experience with a working business model, networking contacts, and experience pitching to potential funders. Apply now at [link]. Don’t hesitate as seating is limited. The deadline for applications is March 31, 2022. About the Ben Franklin Tech Celerator @ State College.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Specifically, we need to be tracking as metrics: (i) the number of first institutional round venture deals, (ii) the demographics of the founders of those companies and (iii) the composition of the funders on an annual cohort basis. We need better funder-side reporting. The rest is noise.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 26, 2020

High-growth startups have two basic sources of investment capital — angel investors (individuals, groups, or funds) and institutional investors like i2E. Angels invest their own money and are in the business of high risk/high return. They tend to invest very early in a startup’s life, even pre-revenue.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Put simply, Crowdz started out by giving small and medium-sized businesses a way to sell invoices for financing to funders. With this latest investment, Crowdz and Citi plan to collaborate based on that goal of giving SMEs “rapid and efficient access to the working capital needed to keep their businesses running.”

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The cash came from a number of investors that included Spring Ventures, Nau IB Capital, Mirae Asset Ventures, HB Investment, and Hanbit Investment. Just last year, the company also became the first litigation funder in Korea. In the near future, they also target to accelerate the growth of litigation finance in Asia.

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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 Every round of funding was oversubscribed.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

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? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Great Question’s seed round came from investors including Funders Club, January Capital, Nomo VC and Twenty-Two Ventures. The platform has been used to interview customers about product ideas and strategy, find product-market fit, conduct usability studies on UX designs and see how well marketing landing pages perform.

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StartupNation

APRIL 28, 2021

The lenders or funders are typically web-based private companies that offer a line of credit like a bank, or they provide a more traditional loan. In return, the purchaser or funder gets a portion of the business’s future revenue receivables. It all depends on what the funder requires in regards to collateral.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2024

In addition, 64% of angel groups have individual members making the investment in start-ups, while 32% of angel groups employ a fund or form a LLC or SPV for investment purposes. 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

MARCH 24, 2023

The best investors right now are investing in LGBTQ-founded companies,” Tukes added. We are trying to change who is an investor and who these founders can have opportunities with,” Block told TechCrunch+. Open AI is a prime example. That, to me, is the hot-ticket company at the moment.”

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Impact Hub

MARCH 25, 2024

This programme, born out of extensive consultation and codesign, focuses on social innovation, offering a blended investment approach. The goal by 2030 is to establish an inclusive investment ecosystem, a support network for social enterprises, and position Bradford as a hub for social innovation and enterprise.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

.” 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. In 2017, PitchBook recorded 578 climate tech deals globally, altogether worth $12.5

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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. Starting a business is hard, but we now have a path for proptech, lined with funders and advisors, that can propel entrepreneurs over early obstacles through to maturity and deep market penetration.

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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. Visit angelcapitalassociation.org.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2023

So, are SAFEs truly dominating early-stage investing? To answer this question, let’s first identify the stage at which angels most commonly invest. So, what about Seed Stage, the angel’s most frequent investing stage? Executing a SAFE requires very little work as there is very little to decide, negotiate or explain.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I fly home Friday night, weekend on the soccer field with the kids and head into a Monday partner meeting that will be contentious because there are two controversial investment decisions to make. I think you’d really enjoy meeting her wether you decide to invest or not. A few weeks have slipped by.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

With the support of Oikocredit alongside our first-round funders, our distribution, logistics and financing services will continue not only in Ghana but also in Ivory Coast where we’ve recently begun the process of expanding our team,” said Attah in a statement.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 22, 2023

FPV Ventures’ Co-founders Wesley Chan, founder of Google Analytics, and Pegah Ebrahimi , former COO of Morgan Stanley’s Technology Investment Banking Establishing credit is a major challenge facing millions of Americans, both those in low-income jobs or those just entering the workforce, among others.

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