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.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 22, 2024

Darwin moves at half-speed in venture capital, allowing mediocrity and outdated ‘best practices’ to persist, much to the detriment of founders and LPs. 2021-2023 Start investing in amazing new VC firms, often anchoring the raise as one of their largest funders. What’s one possible solution?

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

Same goes for SMB investment sites like Honeycomb Credit , The SMBX , and Worthy Bonds (business owners often fund others) and Prosper or Sofi (many funders have borrowed themselves).”. Arno Niazi, CEO, GoingVC said, “Take, for example, our Venture Capital learning and development program, which now has more than 250 global alumni.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Chattanooga, TN-based Capacity Capital was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the southeastern U.S. Jonathan Bragdon , its CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50,000-$300,000 in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2x revenues in 12-24 months.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We want to encourage capital into African women-led businesses, and to support a high number of existing local and global investors to invest more capital in this market,” Impact Room CEO and founder Blantern told TechCrunch. Impact Rooms is backed by US-based investment group Global Blockchain Ventures (GBV).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Public funding supports are good, but too fragmented and hard to access. With more support from Invest NI, the whole of Northern Ireland can be an innovation hub linked to Ireland via the startup ecosystem. The support for early-stage startups has also contributed to this influx. Invest NI – Government support agency.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Notley Ventures. Congratulations! Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 3, 2024

Chloe Capital, a Movement-driven venture capital firm with a national investment lens, invites the Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania community to join us for our INVEST IN WOMEN x PITTSBURGH FOUNDER SHOWCASE ( InvestInWomenPittsburgh.eventbrite.com ) on Wednesday, May 8 from 5-7:30pm at Google Pittsburgh.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

To help this along, angels and VCs who’ve been behind a recent exit and are reinvesting in similar founders should publicize those knock-on investments, explaining how their previous success motivated them to support similar ventures. Team effect. Take Thiel, who has to date backed over 40 companies in Europe alone. Reputation effect.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

The two-year-old fintech startup gained the support of top venture capital funders and regional banks that included Andreessen Horowitz, Remarkable Ventures, and leading banks Huntington National Bank, First Horizon, and Regions. The current round adds to a $4.5

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

For any entrepreneur to be successful in starting a business, they must have the right help and resources to support of their hard work. Accelerators are programs run by a range of organizations and funders to assist the best startup applicants they choose. Search out resources that are timely to starting and growing a small business.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

Venture funding fled to safety, often to less capital-intensive stages, deals less sensitive to quarterly fluctuations, notably to early stage and away from Series B and later deals supporting existing companies. The decline in angel funding was similar to the decline in venture funding.

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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? There are a lot of inefficiencies in VC.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Congratulations! Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2023

Q: Do you offer your angels any technology tools to support portfolio construction for direct investments? We keep this information internal, but we do report the raw statistics to the ACA which publishes an Angel Funders Report – you can find the 2021 Report here. The investors wire the money themselves.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Funder Category. Equity Ownership. Example VC.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Funder Category.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

So despite total funding for women-founded companies reaching $834 million in 2021, per Partech Africa — a VC firm and data tracker of African investments — and the number of women in venture capital increasing, t heir representation remains minute against a faster-growing percentage of startups run by men.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Recipients included the following fintech startups: CashEx, a currency exchange platform that leverages AI to help U.S.

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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% The data supports this, as the numbers for women founders and the overall first-financing growth are 1.6x We need better funder-side reporting. Mimi Aboubaker. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

In the EU, states like France are actually ramping up support for tech entrepreneurship. More than a third of all tech unicorns and decacorns created in the UK have graduated from a Tech Nation program, collectively raising over £28bn so far in venture capital and capital markets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

What I like about Oceankind is that they recognize the true cost of doing technology projects and they’re prepared to support it,” said Dunbabin. They’ve been absolutely a dream funder.”. That makes Oceankind one of the biggest non-governmental funders of ocean science in the world. Casting a wide net for science.

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