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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. The investment will be used for product development initiatives.

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UK report spotlights the huge investment gap facing diverse founders

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VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. New research looking into how U.K. population.

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Serial fintech founder raises $20M for Ant Money to make micro-investing even more accessible

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Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. The pair wanted to simplify investing for the millions that have trouble getting started or continuing to invest.

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QED Investors hires Gbenga Ajayi as partner to focus on investments in Africa

TechCrunch

He will focus on Africa investments as part of QED’s international team. Last September, the fintech-focused venture capital firm announced closing $1.05 Today’s announcement adds Africa to the mix. billion for its oversubscribed seventh fund. the United Kingdom, Latin America and Southeast Asia.”

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At just 2.1% of all VC investment, funding for women remains ‘meh’ in Q1 2023

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Companies with all female-founding teams raised about $800 million, or 2.1%, out of the estimated $37 billion invested in U.S. Once again measured in dollars raised, mixed-gender teams also saw their venture totals decline on a year-over-year basis, raising $7 billion in Q1 2023. Things could’ve been worse, I guess.

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Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020

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As a turbulent week in the capital world, we’re taking a look at something a bit slower moving: venture capital trends in Africa during 2020. The Exchange has long explored quarterly and yearly data regarding the North American , European and Asian venture capital markets , along with data on particular startup categories.

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How to Leverage Micro VC Funds to Build an Angel Portfolio

This is going to be BIG.

Fund investing, like adulting, is boring. That’s the first thing anyone trying to raise a fund needs to understand, as well as anyone thinking about investing in one. Fund investing can be additive to your angel investing and there are two main arguments for it: Getting indirect benefits from being invested in one or more funds.

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