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Educate, Empower, Support: EO Women Entrepreneurs Are Leading the Way

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Women still only get about 2% of venture capital investment money, and we want to see that change,” said Cindy Boyd, EO Houston. “By I approached several EO women colleagues and nCourage Investment Group was born. I also love seeing women introduced to the world of early-stage investing.”

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Money. show me! If you want to change Venture Capital, focus on LPs. #openlp

This is going to be BIG.

It would be a directive to literally invest in the talent base—to create a path for influence and economic mobility within a firm. Mentorship and the building of track records within other people’s firms is an important pathway to partner, even in your own fund. It also broadens the pool of who can attempt to raise a fund.

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Google’s Africa Investment Fund makes first investment in Uganda’s SafeBoda

TechCrunch

Internet giant Google announced today that it has made the first investment from its Africa Investment Fund in Ugandan super app SafeBoda. The accelerator program has supported more than 80 startups in seed to Series A stages with equity-free mentorship and resources. Google sets up $50M fund to invest in African startups.

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Is Corporate Venture Capital Right for Your Startup?

Startup Blogpost

How do you determine if corporate venture capital is right for your startup? To help you determine if corporate venture capital is right for your startup, we asked startup founders, investors, and business leaders this question for their best pieces of advice. Be Sure You Have Similar Goals and Expectations.

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“One Thing You Wish People Better Understood About Venture Capital” – Part I, featuring Andre Charoo, Bill Clerico, Ryan Hoover, Amy Saper, and Dan Teran.

Hunter Walk

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. My POV here is that we seek to invest in founders who have an outsized chance of succeeding without our help, and then try to increase the probability and velocity of their success with our assistance.

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“One Thing You Wish People Better Understood About Venture Capital” – Part V, featuring Ethan Kurzweil, Lily Lyman, Ashley Mayer, and Leshika Samarasinghe.

Hunter Walk

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. One thing I wish people better understood is that venture not only requires conviction in founders, businesses, and markets, but it also requires conviction in a point of view in firm-building.

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Newtopia closes first fund of $50M to invest in LatAm startups

TechCrunch

Early-stage venture capital fund Newtopia VC launched Monday with $50 million to invest in tech startups based in Latin America. The fund will invest between $250,000 and $1 million in startups at the seed stage to help them achieve the milestones needed on the path to raising a Series A.

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