TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association. Taking stock of the VC industry’s progress on diversity, equity and inclusion. The startup ecosystem is unique. Those that do succeed graduate to other levels of financing, including angel or venture capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

We need to become a super, high-signal VC.” The goal of being a VC is to generate returns for limited partners, and there’s an understanding that a diverse startup ecosystem will lead to better outcomes for all. Balancing those two, for female VCs, has often manifested in different, often frustrating ways.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But as venture capital (VC) firms grow, with the average seed deal growing from $1.7 million in the last decade , more and more people are breaking into the startup ecosystem. However, a larger number of startups also means increased competition, both for funding and market share. million to $4.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Weirdly, this seems underrated in the startup ecosystem. Unfortunately, when it comes to VC checklists, years of industry experience at unsexy companies don’t tick a box in the same way as having had a C-level role at a former startup. This post isn’t about young founders.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. What She’s Learned, And What You Can Learn From Her. We had overlapping circles and then became friends.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Investing industry bible PitchBook has crowned OurCrowd as “the most active venture capital investor in Israel this year as record amounts of capital flood into the country’s startup ecosystem.” Despite the Jewish New Year and other holidays, Israeli startups raised over $2.2B in September 2021.

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HPA

APRIL 7, 2020

Built In Chicago: Online community hub for Chicago startups and tech. Built In Chicago is an online community that provides information on job openings, tech news and events for the startup ecosystem in Chicago. Chicago Inno: Chicago Startups that are Hiring Right Now. Targeted for potential employees.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Same as VC funds are deeply acquainted with Silicon Valley, tech investors cannot ignore this hub of innovation that has produced global market leading companies and serial entrepreneurs.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In late 2018, the company raised $75 million Series C from Sequoia, arguably the top VC firm in the world. After being largely ignored by Valley investors (the biggest checks in her seed, Series A, and Series B came from men on the East Coast), she finally found support from the VC elite. VC David Sacks tweeted “??

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