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Stephanie Zhan walks through the Rec Room pitch deck that won Sequoia’s investment

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Sequoia is one of the most sought-after VC firms in the world, and predictably, it sees plenty of startups competing for its attention. We even took a look at Rec Room’s earliest pitch deck, the seed that ultimately grew into a business that has raised nearly $150 million. Love is the answer.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: VCs rate pitch decks, IPO analysis, Techstars’ expansion plans

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No one’s going to tell you when your startup has reached product-market fit — there are no flashing lights, no siren, no balloons falling from the ceiling. Global startups raise $158B in Q3, an all-time record. Global startups raise $158B in Q3, an all-time record. David Thacker, Greylock. Victoria Treyger, Felicis. “In

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Metaverse Magna raises $3.2M at a $30M valuation to build Africa’s largest gaming DAO

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In a statement, MVM said the funding will expand its efforts to build “Africa’s largest gaming DAO and provide gamers with access to world-class opportunities.”. Meanwhile, MVM said it is building a soon-to-launch social gaming app, Hyper.

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Kodland, which teaches kids digital skills, grabs $9M to scale its online coding school

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The round is led by Redseed Ventures, with participation from Baring Vostok, Kismet, Flyer One Ventures and Alexander Nevinsky, a partner at New York-based I2BF. and Ireland, enter Spanish-speaking countries and several countries in South-East Asia,” the startup tells TechCrunch. Ireland, the U.S.,

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Skate Where the Puck is Going

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Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck. Tags: Startup Advice.

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Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

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But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. At the time, I didn’t even know that raising venture capital was a possibility.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs !

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