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Nigerian founders-turn-investors are now running syndicate funds

TechCrunch

Over the years, the angel network has based its infrastructure on syndicates — investment vehicles that allow investors, referred to as backers, to co-invest with prominent investors — known as leaders. Syndicate leads are often experienced angel investors or successful startup founders.

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How to Find a Job as a VC Scout: Compensation and Which Firms Are Recruiting

David Teten VC

We may as well get compensated for referring them to others. Alpha Partners , Proof VC ) which share the carry earned in their coinvest to the referring party. Certain late-stage VCs have invested in some of my past funds, partly to motivate us to refer future investment opportunities to them. Allied Venture Partners.

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Editorial: We owe a duty of care to founder mental health and it requires a collaborative solution

NZ Entrepreneur

Having spent close on a decade working in and reporting on our small but burgeoning startup ecosystem, and a decade before that “building my chops” in other various entrepreneurial endeavours, I am familiar with the toll that entrepreneurship can exact on founder mental health.

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Startup insurance provider Vouch raises $90M, now valued at $550M

TechCrunch

Y Combinator too also refers Vouch to its portfolio companies. . To Vouch co-founder and CEO Sam Hodges, the ability to attract some of the highest-profile businesses in the startup world speaks to the company’s understanding of the startup ecosystem. .

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One of Nigeria’s high profile angel investors is launching a fund for African startups

TechCrunch

Non-traditional startup founder to an angel investor. Six years later, the pair decided to venture into tech, a relatively nascent industry in Nigeria at the time and began investing in startups via LeadPath , an early-stage firm they launched in Lagos, Nigeria. Some of its biggest clients include OEMs like Oracle.

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YC is CRISPR for Startups

Y Combinator

We aim to change each YC company into a better version of itself — into a startup which has a better chance of surviving the bitter battle where only the fittest and best-adapted companies survive. The comparison of a startup ecosystem to the biological version is, of course, not a new one. And YC is CRISPR for startups.

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