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Black Founders Matter presses VCs to pledge commitment to diversity
The pledge encourages VCs to invest a quarter of their funds into BIPOC women founders.
Outdoor Voices founder Ty Haney made a name for herself by making sportswear the hottest trend among non-athletes. Now, the 33-year-old entrepreneur is betting she…
So-called “tech for good” accelerators addressing such worthy sounding subjects as ESGs and SDGs have appeared in the last few years. Some observers have dismissed these efforts as scalable only…
Are there any advantages to International Entrepreneur Parole over an O-1 visa? IEP seems to require $250k in institutional backing — so getting an O-1A doesn’t seem like a huge…
She will also be featured in a new campaign touting her recipes for using Beyond Meat and other creative content.
In the developed world, almost anyone can get financing for, say, a car lease. But in an emerging economy like South Africa, the only people who own cars or can…
I started a startup in Pakistan with a couple of co-founders a few years ago. One of the co-founders and I want to move to the United States to access…
Back in October 2021, Stripe announced that it would be re-entering the cryptocurrency market — ending a four-year hiatus with hype around crypto definitely not abating. Today, some six months…
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Mayfield’s Arvind Gupta discusses startup fundraising during a downturn
“It’s important as an investor to be extremely humble, because we’re going to be wrong a lot. I have this phrase that I use all the time: knowledge competes with imagination.”
Both my co-founder and I have E-2 status. We need to find a quick visa option, as a VC investment will dilute our equity and we will no longer be…
Daily Crunch: Identity-as-a-service platform Okta says it ‘contained’ network breach in January
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For self-driving cars and other applications developed using AI, you need what’s known as “deep learning”, the core concepts of which emerged in the ’50s. This requires training models based…
SoftBank, a Japanese conglomerate, announced today that it has an uncapped, evergreen fund made explicitly to back Black, Latinx and Native American entrepreneurs within the United States. The commitment is…
Pareto’s team of data experts offer actionable insights on everything from TikTok influencers to qualifying B2B sales leads.
For most products, TAM is presented in nine figures or more, but when you’re planning to disrupt a billion-dollar market, these numbers can create a lot of cognitive dissonance.
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My co-founder and I have E-2 status and we’re expecting a VC investment. We are interested in International Entrepreneur Parole, but we’re concerned about timing. Should we consider an alternative?
NZVC’s fund is targeting the seed to Series A gap to help New Zealand companies grow.
Cococart’s tools enable merchants to set up an online store in minutes with no code, no design and no app downloads.
The first hire at our SaaS startup was not an engineer. It might seem counterintuitive, but the first person on board at Wingback was a Fractional Head of Remote —…
bloss is a U.K. startup that connects would-be or existing parents to pre-vetted parenting experts. It has now raised £1million in a pre-seed round led by Antler, the early-stage VC,…
Fathom, a startup that is building an AI notetaker for Zoom, today announced that it has raised a $4.7 million seed round from a range of early-stage investors, including Zoom’s…
Entrepreneur John Roa believes in the value of privacy. After selling his design consultancy, ÄKTA, to Salesforce in 2015, he decided to spend a few years “off the grid” on…
From my point of view as an angel investor and former entrepreneur, here are five essential factors I look for when considering my next investment.
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Could Supernova be an ‘ethical alternative’ to the social media giants?
Supernova is a new app that has now gone live on the Apple and Android app stores, billing itself as a new “ethical alternative” to Instagram and Facebook, where most of the ad revenues go to charities. Does it have a chance? It would be fair to say that after…
We pretend the startup has value so that the startup’s team is motivated and everyone involved has a chance to win.
Expanding internationally can exponentially impact your bottom line, business and brand. Scaling your business beyond borders, however, is a path riddled with obstacles.
For those who want to turn travel into dollars, Fora can help start your next career
Fora is one of the latest startups seeing venture capital attraction to push more of the travel industry into the digital age and tapping into the creator economy.
Entrepreneur First (EF), an accelerator-come-company builder, is partnering with the Tezos crypto platform to attract new potential founders to Web3. EF specializes in putting together early-career co-founders, developing their ideas…
Time and time again, tech’s most powerful companies have pushed the narrative that any threat to their own trillion(ish)-dollar businesses will trickle down, hurting the small companies that rely on…
