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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

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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Next Level Entrepreneurship: Investing in a New Generation of Startups

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation. “We Ravi Machani , an EO member in Bangalore, India, is one entrepreneur who has done so admirably.

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Singapore’s Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India Raise $541M, Prioritizes Women-Led Startups

AsiaTechDaily

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (VVSEAI) was founded in 2010 to drive innovation and support scalable businesses in the Southeast Asian and Indian regions. With a strong focus on identifying and backing high-growth, early-stage startups, VVSEAI has become a prominent player in the Southeast Asian and Indian startup ecosystems.

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Employment Hero raises $181M AUD at $1.25B AUD valuation, acquires KeyPay

TechCrunch

KeyPay was founded in 2010 by Phil Bernie, Richard McLean, Paul Duran and Kristian Reynolds, and is active in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and the United Kingdom, which Employment Hero said will help it grow in those markets. New Zealand’s startup ecosystem poised to grow more ‘tall poppies’

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

There is every likelihood that Zennström’s Atomico would have joined Klarna’s cap table in 2010 if it weren’t for a single line of text published on the VC firm’s website, which read something like, “don’t contact us, we’ll contact you.”

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The Venture Capital Diversity Gap and Why It Matters

StartupNation

Along with founding multiple angel investment networks and venture funds, my experience in the world of VC has allowed me to work with hundreds of global companies to inject millions of dollars of capital into the startup ecosystem. I’ve created 15 funds in the last year alone. .

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Concurrently, the number of funds raised in the eight-year period up to 2022 was 2,700 , up from 883 in 2010. The most notable example was allegations of fraud at Newchip , a popular virtual startup accelerator. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x growth from 2020 to 2021. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined.