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The Venture Capital Diversity Gap and Why It Matters

StartupNation

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup. It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City. Think about venture capital. Don’t you think?

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

. “The invoicing company” “When they started, they didn’t position themselves so much as a startup or as a tech company,” recalls Skype founder Niklas Zennström, whose venture capital firm Atomico would eventually become a Klarna investor in 2012. People referred to them as the invoicing company.”.

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This fintech-focused VC firm just closed a $75 million debut fund; backers “came out of the woodwork”

TechCrunch

Mohnot sold a company, FeeFinders, to Groupon 2012]. I’ve invested in 90 companies as an angel investor and I think we’ve probably deployed more than $40 million between the two of us over the last five years leading up to BTV, including SPVs on top of angel investments. And all we do is fintech.

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Foreign investors have a bigger role to play in growing Latin America’s startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

Most Latin American companies reaching unicorn status and going public now were started around 2012. The amount of VC capital being funneled into Latin American startups has surged since 2017, with angel investment close behind. However, much of this investment comes from local and regional investors.

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Probable and Improbable Lobbying Wins: The 1,000-stockholder Rule

Gust

targets the Exchange Act requirement that is reportedly forcing Facebook to go public in early 2012. What may appear to be a hypertechnical set of amendments to obscure code sections ( Section 12(g)(1)(B) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 , anyone?)

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