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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of audiovisual startup Chroma

TechCrunch

However, in 2013, Stone and the others shifted their focus to individual startups. In 2017, Stone publicly announced he was returning to Twitter to lead strategic vision, brand, and culture, where he remained until 2021. The two hit it off and began to have monthly calls after Stone’s angel investment. Chroma did.

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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

Making angel investments, raising small seed funds. A lot has changed since when I wrote my first check in 2013. You wait the longest for liquidity. You lose influence as larger investors come into the cap table and start throwing their weight around. It is where most people start out. We all now know how big the stakes are.

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6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021

TechCrunch

According to Briter Bridges , another publication that tracks VC investments in Africa, only 3% of the total funding raised by startups in Africa since 2013 has gone to all-women co-founded teams. Oh yes, I plan to make angel investments exclusively to female founders as soon ?as as yesterday!

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