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Where would I go to invest in startups or emerging companies?

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While this has been a bit problematic given the current rules, as of late September 2013 (also thanks to the recent JOBS Act) it will finally be legal for companies to publicly announce that they’re raising money (technically this is called General Solicitation ).

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Will the most successful crowdfunding portals be restricted to accredited investors?

Gust

By definition, none of these are operational yet because they won’t be legal until the beginning of 2013, but there sure are a lot of folks throwing their hats into the ring here. I wouldn’t even hazard a guess in this group until we see who the players are, with their particular wrinkles and implementations.

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Jitx wants to change the way engineers design circuit boards using code

TechCrunch

The roots of the idea go back to work that Haldane was doing as a grad student in 2013. It was led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Y Combinator, Funders Club and Liquid 2. Jitx wants to bring automation to the design review process to test the design automatically, and move it into production more quickly.

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Ghanaian agtech Farmerline raises $1.5M from Dutch investor Oikocredit

TechCrunch

Founded in 2013 by Alloysius Attah and Emmanuel Owusu Addai , Farmerline works through agro-dealers, who are usually the first point of knowledge for farmers, in ensuring access to high-quality supplies, including fertilizer and seeds. It also uses that data to determine the amount of business expansion credit to give to agro-dealers.

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Are SAFE’s Truly Everywhere? The Role of SAFEs in Angel-Stage Deals

Angel Capital Association

Y Combinator, a leading incubator, invented the original (pre-money) SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) in 2013 to provide an easy, fast and cheap way to fund the dozens of startups comprising a Y/C batch. They’re apparently everywhere. And it is easy to understand why this perception persists. Their rationale was simple.

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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. The ecosystem has come a long way since I built my first startup in 2013.

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Silicon Valley is a surprisingly clubby ecosystem: FC's Alex Mittal

FundersClub

So how is Funders Club different than other VCs? There was a sense back in 2012 and 2013 that Bitcoin would also replace, like, Visa and MasterCard, sort of like the payment slayer. You talk about like finding or seeing some of the problems and inefficiencies and solving them, how is it different?

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