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What Do LPs Think of the Venture Capital Markets for 2016?

Both Sides of the Table

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems. …But LPs Have Been Putting Out More Money Than They Are Getting Back.

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What minority founders must consider before entering the venture-backed startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Or will we have to repeat the same conversations about representation failings within VC funds? Make serious headway with accelerators.

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Taking stock of the VC industry’s progress on diversity, equity and inclusion

TechCrunch

A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem. The startup community must defend merit-based immigration. Let’s be clear: The venture capital industry has lacked diversity. The good news is the industry is working to improve itself.

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How Pariti is connecting founders with capital, resources and talent in emerging markets

TechCrunch

According to Startup Genome , Beijing, London, Silicon Valley, Stockholm, Tel Aviv are some of the world’s best startup ecosystems. Startup ecosystems from emerging markets excluding China and India didn’t make the organisations’ top 40 list last year. . ” Pariti’s investor platform.

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500 Global spreads its wings across the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, via Tbilisi

TechCrunch

However, it’s in Eastern Europe that — I think, at least — that accelerators have their best effect in markets where where the tech startup ecosystem barely exists, if at all. As part of this they have bagged a former partner at Shilling VC in Lisbon, Pedro Santos Vieira.

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7 investors discuss augmented reality and VR startup opportunities in 2020

TechCrunch

Meanwhile, few spaces were frothier in 2016 than virtual reality, but most VCs who gambled on VR following Facebook’s Oculus acquisition failed to strike it rich. Brayton Williams, Boost VC. Tipatat Chennavasin, The Venture Reality Fund. Brianne Kimmel, Work Life Ventures. Jacob Mullins, Shasta Ventures.

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Coral Capital closes third fund with $128M for startups in Japan

TechCrunch

“We want our founders to focus on building without the pressure of a VC looking for a quick exit,” Riney told TechCrunch. Riney and Sawayama, who were co-founders of 500 Startups Japan, launched their first fund in partnership with 500 Startups in February 2016.

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