StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. So, what exactly do those action steps look like? So, what exactly do those action steps look like? Let’s take a deeper look.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2023

Cocoon Capital, an investment firm from the same country, led the round. According to a report, investments in construction technology skyrocketed from $1 billion in 2017 to $10 billion in 2020, indicating a strong desire to leverage technological advancements for streamlined project execution and improved outcomes.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Damaris, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, is working hard to combine her love for her home country of Nicaragua and her love of tourism to give back to those in her country, providing employment and education opportunities across her community. “But I cannot change the world, but I can contribute to make it a better place to live.”.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 5, 2021

According to a 2017 survey by the FDIC, 25 percent of U.S. USV and many others in the tech sector, venture capital sector, and crypto sector have issued comment letters opposing this rulemaking. The issue is “unhosted wallets” and how regulated exchanges and other “hosted wallets” interact with them.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

For example, voice-powered ecommerce reached approximately $2 billion in 2017 and Gartner predicts that about 30% of web browsing will happen via voice (and without a screen) by 2020. In 2017, Medscape surveyed more than 14,000 physicians and found that 51% of them reported burnout, up from the 40% in 2013. Here’s a look at it:

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. Plastomics: St. Louis, MO St. Tania Seger, CEO of Plastomics , leads a company born of deep AgTech expertise in the region.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Nayleen, a 2017 YLAI fellow, is from a small rural village in the province of Los Santos, Panama. Before she began this project, she felt as if she had exhausted all her options, and when she participated as a 2017 fellow, YLAI showed her to never stop trying. By Elise Kemp.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 5, 2021

This study was based on a large sample of VC fund level returns from 2009 to 2017 and does not include the last few years which have been particularly strong for the VC sector. And I suspect it is getting more profitable, not less, as the capital markets and M&A markets are providing robust liquidity options for managers.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

billion user records that hackers compromised in 2017. Cybersecurity Venture Funding News Deepwatch, which provides managed security services, closed a $23 million Series A led by ABS Capital Partners. Sequoia Capital led the round. CI Security, a seven-year-old, Seattle, Wa.-based

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

I am so proud and humbled to be able to formally announce that Upfront Ventures has raised its 6th venture capital fund in the past 21 years. A huge thank you to all of the Limited Partners who have entrusted us with your capital, time and reputations. This brings our combined funds under management to nearly $2 billion.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

To combat this, Surcos Argentinos taught sustainable farming to impoverished families in villages far from the capital. Unfortunately, in 2017, Surcos Argentinos shut down due to a change in its business model, management, and mission.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

2017 YLAI Fellow Victor Rujano Bautista is the co-founder of Culturas Indígenas y Medio Ambiente Sustentable (CIMAS), an organization committed to promoting and defending the human rights of indigenous peoples and the protection of the environment in the Venezuelan state of Zulia. By Bryce Kelly.

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

million seed round in 2017, uses DSLR cameras and computer vision to create 3D experiences. IrisVR , which raised an $8 million Series A round from Emergence Capital, is built especially for the construction industry and allows users to take floor plans and turn them into VR experiences. The company, which raised a $1.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The crypto market is showing no signs of slowing down as funds and investors alike continue to deploy massive amounts of capital into the ecosystem. Today’s evidence of the trend: Dragonfly Capital, a crypto-centered investment firm, closed its third venture fund for $650 million, the firm’s managing partner, Haseeb Qureshi, told TechCrunch.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) on Dec 20, 2017 at 8:06am PST When you're Ample Hills Creamery , the #1 rated ice cream shop in the country you can pretty much throw everything you've been told about fundraising out the window. Adam Struck brought on significant additional capital from his network.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. In 2017, Softbank rounds caught folks’ attention. 5/ Early Effects Of The Softbank Effect.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The tech industry loves generalizations — and don’t worry, I enjoy my fair share too — but as the downturn continues to play out, it’s increasingly important to think about the structural changes that may be forming in the venture capital landscape. The autonomous vehicle startup raised $1 billion after launching in 2017.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The startup raised a total of $107 million from investors, including Highland Capital Partners, White Star Capital, Insight Venture Partners and Nestlé itself, which led the Series C in 2017. “It’s an evolution brought on by the pandemic but taking hold for the long term. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work. Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Avena, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, also offers advice for future entrepreneurs. Avena noticed the large-scale unemployment throughout Dominica, and her concerns were confirmed by the Central Development Bank in 2017 when Dominica was listed as one of the Caribbean countries with the highest unemployment rates.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2017

— Jeff Namnum (@namnum) December 8, 2017. Raising a first round of capital is as good a proxy for "Someone vouched for you and you're a legit founder doing cool stuff with actual resources to give it a shot." I'm trying to bring together every single founder in NYC who raised their first $500k or more of capital in 2017. (If

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

I was able to grow our monthly revenue by more than 30X in under two years without venture capital or angel investors.” – Michael Tindall “In 2017, two freelancer friends and I founded BigOrange, a firm supporting flexible work for women balancing motherhood, marathons, or other pursuits.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 28, 2019

Over the last year, the SEC has been investigating a significant number of token offerings that took place in 2017. Sadly, the SEC looks at crypto tokens and sees securities that they want to regulate as such. I have seen this play out in multiple projects and also in the exchange sector, which I posted about over the weekend.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Falcon Edge Capital led the new tranche of investment in the Indian startup, which has raised about $630 million to date, according to research firm Tracxn. According to rating agency ICRA, insurance products had reached less than 3% of the population as of 2017. An average Indian makes about $2,100 in a year, according to World Bank.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Lux Capital is leading the round, with Sequoia and Coatue investing in the company for the first time. These investors include Addition, Betaworks, AIX Ventures, Cygni Capital, Kevin Durant and Olivier Pomel. When I first covered the company in 2017, the startup was focused on a consumer app.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

In 2017, when Campos was in her early 20s, she learned to program and created a system to help manage her mental health. With its new capital, Yana is planning to “move away from the depression/anxiety narrative,” according to Campos. “We Mental health startups are raising spirits and venture capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Collectively , they have raised over $100 million in venture capital. SafeBoda has rarely announced any of its funding rounds since its inception in 2017, but people who know the company’s dealings say it has raised over $20 million. Google sets up $50M fund to invest in African startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. With $30 million raised in 2017 ($57 million total) we feel in a great position to execute against our ambitions and truly scale our operations although we know each new phases adds new challenges.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund , OpenAI says.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 12, 2025

Full contest details and the application also are at s tartup302.org.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Founded by Mark Straub and William Bares in 2017, Smile Identity is a major player in Africa’s ID verification and KYC compliance industry. In a February interview , Straub noted that Smile Identity would use the growth capital it had secured to expand its KYC capabilities into the market, among other things.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

The round also included a $5 million debt from Talanton and Verdant Capital Specialist Funds. Founded in 2017 by Hilda Moraa , Pezesha has built a scalable digital lending infrastructure that allows both traditional and non-traditional finance institutions to offer working capital to MSMEs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 21, 2023

Kent has more than 35 years of experience providing advisory services to executive-level management and is one of the first certified conscious capitalism consultants in the world. By 2017, the majority of employees reported significant improvements in how they were treated, a stark contrast from their response in 2015.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The fresh capital was led by an undisclosed global fintech fund with participation from existing investors East Ventures, GGV Capital, eWTP and Emtek. . Launched in 2017, Fuse connects insurance companies with multiple distribution channels and partners to make insurance services accessible and affordable through its technology.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

has declined every year since 2017, according to a recent report by Electric Capital. share of blockchain developers has fallen 2% per year in the last five years, dropping to 29% last year from 40% in 2017. Europe (excluding the United Kingdom) maintained a consistent share of around 29% during the five years from 2017 to 2022.

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