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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. We live in a hostile world and it’s now a tech-enabled hostile world. Ten years on much has changed. The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011.

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All Investing Has Impact

This is going to be BIG.

Marketplaces like Etsy enable hundreds of thousands of craftspeople to find sellers for their goods. What that means is that many of the funders of this industry wind up being rich white dudes or family offices of rich white dudes, hence where the dollars are flowing for new business opportunities. Leave no trace. it mentioned.

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The ACA 2021 Innovation Funders Showcase Pre-Summit Kick-Off and Deeper Dive Feature Groundbreaking Companies

Angel Capital Association

Chiara Renella-Brooks, ACA Partnership Director Incredible Companies Built by Women Highlighted During the Innovation Funders Showcase Deeper Dive This year’s ninth Annual ACA Summit Innovation Funders Showcase opened ACA Summit week with many exciting new twists!

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Aqua Cultured Foods Raises $2.1M

HPA

With this funding, Aqua Cultured Foods will accelerate research and development to enable commercialization of its whole-muscle cut, sushi-quality filets of various tuna and whitefish, popcorn shrimp, calamari, and scallop alternatives from its novel protein fermentation technology. We look forward to the exciting growth ahead.

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Vista Equity Partners AI Hackathon Winners Announced

American Entrepreneurship

The winners in six categories are: Bonterra , Best Overall, used Large Language Models (LLMs) to streamline the grant review process for funders, a major challenge in the grant-making space.

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Marco Financial raises $82M in debt, equity seed round to support small Latin American exporters

TechCrunch

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Marco’s factoring product enables new companies to get started without having to put up the significant amount of collateral that banks are asking.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Beth Zimmer

Ecosystem Builder Hub

This space, so far, enables me to do that. Today, I have asked some key funders to consider requiring ecosystem asks vs asks from individual organizations. The notion of working with others to apply impactful solutions to regional and national economic challenges is very energizing to me.