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Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice

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I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? This isn’t surprising.

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

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Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. 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. Sesie Bonsi.

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Dispatches from the Road: Q2 2022

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miles to visit founders, college campuses, co-investors, ecosystem builders, and communities in rising cities. co-chairman of the inaugural Raleigh-Durham Startup Week, former EIR of Techstars, and co-founder of MapQuest?—?for for a keynote Q&A on rising ecosystems and why he’s bullish on the Triangle.

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What I did on my summer vacation: The First LP Close ($3.5mm) of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

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Back when I was pitching my previous startup to investors, it had never really dawned on me that they had experienced what I was going through--and that a VC firm was essentially a startup. VCs pitch for money, too. No one ever thinks about VCs having to pitch, who they pitch to, or how it works.

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After a record 2022, 8 investors explain why it’s ‘still just Day 1’ for Africa’s startup ecosystem

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“This shows that Africa’s investment landscape is still very promising because it continues to grow, and there’s increasing interest in multiple startup ecosystems, including nascent ecosystems. Having 1,000 active investors is not enough,” said Stephen Deng, founder and partner of DFS Lab. “We

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

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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. . A three-way marketplace.

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Entrepreneurship In Latin America

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

It is a little known part of my career, but for a brief period from 1997 to 2001, I was part of a small group of investors who helped to create a startup ecosystem in Latin America. I was reminded of all of that history yesterday as our firm listened to a pitch by a Latin American team that is building a very exciting company.