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Lessons from a Diverse Venture Capital Portfolio

This is going to be BIG.

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the pre-seed and seed stage VC fund I run in NYC, has invested in 64 companies in the last six and a half years. The diversity is the direct result of our mission—to build the most accessible venture capital fund in NY. Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder. Five have LGBTQ+ founders.

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The Thin Skin of the Venture Capital Market

This is going to be BIG.

The fact is, it''s just not cool to criticize the investing side of the venture capital market. For the most part, journalists give startups a free pass when venture capital money is raised or when companies that clearly seem to have failed get "acquired". Venture Capital & Technology' doesn''t much matter.

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Weekly 24: Adventures in Venture Capital

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Are you actually ready to pitch? When pitching, the startup has to put a number on the table. He’s then founded other businesses including Code Untapped but his main focus is Impact X Capital which is all about funding underrepresented founders. Read more: How to Fundraise in Uncertain Times Are you truly ready to pitch?

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As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works

TechCrunch

At TechCrunch, it often seems as if every other startup story is about yet another fun company raising satchels full of venture capital. One is as a pitch coach for startups, and the other is as a reporter here at TechCrunch, which includes writing our fantastically popular Pitch Deck Teardown series. I have two day jobs.

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The oh-so-biased branding risk in venture capital

TechCrunch

One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias in venture capital has been a branding issue for some of the emerging, diverse fund managers just now splashing onto the scene. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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The slow-burn standardization of venture capital

TechCrunch

It took me a while, but I’m realizing that my startup love language is discussing any attempts to standardize the opaque and often informal world of venture capital. Or, as I covered this week, a tool for startups that lets companies simultaneously blast out the same application — or pitch — to multiple angel and pre-seed investors.

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How to Maximize Your Chances of Getting Venture Capital

Jason Malki

Raising venture capital is no easy task. There’s no point in trying to pitch a healthtech startup to a VC firm that exclusively invests in fintech companies. The more intel you have going into your pitch meeting, the better. Conclusion Raising venture capital is notoriously difficult?—?but And who knows?