Tag: venture capital
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The future of car ownership: Building an online dealership
Purchasing a car is debilitating. Dealerships will be the worst, and the choices are endless. The rise of the Internet generated powerful tools for shoppers, however in the end, most buyers still need to trudge down to your great deal. For this series of articles, TechCrunch talked with several investors and founders attempting to rethink…
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Part fund, part accelerator, Contrary Capital invests in student entrepreneurs
First Round Capital has both the Dorm Room Fund and the Graduate Fund. General Catalyst has Rough Draft Ventures. And Prototype Capital and a few other micro-funds focus on investing in student founders, but overall, there’s a shortage of capital set aside for entrepreneurs still making their way through school. Contrary Capital, a soon-to-be San…
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To fund Y Combinator’s top startups, VCs scoop them before Demo Day
Hundreds gathered this week at San Francisco’s Pier 48 to observe the more than 200 companies in Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 cohort present their two-minute pitches. The audience of venture capitalists, who jointly manage hundreds of billions of dollars, noted their favorites. The very best investors, however, had already had their pick of the litter.…
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Startups Weekly: VCs celebrate the new year the only way they know how
Venture capitalists declared in the new year that the only way they know how… by distributing SEC paperwork for new funding! Insert party hat/confetti emoji here. As many of us brainstormed our New Year’s resolutions and allow our hangovers wear off, many firms began this week exactly what for some is a long and arduous process…
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Los Angeles investors and entrepreneurs launch PledgeLA, a diversity and inclusion program
In an effort to improve diversity and inclusion efforts and civic participation between the growing technology industry in Los Angeles along with the community which surrounds it, over 80 venture capitalists and entrepreneurs joined the city’s mayor, Eric Garcetti, along with also the non-profit Annenberg Foundation to announce PledgeLA. The initiative is 1 way where…
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African financial technology startups move beyond payment services
Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and Writer in New York City. He’s co-author of all The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor Africa Roundup: Paga moves global and 4 startups increase $99M in VC Polestar unveils first Manufacturing EV with intention to overtake Tesla If cellular money was the primary stage…