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Announcing our seed investment into Defined, a programable data platform for DeFi

Version One Ventures

round with participation from Mark Cuban, Balaji Srinivasan, Tiny Capital, Compound, Inflection, Portico Ventures, Capital 6, Rasool Rayani, and Kamunting Street Capital. Such a rich ecosystem of community-driven tools will be key to unlocking the next level of growth and maturity for DeFi. We led the $2.5m

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Are MBA Founders More Diverse?

View from Seed

Gender diversity in entrepreneurship has been a high-visibility topic of late, in both the media and venture community. of venture capital went to companies with only female founders (Pitchbook, October 2018). 17% of venture capital went to companies with at least one female founder (Crunchbase, January 2019).

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

I can’t wait to see what 2020 brings! Early on in the year we started out by refreshing the look and feel our influencer dashboards, launching a competitive referral program. years of existence, and with the launch of a series A investment in 2020 I can only imagine how far we’ll go. Lancaster ! #2- 5- Two things.

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3rd Annual Women in Tech Summit Examines Strength, Fundraising & Diversity

Austin Startup

 —  @CFWoman Dealing with Investors, Pushing for Innovation & Easing Generational Tensions Navigating & Pitching to Venture Capitalists If Venture Capital intimidates you, you’re not alone. They are giving us some serious laughs?? added our Keynote speaker, Vanessa Liu, Vice President of SAP.iO

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. 6:00 PM Capital Factory?—?16th

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

trillion in 2020. Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. Six of the ten cities who gained the most during COVID were in Texas. Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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