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Top 10 Emerging Marketplaces for Chemical Industry in 2022

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CheMondis was founded in 2017 in Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany by David Kunisch (LANXESS). In addition, it provides support services like integrated banking, finance, embedded logistics, and vetted suppliers. Additionally, it provides trade financing, intelligence, analytics, and ERP integration. from several investors.

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

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When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. “A startup could also give better deals to investors they expected to help them most&# – That is a quote from Paul on the “high resolution financing&# post.

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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

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Tightening of monetary policies has led to skyrocketing interest rates as central banks try to manage rampant running inflation, supply chain issues persist despite the fact that the pandemic is now in the rearview — and venture capital funding has looked to dry up almost overnight. Do Not Fear! This is an Opportunity!

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My Life as a CEO (and VC): Chief Psychologist

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Once you’ve been around for a few years, attracted some great people, landed real, paying customers and raised venture capital you’ve likely got a talented team around you. My first company was founded in Ireland, headquartered in England and had country operations in the UK, France & Germany.

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When Bad News Is Actually Good News

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For those of you not in the know, they are one of the largest limited partners ( LP's : investors in venture capital funds) in Europe and are basically in almost all the funds throughout the market. Further, a lot of former entrepreneurs are launching their own funds, such as Atomico or very recently Heiko Hubertz in Germany.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5 In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5

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How to Meet VC's

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Anyway, they passed on that, if I remember correctly turning their nose up at venture capital. :-) Yet, when Nils had launched Cellity, they came back to us to pitch this idea (together with Mangrove who had already injected seed money) and we eventually ended up investing shortly thereafter. We simply couldn't get a deal done there.