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Three ways VC firms can construct sustainably diverse portfolios
Leslie Feinzaig Contributor Venture capital has a diversity problem: Data show that Black and Latinx founders received just 2.6% of overall funding in 2020. Women-founded teams received nearly 30% less funding in 2020 than they did in 2019. For decades, a close-knit community of brilliant but like-minded individuals built a…
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Hack takes: A CISO and a hacker detail how they’d respond to the Exchange breach
Aaron Fosdick Contributor Aaron Fosdick is CISO at Randori, a cybersecurity firm that provides offensive security services. David Wolpoff Contributor A career hacker, David “Moose” Wolpoff is CTO and co-founder of Randori, a company building a continuous red-teaming platform. The cyber world has entered a new era in which attacks…
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Tech in Mexico: A confluence of Latin America, the US and Asia
Kevin Xu Contributor Kevin Xu is an early-stage investor and founder of Interconnected, a bilingual newsletter covering tech, business and U.S.-Asia relations. Mexico has been known as an up-and-coming tech hub and a gateway to the Latin American market. As an investor focused on developer-centered products, open-source startups and infrastructure…
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Startups must curb bureaucracy to ensure agile data governance
Jon Loyens Contributor Jon Loyens is chief product officer and co-founder of Data.World. By now, all companies are fundamentally data driven. This is true regardless of whether they operate in the tech space. Therefore, it makes sense to examine the role data management plays in bolstering — and, for that…
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Knowing when your startup should go all-in on business development
Mike Ghaffary Contributor Mike Ghaffary joined Canvas Ventures as a general partner in 2019, where he invests in innovation for consumers and software. There’s a persistent fallacy swirling around that any startup growing pain or scaling problem can be solved with business development. That’s frankly not true. Business development is…
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NFTs are part of a larger economic development in finance capital
Dominik Schiener Contributor Dominik Schiener is co-founder and chairman of the IOTA Foundation. He has been in the blockchain space since 2011, with several startups in Switzerland, the U.K. and Germany. His primary focus is how to improve physical infrastructure with digital infrastructure such as DLT and AI. More posts…
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