Tag: entrepreneurship
Show off your startup at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
Remember when “mobility” meant laptops and cell phones? Those were quaint times. Now the category encompasses the future of transportation — everything from flying cars and autonomous vehicles to delivery bots and beyond. There’s no better place to explore this rapidly moving industry than TC Sessions: Mobility 2020, our day-long…
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TLcom Capital closes $71M Africa fund with plans to back 12 startups
VC firm TLcom Capital has closed its Tide Africa Fund at $71 million with plans to make up to 12 startup investments over the next 18 months. The group — with offices in London, Lagos, and Nairobi — is looking for tech enabled, revenue driven ventures in Africa from seed-stage…
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Three years after raising $450 million, Andreessen is back with a new $750 million life sciences fund
Life sciences is big business in venture capital land and firms are raising big dollars to find the companies that will lead the next healthcare revolution. Chief among them is Andreessen Horowitz, which announced its third life sciences fund with a $750 million final close earlier today. Andreessen went back…
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Last chance: Only a few tickets left to Winter Party at Galvanize This Friday
This is it, startup fans. It’s your very last chance to scoop up the few remaining tickets to our 3rd Annual Winter Party at Galvanize — the best Silicon startup soiree bar none. If you want to join this fun gathering of 1,000+ likeminded startuppers on February 7, you’d best act…
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Being a child actress prepared me for a career in venture capital
A great investor needs to be comfortable operating independent of the pack Crystal McKellar 9 hours Crystal McKellar Contributor Crystal is the founder and managing partner of Anathem Ventures, and is passionate about finding and funding great teams that have developed breakthrough technology that they are pragmatically leveraging to win…
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All eyes are on the next liquidity event when it comes to space startups
At the FAA’s 23rd Annual Commercial Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, DC on Wednesday, a panel dedicated to the topic of trends in VC around space startups touched on public vs. private funding, the right kinds of space companies that should even be considering venture funding, and, perhaps most…
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