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Black Founders Matter presses VCs to pledge commitment to diversity

As a child, Marceau Michel always asked for a quarter. He knew if he kept asking for a quarter, he’d have a dollar one day. Then he’d be well on […]




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Zinc heads toward new $41M tech-for-good fund to back pre-team talent solving big problems

So-called “tech for good” accelerators addressing such worthy-sounding subjects as ESGs and SDGs have appeared in the last few years. Some observers have dismissed these efforts as scalable only to […]




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Mayfield’s Arvind Gupta discusses startup fundraising during a downturn

Between his roles as co-leader of Mayfield Fund’s engineering biology practice and founder at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta reviewed approximately 470 startup pitches last year. He characterizes his process as “simple,” […]




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Dear Sophie: How long does it take to get International Entrepreneur Parole?

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur […]




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Daily Crunch: Identity-as-a-service platform Okta says it ‘contained’ network breach in January

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Daily Crunch: 2 months after launching, São Paulo-based payments startup Yuno raises $10M

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The ‘art’ of VC startup valuations is a forgery

Scott Lenet Contributor More posts by this contributor 3 lies VCs tell ourselves about startup valuations Is there a creed in venture capital? Venture capitalists frequently say that valuing startups […]