🗒️ Startups, Don’t Pin Your Hopes on VC Dry Powder Harvard Business Review: Venture funding for startups suffered a 50% year-over-year drop in the 3rd quarter of 2022. While most participants in the startup ecosystem were expecting a downturn, this dramatic pullback in deployment is sure to send chills down
🗒️ Venture capital funding for Mena start-ups hits $2.3bn and is on track to beat 2021 total The National News: Venture capital funding for start-ups in the Middle East and North Africa rose 20 per cent annually to more than $2.3 billion in the first three quarters of 2022,
🗒️ Founder-Friendly Investors: How Private Equity and Venture Capital Are Helping Founders Level Up Inc: WHETHER YOU NEED funding to help turn your startup into a successful business or to grow it into an industry leader, Inc.'s fourth annual Founder-Friendly Investors is a great place to start. Since we
🗒️ Crypto VC Pantera Capital Looks to Raise $1.25B for Second Blockchain Fund: Report Coindsk: Crypto venture capital investor Pantera Capital is looking to raise $1.25 billion for its second blockchain fund, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Pantera founder Dan Morehead said at a conference in Singapore that the fund
🗒️ Bootstrapping or venture capital: Which is the best way to fund startups? Yourstory: Venture capital investments in India grew four-fold in 2021 from the previous year as India’s startup ecosystem reached an inflection point. According to a YourStory analysis, the VC investments in the country reached a record high
🗒️ A Look Back at Our Letters to our LPs and Capital Exuberance Medium: When we started Aleph, I decided to take on the responsibility of writing the annual letter to our Limited Partners, our investors. I was inspired by Warren Buffett and Jeff Bezos, but also intimidated by these unique
🗒️ Bankman-Fried's FTX Unit Buys 30% of Scaramucci's SkyBridge Bloomberg: The venture capital unit of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX is taking a 30% stake in Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital. SkyBridge has been wading deeper into crypto through direct token acquisitions as well as private investments in
🗒️ Chinese private equity and venture capitals increase bets on carbon neutrality to ride wave of China's green transition Pingwest: As China's five-year plan (2021-2025) prioritizes green development and calls for change across its energy, manufacturing, and automotive sectors, Chinese private equity and venue capital are increasing
🗒️ Y Combinator alumni raise $80 million for DAO to back crypto startups Techcrunch: Groups of people seeking to invest together have been turning to the crypto-native DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) structure for a collective decision-making framework. While an investment DAO typically can only have up to 100 members in order
🗒️ Google invested a whopping $1.5B into blockchain companies since September Cointelegraph: Google parent company Alphabet poured the most amount of capital into the blockchain industry compared to any other public company, investing $1.5 billion between Sep. 2021 and Jun. 2022, a new report shows. In an updated blog
🗒️ Serena Williams will retire from tennis with a $260 million net worth and GOAT status. Next up: Her $111 million venture capital fund with nearly 60 investments Fortune: In a Vogue feature published Tuesday morning, tennis icon and 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams announced that she would be retiring
Introduction: venture capital is a hot topic these days. In the current financial landscape, venture capital is a hot topic. Family offices are allocating more and more of their resources to venture capital investments. One reason for this trend is that venture capital can offer high returns in a short