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Bringing VC-Style Investment to the Creative Economy

Meg Massey — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:00:00 +0000

The creative economy and its local flavor is the next frontier for impact investors. This article is part of the daily Karma newsletter. To get the whole newsletter delivered to your email free every morning, subscribe here. Describing art as an investment evokes buying a Georgia O’Keeffe and letting its value appreciate under glass until […]

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VC Firm Launches Amid Pandemic to Boost Women, Minority Entrepreneurs

Neanda Salvaterra — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

GameAbove Capital aims at investing in minority- and women-owned businesses with a focus on sustainability. Started by CapStone Holdings, GameAbove is deploying $50 million amid the economic downturn that is hurting small and medium-sized companies. COVID-19’s spread is exacerbating conditions for female and minority entrepreneurs who have struggled to access capital in the past. […]

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NYC Seed Investors Aren’t Slowing Startup Funding Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Mark Shenk — Wed, 27 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

COVID-19 hasn’t slowed seed investors in New York. Changes in behavior triggered by the pandemic are an opportunity for telehealth, work-from-home startups with ideas that meet these new challenges. While it’s too early to predict the long-term impact of the coronavirus on the economy and behaviors, seed investors remain bullish about the prospects of New […]

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Female-Led Startups Attract More VC Attention, but Progress Is Slow

Bruce Rule — Thu, 14 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Startups led by women attract more venture capital, but gap remains wide Opportunities for non-technical female entrepreneurs are growing, Partech says While the overall number of female-led startups getting cash increased, the percentage of dollars invested remains stagnant Female-led startups are attracting more venture capital investors, but progress toward gender parity in acquiring funding remains […]

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COVID-19 Accelerates Move to Impact Investing, Says Partech’s Lavault

Bruce Rule — Thu, 07 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

The pandemic will accelerate an emphasis on social impact investing, Partech’s Lavault says Post-pandemic funds being announced are focusing on areas that align with ESG principles Impact investing may become the norm after people in lockdown have time to consider what is important in their lives and to commit to investing with purpose. Impact investing […]

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COVID-19 Testing Funding Growing, But Ramp-Up Is Slow

Neanda Salvaterra — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Investments aimed at scaling-up COVID-19 testing are growing but can be difficult to access. Testing and isolating people who may be infected with COVID-19 is key to reopening the global economy. The U.S. may need to ramp up testing capacity to anywhere between 5 million to 30 million tests a day. Investments aimed at curbing […]

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Five Ways to Use Venture Capital in the COVID-19 Era

Meg Massey — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000

“Venture capital” brings to mind Silicon Valley and the Scrooge McDuck piles of money created by the lucky few who made early bets on Uber or Facebook. That traditional approach, in which VCs make a number of equity bets in one portfolio in hopes of finding a unicorn, is great for high-risk, high-reward ventures with […]

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Europe’s Unicorns Fly High As Fundraising Hit Record Last Year on Greensill, OneWeb

Mark Shenk — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 02:54:39 +0000

Unicorns may still have wings, at least in Europe, as record funds were raised last year on rising demand for financial services, satellite and battery startups, fueled by capital from the U.S., Europe and Asia. European unicorn companies took in $11.9 billion last year, nearly double the more than the $6.6 billion received in 2018, […]

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Private Equity Investment in India Jumped to Record, Even as Economy Cools, on Infrastructure Bets

Mark Shenk — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:56:25 +0000

Investors’ faith that India would keep building was on display in 2019, even as forecasts project growth to cool even further. Buoyed by a surge in infrastructure-focused deals, private equity investments gained 2.8% to $37 billion, according to Venture Intelligence, an Indian research and analysis firm. The previous high was 2018’s $36 billion. The number […]

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Hedge Funds, Sovereign Funds are Flush With Cash and Chasing U.S. Startups Like Chime, DataBricks

Margot Habiby — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 20:31:01 +0000

Venture capitalists are flush and looking for deals among U.S. startups. Nontraditional investors like hedge funds and sovereign-wealth funds are competing for equity in startup companies, and that’s helping spur the market, The Financial Times reported. “For the best companies, the money spigot is wide open,” Mark Goldberg, a San Francisco-based partner at Index Ventures, […]

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