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You can track emerging luxury brands from VC PR alone.

🤫 Everything “inventive” about Equal Ventures is a lesson learned from other firms Prepared Mind: Accel Keiretsu: Kleiner Perkins Hands-on: Benchmark Roadmapping: Bessemer Venture Partners Hatching: General Catalyst Known ingredients can create uniquely beautiful recipes when you find the way to make them work together

Scribble Ventures is a venture capital firm that prefers to make investments in seed-stage and early-stage companies operating in B2B, commercial services, information technology, healthcare, TMT, and SaaS sectors. They invest in Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A, and write initial checks of up to $1M. This allows Scribble to collaborate and co-invest with other angel investors and early-stage funds, so you can bring the best partners into your round. They understand operators because they are operators. Founders cap table should be an asset beyond the numbers. They’ve been on the inside of some of the best products and firms in the world, and they put that know-how to work for our founders. #venturecapital #firms #enterprenuers

"Venture funding in Australia was down in 2023 compared to the previous two years, but we will always invest in good companies" Are you a founder looking to raise capital who has heard this recently? And if so, are you not really sure what to do with that information? Each investor has their own nuances as to what makes a "good company", but there are universal truths that apply across all venture capital investors (and some that apply across all investment classes). Understanding what these universal truths are, and how they influence the decision making of investors, is invaluable when raising capital. Folklore Ventures have put together a Chapter on Capital Raising in which we're looking to arm early-stage founders (pre-seed to Series A) with this information. Application link below with more information - or dm with any questions

Cost of capital has gone up by almost 300+ per cent in the last couple of years, changing the landscape of investor expectations! Private Equity Funds who were invested in sunrise sectors and startups are loosing their patience, as the investment teams are required to report outcomes of their investment in 2024. Rising interest rates in US will continue to suck liquidity out of the market weeding out weak investments. Watch out this space for new trends in the near term! Green investing is definitely going to be a trend to watch. #ifrssustainability #ifrss1 #ifrss2 #greenfinance #greenbonds #esgreporting #circulareconomy

with the Raise Ventures team today talking about the benefits of corporates and start-ups collaborating

📉💡 What's ahead for early-stage start-ups? VC funding is down, and the angel investor pipeline might be drying up. 🤔💸 In the first half of this year, angel investing saw a dip, with only $71.6 million in funding for New Zealand's budding start-ups. 🇳🇿💰 Investors are carefully weighing in on the landscape for the year ahead. 🚀✨ #StartupInvesting #VCFundingTrends #NZStartups Learn more at www.techonwheels.co.nz! 🌐

Blackfinch Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in technology firms. Blackfinch Ventures invest across sectors in fledgling companies with great ideas, strong teams and environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns at their core. Firms operate across sectors, with offerings based on ground-breaking new concepts, using highly specialised technology. With the potential to change the way we live and work, they’re set to make an impact in global markets. Blackfinch Ventures co-invest with clients, together contributing to a positive impact. Blackfinch Ventures is supporting firms set to disrupt their market and make a difference to people’s lives. Blackfinch Ventures team works closely with businesses to help them succeed. #venturecapital #technology #startups #sectors #founders

Innovation Endeavors closes $630M for Fund V to invest at the intersection of science, and tech. Innovation Endeavors joins other venture capital firms like Thomvest Ventures and Myriad Venture Partners in announcing a new fund. This is the firm’s fifth fund and a whopping $630 million in capital commitments — the firm’s largest fund to date. The former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt started the firm in 2010 with Dror Berman, Scott Brady, and Rick Scanlon to invest in the intersection of science and technology. Think climate, intelligent software, engineering health, and supply chain. The firm intends to deploy capital into between 30 and 35 companies with this new fund, though it has not invested yet, Berman told TechCrunch. #venturecapital #fundraising #fundingnews #innovatingcapital

Akkadian adds two Partners + VP of RAISE Global Platform   As we continue to expand our capabilities and solidify our position for future growth, we are thrilled to introduce three talented professionals who have recently joined our team: Adam Marchick, Angela Stanley and Scott Dubin.   Adam Marchick joined as a Partner to lead efforts to expand our platform with a series of strategies that will leverage the extensive emerging manager community we have fostered through RAISE Global. The inaugural strategy will provide our Limited Partners with bespoke access to a select group of seed-stage AI-native managers from key entrepreneurial ecosystems.   Angela Stanley joined as a Partner to lead our investor relations & fundraising efforts across the platform. Angela has a long history with the Akkadian team, having assisted the firm in raising Funds IV and V. Angela brings more than 20 years of leadership, advisory and fundraising experience. She is the first investor relations professional in the history of the firm.   Scott Dubin joined as our new Vice President of the RAISE Global platform. In his new role, Scott will spearhead the growth and expansion of the platform, including the RAISE Global Summit, which for the last eight years has brought together nearly 500 limited and general partner leaders every October in the Presidio. Each of these individuals brings a wealth of experience and expertise that will undoubtedly enhance our ability to identify, nurture, and grow the next generation of transformative companies. About Akkadian: Founded in 2009, Akkadian is a multi-strategy venture firm based in San Francisco with $750M+ AUM. We closed our sixth growth-stage venture secondaries fund in 2022 with approximately $300M in capital commitments, exceeding our target of $175M. #growthstagevc #secondaries #venturecapital #raiseconference #emergingmanagers