Tag: startups
Exclusive: Norwest Venture Partners has closed its $3 billion seventeenth fund
In 2019, Norwest partner Lisa Wu showed up at an L.A. restaurant to meet Ritual CEO and founder Kat Schneider. At the time, Schneider...
Venture group launches regional network from St. Pete • St Pete...
An Irvine, California-based venture capital group is expanding its national reach and has chosen St. Petersburg to host its southeastern network’s headquarters.
TCA Venture Group...
Investors Looking for That Start-Up Pop Can Do Better than Private...
About the author: Patrick McDonough is a managing director and portfolio manager for PGIM Quantitative Solutions, an affiliate of PGIM, the global asset management...
5 Steps To Survive A Difficult VC Funding Market
CB Insights, a leading research organization that tracks venture capital financings, recently released its report on the state of the venture capital market in...
VC associates can be vital to firms and founders—when they’re empowered...
If you pay attention to VC Twitter (or X, as it’s now called), you may have witnessed a heated debate recently: Should startup founders...
Founders, Forget Warm Intros — Here’s A Better Way To Get...
Admittedly, as a BIPOC female founder who didn’t previously work at tech companies such as Google or PayPal, I’m not the most networked in...
Why Investors Are Not Responding To Your Startup Pitch (With Advice)
Have you ever sent a cold pitch email to an investor only to wait in silence for a response? You are not alone, but...
Exclusive: Underscore VC closes its $58 million third fund as the...
I certainly haven’t. But Lily Lyman, Underscore VC managing partner, definitely has. She’s hard-pivoted international travel plans, while pregnant and en route to a...
Exclusive: AlleyCorp raises a $250 million fund, taking on external investors...
AlleyCorp has already incubated MongoDB, Gilt Groupe, Business Insider, and Zola. But the firm, led by longtime serial entrepreneur Kevin Ryan, aspires to more.
“The...