A Time of Racial Reckoning: Can Venture Capital Heal Itself?
By: Sarah Chen Are we just reading off talking points to pacify the marketplace, placing a bandaid over a deep wound that has been inflicted again and again over the last 400 years; or are we committed to working on real, systemic, institutionalized change? What does...
Four Lessons on (Actually) Scaling Inclusive Innovation
By: Janine Marderian In partnership with Mastercard, Beyond the Billion™ (BTB), a global consortium of venture funds that have pledged more than $1 billion to be invested into women-founded companies, hosted a conversation with a panel of expert changemakers who are...
Funding Innovation in a Time of Crisis: VCs and LPs Weigh In on 3 Key Trends
By: Janine Marderian “Investing in women and people of color isn’t a nice-to-have; it is essential for sustainable innovation”- Ann Cairns In partnership with Mastercard, Beyond the Billion (BTB), a global consortium of venture funds that have pledged beyond $1bn to...
What’s Next for Venture: Navigating COVID-19 with Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis
Kay-Mok Ku of Gobi Partners on Diversification, Adversity, and Why Women are Resilient in Times of Crisis — A View from Asia By: Janine Marderian As the international community works to slow the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic effects are compounding around the world...
Why more than ever, we need to fuel innovation by women: female-founded and led companies building the post-COVID-19 world
By: Sarah Chen The sentiment on the ground is increasingly grim to say the least, with further extensions of stay-at-home orders across the globe, even amidst protests by locals. COVID-19 has reshaped our view of normalcy and in many ways impacted the way we think...
Annie Theriault: Using Creative Approaches Venture Capital to Turn Both Profit and Impact
How the business of making money and making impact converge at Grand Challenges Canada By: Karina Chan How Annie Theriault got to Grand Challenges Canada(GCC) is not how most people find themselves working at a nonprofit organization funding critical health and...
The Other Side of the Venture Capital Equation: Five Things You Didn’t Know About The Next Generation of VCs
By: Karina Chan, July 5th 2019, On Medium Venture Capital funding has gotten much flack for investing its dollars by pattern matching, thus resulting in a predominantly white, male, tech pool of entrepreneurs with access to capital. Female founders only got 2.2% of...
The Future of Computing and Venture Capital with Martina Welkhoff, WXR
By: Karina Chan The Billion Dollar Fund’s featured female funder of the month is an entrepreneur with an exit under her belt, an advocate for diversity and inclusion, and most importantly a co-founder of a fund primed to bring the future of technology into...
Dear Young Founders, Read These 8 Tips From a VC Before You Approach Your Next Investor.
By: Karina Chan, April 5th 2019, on Medium The leaders of Unicorn companies have the brilliance and star power that have brought them to where they are today: Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell etc. Rebelling against the norm, something people seem to never fail...
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