Funding Innovation in a Time of Crisis: VCs and LPs Weigh In on 3 Key Trends
By: Janine Marderian, Jun 25th 2020, on Medium “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...
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, May 29th 2020, on Medium As the international community works to slow the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic effects are...
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, Apr 9th, 2020 on Medium 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...
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, September 6th 2019, on Medium How Annie Theriault got to Grand Challenges Canada(GCC) is not how most people find themselves working at a nonprofit organization...
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, May 3rd 2019, on Medium 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...
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...
Great ideas don’t have a gender: Endeavor Catalyst, the global growth VC, commits to The Billion Dollar Fund for Women™
By: Karina Chan, March 8th 2019, on Medium Great ideas don’t have a gender. “The first year, we were very scrappy. We went to where our customers were. At 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. — that’s when shifts change — we put on our scrubs, parked a coffee cart outside of a hospital,...
Rethink Impact: The New Face of Impact Investing & 12 Predictions for 2019!
The future truly is female. “Two-thirds of wealth in the US is going to be controlled by women by 2030,[1] and there will be a massive intergenerational shift of wealth to millennials. Both Millennials and women tend to care more about the makeup of the companies that...
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