Big In Japan: How To Make It In The World's Third Largest Market
For any European startup with unicorn ambitions, international expansion is essential. But there is a certain predictability to where European founders tend to focus when looking to go global.
Venture Capital's Responsibility To Women
In 2020, startups led by women received only 2.3% of venture capital funds, not only is it a short figure but as a result of the pandemic, this fell 0.5% compared to 2019.
Startups Have $1T Worth Of Reasons To Like Biden Infrastructure Plan
The sweeping infrastructure package put forward by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it.
EU Deploys Region's Largest VC Fund To Create Local Unicorns
Europe has started deploying the largest venture capital fund ever created in the region, in its latest attempt to create health and deep-tech startups that will rival the U.S. and Asia.
Toyota VC Invests In AI Startups, Firms That Refine Everyday Processes
Toyota Motor Corp's first venture capital fund is investing in startups that help the Japanese automaker refine everyday processes by bringing sharper supply-chain management and robotics to the factory floor.
Investors May Be Leaving Bay Area, But Startups Staying Put
If venture capital investors leave the Bay Area for other parts of the country, will startup founders follow them? That's a question to ponder from the results of two different reports with seemingly conflicting conclusions.
SPAC Frenzy Emboldens Silicon Valley Startups To Forgo Enterprise Funding
SPACs flipped the script for the multidecade development model for early-stage startups so that young companies with little or no income can enter public markets earlier.
Investing In VC Funds Enables Women To Wield Power
While the amount of venture capital raised in 2020 by startups with female founders on the team is at an all-time high--$22.1 billion--the percentage of dollars is down from the record set in 2017.
Agriculture Venture Capital Raised Topped $26B In 2020
2020 was a bumper year for agriculture capital raising, amid and despite the global social, health and economic disruptions of covid-19. Startups raised $26.1 billion across 2707 deals in 2020, a 15.5% year-over-year increase.
VC Firms With SPACs Are Eyeing Startups They're Invested In
These days, extra enterprise capital companies are both forming their very own particular function acquisition corporations, or SPACs, or having inside conversations about doing so.