Tag: early stage
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Venture Capital Needs To Clean House. But The Bones Are Good
Rebecca Lynn is a co-founder and general partner at Canvas Ventures. The Silicon Valley firm focuses on early-stage U.S. tech investments. Play a game of word association with anyone and say the words, “venture capital,” and I bet you would get answers like “sexual harassment,” “gender discrimination,” and “bro culture.” That’s because the dominating headlines…
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Open Innovation Generates Great Ideas, So Why Aren’t Companies Adopting Them?
Today, many companies see open innovation — a process for sharing knowledge and ideas with other organizations — as a core part of their strategy for developing new offerings. Examples include L’Oréal working with Renault on an electric “spa” concept car and auto-parts makers Delphi and Mobileye joining forces to produce an autonomous driving system. Many…
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E.BRICKS CRIA FUNDO DE INVESTIMENTO EM STARTUPS EARLY STAGE
Novo braço do grupo focará em startups com faturamento anual de até R$ 10 milhões A e.Bricks, operação de investimento em projetos digitais do Grupo RBS, anunciou o lançamento do seu fundo de early stage, focado em empresas em estágio inicial de desenvolvimento. O novo fundo investirá em startups desde a…
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Improving risk capital funding in Canada
Canadian entrepreneurs regularly cite a lack of financing options as a reason for Canada’s mediocre innovation performance. Certainly part of the problem has to do with the organization of risk capital markets. Canada’s public venture exchange (TSX-V) is biased toward junior resource listings. Canadian venture capital firms often lack the scale and expertise to fund…