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Nasscom Announces Emerge 50 Winners: The Top 50 Most Innovative Indian Startups
Shweta Modgil — Inc42
- The year-long search for India’s Most Innovative Top 50 Emerging Software Product Companies culminated with the announcement of Nasscom Emerge 50 Awards 2017 yesterday.
Silicon Valley Bank’s Claire Lee: ‘Failure is often a necessity’
John Kennedy — Siliconrepublic.com
- Wicklow native Claire Lee is one of the most influential Irish people in the Silicon Valley investment scene. She tells John Kennedy how investing in people, not strictly in product, is an enduring trend in San Francisco.
Here are eight facts you should know about venture capital in South Africa
Ventureburn.com
- The value of venture capital (VC) investments rose by a whopping 134% to R872-million in 2016 over 2015, while ICT makes up 17% of the value of deals.
How to Build a Startup Ecosystem
George Deeb — Entrepreneur.com
- If you’re the only startup in town, it’s going to be tougher than if you’re launching in a healthy startup ecosystem.
10 Investors Who Are Authentically Committed To Funding Female Founders, Part 1
Lisa Wang — Forbes
- Half-hearted decency pledges, unkept promises to implement gender bias training, vague commitments to become more accessible, with so much noise and so little action, it’s hard to stay optimistic about the state of venture capital.
Deal of the week: Hevo Data
Catherine Shu — TechCrunch
- Hevo Data gets $1M in seed funding to streamline data integration.
From $16K in the bank to a new life
John Cook — GeekWire
- Startup’s ‘wild ride’ is a riveting tale of near failure and survival.
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