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Your Techstars Venture Capital Weekly Digest is here! (Issue #32)

THIS WEEK: How This Lux Capital GP Went From The Obama Administration To Google To Investor—Plus, The
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Venture Capital
Trends in venture capital, newly launched VC Funds, Spotlight on VC Diversity and insights from VC's about raising money and building startups.
THIS WEEK: How This Lux Capital GP Went From The Obama Administration To Google To Investor—Plus, The Top 3 Characteristics Founders Should Look For In Investors / Leading robotics VCs talk about where they’re investing / David, Michael, and John: The Ten Most Common First Names For VC Partners In The U.S. / Emerging space: Digital freight brokerage / Canada Is Having A Record Year For VC Funding / The Emergence of Revenue-Based Venture Capital. As usual, we also cover articles on Diversity, fundraising/building tips for startups and announcements of new VC Funds.
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-Sergio

Leading robotics VCs talk about where they’re investing
The Valley’s affinity for robotics shows no signs of cooling. Technical enhancements through innovations like AI/ML, compute power and big data utilization continue to drive new performance milestones, efficiencies and use cases.
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David, Michael, and John: The Ten Most Common First Names For VC Partners In The U.S.
Let’s say you wanted to raise your (current or future) kid to be a venture capitalist. To be sure, this is a very dubious goal on your part, but let’s roll with it, for the sake of this tongue-in-cheek introduction.
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Emerging space: Digital freight brokerage
Digital freight brokerages are marketplaces that connect shipping entities and truckers via mobile apps.
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Canada Is Having A Record Year For VC Funding
Canadian venture capital funding is on a tear in 2019, and investments hit their highest point on record in the third quarter.
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The Emergence of Revenue-Based Venture Capital
The face of venture capital is changing and more startups are turning to new methods of fundraising to fuel their growth.
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Spotlight on Diversity
Techstars Partners with Harlem Capital to Fast-Track Success for Women and Minority-led Startups - Techstars
Techstars Partners with Harlem Capital to Fast-Track Success for Women and Minority-led Startups - Techstars
In partnership with Harlem Capital, Techstars Includes is an initiative aimed at increasing diversity and inclusion within the Techstars network and across global entrepreneurship communities. The partnership is part of Techstars’ larger commitment to support underrepresented entrepreneurs and create a more inclusive ecosystem, while also offering a diverse investment pipeline for HCP.
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The best places in the world to be a woman entrepreneur
The U.S. has emerged as the best place globally to be a woman entrepreneur, narrowly topping New Zealand, according to a new report from Mastercard.
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Dream Maker Ventures launches diversity program for underrepresented entrepreneurs
Dream Maker Ventures is launching a new partnership model with the Dream Legacy Foundation focused on programming for founders in marginalized communities.
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Nordic early-stage VC firm Unconventional Ventures to invest in startups led by founders from underrepresented groups
Unconventional Ventures, a Copenhagen-based investment firm set up to invest in Nordic early-stage startups led by founders from underrepresented groups, today announced it has raised €125,000 for its very first fund, Unconventional Ventures Pre-Fund 1 (UV PF1), and also discloses its recipient startups. 
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Building/Fundraising Tips for Entrepreneurs
Building an Investor Pipeline Spreadsheet
Raising capital is a major time suck for most founders. But it’s so much worse when a founder pitches the wrong deal to the wrong investor. These slides provid…
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Founder’s guide to the pre-IPO secondary market
The increase in activity in the pre-IPO secondary market means that founders, early employees, and investors are receiving liquidity much sooner in a company’s lifecycle than ever before…
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Why Gross Margins Matter | Two Sigma Ventures
Gross margin is a very important metric for Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. It allows startups to fund large investments in product and sales during periods of rapid growth and be profitable when growth slows.
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New Venture Capital Funds
Techstars Startup Digest Venture Capital is curated by:
Sergio A. Escobar Sergio A. Escobar - Canadian🇨🇦 Seed/Series-A Corporate Venture Capitalist | Pre-Seed/Seed Accelerator MD | Investing in B2B Intelligent Enterprise Software across US/Canada | Twitter: @SergiusEscobar
sergio.escobar@startupdigestmail.com
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