Fundraising

Despite being some of the most innovative and successful entrepreneurs in the business world, Black women continue to face significant obstacles when it comes to securing funding for their startups. Black women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the United States. However, studies have shown that they receive a…

Fear of failure prevents too many potential entrepreneurs. My startup failed, but my founder experience was still empowering and transformative. If you’re considering starting a company, I hope these lessons and reflections can make the journey less intimidating. Background I wanted to work in housing innovation after my MBA in 2019…

Building the Settlement Layer for Aptos DeFi — Econia Labs, a crypto startup building decentralized order book infrastructure on the Aptos blockchain, has raised a $6.5 million seed round led by Dragonfly, with participation from Lightspeed Faction, Aptos Labs, Wintermute Ventures, Hudson River Trading, Flow Traders, and others. The Econia protocol pools liquidity for optimal capital efficiency through…

TL;DR MyPocketSkill has closed its first round of funding, with participation from the LBS Angels network, Capital Angel Network, Capital Pilot Boost Fund, and co-investment from industry angels, taking its capital raised to £1.2m. They have skyrocketed in the last year, with over 80,000 sign-ups and 7,000 bookings completed on the…

TLDR Hambro Perks’ new venture debt fund completes £3m debt transaction. Essentia helps short and long-term investors mitigate bias, maintain investment discipline and make measurably better decisions. We were delighted to advise them on their raise Why Essentia Analytics? Investors struggle to make consistently good investment decisions. This is often due to behavioural biases…

by the Scribble team, in conversation with the founders of Titan, Aidaly, & Certn “We got rejected 110 times at our seed. There was a period for eight months where it was just soul crushing. But failure wasn’t an option.” — Joe Percoco, Co-CEO, Titan Fundraising is brutal, even for founders we now think of as iconic: Most VCs in Silicon Valley turned down Google. Jeff Bezos had to take 60 meetings to raise $1M for Amazon. …

Let’s unstigmatise GoFundMe There is an undercurrent of concern and stigma accompanying the use of GoFundMe to attract funding for whatever cause or issue you might have. …