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7 investors reveal what’s hot in fintech in Q1 2023

TechCrunch

The global downturn has impacted every sector, but fintech bore the brunt of it as public-market valuations fell off a cliff last year. However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing.

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Banyan wants to unlock financing for a (more) sustainable future

TechCrunch

When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. The theory is that it will make investment in sustainable infrastructure a more attractive proposition, too.

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How Antler East Africa is building early-stage startups with experienced professionals

TechCrunch

” It helps founders build complementary co-founding teams, provides support with deep business model validation and a global platform for scaling their businesses. After six months of incubation, the firm invests in the teams they can help further. To date, Antler has invested in and helped build over 250 companies.

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Roofstock founder closes on $90M fund to back early-stage proptech startups

TechCrunch

So far, the firm has made five investments, backing startups such as construction tech startups Cottage and FlockHome s , and a Brazilian fintech company still in stealth. Feng Wang is head of capital markets at 1Sharpe and former founding team member of LendingHome.

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Urban Innovation Fund, VMG Catalyst among female-led firms raising new funds

TechCrunch

Prior to starting Urban Innovation Fund, Brenner was in commercial real estate development and met Lein, who was doing political polling and consulting, at business school at MIT. The firm invests in companies working on issues of livability, sustainability or economic vitality and often have a lot of regulatory and political challenges.

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How Do You Prove Product-Market Fit? A Pop Quiz

Battery Ventures

As head of business development for Battery, I help our earlier-stage portfolio companies find, and then refine, their product-market fit. This is a common problem our team finds during diligence of early-stage companies. Once you’ve got your foot in the door, are you expanding to multiple teams or departments within a company?

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Let’s talk about gaslighting and fundraising

TechCrunch

Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup. A few weeks ago, I wrote about the disconnect between due diligence and fundraising right now. The disconnect between Y Combinator Demo Day and due diligence. Okta launches a new free developer plan. Four strategies for getting attention from investors.