Fund Raising
Karmijn Kapitaal announces the first close of its first private equity fund. Over 30 investors have invested in the fund. Karmijn's focus on companies with a balanced management team of men and women is new and unique in Europe.
The Next Women is organizing it's next Pitch Event on February 24, 2012 in Amsterdam in the beautiful Elicium (photo).The pitch events are designed to improve access to financial and professional networks for women entrepreneurs and to enhance and accelerate a faster growth of their business.Therefore, The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation supports this upcoming pitch event, because female entrepreneurs are a potential for growth.
It’s been a great 12 months for Lisa Falzone. Last year she
raised $3.7 million in her series "A" funding round; then last month at the Macworld
– iWorld event, her company Revel
Systems was officially announced as the winner of the Best iPad Business App of the Year Award.
A new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) looks at how new businesses and start-ups have
been raising money since the crisis.
With banks reluctant to provide loans to start-ups and venture capital firms preferring to invest in later stage companies, a growing class of experienced entrepreneurs and business people are stepping in to fill this funding gap.
These “angel investors” not only provide funding but also leverage their expertise to provide mentoring to the entrepreneurial teams in which they invest, according to a new OECD report.
100 interviews with entrepreneurs, policy makers and academics from 32 countries.
Financing High-Growth Firms: The Role of Angel Investors looks at angel investment around the world and includes over a hundred interviews with entrepreneurs, policy makers and academics from 32 countries.
Founder
Amanda Steinberg to Co-Present "How to Fund Your Business -- Should You
Bootstrap or Raise Capital?" Teleseminar on February 13th
DailyWorth, the top financial resource for women online, is poised to bring female entrepreneurs to the next level of business success with the launch of CreateWorth, the first-ever online newsletter for women that focuses on the financial nuts and bolts of building and scaling a profitable business.
Regine Harr, founder of Nelou, is a cool woman. Her fashion startup for independent designers in Berlin has a great following and now she wants to move to Sillicon Vally to speed up the growth and get connected even more. Time for an interview with The Next Women.
As part of the UK government's support package for women's
enterprise, Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone announced that £2million funding will soon be allocated
to support women entrepreneurs seeking to set up or expand their businesses in rural areas.
In the UK women are about half as likely as men to be engaged in entrepreneurial activity and women who say they intend to start a business are much less likely than men to translate their interest into action.
As a result the economy is not benefiting from the skills and talents of all and much of this potential is lost.
I kept seeing Taras name pop up on the listserv I am on. Then I had
the pleasure of meeting her face to face at a cocktail party. I really
wanted to hear her story so when she was in NYC we got together. I am
super excited for Tara because just this past week she closed a round of $325K
for her company Buyosphere,
where people help people shop.
Tara grew up in Alberta, Canada on a farm where is gets to be 30 below quite often. Her parents settled in that area of the world where her father put down roots as the local veternarian. Her mother was an artist so she grew up in a household with two entrepreneurs. She didn't go far from home after high school and went to college in Calgary studying communications and cultural studies.
Amadeus Capital Partners, Van den Ende & Deitmers and Business Growth Fund invest $25m in Unruly.
One of the world’s fastest growing social video distribution companies, Unruly, has attracted $25m funding from Amadeus Capital Partners, Van den Ende & Deitmers and Business Growth Fund.
Unruly has delivered a number of high profile social video campaigns for global brands, including Evian’s “Roller Babies” (the most viewed online advertisement ever) and T-Mobile’s “Life's for Sharing”.
A new group of angel investors are entering the world of informal investments, as The Pipeline Fellowship--which trains women philanthropists to become angel investors through education, mentoring, and practice--has just announced its 2012 NYC Pipeline Fellowship class.
Upcoming Events
24 Feb 2012 - 13:00 - 17:00Amsterdam, Netherlands
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