As a startup founder, one of the biggest challenges is securing funding to bring your ideas to life. Unfortunately, for female and minority founders, this challenge is even greater. …

To have this newsletter emailed to you, sign up here. Top startups news to follow this week: 1. Seattle VC firm Ascend raises $25M for second fund, plans to double down on AI Ascend is ready to help more startups fly. The Seattle-based pre-seed venture capital firm led by startup veteran Kirby Winfield on Tuesday announced a $25 million second fund. After two decades in leadership…

by Narine Emdjian, Founder of iFund Lab To have this article emailed to you, sign up here. SpaceX, the brainchild of Elon Musk, has become a household name in the world of space exploration. Today, SpaceX is one of the most innovative private space exploration companies in the world, with…

To have this newsletter emailed to you, sign up here. Top startups news to follow this week: 1. Home energy assessment startup Enter raises €19.4M Series A to expand in Germany and beyond Largely because of their age, houses in Europe can be notoriously hard to heat. Most were built for an era when the knowledge about energy consumption just wasn’t available in the way it…

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While Angel Investors and Venture Capital firms continue to be a prime choice for tech companies, one that many startups overlook is federal funding opportunities. Federal money is a non-dilutive capital that provides early-stage companies with technical feasibility and commercialization. In contrast to Venture Capital investments, federal capital is more…

To have this newsletter emailed to you, sign up here. Top startups news to follow this week: 1. AI chatbot Character.AI, with no revenue, raises $150 mln led by Andreessen Horowitz March 23 (Reuters) — Character.AI has raised $150 million in a new funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz that valued the AI chatbot startup at $1 billion, and it’s in talks with cloud…

To have this newsletter emailed to you, sign up here. Top startups news to follow this week: Google and Apple vets raise $17M for Fixie, a large language model startup based in Seattle The news: Fixie, a new Seattle-based startup aiming to help companies fuse large language models into their software stack, raised a $17 million seed round. The context: Large language models, or LLMs, are…

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