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💰Founders: Minority Business Micro-Grant has funding for you. Learn more below. Amount: $100 Deadline: Rolling https://lnkd.in/gsFxstAC

🎉 Congrats to Harmony AI (port co) on their recognition for finding a strong AI use case inside American Factories! https://lnkd.in/gTCgUGaf

📊 Investors: About 2 out of 3 unicorn IPOs in 2025 priced below their last private round. ➡️ Takeaways: Private prices ran ahead of reality. When exits come, expect resets and plan returns assumin...

🗓️ Investors, yeah. Early-stage investing often means making decisions with very little data. Hosting a 1-hour Investor Office Hours to compare how people actually form conviction when metrics are...

🗞 The February issue just dropped. This month: why 2026 feels like 2016 (hint: AI stopped being special, execution became everything), $950K in closes plus $1.4M in funding opportunities you can a...

💰Founders: Intuit QuickBooks x Mailchimp Small Business Hero Program (Phase 3) has funding for you. Learn more below. Amount: $20,000 Deadline: Feb 14 https://lnkd.in/ghSMK6vK

🎉 Congrats to LiquiDonate (port co) on being named TIME’s 2025 Best Invention! https://lnkd.in/gFcwXtEh

📊 Founders: You’re not really competing with “AI startups.” You’re competing with where the money flows. Big players at the top are pulling in most of the capital, attention, and talent. ➡️ What...

💰Founders: The Breakthrough Grant (Her Agenda) has funding for you. Learn more below. Amount: $5,000 Deadline: Jan 18 https://lnkd.in/gZhEvcaJ

🎉Congrats to Careerflow (port co) on their OpenAI award for leading innovation in the AI career services industry! https://lnkd.in/gaEy2iS9

📊 Founders: Valuation caps are all over the place, and to make things fuzzier, raising the same amount can lead to very different dilution outcomes. In post-money SAFEs, a $1-2M raise can mean ~10%...

🗓️ Founders, a lot of you are quietly wondering: “Raising feels harder. Is it me or the market?” I’m hosting a 1-hour Founder Office Hours to talk this through honestly without pitching or pretend...

🎉 Congrats to EngineEars (port co) on launching EngineEars Direct Direct Distribution! https://lnkd.in/gX6SAPFx

💰Founders: Amex Shop Small Grants has funding for you. Learn more below. Amount: $20,000 Deadline: Jan 16 https://lnkd.in/gHBXgXvk

📊 Investors: Smaller VC funds see LPs pay capital calls late more often. As fund size grows, late payments drop meaningfully. ➡️ Takeaways: Cash timing is a real risk at the small end. Build longe...

🎉Congrats Shappi (port co) for acquiring Comport Mi Maleta! https://lnkd.in/g4hZfYaE

💰Founders: NewSchools 2026 Grant has funding for you. Learn more below. Amount: Up to $250,000 Deadline: Jan 8 https://lnkd.in/gweUF-nF

🎉 Happy New Year! We're kicking off the year with our Ganas Ventures Global Tour Field Report. The Ganas Global Tour confirmed something many founders already know: venture capital is still mappe...

💰 Founders: learn more and apply for $5,000 from the ZenBusiness Grant Program by 1/01. https://lnkd.in/gYtVsM3Y

🎉 Huge congrats to Leadsales - named MIT Tech Review Innovators Under 35 LATAM and part of the LATAM AI 100 Early Stage list! https://lnkd.in/gHqx3j6N