Top 4 Curated Venture Capital Weekly Update: Feb 9, 2022 💰
🗒️ Low-code/no-code could reshape business innovation
VentureBeat: LCNC tools reflect the democratization of technology — and a huge shift in how we manage, promote, and feed innovation in our businesses.
🗒️ A Guide to Raising Venture Capital For Black Women
Business Insider: According to ProjectDiane, a biennial report on Black and Latina women founders, only 93 Black women founders raised $1 million or more in venture capital in 2021, highlighting the state of entrepreneurship for them.
🗒️ How and why to take the ‘social’ component of ESG seriously
VentureBeat: When it comes to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG), focus on the pillars that hold up society and uplift those in need.
🗒️ Private equity and venture capital have a 'B-word' problem
BizJournals: Paul Ford was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. But he never felt it was quite his speed.
The third-generation Californian spent some time in the Pacific Northwest and Tennessee before landing in Louisville, Kentucky, where he found the type environment he was looking for — a place where he could quietly scale the insurtech startup he co-founded outside the dog-eat-dog world of Silicon Valley.
Now, as founder and managing partner of DS9 Capital, Ford is looking to invest in other startups outside of the coasts. The portfolio management holding company is focused on building enduring and stable cash-flowing businesses in the insurance and healthcare technology space.
It's not necessarily just chasing unicorns as so many investors tend to be in this business.