Catching Up On Readings: VC Funding for Black Women Founders

This feature from Crunchbase News analyzes the trends in venture capital funding for startups led by black women, which reached a 5-year high of $494M this year. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Cybersecurity Funding

This feature from Crunchbase News analyzes the trends in global cybersecurity funding in the first half of 2021. The sector has been flooded with $9 billion in 309 deals in the first half of 2021, more than double the $4.4 billion in first half of 2020. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: IPOs in First Half 2021

This feature from Crunchbase News lists IPOs, direct listings, and SPACs in the first half of 2021 when 213 IPOs raised over $70 billion. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Supply Chain Top 25 for 2021

This report from Gartner lists the top 25 supply chain leaders and highlights their best practices. Cisco scored the top spot, followed by Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson, Schneider Electric, and Nestlé. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: E3 2021

This feature from Engadget brings to you the highlights of the online edition of the gaming event Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

534th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Jon Staenberg, Staenberg Venture Partners

Jon Staenberg, Managing Partner at Staenberg Venture Partners, discusses the trends he is seeing and investment thesis he is following.

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Catching Up On Readings: Mental Health Startup Funding

This feature from Forbes covers the exponential rise of funding for mental health startups. From $275 million in 2019, venture funding in mental health startups rose 5.5 times to $1.5 billion in 2020. For this week’s posts, click on paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: WWDC 2021

This feature from TechCrunch looks at what to expect from Apple’s virtual developer conference WWDC to be held from Monday June 7. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.