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Today is my 10-year anniversary in VC, as I launched @IrishAngels on Oct. 27, 2012.
Hundreds of investments, mistakes, and triumphs later, I am grateful to the LPs, angels, founders, co-investors, and team who have made this an incredible journey.
Here's to the next 10!✨✨
To all of our friends in the Chicago startup and venture community: Celebrate Halloween w/ a Costume Party that gathers the Chicago innovation and tech community for an evening of fun & fantasy. 10/27 Get your ticket today: https://t.co/pQSzaQN9At
.@TaycoBrace today announced that it has raised $1.2 million in seed round financing. Investors participating in the round include @ElevateIN, @IrishAngels, @NotreDame's Pit Road Fund & angel investors. https://t.co/cpF1rmqAjc
2. Founding teams with a founder of color also outperformed all-white founding teams 79% to 54%
Lots of work to do, but we hope by sharing this, more companies are encouraged to invest in diversity.
Diversity matters.
Our Diversity Committee impacts IrishAngels by positively driving diversity in thought, membership, deal sourcing, and investments.
With our Diversity Committee, we have 5 goals:
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For our portfolio, we use a six-tier rank to assess their current performance, and here's what we've seen:
1. Founding teams with a female founder outperformed all-male teams with 78% ranking in the top two tiers for teams with a female founder vs. 55% for all-male teams
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BIG NEWS! We're looking for a new Managing Director for our 200+ member angel group!
After 9 years and much success, IrishAngels founding MD @galeforceVC is stepping away to run @VitalizeVC full-time as their fund gains momentum.
Job description 👇
https://t.co/XB27acCo51
Early last month we surveyed 1,000 U.S. workers with a mission of better understanding patterns of witnessing, responding to, and reporting wrongdoing in the workplace.
Here are just a few of our key findings!
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Did you know that 99% of paper coupons are never redeemed? Popwallet founder and CEO, @eliasguerra talks #CPG, digital #coupons, and the perks of mobile wallet solutions with the @foodinstitute.
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Did you know that 77% of customers would recommend a brand to a friend after having a single positive experience? What are you doing to make the shipping experience better? #positiveexperience#referrals https://t.co/uGIOo0i6PG
Findings from the CX Revolution in Retail report by @Talkdesk analyzed responses of more than 1,200 retail customers to draw insights on which elements of the in-store customer experience retailers should pay special attention to. https://t.co/CWBH1hbEEe
So excited for post-vaccine dinners! Will be hosting in LA, NY, Miami and SF in the next couple of months for founders, VCs and friends. Would love to meet new friends from Twitter and elsewhere 🌱 like / message if interested.