Caught between venture capital and a hard place? Founders trying to get companies off the ground may see only two options: bootstrap – work in a garden shed, build desks out of scrap wood – or jump on a treadmill of equity-sucking financing rounds. Not so, says O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures co-founder Bryce Roberts. Speaking at tech industry conference NEXT Berlin yesterday, he called…
The four winners of Seedcamp Week Berlin were announced yesterday at the mentoring event taking place at art and coworking space The Wye, representing a spread of startups from trucking logistics to “porn for fishing”. In addition to a move to Seedcamp’s base at Google Campus in London, where they will join the full year-long programme and an…
It’d be hard to think of a way to improve Silicon Valley giant Peter Thiel’s resume. He’s a cofounder of PayPal, the first outside investor in Facebook, and a philanthropist with an accumulated worth of $1.6bn. At the moment he’s focused on investing in startups, mostly as a managing partner of Founders Fund, backer of Asana, Palantir,…