Friday, April 26

Tag: angel investor

Are You a Female Entrepreneur? Check out These Business Loans for Women
BUSINESS

Are You a Female Entrepreneur? Check out These Business Loans for Women

Access to capital continues to be the most critical problem every business owner hoping to expand their business faces. Being a woman in business, especially a Latino female, complicates things further. Did you know Latino women-owned businesses grew 87 percent between 2005 and 2007? Most Latino-owned firms stay small, however, with only 2 percent raking in more than $1 million in annual revenue. Why do they stay small? The answer is limited access to capital. Are you a female entrepreneur? Camino Financial provides a great resource for business loans for women.   Latino Businesses Contributed $71 Billion to the Economy in 2014 Limited access to capital explains why Latino-owned businesses don't grow as much as they otherwise would. In 2017, 14 percent of Black-owned firms with more t...
Senior Executive Anand Chandrasekaran Quits Facebook
News

Senior Executive Anand Chandrasekaran Quits Facebook

Facebook’s director of platforms and product partnerships Anand Chandrasekaran based in its Menlo Park headquarters has resigned from the company. He started his job at Facebook in 2016 and after two years of his work, he quit. His departure ends a two-year stint which began in September 2016, where he had joined to work on Facebook’s popular Messenger product. Along with this, Chandrasekaran is also an active angel investor in the Indian startup ecosystem. According to the sources, while the 40-year-old had initially joined Facebook to work on the tech giant’s Messenger platform, “he began overseeing the company’s India business, acting as a bridge between the two markets.” Facebook believes India to be its largest market, with over 250 million active users. It has also been said...
Travis Kalanick Launch 10100 Funds to Invest in Indian Startups
News

Travis Kalanick Launch 10100 Funds to Invest in Indian Startups

Nine months after being ousted from one of the world’s most successful startups, Uber founder Travis Kalanick is back in business with a brand new project. Kalanick is now launching a 10100 fund from his personal fortune to invest in startups, “for-profit and not-for-profit work.” Kalanick has already started working on investing in startups by making several investments over the past few months and working with various company boards and engaging with entrepreneurs and non-profits. He made angel investments in startups such as software firm Pantheon, social media platform Blippy, online artwork community Deviant Art and medical startup Kareo. However, the interesting part is that Travis Kalanick is going to focus a large sum of his investments fund, named 10100 (pronounced ten-one-h...
Mahesh Murthy Clarifies After His Arrest in Sexual Harassment Case
News

Mahesh Murthy Clarifies After His Arrest in Sexual Harassment Case

The famed Indian Marketer and investor, Mahesh Murthy, was arrested in Mumbai on Friday for molesting and stalking a women under Section no. 534, 354 D (stalking), 509 (word, act or gesture to outrage the modesty of a woman), IPC r/w 67A of IT Act (as the harassment was done electronically) on the basis of the complaint  of a Delhi based woman who filed the charge to the National Commisiiomn of Women (NCW) in late 2017. The case was, however, registered relying on the accusations made by the women in the police station on December 30. According to the Delhite, the angel investor used indecent words and tried to damage her sentiments. The NCW, in relation to the case, wrote to the Maharashtra director general of police coming across Murthy's alleged use of disparaging and objectionable s...