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☆ The giant sucking sound you hear is the gobs of capital being pulled away from emerging managers. Here's how one solo capitalist defied the slump.
  + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Those who raised their first venture capital funds in the pandemic-era boom times are now struggling with their sophomore efforts. Despite the tailwinds, some emerging managers are defying the slump and raising new funds. He told Insider exclusively that he's now closed on $15 million for fund two from investors including Cendana Capital, Invesco Private Capital, and two dozen startup founders. And so in 2019, he reached into his network of founders and raised a $2 million fund to invest in software companies. Now, he's already gearing up for fund three, which Wan said he plans to launch in 2024.
Persons: Insider's Callum Burroughs, Jordan Wan, Wan, Zocdoc, Oliver Kharraz, it's, Alan Ni, Jake Cooper, Manoj Kanagaraj, Blackstone, Cooper didn't, Cooper, they've, Wolf Organizations: Sequoia, Partners, Cendana, Invesco, Capital, Oscar Insurance, Garner Health Locations: London, Denver , Colorado, Wan
☆ A woman who got called 'Central Park Karen' lost an appeal in a lawsuit about her finance job
  + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A woman who got called "Central Park Karen" lost her appeal against unfair dismissal. Amy Cooper was fired by Franklin Templeton after a confrontation with a Black man in Central Park. The woman labelled "Central Park Karen" after a confrontation with a Black man lost an appeal against the dismissal of a lawsuit that named her former employer. A charge of false reporting against Amy Cooper following the incident was dismissed after she went to racial bias therapy. However, her employer Franklin Templeton fired Cooper a day after the video went viral, tweeting: "We do not tolerate racism of any kind."
Persons: Karen, Amy Cooper, Franklin Templeton, she'd, Cooper, Christian Cooper, George Floyd, –, Amy Cooper didn't Organizations: NPR, CNN, Geographic Locations: Central Park, New, Manhattan
☆ Father of cellphone says people will learn not to stare at their phones while crossing the street 'after a few people get run over'
  + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
"Father of the cellphone" Martin Cooper says he is "devastated" by pedestrian phone use, per AFP. The engineer's comment comes 50 years after he invented the world's first Motorola cellphone. Cooper told AFP that we are still at the "mindless staring phase" with our phones. A 2022 study on how pedestrians use their phones found that 14.4% of pedestrians don't pay attention to traffic when crossing. Despite the safety risks, Cooper told the AFP he isn't worried about the longterm dangers of unfettered cellphone usage.
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