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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend.

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How to Grow Your Startup to $1,000,000 ARR

Entrepreneur's Handbook

In my constant search for an entrepreneurial escape, I found what appeared to be an opportunity in the market: a learning management system built for the ultra-popular WordPress software. Only then did I begin to capitalize on the opportunities being presented. Let’s talk about some of the factors that contributed to that success.

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Sendbird raises $100M at a $1B+ valuation, says 150M+ users now interact using its chat and video APIs

TechCrunch

Sendbird , a popular provider of chat, video and other interactive services to the likes of Reddit, Hinge, Paytm, Delivery Hero and hundreds of others by way of a few lines of code, has closed a round of $100 million, money that it plans to use to continue expanding the functionalities of its platform to meet our changing interactive times.

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TouchCast raises $55M to grow its mixed reality-based virtual event platform

TechCrunch

Accenture has been using TouchCast’s technology for its own events, but that is likely just one part of its interest: Accenture also has a lot of corporate customers that tap it to build and implement interactive services, so potentially this could lead to more customers in TouchCast’s pipeline. .”

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Korean 3D spatial data tool startup Urbanbase closes $11.1M Series B+ round

TechCrunch

Urbanbase, founded in 2013 by chief executive officer and a former architect Jinu Ha, has now raised $20 million (approximately 23 billion won) in total. Apple said to be working a high-priced standalone VR headset as debut mixed reality product. million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up.

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Q&A with EO’s 2017 Global Citizen of the Year: Cameron Madill

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Each year since 2013, EO recognizes one outstanding member who embodies the heart and soul of volunteerism, and who paves the way for others to follow, through its EO Global Citizen of the Year Award. We caught up with Cameron to learn more about his work as a social entrepreneur. What work led to your Global Citizen of the Year Award?

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

Europe is roughly the same as the US. These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. The next part of the margin mix online video companies must get control of is talent margins. Yet many of the startups I see are very US centric.