The Seraf Compass
JULY 9, 2025
When a portfolio company raises a new round, the decision to reinvest isn’t always straightforward. Emotions, relationships, and momentum can cloud even the most experienced investor’s judgment. That’s why we created the Follow-on Investment Scorecard—a structured, easy-to-use template that helps you bring clarity and consistency to your reinvestment decisions.
The Zapier Blog
JULY 7, 2025
A customer relationship management tool (or CRM) is a critical hub for sales and marketing teams—but it's not just a place to store contact details. When used effectively, your CRM becomes a central command center for tracking relationships, managing pipelines, and coordinating touchpoints across your entire customer journey. But here's the catch: most of that activity doesn't happen in your CRM.
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StartupNation
JULY 5, 2025
Effectively communicating your startup’s impact metrics to investors can make or break your funding opportunities. This article presents key strategies, backed by expert insights, to help you showcase your startup’s value and growth potential. From telling compelling data-driven stories to aligning metrics with investor priorities, these approaches will equip you to present your startup’s impact in a clear and persuasive manner.
Innovation 2 Enterprise
JULY 7, 2025
i2E Names Darcy Wilborn as President, Continuing Commitment to Oklahoma Innovation i2E, Inc., a nonprofit focused on accelerating startup success and commercialization efforts across Oklahoma, proudly announces the appointment of Darcy Wilborn as its new President. Wilborn brings more than a decade of leadership and operational experience within i2E.
Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage
This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.
American Entrepreneurship
JULY 8, 2025
The child care platform has evolved from a physical co-working space with on-site day care into a full-scale marketplace serving over 200 cities. In a major boost for working families, Bumo, the tech-driven on-demand child care marketplace, has announced the close of a $10 million seed funding round. Led by True Ventures and Offline Ventures, with participation from Goodwater Capital and Marketplace Capital, the investment underscores the need for flexible, accessible, and high-quality child car
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StartupNation
JULY 7, 2025
In the business world, decisions are made every single day. Some are small, some are large, but all of them ideally should be grounded in solid information, not guesswork. This is exactly why you need solid market research. At its core, market research is all about gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data about a target market, competitors, and the industry as a whole.
The Zapier Blog
JULY 10, 2025
Decade-ago me would have laughed if I heard myself say this, but TikTok is a solid bet for almost any marketer. Case in point: as a business owner, I grew my new TikTok account to over 1,200 followers and 150K views in a matter of months. The algorithm and snappy content style means I've found it much easier to get views and build an audience there.
Founder Bounty
JULY 10, 2025
In this world of rising costs any way to make money to bring you a passive income will be good. Why not use AI to help you do this! We have put the best tools together to help you may the most amount of money. From AI influencers to using AI the create various forms of content. Put it this way not using AI to create content is absolutely crazy! More tools are in our AI tools section Create an AI influencer A great way to make money from the AI wave.
American Entrepreneurship
JULY 10, 2025
The funding is a catalyst for U.S. energy independence aligned with Washington policies to make domestic battery material production a centerpiece of its industrial strategy which has included more than $6 billion in grants and tax incentives since 2022. With an oversubscribed $29 million Series B, Ionic Mineral Technologies (“Ionic MT”) is doing far more than expanding a factory in Provo, Utah; it is fortifying a domestic supply chain the United States urgently needs.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Mark MacLeod
JULY 8, 2025
Matt Turck has seen venture capital evolve through multiple tech cycles, and his perspective on today’s AI boom might surprise you. As General Partner at FirstMark Capital, he’s witnessed the gap between AI hype and enterprise reality firsthand. Turck breaks […] The post FirstMark’s Matt Turck on AI Investment Opportunities, Venture Capital Timing, and Why European Startups Are Undervalued appeared first on Mark MacLeod.
StartupNation
JULY 11, 2025
Everyone’s heard the stories. The solo founder who raised $2 million in two weeks. The startup that went public five years later. These stories get passed around like proof that success is just one smart pitch away. However, they’re not the norm. They’re the exception. The truth is that most investors aren’t interested in throwing money at a dream and hoping it works out.
The Zapier Blog
JULY 10, 2025
In college, I wrote for the school newspaper, and my beat was reporting on the Student Government Association (SGA). I often used the minutes from SGA meetings to help me write my article, but I quickly realized that's about all they were being used for—SGA members never read them and usually forgot what they'd discussed in their meetings the next day.
AsiaTechDaily
JULY 6, 2025
Singapore-based startup BridgePort has secured $3.2 million in seed funding to expand its platform and strengthen its team.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
American Entrepreneurship
JULY 9, 2025
The MedTech funding round will fuel Plexāā’s entry into the U.S. market with BLOOM⁴³, the world’s first fully wearable prehabilitation device for breast surgery designed to reduce complications. UK-based MedTech innovator Plexāā has successfully closed a $ 4.5 million funding extension to support the U.S. commercial launch of its flagship medical device, BLOOM⁴³, a breakthrough wearable platform designed to improve outcomes in breast surgery.
David Teten VC
JULY 7, 2025
Kudos to ffVC portfolio company Movable Ink and CEO Vivek Sharma! STG, a software-focused private equity firm, has announced they’re acquiring Movable Ink. My old firm, ffVC, invested when Movable Ink was a seed-stage company. Movable Ink has grown to 600 employees, and won more than 100 new enterprise customers in the last year across its products.
GCUC
JULY 8, 2025
GCUC Podcast Recap: Raj Choudhury Why “Work From Anywhere” Is the Future And How Coworking Spaces Fit In Insights from Harvard Business School Professor Raj Choudhury on the GCUC.
The Zapier Blog
JULY 7, 2025
As an IT professional, you're tasked with safeguarding your business from any tech disasters. That could include security breaches, fraud, or troubleshooting for your coworkers. Usually, your IT or security team will have an on-call schedule to deal with those requests, so there's always someone available to help. Those on-call shifts can sneak up on you though, especially if you're in the midst of projects.
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Gearing up for 2025 annual planning? Our latest eBook from the Operators Guild is your ultimate guide. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community. Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.
AsiaTechDaily
JULY 10, 2025
Airalo, a global eSIM provider based in Lewes, Delaware, has raised $220 million in a funding round led by new investor CVC.
OurCrowd
JULY 9, 2025
July 9 (Reuters) – U.S. semiconductor startup Groq has spoken to investors about raising between $300 million and $500 million at a $6 billion post-investment valuation, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. Read more here.
Mark MacLeod
JULY 10, 2025
Tyler Denk went from 49 cents in his bank account to building one of the fastest-growing newsletter platforms in just three years. In this conversation, the Beehiiv co-founder and CEO shares how his experience as the second employee at Morning […] The post Beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk on Transparent Leadership, Customer-Led Fundraising, and Why Balance is a Distraction for Elite Builders appeared first on Mark MacLeod.
GCUC
JULY 7, 2025
The Multigenerational Coworking Revolution: What Every Space Owner Needs to Know What Do Boomers, Zoomers, and Everyone Between Want From Coworking? At GCUC, we’re always looking ahead. One of the biggest shifts happening right now.
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Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.
The Zapier Blog
JULY 8, 2025
Zoom has cemented its status as the default video conferencing app, no matter if you're working remotely full time or just hop on an occasional video call. That's because Zoom makes it exceptionally easy to connect with coworkers, teams, and even clients, with just a click. But what's a little less easy is making sure you back up and share those video recordings for every call.
AsiaTechDaily
JULY 9, 2025
Rebee Health, a Singapore-based startup specializing in digital physiotherapy, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Malaysia’s 1337 Ventures via its seed-stage fund, 1337 Capital 1.
OurCrowd
JULY 7, 2025
Tech & Startups Innovation Insider Weekly Newsletter OurCrowd.com More Knowledge Center Press Virtual Events OurCrowd Global Investor Summit Join Select Page [BlueTree in NasDaily] The Made Sugar Disappear Jul 7, 2025 | News Center Share: Nas Daily visits BlueTree Watch here. Previous [Groq in PR Newswire] Groq launches European data center footprint in Helsinki, Finland Next [Connected Energy in Eastern Daily Press] Battery storage site planned for Scottow Enterprise Park Related Posts [IQ
Berkonomics
JULY 10, 2025
And doing both well usually wins the day. This is one of those arguable insights, where both sides win. Dell is a great example of emphasis upon fast, creating a customized computer in 48 hours or less, bringing in assemblies and components just-in-time to make the assembly line. However, if Dell quality were poor and returns high, the company surely would not have survived on speed of response alone.
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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
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