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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

TechCrunch

Stay tuned as my colleagues and I parse the developments. The struggle is real: It’s never a good look when, fresh from raising capital, a startup cuts a substantial portion of its staff. Some affected founders are pushing the narrative that incumbent banks lobbied the RBI to reach a decision favorable to them.

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Catching a Second Wind

OurCrowd

The decline doesn’t seem to be letting up in 2019, with retailers shutting down 23% more stores than they did at the start of last year (2000+ store closings), according to Coresight Research. Whether that means integrating Google Pay or working with startups to develop technologies we don’t have the capacity to work on ourselves.”.

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Ed Zimmerman: The Growing Scarcity of Series B Venture Rounds

WSJ - The Accelerators

is the primary provider of venture capital to itself and the rest of the world, the companies vying for these funds are now more global than ever. Because the U.S. If you don’t think the competition for Series B funding is very global, you need only consider very stale data from Canada.

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Fintech Roundup: Goldman Sachs buys another startup, Fast hits a speed bump and BaaS gets hotter

TechCrunch

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We In Q2 of 2000, that number dipped slightly to 46.

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Former AWS engineer sets out to build a better log search engine

TechCrunch

So then I thought, let me give it a shot and see if I can build something, He spent several months developing what would become ZincSearch. The largest incumbent in this space is Elastic, the makers of ElasticSearch, a public company founded in 2012. The company announced a $3.6 million seed investment to help push his vision forward.