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S3 Ventures, Tacora close on new funds to boost Austin startups

TechCrunch

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. More than 380 funding deals were made into Austin startups in 2021 , amounting to $4.9

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e-con Systems Secures $13M Funding for Global Expansion Led by GR2022 Holdings

American Entrepreneurship

Founded by Ashok Babu Kunjukannan, Harishankkar Subramanyam, and Maharajan Veerabahu in 2003, e-con Systems partners with key sensor makers like Sony, Onsemi and Omnivision, and lens makers like Commonlands and Corning, and ISP partners like NVIDIA and Socionext. This enables us to offer end-to-end vision solutions. consystems.com.

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The Types Of Startups That Exist Today

Feedough

When it comes to startups, there’s never one size fits all. While all disruptive high-growth businesses can be termed startups, it’s still a heterogeneous group with subtypes characterised by the industry served, market disrupted, funding raised, motive, and valuation. Existing Market Startup. New Market Startup.

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FreshBooks reaches $1B+ valuation with $130.75M for its SMB-focused accounting platform

TechCrunch

As in the case of many startups, FreshBooks was started to solve a pain point for one of its founders. In 2003, FreshBooks’ co-founder Mike McDerment was running a small design agency. For example, he said, more business owners are working to become digitally enabled to meet local tax and invoice compliance systems. .

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Ocelot, an engagement platform aimed at college students, raises $117M in its first outside funding

TechCrunch

Today, a startup called Ocelot is announcing a big round of funding to build more tools to help in that effort. Prior to this, the Boulder, Colorado-based startup was completely bootstrapped, and as such has been profitable from the start. It’s not disclosing its valuation, nor any other financial terms of the deal.

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When will IPOs return? The past may hold some clues

TechCrunch

Natalia Holgado Sanchez is head of capital markets at Secfi , an equity planning, stock option financing and wealth management platform for startup executives and employees. I am not sure about you, but lately I’ve been hearing the same chatter from friends and colleagues at startups. What was the impact on startups?

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Aspire Impact and global leader Impact Hub to launch the Impact Startup Support program in India

Impact Hub

Inaugural Survey Report ‘India – An Impact Startup Nation’ released at the TiECon 2021. . Inaugural Survey Report ‘India – An Impact Startup Nation’ released at the TiECon 2021. . They launched the Impact Startup Support (ISS) initiative in India as they unveiled. finance, transforming India into an Impact Startup nation.”. “We