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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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And to show you just how similar many of these pioneers of the industry went through a similar startup journey to you – Jeff started by investing his own personal money ($250k) for a few years – $25k at a time – until he could persuade a few institutional investors to give him some money.

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African payments company Flutterwave raises $170M, now valued at over $1B

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New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital and U.S. hedge fund and investment firm Tiger Global led the Series C round. Its second investment came just in time before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Africa, negatively impacting some businesses but not payments companies like Flutterwave. Image Credits: Flutterwave.

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“I will say that a lot of tension arose from Googler’s expectations that the company’s culture had to be exactly the same as what it was when the company was one fifth the size” Former GOOG & MSFT executive (and multiple time founder) Javier Soltero on Career Advice, Big Company Culture, and Startup Hiring Tips

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By that framework I started out as a ‘fan’ of Javier Soltero way before we became friends. My time at Netscape coincided with the moment where almost every company in every sector had determined that it needed to invest heavily in internet infrastructure (email, calendaring, proxy servers, application servers, and more).

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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

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Newly appointed CEO Bart Omlo says that the proceeds from Kontent’s first external investment will be put toward expanding the company’s marketing and sales teams, opening a new office in New York and supporting product development. This represents a potential switching opportunity to modern CMS solutions.”

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Daily Crunch: Raise now, pay later: $800M funding round slashes Klarna’s valuation by 85%

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They aren’t really old enough to remember the absolute horror of watching stocks and investments tank during the 2007–2010 economic downturn, but 2022’s environment is giving them a taste of that. “Pricing models that scale proportionally with value tend to capture more value as revenue and contribution margin,” he writes.

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SightCall raises $42M for its AR-based visual assistance platform

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For some further context on this investment, InfraVia invests in a number of industrial businesses , alongside investments in tech companies building services related to them such as recent investments in Jobandtalent , so this is in part a strategic investment. SightCall has raised $67 million to date.

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Strac plugs into Slack, OneDrive and more to automatically redact sensitive info

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Increasingly, absent a federal framework, U.S. In 2013, Citigroup acknowledged that it failed to safeguard Social Security numbers, birthdates and other sensitive data for nearly 150,000 customers who filed for bankruptcy between 2007 to 2011, owing to a redaction software issue.

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