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Canada’s Assent Compliance lands $350M from Vista Equity for supply chain data management

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Enter Assent Compliance — a Canadian company focused on supply chain sustainability management. The financing follows a $131 million Series C raise led by Warburg Pincus, which remains the company’s largest shareholder. Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015.

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

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Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games.

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Nigerian e-health pharmaceutical distribution startup DrugStoc secures $4.4 million Series A funding, embarks on expansion drive

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Drugstoc was founded in 2015 by Opara and Yehia, but its history dates back to 2010 when the duo founded Integra Health, a hospital management company based on Yehia’s master’s degree project. It is also building partnerships with financial institutions to increase access to sustainable supply chain financing.

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April taps AI to help personalize and autofill tax filings

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. “[But a major challenge] is that the tax industry is often forced to play catch-up to the realities of a rapidly expanding tax code, with changes from remote work, recent global regulations, tax incentives for climate, and sustainability and new assets like crypto and NFTs. Financing climbed to $131.5 moving to another state).

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Hockey Stick Growth Explained

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Usually, entrepreneurs use bootstrapping to finance their expenses. As the business is scaling up too quickly, some startups can’t sustain the strong growth and eventually crash. Growth Inflection Point: Groupon hit the growth inflexion point in 2010 when its recorded revenue was around 313 million. Surging Growth.

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The biggest moonshots from 500 Global’s latest Demo Day

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Participants ran the gamut from fintech and sustainability to edtech and developer tools, and several stood out from the rest of the pack. That said, today’s debut from 500 Global is from its first and flagship program, hailing back from 2010 and, fittingly, including companies from all around the globe.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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I know that in late 2010 it’s not as popular to say this because we’re in the era of “super angels&# and feel-good startups. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. It’s hard to say.