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The two powerful skills every 10X entrepreneur needs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Within only 100 days, new leadership transformed the tech platform, marketing mix, and rider operations–elevating it from laggard to leader. In 2012, Martin was brought into Zalando, as the European e-commerce start-up faced intense growing pains. Delivery Hero then applied this winning playbook to struggling markets.

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Celonis secures another $1B to find and fix process problems in enterprise systems

TechCrunch

Lest there be any doubt some startups are riding high even amid the macroeconomic uncertainty, process mining software vendor Celonis today announced that it secured a whopping $1 billion in additional capital at a $13 billion post-money valuation, a mix of equity ($400 million) and debt (a five-year $600 million credit line).

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Acorns acquires UK’s GoHenry, a fintech focused on 6- to 18-year-olds

TechCrunch

Previous TechCrunch coverage helps us break down the mix, but also points to either or both having lost some users in recent times. GoHenry (named after its first child-customer, according to the company) has raised a total of $125 million since it was founded in 2012. This allows us to accelerate that path.”

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Medical simulation platform FundamentalVR raises $20M to help surgeons learn through VR

TechCrunch

FundamentalVR , an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to “accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency” through virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) applications. Other clients include Mayo Clinic, NYU Langone, and UCLA in the U.S.;

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence.

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Acorns squirrels away $300M Series F after scrapping SPAC, now worth nearly $2B

TechCrunch

Alex also determined that Acorns’ pace of revenue expansion accelerated from 54% in 2019 to 61% in 2020. Acorns’ SPAC listing depicts a consumer fintech business with a SaaSy revenue mix. Alex reported that from 2019 to 2020, Acorns grew 61%, from $44 million in revenue to $71 million. ” .

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Introhive raises $100M for AI-powered sales tools to help companies build ‘relationship graphs’

TechCrunch

It has raised about $150 million to date and is doubling revenues every year for the last several with a platform used by large enterprises — PwC, Colliers International, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Plante Moran and Clark Nexsen are a few of them. And Introhive was the company that they formed in 2012 to address that.

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