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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

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The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 2021 edtech report, UBS-Wealthfront deal, falling startup revenue

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Valuations are soaring, but revenue averages for SaaS startups “have seen a recent and rapid decline,” according to a Kruze Consulting report Alex Wilhelm studied yesterday. “In all, startups are getting paid better, faster for less work than before. It’s still a great time to be a startup founder.

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

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The idea for Introhive came as many do to enterprise startup founders: they identify something that doesn’t quite work as they want it to, and then start a new company to try to fix it. And Introhive was the company that they formed in 2012 to address that.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. She not only became an expert in SEO, she began consulting in SEO to continue to make ends meet and she became a speaker on the topic. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian.

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6 Oslo VCs discuss 2021 trends, deal flow and regional opportunities

TechCrunch

Our team has been involved and invested in crypto since 2012, so we’ve been excited about the industry for a long time. Do you expect to see a surge in more founders coming from geographies outside major cities in the years to come, with startup hubs losing people due to the pandemic and lingering concerns, plus the attraction of remote work?