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

TechCrunch

Alex Rinke, Bastian Nominacher and Martin Klenk launched the company as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich, and in 2012, Celonis joined the SAP Startup Focus program, an accelerator for analytics startups building new applications on the SAP HANA platform. Major RPA vendors have invested in building out process mining.

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Soci raises $120M in debt and equity to grow its marketing management platform

TechCrunch

” Launched in 2012 by Khoury, Alo Sarv and Tony Rindsberg, Soci’s platform is designed for organizations that have hundreds — or even thousands — of people managing their marketing across various channels. “With that said, Soci experienced some of its strongest growth during this period.”

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Cyber firm Arctic Wolf raises $401M in debt, eyeing a potential IPO

TechCrunch

The Information reported in late August that Arctic Wolf was in talks to raise $300 million, making this round a decided success in a punishing macroeconomic environment. “In a turbulent economic environment, security will remain a top priority for companies. .

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Even well-funded fintech companies are laying off workers

TechCrunch

Schulman added: “Over the past year, we made significant progress in strengthening and reshaping our company to address the challenging macro-economic environment…While we have made substantial progress in right-sizing our cost structure, and focused our resources on our core strategic priorities, we have more work to do.

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The First Generation of the Talent Software Wars

Tomasz Tunguz

in February 2012. Interestingly, despite the smaller contract sizes, SuccessFactors invested substantially more in sales and marketing as a percentage of revenue to generate their top-line growth than Taleo. SuccessFactors started out a bit slower, but eventually grew about twice as fast as Taleo. SuccessFactors 39 1300 30 2007 6.

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The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021 Part 2 • 2022 From a Startup Equity Seller’s to an Equity Buyer’s Market

Angel Capital Association

2022: The Aftermath In 2022 war, inflation, rising interest rates and a tougher economic environment–one not buoyed by historically low interest rates–brought an end to the long-term bull market in assets (the “everything bubble”), including startup capital. A shift from late-stage pre-IPO investing to renewed emphasis on early stage.

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