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Serial fintech founder raises $20M for Ant Money to make micro-investing even more accessible

TechCrunch

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. The pair wanted to simplify investing for the millions that have trouble getting started or continuing to invest.

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The two powerful skills every 10X entrepreneur needs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

He is founder of Arowana , a B Corporation which invests in, operates, and grows sustainable companies. “We need all the help we can get,” Jobs said, while the audience loudly booed after he announced that arch-rival Microsoft had invested $150 million in Apple. Tech and Processes. Monthly hires increased tenfold.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

I was arguing that I believe in this strategy on the Internet as any disciple of The Innovator’s Dilemma will tell you. In one of the first moves she made after being appointed Susan flew down to LA to meet with all of the VCs who invested in YouTube networks and gave us assurances she wanted to see more investment.

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

TechCrunch

Savings and investing app Acorns has raised $300 million in a Series F funding round that values the company at nearly $2 billion. In the meantime, Acorns has raised money to continue to explore more acquisitions — it acquired two companies in the first half of last year — as well as to fund “growth and innovation,” Kerner said.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains.

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