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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

Accelerators have had quite a good run the past 5+ years. Not just Y Combinator and TechStars but a host of other accelerators across the country. There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. But by 2014 much had started to change.

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Startup Business Funding: 5 Business-Breaking Misconceptions

Dream It

NOT spending time on the accelerator building the product. The most valuable resource the accelerator provides is the network, so use all my time to navigate that network. Being self-sustainable has given us a new perspective on startup funding, especially compared to what I experienced on my first accelerator run.

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Practice Ignition lands $50M to scale globally

TechCrunch

Practice ignition , an Australia-based client engagement and commerce platform for professional service businesses, has raised $50 million (65 million AUD) in a Series C round to accelerate its growth and expand globally. It brings the startup’s total raised to $75 million, said Guy Pearson, CEO and founder of Practice Ignition.

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Consensus raises $110M to inject automation into SaaS product demos

TechCrunch

. “For example, Consensus automates the routine ‘ harbor cruise ‘ demos so that consultants can spend more of their time doing what they do best: strategically helping buyers through complexity when buying solutions that have many pieces to the puzzle.” ” Is that promising too much?

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Camunda snares $98M Series B as process automation continues to flourish

TechCrunch

Its history actually dates back to 2008 as a business process management (BPM) consulting firm. It began the Camunda open source project in 2013, and that was the start of pivoting to become an open source software company with a commercial component built on top of that. Camunda is not your typical startup.

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Ardoq, the enterprise architecture startup, raises $125M to help organizations make sense of their networks

TechCrunch

We will be accelerating that product roadmap.” This is a significant round for Ardoq, which had up to now raised less than $40 million since being founded in 2013. “It was 2013, and we were doing work for large enterprises: banks, insurance companies, financial services and telcos,” he recalled.