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End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

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How to communicate with your board in tough times. Five success factors for behavioral health startups. The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. Justin Da Rosa. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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CommerceIQ gets its horn as capital continues to flow into e-commerce infrastructure startups

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When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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Sequoia Heritage, Stripe and others invest $200M in African fintech Wave at $1.7B valuation

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And this has investors, especially foreign ones, excited and looking to get on board. Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk founded Sendwave in 2014 to offer little or no fee remittances from North America and Europe to select African and Asian countries. ” Going up against incumbents. From Sendwave to Wave. Image Credits: Wave.

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Polly snags $37M in Menlo-led Series B to automate workflows for mortgage lenders

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Polly, a SaaS technology startup aiming to “transform” the mortgage capital markets, announced today that it has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. The latest financing brings the San Francisco-based startup’s total funding raised to $50 million. The need certainly seems to be there.

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

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Godot, for the uninitiated, is a cross-platform game engine first released under an open source license back in 2014, though its initial development pre-dates that by several years. But Linietsky was keen to highlight one core difference between W4 and these incumbents: it’s expertise. ” Support and services.

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In its first funding in 7 years, profitable fintech Lower raises $100M Series A led by Accel

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Lower is also something that is kind of rare these days in the startup world: profitable. We were immediately intrigued because Ohio-based Lower echoes both of these themes,” said Accel partner John Locke, who led the firm’s investment in Lower and is taking a seat on the company’s board as part of the investment.

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The Uber that Never Was

This is going to be BIG.

Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. There’s no reason why a culture needs to fall apart at the seams in a hypergrowth startup.

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