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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC.

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South African payments gateway Ozow raises $48M Series B led by Tencent

TechCrunch

Founder and CEO Thomas Pays started Ozow in 2014 to drive financial inclusion through open banking. What we wanted to address was a central platform that could basically provide solutions to e-commerce, point of sale, e-billing and peer to peer payment.”. Ozow is one such player.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Family office investments increased by 5x , and corporate venture investments rose 6x , thus opening new capital avenues for founders who found it difficult to raise capital. That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon.

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Scene Health Secures $17.7 Million Series B Financing Led by ABS Capital Partners

American Entrepreneurship

million Series B growth financing led by ABS Capital Partners with participation from existing investors Claritas Health Ventures, as well as Healthworx, the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, PTX Capital, and Kapor Capital. Last week’s announcement of a $1.67

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Every year I try to answer the question of “what has changed in the Venture Capital industry” and this year my colleague Chang Xu and I took a deep dive through the data and called many of our peers for confirmation. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. More on that later.

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Zingtree turns complex customer service processes into clear action plans

TechCrunch

The new investment brings the company’s total funding to $18.5 Zingtree was founded in 2014 to make business information actionable for teams so that agents could quickly make decisions during complex service calls. To continue developing its product, the company raised $15 million in Series A funding.

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Benchmarking DataDog's S-1: How 7 Key Metrics Stack up

Tomasz Tunguz

This has more to do with the trend that current IPOs tend to be around $200M and New Relic went public in 2014, when the median revenue at IPO was closer to $100M. And as for the comparison to AppD… DataDog is effectively profitable compared to its peers, who were at about -65% net income margin. DataDog is no exception.