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Why Seed Rounds Are Growing as Startups Shrink

Tomasz Tunguz

The proliferation of seed funds & the emergence of multi-stage firms investing earlier also contribute to this shift. Carta data shows SaaS companies are 20% smaller at Series A today than in H1 2020. This efficiency gain will accelerate with AI.

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Parafin Transforming Delivery of Small Business Financial Services Closes $100M Series C

American Entrepreneurship

Founded in 2020 by Poddar and Vineet Goel, the startup has provided nearly $1 billion in annual funding for tens of thousands of small businesses in the U.S. Poddar previously was Head of Machine Learning Engineering at investment platform Robinhood following his position as Data Scientist at Meta. and Canada.

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Island Raises $250M Series E Funding, Reaches $4.8 Billion Valuation

American Entrepreneurship

billion, achieved in under five years since its founding in 2020. As AI adoption continues to accelerate, Island is helping establish a new industry standard. The company will continue to invest in enhancing its product, expanding global operations, and driving adoption across new markets and verticals.

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Max MRR: Your growth ceiling

A Smart Bear: Longform

How can we know where we should invest our time? Max MRR as new MRR accelerates Now let’s swap which variable is improving; we’ll fix cancellation rate back at 5%, and allow “New MRR” to increase. This is accelerating revenue⁠—growing faster and faster. New MRR is accelerating, yet MRR is growing only linearly.

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Arizona Biosciences Break New Ground: A Snapshot of a Thriving Innovation Ecosystem

American Entrepreneurship

This is a growth rate four times the national average between 2020 and 2024, underscoring the state’s rapidly advancing stature in biomedical research. From 2020 to 2023, the bioscience sectors job growth in the state reached 8.1%, compared to the national average of 6.7%.

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“You have to assume every company will have access to the same LLMs and voices. The challenge, then, is to build a company that thrives despite this reality” Five Questions with RegalAI’s Alex Levin on Building In a Fast Moving Industry and More

Hunter Walk

Homebrew makes investments by consensus – it works because there’s just two of us. Second, it matters to us externally that founders know it’s always Homebrew making the investment – never a situation where one of us was excited and the other one didn’t block it. People were pulling for it.

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Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19

500

Supply chains have been disrupted, businesses have had to close or operate at limited capacity for months, and even founders have had to expand their fundraising timeframes as we saw in our 2020 Female Founders Data Report. The post Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19 appeared first on 500 Startups.