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Gorgias’ valuation rises to $710M with $30M Series C for e-commerce customer support

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In late 2020, the company had raised $25 million in Series B funding on a $305 million valuation. At the time of the Series B, it was supporting more than 4,500 stores with its technology that brings all of the channels that shoppers use to contact online stores into one feed for each company.

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Q&A: How Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Can Help You

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Guests include other veteran entrepreneurs, mentors, and experts like attorneys and marketing specialists, including the leader of Verizon’s veteran employee resource group who shared information about Verizon support for small business owners along with his own personal experience as an entrepreneur.

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Truework, which helps lenders verify borrowers’ income and employment, raises $50M

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The company also supports background checks for employers and staffing companies seeking to verify potential new hires. On the flip-side, mortgage demand recently hit a 20-year low after the highs of 2020 , but Truework co-founder and CEO Ryan Sandler reckons that the need for automated verifications is only going in an upward direction.

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Even well-funded fintech companies are laying off workers

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Schulman added: “Over the past year, we made significant progress in strengthening and reshaping our company to address the challenging macro-economic environment…While we have made substantial progress in right-sizing our cost structure, and focused our resources on our core strategic priorities, we have more work to do.

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The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021 Part 2 • 2022 From a Startup Equity Seller’s to an Equity Buyer’s Market

Angel Capital Association

2022: The Aftermath In 2022 war, inflation, rising interest rates and a tougher economic environment–one not buoyed by historically low interest rates–brought an end to the long-term bull market in assets (the “everything bubble”), including startup capital. From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again? We Warned You!

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Cyber firm Arctic Wolf raises $401M in debt, eyeing a potential IPO

TechCrunch

This week, Crunchbase further noted that while cyber startups saw more funding in H2 than all of 2020 ($8.9 “In a turbulent economic environment, security will remain a top priority for companies. . “In a turbulent economic environment, security will remain a top priority for companies.

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The end of a second straight month of layoffs in tech

TechCrunch

We are grateful for the contributions of those impacted and are working to ensure they are supported in this time of transition. This isn’t the first layoff that StockX has announced: In April 2020, StockX laid off 108 people or 12% of its global workforce. Substack cuts 13 employees.