StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

We reached out to Brianna Ellison, director of community engagement for Verizon, as part of our initiative to bring the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready program to Michigan entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners. What work is Verizon doing in the Detroit/Michigan community to help small businesses? Brianna Ellison.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

We’ve covered the dry powder that venture capital firms are sitting on and also how difficult it is to raise funding in this economic environment. It was way harder than venture capital as a founder,” Teran told TechCrunch. Teran and Gettinger are investing initial $1.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Erik Torenberg is no longer the co-CEO of On Deck, a tech company that is trying to productize the community in a way that helps founders secure capital and advice. Other changes at the well-known startup include the sunsetting of several communities and spinning off its career advanced arm into a new separate business entity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But that metric is imperfect, as companies don’t raise at the same time and the economic environment can drastically change from one year to another. There isn’t a lot of chatter about 409A valuations in the European startup community. And entrepreneurs tell me that January 2022 is very different from December 2022.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

“In a turbulent economic environment, security will remain a top priority for companies. ” NeSmith, now executive chairman, was the company’s CEO until August 2021, when Schneider assumed the role after serving as Arctic Wolf’s president and chief revenue officer. raised close to $15.9 billion of debt.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Its most recent fundraise was in May 2021 when it raised $320 million on an eye-popping $9.5 But in today’s economic environment, investors are not looking at growth at all costs as they were in 2021. Klaviyo is as good a candidate as any, a company that has raised a boat load of cash. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The funding comes on the heels of a Series B of £48 million, which closed with a $20 million injection in May 2021 (a number that bumped up to $25 million after we published our story). “Given the tough economic environment, we wanted to make sure we have the capital to do this.

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