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Wing Venture Capital’s Fifth Annual Enterprise Tech 30 List

American Entrepreneurship

GenAI, Developer-and Data Stack-Focused Companies Dominate List as well as 80% of ET30 founders are Millennials Five years ago, Wing Venture Capital introduced their annual Enterprise Tech 30—a list of the most promising, private enterprise tech private companies across all stages of maturity. years for 2022 and 5.0 years in 2019.

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Constrafor, a construction procurement company, goes ‘SAFE’ route with new capital

TechCrunch

Banks are more and more careful with their own funding of development projects, which means they will also slow down payments on their own side,” Constrafor CEO Anwar Ghauche told TechCrunch. million in equity and debt in 2022, and since then, Constrafor has grown from 15,000 customers to 23,000.

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I’ve worked with hundreds of unicorns: Here’s what founders and executives need to focus on

TechCrunch

Companies are increasingly focused on running their businesses better during adverse market conditions so they can come out stronger when the economic environment improves. In some cases, companies that had been targeting IPOs or funding transactions for 2022 are now postponing until Q1 or Q2 of 2023, if not later.

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Dan Teran shares Gutter Capital’s challenge of closing its first fund

TechCrunch

He sold that business to WeWork in 2019 for $220 million and joined the company to lead global corporate development and ventures following the acquisition. 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. and Ribbon Homes.

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7 investors discuss why edtech startups must go back to basics to survive

TechCrunch

Reach Capital’s Jomayra Herrera encapsulated the changing landscape well: The deal pace has definitely slowed down in 2022 across most sectors. billion in Europe thus far in 2022, 40% more than a year earlier, reports say). The tone also felt balanced: Many admitted that things have changed, but opportunity continues to exist.

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

TechCrunch

“While 2022 has seen some slowdowns to the pace of demand, the need for automated income and employment verifications is ever increasing. And the current economic environment, it seems, is playing more than a bit-part in this trend.

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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

TechCrunch

Over time the Boston area watched the development of a robust technology startup ecosystem across industries like cybersecurity, robotics and biotech with companies like Hubspot, Wayfair, Rapid7, Boston Dynamics and Moderna, to name but a few. By the time the new century came around the area began to shift to look like a modern startup scene.