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

TechCrunch

Having helped build a startup and gone under the hood with many unicorns over the past few decades, I’ve seen how some of the best founders and executives position their companies in times of stress to flourish on the other side, whether through a successful IPO, SPAC exit or just stable growth.

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

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Last month, it was one of the 60 startups to get accepted into the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund 2022 cohort, which included some non-dilutive funding. But in a bid to support its transition from an insights company to a data company and buoyed by this new investment, Stears is planning a strategy modification for the Pro product.

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Packworks makes operations easier for sari-sari stores in the Philippines

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The startup will use its new funding to develop its super app, called The Pack, by increasing its platform offerings, including optimizing store operations, including funding access for businesses, and order management across the entire supply chain. It also gives access to financial products and supply ordering at a cheaper price.

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Slow Down to Speed Up Your Product Analytics

Reforge

June 15, 2023 Table of Contents What is Product Analytics Again? Understand that slowing down upfront to develop a healthy data infrastructure is the key to speeding up impactful analysis and solutioning long-term. At the same time, uplevel your product teams to improve their data literacy and empower them to take charge.

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Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in

TechCrunch

Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them. Seafood traceability solutions; ropeless traps; microalgae and seaweed are a hugely untapped resource with multiple market opportunities; ocean and weather data collection and analysis.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

These changes will create opportunities for founders across the entire stack of computer-aided design tools for architects, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, and finally integration with 3-D environmental models to understand and design the lifetime impact of the buildings.

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NebulaGraph reaps from China’s growing appetite for graph databases

TechCrunch

The EV supply chain is highly sophisticated and each car sale can generate reams of data from the design stage to after it ships, said founder and CEO Sherman Yu, who previously worked at Ant Group and Meta. That’s not the end of data collection. The company’s plan to open an office in the U.S.

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