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Listen Up! Why Revolution Ventures is Investing in Indianapolis-based Casted

Revolution

As short-form media consumption and the effectiveness of influencer-style marketing have increased, and as enterprises continue to search for better customer acquisition and engagement channels, podcasting has been fueled to a multi-billion-dollar category with nearly 2M shows hosted in 2020¹.

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B2B social management platform Oktopost raises $20M growth round with Expedition

TechCrunch

Oktopost’s schtick is that it is an enterprise-grade platform for B2B marketers to curate content, organize, and manage campaigns for corporate social media accounts, employee advocacy and social selling. It can also handle social listening and analytics.

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E-bike subscription service Dance adds new cities and mopeds

TechCrunch

The company’s goal is to accelerate urban mobility changes with a complete offering. Rollich’s founder Felix Schaar is joining Dance, as well as Rollich’s mopeds. Finally, Dance wants to address the B2B market with a new Dance for Business offering. The startup doesn’t plan to stop at e-bikes though.

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Wire grabs fresh funding for secure messaging tech that’s big with G7 governments

TechCrunch

More funding for European end-to-end encrypted messaging app, Wire : The enterprise-focused messaging platform told TechCrunch it closed a €24 million Series C round of funding led by growth equity firm Cipio Partners and Iconical, the investment vehicle of Skype co-founder Janus Friis.

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VertoFX picks up $10M for cross-border payments play in emerging markets

TechCrunch

The case is particularly problematic in emerging markets like Africa, where local currencies are less liquid than those in developed markets. . Meanwhile, the B2B market, accounting for 30% of the world’s global imports and 45% of total employment in emerging markets — is largely untouched.

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10 growth marketing experts share their 2022 predictions and New Year’s resolutions

TechCrunch

Here’s the full list of who we spoke to: Jonathan Martinez , founder, JMStrategy. Kate Adams , SVP of marketing, Validity. Richard Meyer , growth marketer, Tuff. Bas Willems , head of marketing, DataSnipper. Gus Ferguson and Alyssa Crankshaw , co-founders, Ascendant. Shane Hegde , founder and CEO, Air.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 3) Raise capital. An example of a tech-enabled VC is Corl.