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Bullish or bearish? What to expect for Europe VC activity in 2022

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PitchBook data collected on the European 2021 investment cycle pegs venture activity at €102.9 CB Insights data indicates that European startups raised $93.3 Why Europe could accelerate in 2022. Europe was very busy, something that we explored earlier this week. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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Rwazi to scale its market intelligence platform backed by $4 million seed funding

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Yet, local and international brands require data about market size and value, consumer profiles and their purchasing power, and penetration of their competitors’ products to establish their presence or expand into such markets.

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Canada’s Assent Compliance lands $350M from Vista Equity for supply chain data management

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Specifically, it works to help complex manufacturers proactively identify and manage risk, accelerate market access and growth and promote brand reputation. Assent’s compliance platform provides centralized access to supply chain data for use by teams across a given company. It’s an enormous market.”.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

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The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC. Mar received her Ph.D.

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Venture capitalists 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. Haystack VC runs almost entirely on Notion.

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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. She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ Her answer? ‘I

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Environmental, social and governance tracking gets easier with ESGgo

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The product itself is focused on data collection; from the first 50 companies ESGgo spoke to, they learned that there were no tools available. ” European VC funds are building community around ESG initiatives. This data, combined with measuring it against the company’s goals, is the space where ESGgo operates.