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Singapore’s Sunrate Receives Investment from Prosperity7 Ventures and SoftBank Ventures Asia in Series D-1 Funding

AsiaTechDaily

The funding was led by Prosperity7 Ventures, a growth fund associated with Aramco Ventures, and included additional investment from SoftBank Ventures Asia. Additionally, Sunrate aims to venture into new markets, including the Middle East, further extending its global presence.

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On Deck tried to do it all. Now, it’s trying to do less, better

TechCrunch

Torenberg, an early Product Hunt employee and the founder of investment firm Village Global, assumed the role only a year ago. The company has raised tens of millions in venture capital from investors, including Founders Fund, Village Global and Tiger Global. Everyone in the room is talking about the same person.”.

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Spend management platform Teampay expands partnership with Mastercard, raises $47M

TechCrunch

Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. million in debt) Series B led by Fin Venture Capital with participation from Mastercard, Proof Ventures, Trestle and Espresso Capital, bringing Teampay’s total raised to $65 million. million in equity, $11.75 billion valuation.

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Should Founders Still Raise in an Economic Downturn?

Dream It

In fact, Jason started investing during the financial crisis. Jason invested in companies like Uber and Calm during the financial crisis. In general, companies can expect to come out of accelerators at half the valuation they would otherwise have in favorable economic environments. Takeaways Survival is key.

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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

TechCrunch

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

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

TechCrunch

The companies that took their first venture capital during the craze decided to join forces with other well-capitalized competitors. To give TechCrunch+ readers a better understanding of what education investors are looking for today, seven leading venture capitalists in the category answered a series of questions about the sector’s future.

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Three Learnings for Startups after Big Tech’s Q3 Earnings Beatdown

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Even the growth rates of the cloud providers have begun to decelerate as customers scrutinize spending more carefully (true for AWS & Azure, GCP revenue growth accelerated slightly). You need to plan to achieve your targets COVID and a low cost of capital were a tailwind for more technology businesses than we realized.

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