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Celonis secures another $1B to find and fix process problems in enterprise systems

TechCrunch

Alex Rinke, Bastian Nominacher and Martin Klenk launched the company as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich, and in 2012, Celonis joined the SAP Startup Focus program, an accelerator for analytics startups building new applications on the SAP HANA platform. Other participants include Activant Capital, Arena Holdings, T.

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Q&A: How Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Can Help You

StartupNation

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed unforeseen challenges on entrepreneurs and further accelerated a shift to digital ways of working. To stay competitive in the new economic environment, small businesses must be agile and adapt to shifting consumer preferences.

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Gorgias’ valuation rises to $710M with $30M Series C for e-commerce customer support

TechCrunch

Even with all of that growth, the company is monitoring its cash burn rate in this new economic environment. In fact, Gorgias wasn’t planning to raise new venture capital so soon, but Lapeyre said he jumped at the opportunity to work with Transpose Platform and Shopify.

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

TechCrunch

“In today’s economic environment, Teampay’s software-led approach has proven resilient — as we saw in late 2020 to 2021, when the economy rebounds, Teampay benefits disproportionately through accelerated growth … We increased our debt facility for additional flexibility in uncertain times.”

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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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Riot prepares your team against highly sophisticated cyberattacks

TechCrunch

While it is still quite difficult to raise a funding round in the current economic environment, Riot managed to put together an interesting list of investors. But it feels like things are accelerating. Dialogue-based language models like ChatGPT unlock new opportunities.

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

TechCrunch

I’ll be honest, the diversity of the answers surprised me — ranging from how climate and workforce mobility are edtech’s next opportunities to how the departure of tourist VCs is playing out differently depending on company stages. The tone also felt balanced: Many admitted that things have changed, but opportunity continues to exist.

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