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Parafin Transforming Delivery of Small Business Financial Services Closes $100M Series C

American Entrepreneurship

The recent closing of a $100 million Series C financing at a $750 million valuation positions the company for accelerated growth. Backers include the Rounds lead N otable Capita l, with significant participation from Redpoint Ventures and existing investors Ribbit Capital, Thrive Capital, and GIC.

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The Future of Corporate Venture Capital

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How has corporate venture capital changed? Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups. But the rate of change has accelerated and with it, the balance of internal versus external investment. Since 2010, we’ve.

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The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win

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Steve Sloane is a partner at Menlo Ventures where he invests in inflection-stage companies. Derek Xiao is an investor at Menlo Ventures focused on soon-to-be breakout companies at the inflection stage. Image Credits: Menlo Ventures. Enablers take on the unglamorous role of helping incumbents stay relevant. Derek Xiao.

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NeuReality lands $35M to bring AI accelerator chips to market

TechCrunch

Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. The growing demand for AI, particularly generative AI (i.e.,

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Predictions for Living, Working, & Traveling Post-Covid in America’s Startup Cities

Revolution

Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of work where we have been acutely interested in two data points: the acceleration of funding to early-stage startups outside of the Bay Area and the acceleration of remote work opportunities in tech. The same thing is happening with startup talent recruitment and retention.

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Undock raises $1.6M to help solve your group scheduling nightmares

TechCrunch

But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. Undock , an Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator-backed startup , is looking to enter the space. The startup recently closed a $1.6 The startup recently closed a $1.6

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Bond Pet Foods enters meat proteins phase with $17.5M Series A

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million Series A investment in June from a group of investors that includes Archer-Daniels-Midland Company’s venture arm ADM Ventures, Cavallo Ventures, Genoa Ventures, Lever VC, Thia Ventures, iSelect Fund, Stage 1 Fund, Lifely VC and Satori Capital. The move is buoyed by a $17.5