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The Five "Ups" of Getting Early Stage VC Deal Flow

This is going to be BIG.

Theres a whole post to be written about this, but every basic B2B marketing strategy, which is what deal flow generation is (with money as the product) would include generating inbound. To some extent, this is also where referrals get generated.

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Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box raises $10.6M Series A led by Paladin Capital

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million, led by Paladin Capital Group and joined by Osage University Partners, Brighteye Ventures and existing investors Marathon Venture Capital. Talent and capital are shifting cybersecurity investors’ focus away from Silicon Valley. It will use the funding to expand. Most recently it launched Hack The Box Academy.

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Slope brings on new CFO, customers, capital as it rises to offer businesses buy now, pay later

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Slope takes in first capital with visions of being ‘Stripe for global B2B payments’. and Mexico, and B2B merchant partners include PlastiQ, Frubana, Meru.com, Blue Pallet and Go4U. Previously, Jain most recently served as senior vice president of C2FO, overseeing capital markets, card products and corporate development.

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Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100M on a $640M valuation

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Billie says that this is the largest round yet in the B2B BNPL space — which itself is also getting pretty crowded: competitors in this category include Resolve , a spinout of Affirm; and Tillit , which is backed by Sequoia (which also backs Klarna). says Josh Bell, General Partner at Dawn Capital, in a statement. .

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

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As a result, they lack the ability to extract valuable engagement metrics, integrate content and data with their existing marketing / CRM technology stacks, or effectively atomize and recycle their content in a highly engaging manner across marketing channels.

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ManoMano raises $355 million for its home improvement e-commerce platform

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and Germany in particular — they are Europe’s two biggest markets for home improvement and gardening. ManoMano sells products to hobbyists and also targets the B2B market with ManoManoPro. Recommendations and advice will be key to gain market shares. Overall, customers have initiated 2.3

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

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Today that changes with a growth funding round of a $20 million minority investment from London-based growth equity firm Expedition Growth Capital. It can also handle social listening and analytics.