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Fund Investor Profile Series: Nicolas Biet, Partner, The Faktory Fund

The Seraf Compass

Nicolas Biet is a partner in The Faktory Fund, a private early-stage investment fund, which invests in startups developing disruptive technology that enables new products to take worldwide leadership in B2B markets primarily in the Internet of Things and Software as a Service (SaaS) startups located in BeNeLux and France.

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Which software consultants do startups love to work with?

TechCrunch

Outsourcing engineering has become more common in recent years, so we’re starting a new initiative to profile the software consultants who startups love to work with the most. Founders and other startup leaders, just fill out this quick survey with a few more details to help us find the right ones. Which is an advantage.”

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

TechCrunch

French startup ManoMano has raised a Series F funding round of $355 million led by Dragoneer Investment Group. In addition to France, the startup operates in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany and the U.K. With today’s funding round, the company wants to develop its activities in the U.K.

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Sequence orders up $19M led by a16z for a new approach to B2B fintech

TechCrunch

But at the same time, there’s been a growing trend for building more for the B2B market, and today one of the newer hopefuls in that space is announcing funding ahead of a public launch in Q4 this year. In any case, at the time, the funding had yet to close and ultimately ended up with more investors and at a larger size.

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Goldcast spotlights which event attendees will be your next customer

TechCrunch

It is the latest startup feeling some investor love as it develops a software stack designed for business-to-business marketers, hosting interactive virtual and hybrid events, to use go-to-market channels and actionable account-based insights for sales teams to show the pipeline impact of events. Image Credits: Goldcast.

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Spryker raises $130M at a $500M+ valuation to provide B2Bs with agile e-commerce tools

TechCrunch

That market driver has now led to a significant growth round for a startup that is helping the larger of these businesses, including those targeting the B2B market, build out their digital sales operations with more agile, responsive e-commerce solutions.

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Archive.ai aims to free marketers from their monotonous workflows

TechCrunch

. “Archive gives businesses an easy way to review and, more importantly, understand what their customers are actually saying — the north star for every smart company,” Chris Sperandio, corporate development lead at Stripe, said in a written statement. B2B marketing tactics that can help move the needle.