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

TechCrunch

In addition to Dragoneer Investment Group, Temasek, General Atlantic, Eurazeo, Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund, Aglaé Ventures, Kismet Holdings and Armat Group are also participating. “We With today’s funding round, the company wants to develop its activities in the U.K.

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Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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VertoFX picks up $10M for cross-border payments play in emerging markets

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Quona Capital , an emerging fintech-focused venture capital firm, led the round. Other firms also participated, including The Treasury , founded by Betterment’s Eli Broverman and Acorns’ Jeff Cruttenden; Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP); U.K.-based ”

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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. Prior to coming to the U.S.

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Archive.ai aims to free marketers from their monotonous workflows

TechCrunch

However, to “properly build a next-generation community marketing technology company,” as Woo put it, the company decided to go after some venture capital. B2B marketing tactics that can help move the needle. The company expects to go live with Archive App before the end of November.

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Which software consultants do startups love to work with?

TechCrunch

” The software development agency has worked on more than 350 digital products since its founding in 2009, for startups of all sizes. Testimonial: “Fifth Star Funds (our fund) is a venture philanthropy fund focused on closing the funding gap for Black founders, at the family and friends round. Which is an advantage.”

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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. “We are empowering operators to empower themselves.”