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Current State of Angels and Boards of Directors

Angel Capital Association

Angels often make their first real impact post-investment by helping a portfolio company develop a “real” Board, by insisting on documented processes, key metrics and measures and a more rigorous approach to corporate oversight and accountability. In the latter case, returns improved by 20%. with an average of 5.7 Director seats.

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Neo4j raises Neo$325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise

TechCrunch

Eurazeo managing director Nathalie Kornhoff-Brüls will join the company’s board of directors. Neo4j , which offers a graph-centric database and related products, announced today that it raised $325 million at a more than $2 billion valuation in a Series F deal led by Eurazeo, with additional capital from Alphabet’s venture wing GV.

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Fuel Me Raises $18 Million Series A Round

HPA

Focusing on mission-critical energy needs across industries like data centers, construction, and transportation. Offering fuel inventory monitoring, data analysis, and reporting, Fuel Me ensures seamless fuel management for its customers. Full press release here.

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BankTech Ventures’ Fintech Investing focuses on Community Banks

American Entrepreneurship

In addition to drawing together key leaders from community banking, bank technology and fintech to launch the Fund, over 100 bank limited partners are now on board. When Bank Tech tapped Carey Ransom as its first Managing Director, the firm valued his extensive 25-year career in software and venture capital.

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Credit Suisse leads $20M Series A in data extraction startup Daloopa

TechCrunch

This was a big enough problem for one company to support all of the data analysis and forecasting without having to manually convert the data,” Li told TechCrunch. The idea for Daloopa came to Li five years ago, but he said the data extraction technology was not in place to get it off the ground.

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MessageGears, a cloud customer engagement platform, raises $62M

TechCrunch

. “This approach was embraced by early adopters such as Expedia and Rakuten but really started to gain traction as more brands started moving first-party data to more modern cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Redshift and Snowflake,” CEO Roger Barnette told TechCrunch in an email interview. (In

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How to Build Authentic Customer Relationships That Spark Innovation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Along with establishing formal ways to capture customer feedback through surveys and data analysis, look for opportunities to engage in conversations. Engaging a core group who believes in what you’re doing gives you a sounding board for product tweaks and new ideas. Find your biggest fans. Analyze before you leap.