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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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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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

TechCrunch

Daloopa closed on a $20 million Series A round, led by Credit Suisse Asset Management’s NEXT Investors, to continue developing its data extraction technology for financial institutions, which is now being expanded globally. Customers can request data sets with a couple of clicks of a button and have it delivered the next day.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

TechCrunch

“It is still small-scale, and the most important thing we are doing that other companies should do is focus on the design, engineering and full-scale installations of vessels and the supporting systems to make a lot of it,” said Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, which sells lab-grown chicken meat in Singapore.

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AeroCloud, a cloud-native airport management platform, raises $12.6M

TechCrunch

it counts Tampa International and John Wayne Airport as customers, processing some 150 million passengers each year across the board. ” The problem, according to Richardson, is that many of the on-premises legacy solutions don’t make it easy to access data, instead promoting data siloes through homegrown tech stacks. .

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9count, maker of Wink and new dating app Summer, scores additional funding

TechCrunch

The 9count co-founder says Summer hit the No. To benefit from this method, 9count tests and iterates on its products using a combination of A/B testing, data analysis, and user feedback. In fact, this model is what led the company to develop Summer in the first place, the co-founder explains. One is Musical.ly/TikTok,

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9count, maker of Wink and new dating app Summer, scores an additional $27.5M

TechCrunch

The 9count co-founder says Summer hit the No. To benefit from this method, 9count tests and iterates on its products using a combination of A/B testing, data analysis, and user feedback. In fact, this model is what led the company to develop Summer in the first place, the co-founder explains. One is Musical.ly/TikTok,