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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

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

TechCrunch

Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership. Investors are hungry for startups to throw their money at, but VC funding isn’t always the right option at all times or for every startup. Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership. @yourprotagonist.

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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

To benefit from this method, 9count tests and iterates on its products using a combination of A/B testing, data analysis, and user feedback. Not surprisingly, these apps have also pulled in VC backing. “The learnings we have by rolling out new products are just tremendous,” Hofmann notes.

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

TechCrunch

To benefit from this method, 9count tests and iterates on its products using a combination of A/B testing, data analysis, and user feedback. Not surprisingly, these apps have also pulled in VC backing. “The learnings we have by rolling out new products are just tremendous,” Hofmann notes.