AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Register Boardable , an online board management and meetings platform , secured another $2.6 million to fund product innovation and accelerate its growth in the markets that need board management tools the most. The online board management portal announced that it closed $2.6 No account yet? The post Boardable secures $2.6M

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Startups that are backed by professional financial investors almost always have a Board of Directors that consists of some set of founders, investors and sometimes independent directors. You will often find these governing conditions in the “protective provisions” section of your company’s legal documents.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

CRV led the round, and as part of the investment, James Green, general partner at CRV, will join Finley’s board. But among the covenants and the warrants and documentation, the reporting is all much more complicated than it was when capital was much cheaper three years ago.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A typical enterprise grapples with hundreds or thousands of agreements, contracts and other legal documents every year, and it usually engages costly legal counsel either inside or outside the company to assess those documents on their behalf. In all, Ontra is processing some 20,000 NDAs monthly at the moment.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Given the shifting landscape, it’s helpful for you as a CEO and/or founder—or for your finance and capital markets teams, if you have those hires to help you through this process—to know who the key players are at each stage so you can spend your time and energy speaking to the right firms. This usually takes about a week.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. Andy Stinnes. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

The whole program has been designed to provide financing as quickly as possible. blocking a quorum, or preventing a shareholder/board action). Circumstance one: go through your documents and take out statements like, “fund x can block, lead investor can block” and go to majority vote.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. These factors are proving fertile ground for establishing and growing fintechs that focus exclusively on Islamic finance, offering products and services that follow shariah law. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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Gust

JULY 18, 2012

Yet I’ve rarely seen entrepreneurs more fired up than when recounting war stories of startups whose founders had control of the company wrested from them, were forced to take financing or compensation deals on outrageously onerous terms , or worst of all, fired from their own companies.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 30, 2023

by Joe Wallin , leader of the Angel Capital Association Legal Advisory Council and Pricipal at the law firm of Carney Badley Spellman, P.S. Big Picture The CTA is intended to assist law enforcement in combatting money laundering, tax fraud, financing of terrorism, and other illicit activity through anonymous shell and front companies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 28, 2016

Document lines of authority, roles, responsibilities and job descriptions with measurable accountabilities. Create a board of advisors (directors). Separate personal and business finances. It’s not just common sense but also good business sense to separate personal finances from company finances.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Any corporate strategy document will remain a fantasy on paper if your tech infrastructure is outdated and incapable of meeting your future needs. Generally speaking, the best way to get company leadership on board with such investments is to highlight what competitors are doing to help them understand the competitive threat.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Generally speaking in venture capital financings the legal documents will specify that only “major investors” (a threshold set in the agreement – which can be $500,000 investor or more). We led an investment round in a company a while ago in which we wrote a seven-figure check and have taken a board seat.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Latency and volume also need to be at a point where infrastructure can support the algorithms needed to gather data from thousands of different documents. As part of the investment, NEXT Investors and Nexus Venture Partners will each assign a member to Daloopa’s board of directors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Bling Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures and Garage Capital also participated in the financing, along with angel investors such as AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant, Jason Calacanis, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and other executives based in Silicon Valley. Now today, the startup behind that platform, Figure, announced it has raised $7.5

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

In Part I , I gave a quick summary of the who, when and why of forming and documenting a new startup company. Continuing my medical analogy from Part I, the documents are like powerful prescription medications and your lawyer plays the role of the physician. Appoint Newco’s initial Board of Directors.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Absolutely not.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Examples of work they were doing manually that can be automated by Omni include onboarding new hires, recruiting employees, performance reviews, collecting documentation like employee IDs and preparing HR reports for internal management. For recruitment, Omni can localize by connecting with local job boards instead of US-centered ones.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For businesses that are ready to revamp their employee equity plan, here are a few key lessons we figured out along the way: Get buy-in from your board of directors. The first step should be a discussion with your board, likely during the next board meeting. Double down on employee and candidate education.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

for onboarding new hires), shift scheduling, documents, forms, and more. The standard top-down, word-of-mouth communication channels, classical or social intranets, and bulletin boards they relied on for decades failed. Beekeeper platform Image Credits: Beekeeper. Beekeeper analytics Image Credits: Beekeeper. .

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

A $100 million fund does not actually have $100 million in capital but $100 million in “committed capital,” essentially a legal document that states that LPs will send the fund money when “called.” I think you’ll start seeing pushback on complete board control by the founding team,” stated Martino. “I

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

billion after raising a $300 million Series D round led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. The synergies there led ApplyBoard to launch ApplyProof, a service that helps admissions and immigrant officers verify documents that international students need to apply to colleges around the world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

And today, Yu and Yang’s new company, San Francisco-based Vesta , is announcing it has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from new investor Zigg Capital. It’s about change management as much as anything else because replacing the existing process is hard.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

During KSGC 2021, Khenda got introduced to prominent Korean businessman Dong Hoon Shin, who eventually joined the company’s advisory board. It uses cutting-edge NLP and OCR technologies to find all the relevant fields and values inside the document. Practicing my speech for the IR, how to make a good document, and so on.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Logistics operators in Africa suffer from various problems, from inconsistent pricing, which stems from a fragmented supply-and-demand market, to paper documentation and little or no access to financing. The banks wanted us to ensure we charge the financing costs before they could touch them. We just ate up all that cost.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 23, 2020

In normal times, there are several reasons why your company may be subject to a down round, including: Your company failed to reach the financial and operational goals it set for itself the last time it raised money; You did a particularly good job of selling your company at the last round and received financing at a favorable valuation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

The firm’s partner Ricardo Schäefer will join Indicina’s board. The fintech partners with credit bureaus and open finance platforms. The company’s revenues come from API calls made by its customers when analyzing financial documents. Greycroft also participated in this round, and so did RV Ventures. 700 million (~$1.17

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 14, 2020

Written materials transform board meetings. Board meetings with written materials are better. The CEO summarizes and provides a narrative at the beginning of the document. The VP Finance attaches the financial statements and key reports. The team circulates the narrative with the board ahead of time.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Another example from another vertical is Eigen, working in the legal and finance industries , while Google’s DeepMind is another major AI player looking at ways of better harnessing data in the sphere of medicine.). The issue of “reading” natural language is more nuanced than you might think in the world of medicine.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Roughly 40% of the data fields included in the Aumni survey relate to the frequency with which certain deal terms are found in financing transactions. Most deal terms are present in 80-90%+ of financings. Minimal Variation by Round – The lack of variability by financing round is striking. Covid, What Covid?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Many called us worried and scared that funding was drying up while some had boards telling them to fire people,” Requarth recalls. “I — as evidenced by the lead investors of this financing — more people than ever are founding companies in Latin America. It started by documenting the process to create Latitud. “We

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2019

Also included are “drag-along rights” in which minority shareholders may be forced to obey the vote of the majority in such important votes as to sell the company or take a round of financing at lower share prices. You may recall that board members have a “duty of loyalty” to the corporation, and not to their constituent investors.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

CEO Jonathan Kite said a new automated turn board feature was a significant factor accelerating the company’s success. One possibility is to let all parties involved sign contracts and other official documents with digital signatures. Before forging ahead with such pairings, consider how to streamline the logistics involved.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Highlighting the investor interest in the segment, SirionLabs announced that it closed an $85 million Series D financing round led by Partners Group with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 2, 2022

You can create multiple boards, lists and cards where you can set tasks and add notes. You can also share your boards and tag others on your notes when you need to, making collaboration much easier. If you need a hand with project management, Trello is a great organizational app that is fun and flexible.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Continuing with the Twitter train for a moment, yesterday we brought you the news that former CEO Jack Dorsey left the board , AND news that the company’s stock jumped when Elon Musk said he still has plans to buy Twitter and finance more of the deal himself.

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