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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats. That used to be called A-round investing. A seed round these days is $3–5 million or more! of the fund.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners Invests in Ten Companies!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Ten startup companies located in Central and Northern PA recently received an investment from Ben Franklin that will allow them to further develop and commercialize new products, and software applications, or stabilize operations in a long-standing manufacturing business. The post Ben Franklin Technology Partners Invests in Ten Companies!

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SIX PA STARTUPS RECEIVED AN INVESTMENT FROM BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

The largest early-stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin provides investment capital and business support services to emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers located in central and northern Pennsylvania. WE INVEST IN INNOVATION. www.cnp.benfranklin.org. www.stellerinnovations.com. www.Werkberry.com. www.xactmetal.com.

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Optimove raises $75M growth investment to manage customer-led journeys at scale

TechCrunch

The company, with bases in Tel Aviv, New York and London, raised a $75 million growth investment led by Summit Partners. Prior to this investment, Optimove was bootstrapped for the first four years until raising $20 million. Pini Yakuel, founder and CEO of Optimove, Image Credits: Optimove.

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Sendcloud nabs $177M led by SoftBank to double down on SaaS — shipping as a service

TechCrunch

This by far the biggest investment Sendcloud has ever had: the Eindhoven, Netherlands-based startup has been around since 2012 and before now had raised just over $23 million ($23 million, 23,000 customers has a nice ring to it).

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Elate raises $4.9M in Series A funding to strengthen its rapidly growing strategic planning platform

HPA

“With this investment and the team we have in place, I am more confident than ever Elate has the ability to become the most dynamic and comprehensive platform to drive the future of strategic planning forward.” Elate enables companies to connect long-term vision with tactical execution in a simple, intuitive way.

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How Small Businesses Can Easily Adopt Cloud Computing

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The cloud enables collaboration in real-time among colleagues who may not be in the same building or even the same time zone. Most cloud services offer flexibility to scale up and down in terms of storage capacity and users, eliminating entrepreneurs’ risk of overcommitting before the time is right, yet enabling growth without delays.

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