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Q&A: How Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Can Help You

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In 2021, we also established a partnership between Verizon’s Pro Bono Program and the Metro Detroit Black Business Alliance ’s Capital Connect Program. To stay competitive in the new economic environment, small businesses must be agile and adapt to shifting consumer preferences.

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Spend management platform Teampay expands partnership with Mastercard, raises $47M

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Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. million in debt) Series B led by Fin Venture Capital with participation from Mastercard, Proof Ventures, Trestle and Espresso Capital, bringing Teampay’s total raised to $65 million. . million in equity, $11.75

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Proptech in Review: 3 investors explain why they’re bullish on tech that makes buildings greener

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We asked three venture capital firms investing at the intersection of proptech and climate tech about how a focus on reducing emissions can trim a building’s carbon footprint and offer new opportunities for returns. This economic environment will continue to test a lot of companies. A deeper look at proptech.

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Mayfield’s Arvind Gupta discusses startup fundraising during a downturn

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Now, there’s some extremely capital-intensive businesses where you need buckets of money before that traction is generated, and that becomes harder to finance in downturns. Who’s going to have a harder time in this new environment? Arvind Gupta. For good entrepreneurs, there’s always a path, right?

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Soci raises $120M in debt and equity to grow its marketing management platform

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Co-founder and CEO Afif Khoury says that the new capital — a combination of debt and equity of which Khoury wouldn’t provide a very detailed breakdown — will be put toward mergers and acquisitions, customer success and international expansion. .”

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7 investors discuss why edtech startups must go back to basics to survive

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The companies that took their first venture capital during the craze decided to join forces with other well-capitalized competitors. Jomayra Herrera , partner, Reach Capital. This impacted the kinds of startups that got funding and the total capital in the market. Jan Lynn-Matern , founder and partner, Emerge Education.

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Even well-funded fintech companies are laying off workers

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Schulman added: “Over the past year, we made significant progress in strengthening and reshaping our company to address the challenging macro-economic environment…While we have made substantial progress in right-sizing our cost structure, and focused our resources on our core strategic priorities, we have more work to do.