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Maki’s Conversational AI Agents Transform Talent Acquisition, Series A Funded

American Entrepreneurship

Our agents don’t just assistthey do the work, enabling teams to focus on strategic priorities, unlock creativity, and drive meaningful organizational impact,” said Maxime Legardez , co-founder and CEO of Maki. With the announcement of its $28.6

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Why Seed Rounds Are Growing as Startups Shrink

Tomasz Tunguz

percentage point drop fundamentally reshaped how startups raise their first institutional capital. US venture capital fundraising nearly doubled from $42.3B As productivity tools enable founders to build more with less, we’ll see teams generate more ARR per employee while valuations continue to climb. in 2015 to $81.2B

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Google’s early-stage AI Fund Gradient Invests in Cake’s Open-Source AI Platform for All Businesses

American Entrepreneurship

Recently funded Cake addresses that concern with the launch of its open-source AI infrastructure platform enabling all businesses to deploy the latest technologies cost-effectively. With the rollout of AI impacting one business sector after another, one wonders what areas or companies will be left behind.

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Building Scalable Startups: Strategies for Long-Term Growth

American Entrepreneurship

A scalable business model refers to a framework that enables a company to increase revenue without a proportionate increase in operational costs. The Importance of Investment in Scalability Bringing in investment via venture capital or angel investors can turn a startups business model into a scalable one.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Delaware’s 5th annual Startup302 funding contest accepting applications January 2 to 26

American Entrepreneurship

December 20, 2024 ) Applications for Delawares fifth annual Startup302 funding competition will be accepted January 2 through 26 from technology-enabled startups with high-growth potential and at least one founding team member from an underrepresented group.

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How to Communicate Impact Metrics to Investors

StartupNation

Leveraging before-and-after scenarios may help, enabling you to showcase how your solutions solved specific customer problems. That shift made all the difference — not only did we close our seed round oversubscribed, but we also attracted mission-aligned partners who continue to add value beyond capital. That’s the goal.