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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

TechCrunch

Kontent, a platform designed to help companies manage business-related content in the cloud, today announced that it raised $40 million from Expedition Growth Capital as part of a growth capital infusion. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture. “Kontent.ai

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

Capital allocation is a core part of any CEO’s job, and it’s particularly critical for growth-stage CEOs. Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D).

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Why the startup sector should keep its eye on the SEC

TechCrunch

The SEC’s current agenda — a public list of the regulations the agency is considering — contains proposals that will increase barriers to capital for companies and funds, constrain investor access and potentially push more companies from private to public. In short, the SEC’s actions could slow one of our greatest engines of innovation.

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An actionable framework for founders bridging into web3

TechCrunch

Doug Petkanics is the co-founder and CEO of Livepeer , an open video infrastructure for livestreaming. But for founders looking to foray into the world of decentralization, it’s all too easy to become distracted from core business objectives by shiny new buzzwords emanating from the space. Doug Petkanics. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Skio raises $3.7M to help brands on Shopify sell subscriptions

TechCrunch

Skio is taking on incumbents like ReCharge Payments, which too has built subscription software for e-commerce brands and was valued at $2.1 It claims to use modern frameworks that allow it to “build much quicker” than existing offerings. Prior to founding Adjacent, Nico worked at Point Nine Capital and Insight Partners.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

TechCrunch

million in seed funding to make its mission a reality, with backers including OSS Capital; Lux Capital; Sisu Game Ventures; and — somewhat notably — Bob Young , the cofounder and former CEO of Red Hat, an enterprise-focused open-source company that IBM went on to acquire for $34 billion in 2019.