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Alchemist Accelerator announces new leadership alongside its latest class of companies

TechCrunch

The accelerator itself, meanwhile, has some news: new leadership. weRice : An augmented-reality based tool that helps manufacturing/construction workers identify issues while automatically saving any learnings for the next person dealing with it.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: WayRay’s $80M Series C deck

TechCrunch

We have quite a unique pitch deck on our hands today. A few years ago, AR car hardware company WayRay raised $80 million at a half-a-billion valuation in a Series C round led by Porsche, and I’m super excited to show off their pitch deck today! “Leadership in holography” — Platform description slide.

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This Angel Investor Shares 11 Tips for Entrepreneurs to Raise Smart Money

StartupNation

As part of my role as a partner of HealthInc, I sit on the jury for the startup competition in which 20 finalists pitch their ventures, with 10 then selected to enter the program. Listen to constructive criticism, and learn from useful feedback, but always carry a dignified bearing. Keep it simple, stupid (KISS). Keep it short.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

Here, we’re sharing an actionable guide for biotech leadership teams as they start the process of building or renovating their own data room. Company overview deck If you’re under CDA with an investor, this is where to add your expanded confidential pitch deck (typically, you’ve already shared a non-confidential deck over email).

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear

Period, full-stop. And everyone else at WP Engine would tell you the same thing.

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Just 12 hours left to apply to Startup Battlefield at TC Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

Breen: I admired the leadership and growth of other companies that, at one point, were Startup Battlefield contestants. Together you rehearse and go over every iteration of the pitch line-by-line and slide-by-slide. As a result, we couldn’t have been more prepared for pitch day. TC: What did it feel like to pitch at Disrupt?

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12 Lessons Learned from Managing Investor Relations in a Startup

Startup Blogpost

It can be tempting to use lofty language, but we’ve found it more constructive to focus the conversation on traction. We helped them refine their pitch to emphasize not only the innovation but also the market potential, scalability, and revenue model. We tackled it by emphasizing a tangible prototype over traditional pitches.

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