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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. AI has also begun to play a bigger role in the construction supply chain, production scheduling, labor management, insurance and financing, risk assessment etc. Buildings are the same, however often historically and culturally significant and therefore protected.

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Extra Crunch roundup: first-check myths, Miami relocation checklist, standout SaaSy startups

TechCrunch

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook. “It’s attention.”

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Daily Crunch: Meta is dismissing around 4,000 more employees this week 

TechCrunch

Apply to Startup Battlefield 200 anyway — and announce your public debut at TechCrunch Disrupt! The only unicorn born in Q1 was Egypt-based MNT-Halan, which in early February raised $260 million in equity financing at a $1billion valuation, Mary Ann and Christine report in their look back at the first quarter of the year.

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Fresh round of $355M lifts online checkout company Bolt into decacorn territory

TechCrunch

The company announced Friday $355 million in Series E financing to give Bolt an $11 billion valuation, according to sources close to the company. We’re pleased to support Ryan and the ambitious Bolt team and see tremendous opportunity in the space that Bolt is disrupting.”.

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Stoa School wants to bring the vision of the ‘alternative MBA’ to India

TechCrunch

Disrupting the traditional MBA may be the most tried, tested and tweaked edtech startup pitch out there. At the same time, Kunkolienkar was running a Lambda School for India, but realizing that “the financing and collections infrastructure in India isn’t evolved enough to run ISAs at scale.”

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How to Find a Job as a VC Scout: Compensation and Which Firms Are Recruiting

David Teten VC

Independent sponsors (groups seeking to acquire a company which do not have the equity financing needed in advance) earn nothing upfront, but earn 20% of the deals they facilitate. Similarly, certain Revenue-Based Finance investors (e.g., Methods in between are a tradeoff of compensation and carry.” SHL Capital (Sahil Lavingia).

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Contentsquare closes a mammoth $600M round as customers clamor for digital analytics

TechCrunch

“I believe knowledge is power, and my mission is to change the way companies work by creating a data-driven culture that is accessible to everyone. Its financing reflects this — the company today announced that it closed a $600 million Series F round at a $5.6