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Why 2022 insurtech investment could surprise you

TechCrunch

And yet when CB Insights dropped its 2021 fintech data collection , it noted that global insurtech venture activity hit a new high in the year. For insurtech startups, the public-market mess that some of their peers have endured is bad news. billion in capital (again, an all-time record, and a 90% gain over 2020.).

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Neko, Daniel Ek’s next play, is another spin on preventative healthcare

TechCrunch

He has also put some money where his mouth is — investing in Swedish telehealth platform, Kry , for example. But dabbling as an investor evidently has not stopped him from wanting to get hands-on too — as one of two co-founders for Neko Health (the other being Hjalmar Nilsonne, whose prior startup focused on energy data analysis).

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Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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Environmental, social and governance tracking gets easier with ESGgo

TechCrunch

The product itself is focused on data collection; from the first 50 companies ESGgo spoke to, they learned that there were no tools available. . “Without that, it’s difficult to determine what is right from what is wrong, or what is a strong investment from a shortsighted one.”

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‘How can you understand life if you don’t look at it live?’ — Eikon Therapeutics rakes in $518M

TechCrunch

Moerner developed techniques allowing us to “peer into the nanorealm” inside living cells — a feat that earned the team a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2014. It was such a simple statement, but it was kind of eye opening to me,” Goulburn tells TechCrunch. Hell and William E. The movement of proteins within live cells.

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Slow Down to Speed Up Your Product Analytics

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Step 1: Map Out the End-to-End User Journey Step 2: Collect Hypothesis-Driven Data Step 3: Master the 3 Components of a Healthy Data Infrastructure Expert Advice for Product Analytics Success When it comes to building high-impact products, most product managers get in the driver's seat and “feel the need for speed.”