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April taps AI to help personalize and autofill tax filings

TechCrunch

April users connect their payroll, bank statements, mortgage, prior year’s tax return and other finance apps to the platform and then tell April about significant tax events over the past year (e.g., After a quick review, April crunches the numbers and generates filing documents. . Financing climbed to $131.5

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Vesta closes on $30M in an a16z-led Series A to build a new kind of mortgage infrastructure

TechCrunch

And today, Yu and Yang’s new company, San Francisco-based Vesta , is announcing it has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from new investor Zigg Capital. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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Gusto: The People Platform for SMBs

Y Combinator

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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Fintech Roundup: Better.com workers leaving in ‘droves’ in wake of CEO Vishal Garg’s return

TechCrunch

Also, the company has reportedly disabled sharing of Google documents internally and they’ve blocked access to all companywide dashboards – likely because business has probably suffered dramatically. Those employees had to sign NDAs and place phones in paper bags, and there were even metal detectors to make sure no one had recording devices.

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Save $450,000, and Win Your Next Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Two factors often come down to how Q&A will be shared and/or if we are the incumbent. As you get ready for the next phase in the RFP Process, make sure you have documented the following: Comprehension: The RFP is clearly understood by you and your team. discovery, definition, design, development & deployment).

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A timeline for startup M&A processes: Key steps and factors to consider

TechCrunch

I am grateful and fortunate that I could solicit input on this article from several people, including Theresia Gouw and Mark Kraynak; a few of my partners at Acrew; Ed Zimmerman and Meredith Beuchaw from the law firm Lowenstein; Shan Aggarwal, VP of corporate development, Coinbase; and Art Levy, chief strategy officer at Brex.

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Dataloop secures cash infusion to expand its data annotation tool set

TechCrunch

Data annotation, or the process of adding labels to images, text, audio and other forms of sample data, is typically a key step in developing AI systems. Dataloop develops software and services for automating aspects of data prep, aiming to shave time off of the AI system development process. We call it the ‘primary bias.’