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Q&A: How Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Can Help You

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MVE-Lab equips participants to identify their target customers, network with others, and find the resources they need to launch profitably and successfully. The program includes learning modules, expert coaching, peer networking and a marketplace of tools and solutions.

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Soci raises $120M in debt and equity to grow its marketing management platform

TechCrunch

Soci provides customers marketing-focused workflows, a permissioning system, approval processes and analytics and management tools that integrate with popular ad networks. For example, Soci’s Review Genius — powered by AI startup OpenAI’s tech — collects reviews and analytics across review networks (e.g.

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Constrafor, a construction procurement company, goes ‘SAFE’ route with new capital

TechCrunch

Banks are more and more careful with their own funding of development projects, which means they will also slow down payments on their own side,” Constrafor CEO Anwar Ghauche told TechCrunch. Constrafor grabs $106M in equity, credit to finance construction subcontractors The company raised $106.3

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Avarni is building a comprehensive dataset to analyze supply chain emissions 

TechCrunch

Avarni was founded by CEO Tony Yammine, previously a management consultant at KPMG Australia, CPO Misha Cajic, a former Atlassian product manager and CTO Anuj Paudel, who was a cloud network engineer at Macquarie Telecom Group. The company will use its new funding to develop its platform.

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Dan Teran shares Gutter Capital’s challenge of closing its first fund

TechCrunch

He sold that business to WeWork in 2019 for $220 million and joined the company to lead global corporate development and ventures following the acquisition. We’ve covered the dry powder that venture capital firms are sitting on and also how difficult it is to raise funding in this economic environment. and Ribbon Homes.

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Cyber firm Arctic Wolf raises $401M in debt, eyeing a potential IPO

TechCrunch

“In a turbulent economic environment, security will remain a top priority for companies. ” Arctic Wolf’s flagship software platform ingests data from a company’s endpoints, cloud environments and networks to provide a unified view of potential cybersecurity threats.

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On Deck tried to do it all. Now, it’s trying to do less, better

TechCrunch

The next iteration, starting September 27, ranges from an onboarding process in which founders are introduced to the community, to weekly programming on skill development and workshops. And instead of equity in exchange or a check, founders fork over $2,990 to be part of the program.