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Gorgias’ valuation rises to $710M with $30M Series C for e-commerce customer support

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Gorgias , developing customer service tools for e-commerce companies, raised $30 million in new Series C capital in a round that boosted its valuation to $710 million. This way support tickets can be managed in a number of different ways, including live chat, email, phone, SMS, messaging apps and social media.

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

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Guests include other veteran entrepreneurs, mentors, and experts like attorneys and marketing specialists, including the leader of Verizon’s veteran employee resource group who shared information about Verizon support for small business owners along with his own personal experience as an entrepreneur.

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Wing Venture Capital’s Fifth Annual Enterprise Tech 30 List

American Entrepreneurship

GenAI, Developer-and Data Stack-Focused Companies Dominate List as well as 80% of ET30 founders are Millennials Five years ago, Wing Venture Capital introduced their annual Enterprise Tech 30—a list of the most promising, private enterprise tech private companies across all stages of maturity.

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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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Truework, which helps lenders verify borrowers’ income and employment, raises $50M

TechCrunch

The company also supports background checks for employers and staffing companies seeking to verify potential new hires. And the current economic environment, it seems, is playing more than a bit-part in this trend. Truework estimates that it will power in excess of 12 million income and employment verifications this year.

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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. But in the subsequent years, the company Wolf pitching its products in larger enterprise markets, rolling out security awareness and training programs and launching a restructured partner program with tiered support services.

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Even well-funded fintech companies are laying off workers

TechCrunch

Schulman added: “Over the past year, we made significant progress in strengthening and reshaping our company to address the challenging macro-economic environment…While we have made substantial progress in right-sizing our cost structure, and focused our resources on our core strategic priorities, we have more work to do.