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Dropbox to acquire secure document sharing startup DocSend for $165M

TechCrunch

Dropbox announced today that it plans to acquire DocSend for $165 million The company helps customers share and track documents by sending a secure link instead of an attachment. Those workflows include creative, sales, client services or startups using DocSend to deliver proposals or pitch decks and track engagement.

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10 Steps to Increase the Odds of a Successful Angel or Seed Fundraising Round

Entrepreneurs' Organization

You need a great idea—ideally one that is disruptive and will scale and that you care about passionately. There are a number of great examples of publicly available pitch materials, so draw from ones that you like the most. Set a date to close a funding round, stick with it, and circulate proper legal documentation ahead of time.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. These documents are helpful for forming a new company, running your company, maintaining good corporate governance, and more. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more.

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AI-powered supply chain startup Pando lands $30M investment

TechCrunch

The platform provides various tools and apps for accomplishing different tasks across freight procurement, trade and transport management, freight audit and payment and document management, as well as dispatch planning and analytics. But Pando has a compelling sales pitch, judging by its momentum. The result of those major disruptions?

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What I did on my summer vacation: The First LP Close ($3.5mm) of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

A significant amount also came from KEC holdings, a NJ based family office led by Jeff Citron, who is known for using technology to disrupt a number of industries. VCs pitch for money, too. No one ever thinks about VCs having to pitch, who they pitch to, or how it works. It's the black box of the startup world.

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Komprise raises $37M to help companies index, manage and transform data

TechCrunch

In the enterprise, there’s been an explosive growth of data — think documents, videos, audio files, posts on social media and even emails. Goswami pitches it as a compliance solution as well as a means to manage costs. ” So what else can enterprises do with Komprise? .

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Normalizing down rounds, 2023 climate trends, term sheet basics

TechCrunch

The next storm front expected to arrive tomorrow is expected to bring disruption and destruction on a massive scale. Most investors won’t sign a non-disclosure agreement before reviewing your pitch because your idea is probably not worth stealing. How to protect your IP during fundraising so you don’t get ripped off.

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