TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

This undisclosed investment is Google’s third from the $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at the continent’s early- and growth-stage startups, which the company CEO Sundar Pichai announced last October. The fund is part of Google’s plan to invest $1 billion in “tech-led initiatives” over the next five years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Montreal-based Equisoft , an insurance and investment software developer, today announced that it raised $125 million in venture equity. It’s a large amount made more significant by the fact that the investment climate for insurtech vendors is growing increasingly challenging. billion in Q3 to $1.01 billion in Q4. $70

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. What used to be an “A” round in 2011 is now routinely called a Seed round and this has been so engrained that founders would rather take less money than to have to put the words “A round” in their legal documents. of the fund.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 25, 2021

The intention is also to create asset protection strategies so creditors, predators or ex-family members, cannot access the monies that your mom and dad worked so hard to accumulate. You also need to know who are the executors, trustees, and beneficiaries of all your parents’ legal documents.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2021

You’ve invested time and money into building your online business from scratch, but now you’re ready to embark on a new adventure. With these five strategies, your pathway to exit can be smooth and rewarding. Your content blog may need a new SEO strategy to raise your monthly traffic. Prepare Your Business’s Documentation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

On the other hand, Appruve, which provides an API that verifies user identity, fraud detection and digital documentation, primarily focuses on new datasets that enable or complement traditional government data such as international passports and national IDs.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I knew that I would need some help, seeing as I had never sold a business before, so I hired investment bankers to assist in the sale process. Start by documenting everything. The more employees that came on, the more I needed to have everything documented. That blueprint is your exit strategy. Tough, right?

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 6, 2020

Over the last 15 years, YC has invested in and worked with more than 2,000 companies, and we’ve seen and learned from their successes and failures. From fundraising document templates , to tips on how to pitch , to strategies for navigating COVID — we hope that our library offers something useful to every founder.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Investments, joint ventures or acquisitions could be vehicles for foreign adversaries to gain a foothold in the U.S. Space Industry,” warns that foreign intelligence entities (FIEs) could use a range of strategies — including capital allocations — to exploit American space companies. The new guidance, “Safeguarding the U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 3, 2024

While it is natural to be concerned about the financial costs of hiring a consultant, it is important to remember that the right consultant can bring significant value and ultimately generate a positive return on investment. Ask the consultant about their problem-solving approach and strategies for helping small businesses grow.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is the third of four installments in our new series, How Fintech Companies Can Simplify Their Funding Strategy. After the company signs the term sheet, the lender will begin legal documentation and work with their counsel on clearing conflicts to get a full loan agreement drafted. This usually takes about a week.

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 4, 2023

A business plan is a document that outlines your company’s mission, goals, market analysis, target customers, financial projections, and strategies for success. Know your target investors Investors come in different forms, and each investor has a different investment criteria, goals, and preferences.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Computers allowed lawyers to produce, store, and edit legal documents more easily. AI can be used in discovery to expedite the process of sifting through data files, and often to find documents a human may have missed. However, when lawyers do invest in AI are funding technology that may eventually replace them. Robot lawyers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. VCs like to measure your strategy & progress over time I like to download the decks I receive.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

One of the key documents for starting a business is a business plan. If you’re looking for investment capital, it’s an important document for investors to review to learn more about your company. These documents also tend to be written three to five years in advance. What kinds of problems does the business solve?

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 11, 2024

There is a wealth of online marketing research resources to help a small business or startup to establish a marketing plan and strategy to achieve its marketing goals. With the right information, small businesses can formulate a strategy to move forward more confidently, by understanding their target customers and related market segment.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 8, 2024

I am frequently shocked at the poor quality of investment documentation that founders present to Delaware Crossing when seeking investment. It is often clear that the companies lack experienced legal and financial support and that the lead investors have not engaged experienced counsel to review the documentation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Drone Fund led the latest financing along with SOSV’s HAX, Incubate Fund, SBI investment and DBJ Capital. ” The startup launched its sale strategy last year and now has seven clients and 32 partners, which are part of an open industrial robotic program that it launched last June. with a fresh injection of about $10.7

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

This next-level alignment empowered Karen with the capability to run the company according to the priorities and strategies we discussed in-depth each week for the previous year. Documentation. Now that our systems and processes are refined and firmly in place, we’re documenting them in a written playbook. Invest in your people.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The company’s application provides instant money in just 5 minutes using alternative data, without having to require paper documents or guarantors. MONIX has so far recorded $458 million in loan disbursements to over 650,000 users as of 2022, which is a reflection of positive net profits despite the challenging economic situation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Its technology creates tutorials by recording a users’ workflow — actions, links to pages, URLs and screenshots — and turns that into step-by-step documentation with a video. His firm invests in early-stage, business-to-business startups unlocking a novel data set. The team now has 13 employees.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

The company’s strategy, so far, seems to be working. His goal was to do for construction financials what Procore did to document management, and PlanGrid to construction drawing. Its longer-term, ambitious mission is to “manage 80% of the money workflows in construction within 10 years.”. trillion-dollar industry.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

I was publishing quite a bit of original research about bias in workplace documents like performance reviews and job posts, a bunch of it went viral, and I got to know a lot of people who eventually became Textio customers. We way underestimated Textio’s stickiness within HR and how deeply HR execs would invest in Textio.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Alternatively, you need to develop a comprehensive strategy to compete and build a compelling suite of products, services and perks. Any corporate strategy document will remain a fantasy on paper if your tech infrastructure is outdated and incapable of meeting your future needs.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2023

Register Zhang Yiming, the co-founder of ByteDance, the parent company of the popular social media platform TikTok, has established a new private investment fund in Hong Kong. The fund, known as Cool River Venture, will primarily focus on investing in technology-related industries.

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 29, 2020

In 2014 the great Steve Blank gave the startup world its first widely-respected quantitative assessment system: the Investment Readiness Level (IRL). A few years later Village Capital took the IRL to the next level, creating the Venture Investment and ReAdiness Level (VIRAL). Your score goes up by 0.1 for each completed milestone.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Whimsical , a startup creating tools for workplace collaboration, announced Tuesday its first funding round, a $30 million Series A investment led by Accel. In order to get to the next level, he needed partners to be able to invest more in the product and its go-to-market strategy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A company’s product or service can be phenomenal, but if the enterprise content — marketing, messaging, customer service communications, product documentation or even brand voice and style — is poorly written or unfocused, you’ll have a difficult time attracting and retaining customers. Content is the core of customer experience.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Would you recommend this strategy to founders? This strategy worked for two reasons: 1) By the end of the contract, the contractors had poured weeks of energy into the work – learning the code base and investing their time – and getting to know potential coworkers. This escalated their sense of commitment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

When you raise money from investors you produce information that you are told they want and care about: A fund-raising deck that articulates your company strategy, plans, team, market, competitors and so forth. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

He told us the fees were for documents involving business formation, funding, various agreements, and intellectual property registrations. As a founder, you can get the most out of legal help by deploying a few smart strategies that won’t break the bank or blow your budget. This includes all associated risks.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 11, 2024

There is a wealth of online marketing research resources to help a small business or startup establish a marketing plan and strategy to achieve its marketing goals. With the right information, small businesses can formulate a strategy to move forward more confidently, by understanding their target customers and related market segment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Arwa Kaddoura has worked for nearly 20 years in cloud GTM strategies and scaling startups and large enterprises. Putting the product itself in the driver’s seat means that the product needs to be easily accessible, well documented and usable without requiring “gatekeepers.” Arwa Kaddoura. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Companies like the New York Times are willing to litigate this issue (at least as a negotiation strategy). Responsibility : Documented Trust and Safety protocols to allow for escalation around violations of your Terms of Service. In the last year we’ve seen billions of dollars invested in AI companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

And according to David Wechsler, a principal at OMERS Ventures, “having an embedded strategy is not required for venture funding.” We have long been pushy on such an indirect distribution, having invested in four embedded insurance startups in property and casualty, bancassurance, life, and SME insurance. That hasn’t changed.

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