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Elevate Your Startup’s Future with 4 Financial Forecasting Game-Changers

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For example, startups with well-prepared forecasts are better equipped to manage through challenging economic environments. Alex has extensive experience working in finance operations, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and private equity-backed companies.

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

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automotive, personal loans, and student financing) to verify and approve borrowers quickly within their own applications using Truework’s APIs. ” Truework founders: Victor Kabdebon (product & CTO), Ryan Sandler (CEO) and Ethan Winchell (COO). with vehicle loans in particular driving a significant part of that.

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Even well-funded fintech companies are laying off workers

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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.

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

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Co-founder and CEO Afif Khoury says that the new capital — a combination of debt and equity of which Khoury wouldn’t provide a very detailed breakdown — will be put toward mergers and acquisitions, customer success and international expansion. .”

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Fighting fundraising fears, XaaS CS strategy, the ‘collapse’ of VC

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Similarly, there’s no reason to be fearful about raising money, but like carefree cruisers at full sail, founders should have healthy respect for a process that’s not under their control. In this TC+ post, she discusses the current economic environment and shares “actionable tips for closing pre-seed to Series B rounds.”.

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7 investors discuss why edtech startups must go back to basics to survive

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Jan Lynn-Matern , founder and partner, Emerge Education. Has edtech seen a slowing of the “tourism” from generalist founders and investors? We build relationships with founders over time, developing conviction in them, their team and the company before investing. Malvika Bhagwat and Kriti Bansal , Owl Ventures.

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The Station: Restructuring ripples and the next investor darling of the EV era

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Other deals that got my attention… Aurora Labs raised $63 million through a Series C financing round led by Moore Strategic Ventures. The terms weren’t disclosed but we do know that all Roadbotics employees and its CEO and co-founder Ben Schmidt are headed over to Michelin. also participated. Arrival , the U.K.-based