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

Entrepreneurs' Organization

For example, startups with well-prepared forecasts are better equipped to manage through challenging economic environments. Leveraging what-if scenario planning can help you prepare for the unknown, while regular reviews ensure your strategies remain aligned with real-world data. The startup landscape is unpredictable.

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

TechCrunch

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

TechCrunch

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. ” Khoury has a colorful background.

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

TechCrunch

Jan Lynn-Matern , founder and partner, Emerge Education. How has this affected your edtech portfolio’s ability to grow, and how are you changing strategy? Has edtech seen a slowing of the “tourism” from generalist founders and investors? Here’s who we surveyed: Ashley Bittner and Kate Ballinger , Firework Ventures.

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

TechCrunch

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

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Mayfield’s Arvind Gupta discusses startup fundraising during a downturn

TechCrunch

Between his roles as co-leader of Mayfield Fund’s engineering biology practice and founder at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta reviewed approximately 470 startup pitches last year. “In 10 days, I can do the primary research and work with the founders to come to a conclusion there. For a larger Series A check. Arvind Gupta.

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The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021 Part 2 • 2022 From a Startup Equity Seller’s to an Equity Buyer’s Market

Angel Capital Association

2022: The Aftermath In 2022 war, inflation, rising interest rates and a tougher economic environment–one not buoyed by historically low interest rates–brought an end to the long-term bull market in assets (the “everything bubble”), including startup capital. By Q4, for every dollar of available capital there were 1.4x

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