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Proptech in Review: 3 investors explain why they’re bullish on tech that makes buildings greener

TechCrunch

We asked three venture capital firms investing at the intersection of proptech and climate tech about how a focus on reducing emissions can trim a building’s carbon footprint and offer new opportunities for returns. Those that survive will have an opportunity to expand market share.”. And the potential market is enormous.

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Three Learnings for Startups after Big Tech’s Q3 Earnings Beatdown

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Public market investors are punishing Big Tech for several strategic errors that I believe offer valuable lessons for startups to learn from. Public market investors are punishing Big Tech for several strategic errors that I believe offer valuable lessons for startups to learn from. and then budget accordingly. What do you think?

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

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I’ll be honest, the diversity of the answers surprised me — ranging from how climate and workforce mobility are edtech’s next opportunities to how the departure of tourist VCs is playing out differently depending on company stages. The tone also felt balanced: Many admitted that things have changed, but opportunity continues to exist.

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Mayfield’s Arvind Gupta discusses startup fundraising during a downturn

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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. Who’s going to have a harder time in this new environment? It’s just different in different economic environments, it’s never shut, so to speak.

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Spend management platform Teampay expands partnership with Mastercard, raises $47M

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Last year, Teampay launched a Mastercard-branded corporate card, Catalyst, with spend management features, signaling the startup’s intentions to venture further into the heated corporate card space. Just in January, European startup Moss , which offers corporate credit cards for small- and medium-sized companies, raised $86 million.

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

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Customer support startup Gorgias raises $25M. Even with all of that growth, the company is monitoring its cash burn rate in this new economic environment. The company’s goals early on were to “hire and grow in a sustainable way,” Lapeyre said.

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Constrafor, a construction procurement company, goes ‘SAFE’ route with new capital

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Since then, the company tweaked its credit origination and is now growing at 25% month over month this year “in sustainable growth.” And at a time when other financial players are increasing rates due to the difficult economic environment, Constrafor is able to lower its price to customers and pass on the savings to them, he added.