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YC’s $500,000 Standard Deal

Y Combinator

Dalton Caldwell , YC’s Managing Director, Architect, and long-term Group Partner, who first suggested that now was the right time to make this change, also pointed out that if founders stay lean, this is more than enough capital to survive for years, regardless of the economic environment.

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Q&A: How Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Can Help You

StartupNation

To stay competitive in the new economic environment, small businesses must be agile and adapt to shifting consumer preferences. To stay competitive in the new economic environment, small businesses must be agile and adapt to shifting consumer preferences.

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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. Implement special tools and technology. . • Risk management: Understanding your financials inside and out allows you to take calculated risks, enhancing the startup’s competitive edge.

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

TechCrunch

This economic environment will continue to test a lot of companies,” said Jake Fingert, managing partner, and Lionel Foster, investor, at Camber Creek. Technology that improves how much we can utilize and enjoy these spaces at any stage of a building’s lifespan is relevant and valuable. That’s what matters.

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Australia’s Avarni raises $3m to speed up decarbonization efforts

AsiaTechDaily

The founding team included Tony Yammine, who was previously a management consultant at KPMG Australia; Misha Cajic, Chief Product Officer and previously a product manager at Atlassian; and Anuj Paudel, Chief Technology Officer and the previous cloud network engineer at Macquarie Telecom Group.

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Celonis secures another $1B to find and fix process problems in enterprise systems

TechCrunch

Like other process mining technologies, Celonis’ uses automated actions to find process problems inside of enterprise systems. Process mining involves spotting root cause issues by pulling data from systems including desktop, IT, email apps and workflows.

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Wing Venture Capital’s Fifth Annual Enterprise Tech 30 List

American Entrepreneurship

The List revealed the substantial rise of Generative AI companies and the significant drop of productivity/ collaboration-labeled companies from 19% in 2021 to now just 5%—reflecting the spike that technology had in response to the shift to remote working during the pandemic.