TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meet Revyze , a French startup that is developing a mobile app for iOS and Android at the intersection of education and social. In many ways, Revyze looks just like TikTok. But it is focused specifically on educational content for teenagers. “We talked with kids attending 30 or 35 different high schools,” co-founder Florent Sciberras told me. “We asked them: ‘What do you think about school and what’s the best way to learn?

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Welcome to the third edition of Learnings of a CEO. You can read previous editions here. Pave helps companies plan, communicate, and benchmark employee compensation. Today, the company has 160 employees, more than 3,500 customers, and is valued at $1.6B. Founder and CEO Matt Schulman has created one of the most comprehensive and thorough recruiting processes, which has made him one of the most successful recruiters in the YC community.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion , today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. The tranche values the company at $1 billion post-money, according to a Bloomberg source, and comes as the demand for AI-powered content generation accelerates.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Grab my attention with key information instead of packing the deck with details Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Eric Tarczynski. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Eric Tarczynski is managing partner and founder of Contrary Capital. More posts by this contributor. University entrepreneurship — without the university. To predict what 2023 will look like for venture capital, we need to start by understanding where we are now. We’re entering a messy middle where prices continue to drop and the “2021” deal, industry slang for an investment made at an exorbitant price, is long gone.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Ambi Robotics , a startup developing supply chain automation hardware, today announced that it raised $32 million in additional funding led by Tiger Global and Bow Capital, with participation from Ahren and logistics firm Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes is a strategic investor in Ambi, having recently inked a $23 million deal with the company to deploy Ambi’s hardware in U.S.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 17, 2022

How quickly can you grow up? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Tipping in the U.S. is a critical part of how the wheels turn in the service economy. One service area that’s been very overlooked, however, is the world of last-mile delivery — a service job that falls between the cracks when it comes to tipping because those who deliver products typically don’t work for the company that is selling you the product, leaving the responsibility and incentive for tipping up in the air.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2022

How has fundraising changed in the last few years? Between COVID, the evolution of the API economy, and a increase in second, third & fourth time founders who are seeking funding. Janelle van Deventer breaks down the options for raising capital through bootstrapping, dilutive investors, government subsides and various forms of debt. The post How To Raise Capital and How Raising Capital Has Changed appeared first on Gust.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Happy TechCrunch Disrupt eve! That’s right, tech’s OG conference dedicated to early-stage startup founders — and the ecosystem that supports them — kicks off tomorrow at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. No FOMO zone: It’s not too late to buy a pass and get in on all the action and opportunity. We’d love to see you! Here’s a quick look at just some of the sessions, speakers and other happenings you can take in over the next three days.

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Founder Bounty

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Peter Levels, founder of Nomadlist has bootstrapped his business to millions in annual revenue. He talks about how he did it and what he went through but overall his mission about how he saw digital nomads as the future of work years and years ago. There will be 1 billion digital nomads by 2035 It all started from blogging he mentions and being able to see the future.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Byju’s said Monday it has raised $250 million in new funding from existing backers as the Indian edtech giant looks to navigate the market downturn that has forced the firm to postpone its initial public offering and cut thousands of jobs. The new funding valued the Bengaluru-headquartered startup at $22 billion, the same figure at which it raised a financing round in March this year , a person familiar with the matter said.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The cold, hard truth about growing a thriving business. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

After a rough year in the public markets, you might take today’s brilliant trading as good news. Any positive price movement is a win, right? Kinda. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index rose 3.4% today, while other major U.S. indices jumped smaller amounts in a hall-of-fame start to the trading week. (That the markets are turning up for Disrupt is rather kind, I must admit.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Crypto will roar back up again when this event happens Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Greetings from the TechCrunch office! Yes, it turns out we have an office, even though we haven’t seen the inside of it for a good long stretch. We are here doing some stretches ahead of Disrupt kicking off tomorrow. Some of us have gotten to take a sneaky peek inside the venue, and it looks amazing.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Don’t forget that the code “EQUITY” can save you money on Disrupt tickets and TechCrunch+ access. And it makes us here on the show look good! Hell yeah, this is our Monday show. And heck yes, we are recording Equity live tomorrow morning at Disrupt.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

From one perspective, DoorDash is a bargain today. The same goes for Coinbase, UiPath, AppLovin, Oscar Health, Bumble, and Qualtrics. Indeed, if you pick nearly any 2021 technology IPO and compare its debut price to where it trades today, you will find that the market is offering yesteryear’s standouts at a massive discount. So much of a discount that it’s hard to not wonder if at least part of the reticence of the 2022 IPO market is not predicated on macro conditions, but the more specifi

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