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Nigerian restaurant management platform Orda gets $1.1M, wants to be the Toast of Africa

TechCrunch

Cloud-based point of sales for small, medium and large-sized restaurants has increased tremendously in both size and popularity. The market, dominated by incumbents like Toast and upcoming players such as MarginEdge and Brazil’s Zak , has its value pegged at over $70 billion globally and is expected to reach $116 billion in the next four years. As with most technologies, Africa is playing catch up in this food-tech segment.

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Dancing with Gorillas: How Startups Can Partner with the Giants

StartupNation

This excerpt is adapted from “Gorillas Can Dance: Lessons from Microsoft and Other Corporations on Partnering with Startups ” by Shaheen Prashantham. ©2021 and is reproduced with permission from Wiley. Understanding the startup’s perspective. Of course, it takes two to tango, and the three-step (synergy-interface-exemplar) process just described will only work when the managers involved take the trouble to understand the startup’s perspective (see Figure 3.1).

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Space startup Wyvern raises $4.5M and joins YC’s latest cohort

TechCrunch

A Canadian startup working at the cutting edge of satellite imaging has raised $4.5 million across a combination of a $2.25 million seed round, and $2.25 million from a combined pre-seed and government funding. Wyvern , which is working specifically on hyperspectral imaging (imaging that captures light across many different wavelengths, including non-visible ones) is also joining Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 cohort.

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3 Reasons You Need to Stop Asking People What They Think About Your Startup Idea

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Getting other people’s opinions might seem like a good idea, but it’s probably not as helpful as you think. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Rebundle raises $1.4M for plant-based hair extensions

TechCrunch

This morning Rebundle , a hair-focused startup based in St. Louis, announced that it has raised $1.4 million in a pre-seed round. M25 , a venture firm with a geographic focus on the Midwest, led the funding event. Prior to its pre-seed round, Rebundle had raised what CEO and co-founder Ciara Imani May described as six-figures worth of grant, and other non-dilutive capital in an interview with TechCrunch.

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Ghanaian fintech Float raises $17M seed to power cash flow for commerce in Africa

TechCrunch

Cash flow is a major pain point for small businesses in Africa. Long payment cycles, which can take 30-90 days after services or products have been rendered, and little or no capital, of which research says 85% of African small and medium businesses are subject to, are the main culprits of cash flow issues. Many startups are solving these problems for African SMBs in one form or another, and the demand for their services has seen Ghanaian startup Float pick up a significant round of funding.

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The Highest Valuation Isn’t Always the Best Valuation for a Startup

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The trap of over-valuation and how to avoid it Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Juro draws $23M into its browser-based contract automation platform

TechCrunch

London-based legaltech startup Juro has grabbed $23 million in Series B funding for its browser-based contract automation platform. In total the startup has raised $31.5M since being founded back in 2016. Investors in the Series B are Eight Roads, which led the round — plus existing investors Union Square Ventures, Point Nine Capital, Seedcamp and Taavet Hinrikus (Wise/TransferWise co-founder).

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[Flytrex in MarketScale] As delivery apps spread, innovating the last mile remains an end goal

OurCrowd

Host Barbara Castiglia welcomed to The Main Course Yariv Bash, CEO of Flytrex, to discuss an innovation in food delivery that has long been on the radar, but whose growth has been exacerbated by the pandemic: drones. While his company was founded in 2013 under different circumstances, it only took until 2016 for Bash and his team to realize that drone deliveries were “gonna happen.”.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

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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Focused on smaller cities, Vietnamese social commerce startup Mio raises $8M Series A

TechCrunch

Mio , the Vietnamese social commerce platform, has raised an $8 million Series A, less than a year after announcing its seed round. The funding was led by Jungle Ventures, with participation from Patamar Capital and Oliver Jung. Existing investors investors GGV, Venturra, Hustle Fund, iSEED SEA and Gokul Rajaram also returned for the round. TechCrunch first covered Mio at the time of its $1 million seed funding in May 2021.

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New Year, New Opportunities – Part 1

INBIA

The post New Year, New Opportunities – Part 1 appeared first on InBIA.

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Spain’s Payflow, a salary advance startup, banks $9.1M to fuel a super app growth strategy

TechCrunch

Barcelona-based Payflow , a YC-backed salary-advance fintech with ambitions to evolve into a neobank, has banked a $9.1 million Series A funding round — bringing its total raised since January 2020, when the business was founded, to $13.6M. Investors in the round include a mix of national and international funds, including Spain’s Seaya Ventures, a new backer of Payflow and Cathay Innovation via its C.

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New Year, New Opportunities – Part 1

INBIA

The post New Year, New Opportunities – Part 1 appeared first on InBIA.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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How Accounting Is (Finally) Catching Up to What Today’s Entrepreneurs Need

Smart Hustle Magazine

While the way we do business has radically changed, small business accounting hasn’t changed much. For today’s entrepreneurs, tackling tasks like bookkeeping and invoicing with traditional small business accounting software is at odds with how they naturally manage money. For some time now, mobile apps have replaced what used to be necessities of everyday living: payments by mail, in-person bank deposits, and paper credit card statements.

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Foundational Finance Considerations You Can’t Overlook When Launching Your Startup

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There are few moments in the life of a business as consequential as Launch Day, the moment you finally get to lift the veil on the project you’ve been working on. It’s a heady time, one that is a mix of excitement (“Holy cow, we’re finally doing this!”) and anxiety (Holy cow, we’re actually doing this!). Though I work with businesses at every stage of their life cycles, I still get a thrill out of being a part of an entrepreneurial kickoff.

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Gradient, 10xFounders back Zowie’s no-code, e-commerce customer service tool

TechCrunch

Customer service tickets tend to fall into the same few buckets — returns, refunds or quality control questions. Not only are these repetitive, but it leaves little time for customer engagement on more complex requests, like relaying information on products or helping a customer find the best product for them. Maja Schaefer and Matt Ciolek, co-founders of Zowie , believe much of that repetitive work can be automated.

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Is Compensation Stagnation to Blame for the Great Resignation?

Tomasz Tunguz

The Great Resignation has rippled across headlines and boardrooms as employees' values and priorities evolve. Has the Great Resignation been caused by a silent stagnation in compensation? Let’s compare data from 2010 and 2021 to understand the longitudinal trends in cash and equity compensation. The cash compensation of three executive roles at early-stage companies has increased faster than inflation.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How I Landed in the Top 1% of Female Earners

Entrepreneur's Handbook

It’s not as difficult as you’ve been led to believe Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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WJR Business Beat: Grants for Women Entrepreneurs (Episode 347)

StartupNation

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff Sloan shares NerdWallet’s list of grants specifically for women entrepreneurs. If you’re a woman or if you know a woman who wants to start or grow their business, but is in need of capital to get it really rolling, check out these grant opportunities and others. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more: .

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Humanism’s Twin Goals for Society: Freedom and Solidarity

Continuations

Many leaders and also parents mistakenly believe that the only way to be demanding is to be a jerk. I had found myself trapped in this flawed thinking at times. What made a huge difference for me was understanding that there are actually two dimensions to leadership (parenting): the demanding and the caring dimension, as shown here in a graph from Angela Duckworth ’s wonderful book Grit : It has recently occurred to me that much of the debate about society is caught in a similar one-dimensionali

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[Aria Pharmaceuticals in BioSpace] Aria deploys AI differently to drive new insights

OurCrowd

Aria Pharmaceuticals is using a unique computational approach to drug development that has increased its success rate by 30-fold when compared to traditional approaches. This improvement was instrumental in developing the 18-compound pipeline at this preclinical stage, small molecule company. Read more here. The post [Aria Pharmaceuticals in BioSpace] Aria deploys AI differently to drive new insights appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Turkey’s Spyke raises $55M in a seed round to bring a social twist to casual mobile games

TechCrunch

Istanbul has become a city to watch when it comes to casual gaming startups, boosted by the likes of Peak ( acquired by Zynga for $1.8 billion ) and Dream ( valued at $1 billion in a funding round last year). Now, a new startup is announcing a major round of funding to make its own mark on the space. Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. “Teams and a

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[DouxMatok in Baking Business] DouxMatok hires former Kraft VP to lead North American efforts

OurCrowd

Kelly Thompson, who has held executive roles at Continental Mills, Inc., Dean Foods and Kraft Foods, has been named senior vice president, head of North America for DouxMatok, an Israeli-based global food technology company that focuses on sugar reduction. She will integrate consumer insight and her background in research and development to establish scalable solutions for customers.

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Spendesk is the fifth French startup to reach unicorn status this month

TechCrunch

Fintech startup Spendesk is announcing that it has raised an extension to its Series C round. Tiger Global is investing $114 million (€100 million) in the startup. Following today’s funding round, the company says that is has reached a valuation of more than $1.14 billion (more than €1 billion). In other words, Spendesk is a new unicorn in the French tech ecosystem.

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[HoneyBook in PYMNTS] HoneyBook, jaris team on managing client, cash flow

OurCrowd

Private label and full stack embedded lending service jaris announced Tuesday (Jan. 18) that it has partnered with HoneyBook to launch HoneyBook Capital and better manage client flow and cash flow. Read more here. The post [HoneyBook in PYMNTS] HoneyBook, jaris team on managing client, cash flow appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.