TechCrunch
MARCH 26, 2021
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat through the week’s biggest tech happenings. News was right back up to a dull roar this week, so we did our best to trim and hone and just bring you the most important things.
StartupNation
MARCH 26, 2021
If you think you’ve missed out on the e-commerce boom and should have started an online business long ago, here is some reassuring news: the industry’s rapid growth isn’t slowing down any time soon, and selling your products online has never been easier. Online sales were increasing steadily before the pandemic, but 2020 saw incredible growth. E-commerce sales grew more than 30% year-over-year in Q4 of last year, with U.S. sales reaching nearly $250 billion by Q4 of 2020.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 26, 2021
Google’s latest investment in India is a startup that is helping businesses come online. One-year-old DotPe , a Gurgaon-based startup, said on Friday it has raised $27.5 million in its Series A financing round. The round was led by PayU, with participation from existing investor Info Edge Ventures and Google. The young startup, now valued at about $90 million, helps brick and mortar stores sell to customers online and collect payments digitally.
Y Combinator
MARCH 26, 2021
Pheadra Ellis-Lamkins, Co-Founder and CEO of Promise , had witnessed technology’s impact on the work communities in which she’d been a part — and not always for good. In the labor force and the environment sector, she’d seen technology replace jobs, relegating janitors and receptionists to contract work. In the music industry, she’d seen artists’ content devalued with advances in digital innovation.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 26, 2021
“Headless commerce” is a phrase that gets thrown around lot (I’ve typed it several times today already), but Vue Storefront CEO Patrick Friday has an especially vivid way of using the concept to illustrate his startup’s place in the broader ecosystem. “Vue Storefront is the bodiless front end,” Friday said. “We are the walking head.” In other words, while most headless commerce companies are focused on creating back-end infrastructure, Vue powers
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TechCrunch
MARCH 26, 2021
When TechCrunch covered UIPath’s Series A in 2017 , it was a small startup out of Romania working in a little known area of enterprise software called robotic process automation (RPA). Then the company took off with increasingly large multibillion dollar valuations. It progressed through its investment rounds, culminating with a $750 million round on an eye-popping $35 billion valuation last month.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 26, 2021
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TechCrunch
MARCH 26, 2021
Chainalysis , a blockchain analysis company, announced Friday it has closed on $100 million in Series D financing, doubling its valuation to over $2 billion. The round comes just four months after the company secured a $100 million Series C round at a $1 billion valuation. Paradigm led the latest funding event while existing backers Addition and Ribbit doubled down on their investment in the company.
Innovation 2 Enterprise
MARCH 26, 2021
Most startups work months, even years, to secure funding that will be the lifeblood of their business. Securing that precious capital has been the primary goal of every founder in our portfolio at one point or another, and along the way they have become familiar with the beginning of the venture capital path yet may not be familiar with ends and outs of portfolio management.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 26, 2021
Vibrant, a medical technology company that’s developed a disposable vibrating pill to treat chronic constipation, today announced its Series E for $7.5 million. The company is based in Tel Aviv and is lead by Lior Ben-Tsur, a startup veteran. Since its founding in 2007, the company has raised a total of $25 million. This round is being led by Unorthodox Ventures, with participation by Sequoia.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MARCH 26, 2021
Contributed by Marina Byezhanova , an EO Montreal member and the founder of personal branding agency, Brand of a Leader. Personal branding is a hot topic among entrepreneurs these days. A Google search of “personal branding” and “entrepreneurs” returns nearly 2 million results. Rooms about personal branding on Clubhouse run at all hours of the day. Even the former chief of staff to Princess Diana and the former director of global engagement to former US President Obama are now giving talks on pe
TechCrunch
MARCH 26, 2021
Since the pandemic began, I have been pushing the limits of my imagination to try to picture what cities will look and feel like in the coming years. If your town looks like San Francisco, where I live, it’s a pressing question: Our once-bustling financial district is a ghost town, but even in outer neighborhoods, the number of vacant storefronts is unsettling.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
MARCH 26, 2021
Kevin Kelly , who has been an editor at Wired and Whole Earth Review, is funding this book project on Kickstarter. He is attempting to capture the many cultures in Asia that are disappearing with modernization. I backed the project today and decided to get the book too. You can do that here. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Mar 22, 2021 Preparing Communities for the Climate Crisis Nick Grossman — Mar 20, 2021 Bitcoin as Battery.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 26, 2021
Hub , a productivity platform for technical pre-sales, has formally launched with $1 million in seed funding. CEO Freddy Mangum and CTO Karl Gainey founded Hub in 2020. The pair both had experience in technical sales and recognized the challenges of using spreadsheets to manage their business. They researched and surveyed sales engineers at big and small companies alike, discovering that many of these professionals were spending a lot of time doing things like “ wrangling data to report to manag
Smart Hustle Magazine
MARCH 26, 2021
The journey to business success is fraught with potholes, cliffs, valleys, and mountains to scale. Many of these challenges are inside of us. Not lack of cash flow. Not a need for better marketing. But the battles of our mind. Three books I’ve recently read helped to realign my mindset towards success. They will help you too. Marc Pitman, “ The Surprising Gift of Doubt ” – Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be.
TechCrunch
MARCH 26, 2021
Procrastinators, last-minute decision makers and overwhelmed entrepreneurs heed this call! Your last chance to save $100 or more and attend both TechCrunch Early Stage 2021 bootcamps expires tonight! You’re dedicated to learning the essentials of building a solid early-stage startup, yes? That’s exactly what you’ll get at TC Early Stage 2021 ( Operations & Fundraising: April 1-2 and Marketing & Fundraising: July 8-9 ).
Smart Hustle Magazine
MARCH 26, 2021
Owning a business is something several people dream of. Some shy away from taking that first step towards starting one, while others will make their dream a reality. Setting up and running a successful business involves a lot of work. It can be even harder to do if you go about it alone. This is why franchising can be an option. Steve Chambers is the Vice President of franchise and business development at UPS.
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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.
TechCrunch
MARCH 26, 2021
Homebase co-founders Phillip An and Junyuan Tan. The home ownership rate in Vietnam is about 90% , but many millennials are struggling to join that number. Rising property prices in cities, coupled with a lack of financing options, mean more people have to delay buying their first homes unless they have family support. Part of Y Combinator’s latest batch, Homebase was founded in 2019 to give prospective buyers in Vietnam an alternative to traditional financing.
Feedough
MARCH 26, 2021
At a time when technological advancements are so rapid, providing customers with new features is almost a new necessity. If offerings are not updated, then users can drift towards competitors. But developers cannot make changes in a live setting. They need a safe environment to test and add new functions to the products. A staging environment provides these safe conditions to the developers.
TechCrunch
MARCH 26, 2021
If you browse Instagram, you are probably familiar with the term “link in bio.” Links aren’t allowed in post captions, and users are only allowed one URL in their bios, so many create a simple website with multiple links for their followers. Linktree , one of the most popular “link in bio” services with more than 12 million users, announced today it has raised $45 million in Series B funding.
OurCrowd
MARCH 26, 2021
Many homeowners want to do their part in contributing to a cleaner environment, and if they can save money on energy bills along the way, that’s even better. A company that recently expanded and moved to Mount Kisco is looking to keep up with the demand of those heightened sensibilities. Read more here. The post [Dandelion Energy in The Examiner] Geothermal Systems Company Expands With Move to Mount Kisco appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 26, 2021
Robotic process automation platform UiPath added its name to the list of companies pursuing public-market offerings this morning with the release of its S-1 filing. The document details a quickly growing software company with sharply improving profitability performance. The company also flipped from cash burn to cash generation on both an operating and free-cash-flow basis in its most recent fiscal year.
Innovation 2 Enterprise
MARCH 26, 2021
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TechCrunch
MARCH 26, 2021
This morning, well-known robotic process automation (RPA) unicorn UiPath has filed to go public. The company’s S-1 filing comes after it raised billions of dollars while private, making it amongst the best-funded startups in history. Over the last year, for example, the company’s rapid-fired fundraising included its Series E and Series F rounds of capital, both of which came inside the last 12 months.
TechCrunch
MARCH 26, 2021
Tim Kopp. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Tim Kopp is the chairman and CEO of Terminus , an ABM platform that powers high-performing go-to-market teams. There’s certainly no shortage of SaaS performance metrics leaders focus on. While all SaaS companies do, and must, home in on acquisition metrics, there’s also massive revenue potential within your current customer base.
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