Paul G. Silva
OCTOBER 6, 2022
A central tenet of the Lean Startup is “pivot, persevere, or perish.” On June 1st, after five years of perseverance and pivoting, my partners and I wound down Launch413. With six months now past, it feels right to share what we’ve learned. For those unfamiliar with it, Launch413 was a Post Accelerator that helped startup CEOs scale for sustained success by providing coaches with deep domain expertise.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Atman Capital, a year-old early-stage venture firm partially backed by about 20 founders, is sweetening the deal for these individual limited partners. It promises to give credit to any one of them who refers a successful deal to the venture firm in the form of some carried interest in the firm’s own profits. It’s an interesting twist for the firm, founded last year by Brazilian-born Pedro Sorrentino and Pedro Dias and that is investing in startups in the U.S. and Latin America.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
OCTOBER 6, 2022
I ended up paying $200K for a failing business. But I turned it around Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
In a sign that pure equity financing is getting harder to come by, cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf , which last July raised $150 million at triple its previous valuation ($4.3 billion), opted for all debt in its latest funding round. The company today announced that it secured $401 million in convertible notes from Owl Rock with participation from new and existing investors Viking Global Investors, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and Neuberger Berman.
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Gust
OCTOBER 6, 2022
There are thousands of articles and a few books including my book, The Pitch Deck Book: How To Present Your Business And Secure Investors, on putting together the best pitch deck for investors, but how should you end your pitch? The post How To End Your Investor Pitch appeared first on Gust.
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Y Combinator
OCTOBER 6, 2022
We are thrilled to announce that employees at YC companies can now leverage one of the major benefits previously only available to YC founders – YC Deals. Through YC Deals, employees have access to more than 100 discounts and exclusive offers on industry leading tools. There are already $500,000 worth of free credits and discounts available, and new deals are constantly being added.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Revelio Labs , a startup developing analytics software for HR teams, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A round with participation from Elephant Partners, Alumni Ventures, BDMI, K20 Ventures, Techstars and Barclays. Bringing the company’s total raised to $19 million, the proceeds will be put toward expanding Revelio’s offerings for corporate HR and strategy, CEO Ben Zweig tells TechCrunch.
Berkonomics
OCTOBER 6, 2022
This is not necessarily the way we intend to behave as managers, but our headline reflects the reality of most experiences when viewed in retrospect. Don’t we most often hire based on experience? We carefully vet the potential hire for experience required. Ninety days or longer later, if. that person is terminated by management, it often is for actions resulting from the person’s relationship with others in the organization more often than failure to perform the specific task for which the pers
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Microsoft has held conversations to invest in the Indian play-to-earn gaming platform Zupee in recent weeks and proposed to potentially lead a funding round of over $100 million, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, the latest in a series of bets from the cloud services giant to expand its business in the key overseas market. The two firms haven’t reached an agreement and there is a reasonable chance the deal will not materialize, the people cautioned.
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OkDork
OCTOBER 6, 2022
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify. What’s up, you beautiful bastards. It’s your boy Rumble Box aka Rabbi Can’t Lose aka Noah Kagan. We are back with another Q&A — Answer Your Questions #13! This episode is a segment from my recent Livestream at AppSumo. ?. Subscribe to AppSumo.com/noah if you want to be notified about my future Livestreams over there.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Uber is getting back into the robotaxi game, only this time it’s tapping a third party to handle the self-driving tech. Motional, the Aptiv-Hyundai joint venture commercializing self-driving vehicle tech, will put its robotaxis on the Uber network later this year as part of a 10-year operating agreement that will eventually roll out to major cities across North America.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Large supermarket chains have their own purchasing and logistics functions, but there are thousands of small, independent grocery stores and chains. They typically don’t have the benefit of the specialized software and tech to help make everything run smoother, but that’s where Vori saw an opportunity. The company agreed to share the pitch deck it used to raise a $10 million Series A so I can take a closer look.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Jiko started its life as a mobile bank for consumers. But over time, the fintech startup has evolved its model – mostly fueled by demand – and is now making a push into corporate money storage. In 2020, Jiko made headlines by being the first fintech to acquire a nationally regulated U.S. bank. The company also was unique in another way: Rather than hold customer deposits, it used the funds to buy short-term Treasury bills (T-bills). .
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
We think you’ll be as amazed as we are by the collective creativity, ingenuity and technical prowess of the Startup Battlefield 200. Out of thousands of applications, only 200 early-stage startups made the final cut, and you’ll find all of them — and only them — exhibiting on the TechCrunch Disrupt show floor on October 18–20 in San Francisco. That’s a whole lotta noteworthy startups, so we’re highlighting them by vertical.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Gather AI , a startup using drones to inventory items in warehouses, today announced that it raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Tribeca Venture Partners with participation from Xplorer Capital, Dundee Venture Capital, Expa, Bling Capital, XRC Labs and 99 Tartans. The proceeds bring the company’s total raised to $17 million, which CEO Sankalp Arora says is being put toward expanding Gather’s deployment capacity and go-to-market plans as well as hiring new machine learning e
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Ross Lipson co-founded Dutchie in 2017 and has since led the company to a multibillion-dollar valuation on top of raising $600 million. Now, in 2022, Dutchie is expanding its offering, and is quickly becoming the market leader with its dispensary management platform. And Casa Verde Capital investor Karan Wadhera has been with the company since the beginning, writing the company’s seed round and investing in several later stage VC rounds too.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Yonaton Aronoff. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Yonaton Aronoff is a partner at litigation and employment law firm Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler in New York City. The early months of a startup are like the beginning of a new romantic relationship: full of promise and excitement, with everyone entranced in a blissful state of possibility. In these days of wine and roses, it is natural to want to focus on the positive.
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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
OCTOBER 6, 2022
This year is supposed to be a venture-capital wasteland, especially when compared to 2021’s cycle-topping excess. And yet. New data from PitchBook providing a first look at Q3 2022 venture capital aggregates in the United States make it a bit hard to square reality with the leading narrative. Data indicate that U.S. venture capital was perfectly healthy in the third quarter, and 2022 has been a good year.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
German electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) startup Volocopter conducted its first crewed public test flight in Italy Thursday morning. The flight launched from a vertiport built at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport, Italy’s first advanced air mobility (AAM) testing vertiport, during a two-day event meant to demonstrate what a service between the airport and the city of Rome would look like.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Online shopping and speedy delivery through services like Instacart and Amazon Prime are the height of modern conveniences, but for many consumers who care about sustainability and e-commerce’s impact on the environment, every box and plastic bag deposited on their doorstep is also accompanied by a feeling of guilt. If only there was a better way to shop, we collectively wonder as we click “Add to Cart” yet again.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Trade wars, military conflicts, the rise of e-commerce and sustainability concerns are driving changes to supply chain networks and trade flows. Seventy-four percent of supply chain companies made changes to their networks within the past two years, according to Gartner. And in an IBM survey , 40% of executives stressed the need for spare capacity to weather future crises.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
So-called “personalized medicine” is all the rage these days. Healthcare is being gradually affected by data-driven insights gleaned through what the healthcare sector calls “precision medicine.” The COVID-19 pandemic has added urgency to this sector. The 15-minute appointment that ends in prescription medicine is also being affected by the advance of remote telemedicine, and this whole arena is now being populated by startups.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Oort , an identity threat detection and response platform, today announced that it raised $11.5 million in a Series A round co-led by.406 Ventures and Energy Impact Partners with participation from Cisco Investments. The proceeds, which bring Oort’s total capital raised to $15 million, will be put toward supporting its go-to-market strategy, CEO Matt Caulfield tells TechCrunch.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
The proliferation of delivery services give customers many options, but means chaos for busy restaurants that need to manage orders across multiple apps and channels. Many kitchens handle this by juggling several devices at a time, one for each app. Klikit wants to save Southeast Asian food businesses from “ tablet hell ” by aggregating order information from all apps into one platform.
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