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The Rebrand

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I’d guess that upwards of half of USV’s portfolio companies have changed the name of their company during their lifetime. It is not hard to understand why. Founders start out with an idea and not much more. By the time they have built a product, built a team, and found product market fit, they might be doing something a bit different or a lot different than where they started out.

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Drone imagery firm DroneBase rebrands to Zeitview, lands $55M investment

TechCrunch

Zeitview , the company formerly known as DroneBase , today announced that it raised $55 million to further develop its air and ground data capture tech. Led by Valor Equity Partners with participation from Union Square Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Euclidean Capital, Energy Transition Ventures and Hearst Ventures, the tranche — which brings Zeitview’s war chest to $114 million — will be put toward product expansion, customer acquisition and ongoing recruitment efforts, CEO Dan Bu

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Pimly Raises $5M to scale its product information management platform

HPA

We’re excited to announce that Pimly , a product relationship management tool designed to close the gap in modern e-commerce, has raised $5M in funding. HPA participated in the round , which was led by High Alpha. Pimly is the industry’s first fully Salesforce-native solution making Salesforce the source of truth for critical product information allowing employees, prospects, partners and customers to become experts on product information.

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Flox raises $27M to bring Nix to more developers

TechCrunch

Nix, the open-source tool for creating reproducible builds and deployments, is becoming increasingly popular among developers, but it’s not always the easiest service to work with. It’s maybe no surprise then that we’re now seeing a new batch of startups that aims to bring Nix to more developers by building the tooling necessary to bring Nix to the enterprise.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Meet best of Asia’s startups selected for e27’s TOP100 programme at Echelon Asia Summit 2023

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The TOP100 programme, created by e27 to provide early-stage startups with access to a platform that facilitates connections for partnerships, funding opportunities, and more in the Asia Pacific, returns this year with Echelon Asia Summit 2023.

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DroneBase Secures $55 Million and Launches Next Stage of Advanced Inspection Under New Brand Zeitview 

American Entrepreneurship

Valor Equity Partners joins previous investors in support of company growth and AI-enabled asset monitoring software development DroneBase rebranding as “Zeitview” to better represent expanding air and ground data capture solutions, and continued growth across energy and infrastructure markets, including the renewable sector Santa Monica, Calif., – February 7, 2023 — Further cementing its market leadership in advanced inspection software for energy and infrastructure, DroneBase has secured $55 m

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Riot prepares your team against highly sophisticated cyberattacks

TechCrunch

French startup Riot has raised a $12 million Series A round to iterate on its all-in-one cybersecurity awareness platform for businesses and their employees. The startup originally focused on fake phishing campaigns. It now also offers customized educational content that can help grow the cybersecurity culture in your team. While it is still quite difficult to raise a funding round in the current economic environment, Riot managed to put together an interesting list of investors.

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“We Want to Own Your Living Room”

Entrepreneur's Handbook

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Ushur, which aims to automate aspects of the customer experience, raises $50M

TechCrunch

Automation tech continues to attract funding in an increasingly challenging macroeconomic environment. That’s because of its cash-saving potential, no doubt. In a recent survey by Zapier — not the most unbiased source, granted, given that the company sells automation software — about 44% of employees say that automation saves them time while almost a third (33%) say it enables them to accomplish more with fewer resources.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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The Risks of Seeking Strategic Investors Too Soon: A Founder’s Perspective

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Picking strategic investors too early can doom your startup. Photo by Ye Jinghan on Unsplash A few years ago, we urgently sought an investor for an interim round. The options were limited, and the runway was about three months. One of them was a strategic investor, an international company interested in the B2B space we were building at the time. We felt comfortable with this option: The team was great.

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Generative AI is building the foundation of proptech’s next wave

TechCrunch

Kunal Lunawat Contributor Share on Twitter Kunal Lunawat is co-founder and managing partner of Agya Ventures , a venture capital firm focused on real estate tech, blockchain, AI and sustainability. More posts by this contributor A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs 5 factors founders must consider before choosing their VC For artificial intelligence, 2022 was a year of breakthroughs.

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Liminal Raises $17.5 Million in Series A2 Funding to Catalyze Production of Safe, Reliable, High-Quality EV Batteries

American Entrepreneurship

ArcTern Ventures leads, joined by Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Northvolt, and existing investors Emeryville, CA (February 6, 2023) – Liminal , a battery manufacturing intelligence company, today announced a $17.5 million Series A2 funding round, led by climate tech fund ArcTern Ventures , joined by new investors Northvolt and Ecosystem Integrity Fund , and with continued support from Chrysalix Venture Capital , Good Growth Capital , University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners , Volta Energy Technolog

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Edtech reacquaints itself with fintech

TechCrunch

Amy Jenkins left her post at Outschool, a marketplace for live online classes for kids, when the company decided to focus more on consumers and less on the enterprise — a shift that included numerous rounds of layoffs at the richly backed education unicorn. Now, Jenkins is the COO of Meadow, a platform that aims to make it easier for college students to pay tuition and for universities to stay compliant with financial transparency requirements.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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[Appdome in PR Newswire] Appdome integrates with CircleCI to automate delivery of secure mobile apps

OurCrowd

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Appdome, the mobile app economy’s one and only Cyber Defense Automation platform, today released the first Appdome Orb for CircleCI as part of the Appdome Dev2Cyber Agility Partner Initiative to accelerate delivery of secure mobile apps globally. The new Appdome Build_2Secure Orb for CircleCI integrates directly into the CircleCI CI/CD platform, allowing developers to leverage Appdome’s configuration as code ease from inside Cir

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Singapore’s PixCap draws $2.8M to power web-based 3D design

TechCrunch

A clutch of startups is trying to topple Adobe’s dominance in three-dimensional modeling and do more than Canva. A freshly funded player is PixCap , which is entering the fray with a no-code, web-based 3D design tool. Founded in 2020, Singapore-based PixCap just secured $2.8 million from a seed funding round. It was part of the seventh cohort of Surge, Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia’s accelerator, which led the round.

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[Appdome in PR Newswire] Appdome announces its Dev2Cyber Agility program

OurCrowd

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Appdome, the mobile app economy’s one and only Cyber Defense Automation platform, today announced its new Dev2Cyber Agility product initiative and partnership program. This new initiative, designed to offer new, enhanced and upgraded integrations with the entire DevOps and DevSecOps ecosystem, integrates Appdome’s product with best-of-breed build, test, release, DAST/SAST and other platforms to accelerate delivery and improve ve

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Jobber fixes on $100M as its platform for home services pros hits 200K users

TechCrunch

Jobber , a startup founded out of Canada that’s built a platform for home services professionals to book customers and manage all of their workload around those jobs, has raised another $100 million, equity funding that it will be using to build out more tools for its users after seeing their ranks double in the last two years to 200,000, with some $13 billion billed and collected via Jobber’s platform in the last year from across 27 million households, covering services like HVAC, l

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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[BrightInsight in Forbes] Digital health predictions: Uncertainty will trigger innovation in 2023

OurCrowd

It was an interesting year for digital health. We moved into a Covid-changed world in 2022, with fewer massive funding rounds and broader economic concerns, but consumer demands (and expectations) around a digital experience continued to rise. Read more here. The post [BrightInsight in Forbes] Digital health predictions: Uncertainty will trigger innovation in 2023 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Former Affirm exec Silvija Martincevic to lead shift work management platform Deputy

TechCrunch

Silvija Martincevic, former chief commercial officer of Affirm , one of the U.S.’s biggest buy now, pay later startups, has been appointed to CEO of shift work management platform Deputy. Based in Australia, Deputy is focused on expanding in the United States and other countries, and Martincevic will oversee its growth strategy. She will also take a seat on Deputy’s board of directors.

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Achieving net zero: Facts vs Fiction?

Impact Hub

The term “net zero” has gained significant attention in the fight against climate change. It signifies the point where greenhouse gas emissions are balanced by removing an equivalent amount from the atmosphere. Despite its growing momentum, net zero is not immune to misconceptions. In this blog, we debunk prevailing myths and highlight facts about net zero, aiming to provide clarity.

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VC Mark Crane explains how to raise funding beyond Silicon Valley

TechCrunch

Once upon a time, if you wanted to build a tech startup , you relocated to Silicon Valley. Full stop. While there’s no disputing SV’s place and continued prominence in the startup world, today’s early-stage founders have more geographic freedom and funding options than ever before. While that’s certainly a good thing, it’s still far from easy — especially when you’re facing economic headwinds.

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

Gearing up for 2025 annual planning? Our latest eBook from the Operators Guild is your ultimate guide. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community. Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.

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Generative AI: The Next Consumer Platform

Andreessen Horowitz

We’ve entered the age of generative AI. The use cases are everywhere—from writing essays to creating comics to editing films —and adoption has outpaced every consumer tech trend of the past decade. Text generator ChatGPT surpassed 1 million users in … The post Generative AI: The Next Consumer Platform appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Daily Crunch: Global VC firm Partech reaches first close of largest African fund at €245 million

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To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. What’s up, Crunchy readers! True crime has its grip on us all, and Lorenzo ’s review of “Tracers in the Dark” is fascinating. In the book, the author covers how cops go after cybercriminals, and it shows that there is hope in stopping drug dealers, dark web market kingpins and child abusers.

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Healthtech x Fintech’s Biggest Prize: The Financial Operating System for Healthcare

Andreessen Horowitz

Consider this: most healthcare providers are flying blind when it comes to their finances. Once a medical provider treats patients, they don’t really know how much they’ll get paid, when they’ll get paid, and if that payment is more or … The post Healthtech x Fintech’s Biggest Prize: The Financial Operating System for Healthcare appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Budgeting in Buckets: What, Why and How?

StartupNation

We’re going to venture a guess that you wanted to start a business in order to maximize your… The post Budgeting in Buckets: What, Why and How? appeared first on StartupNation.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.