A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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.
HPA
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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
American Entrepreneurship
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
If you’d like to invest the same way that fintech influencers, including Austin Hankwitz , WOLF Financial , Breyanna Nava and Patrick Meng do, Follow can help you do that. The new social investment platform enables users to subscribe to a creator’s financial feed and set up an investment portfolio that mimics that particular person’s investment strategy.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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.
American Entrepreneurship
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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.
Impact Hub
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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.
Andreessen Horowitz
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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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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
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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.
Andreessen Horowitz
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Generative AI reminds me of ball bearings: the technology is relatively inexpensive, highly adaptable and a proven way to reduce friction. Investors have taken notice: CB Insights reports that VCs poured $49 billion into AI last year, a 40% jump from the year before. The hype so far has largely centered on chatbots and avatars, but “ AI’s emergence will cut through material use cases in real estate tech ,” says Kunal Lunawat, co-founder and managing partner of Agya Ventures.
StartupNation
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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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