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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Blair Silverberg. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital , a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. More posts by this contributor. Know your startup’s value so you can communicate it to investors. For companies raising capital in the coming year, news of rising interest rates, market volatility and falling valuations paints a daunting picture.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register DealShare, a social ecommerce startup has raised US$45 million funding in its extended Series E financing round from a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). The latest infusion brings the company’s valuation to US$1.7 billion.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Imagine staying at an Airbnb and becoming so attached to a particular chair or tea set that you want to buy it. Instead of asking the property owner where it’s from and tracking it down, Minoan Experience lets you order the product by scanning a QR code. Then it’s delivered to your home in a few days. The “native retail” startup announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Accel.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

As Our Colleague Kate Stern Departs Homebrew To Go Back to Company Building, Here’s Her Advice. At Homebrew we’ve stayed a very small group by design, believing at the earliest stages of a company, continuity of relationship between the investor and founders is essential to preserve trust and context. But sometimes growing the team isn’t just about adding another set of hands, but a different set of experiences, interests and capabilities.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Voltron Data was launched last year by former employees from NVidia, Ursa Computing, BlazingSQL and the co-founder of Apache Arrow. The group came together to build a company on top of Arrow to help companies that don’t want to deal with the headaches of managing an open source project on their own. Voltron Data co-founder and CEO Josh Patterson said that at its heart, the startup is a standards company that aims to spread the word on the power of data and analytics standardization via Apa

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Earnipay , a fintech that provides flexible and on-demand salary access to income-earners, has raised $4 million in seed financing led by early-stage venture capital firm Canaan. Participating investors include XYZ Ventures, Village Global, Musha Ventures, Voltron Capital, Ventures Platform and Paystack CEO Shola Akinlade. Earnipay, which has been in beta since September 2021 and only launched last month, plans to offer its on-demand salary solution to 200,000 employees by the end of 2022. .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

#16. How to Build a Multi-Million Dollar per Month Startup in Public w/ Nathan Barry | ConvertKit Founder Image of Nathan Barry Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube. Today’s guest is Nathan Barry, the founder of the email marketing platform ConvertKit. He started off as a freelance web designer and design book author.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Online interior design startup Havenly is acquiring direct-to-consumer home furnishing brand The Inside , the company announced on Thursday. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Under the terms of the deal, Havenly has acquired the key assets of The Inside, including its intellectual property and inventory. The Inside co-founder Danielle Walish will join Havenly to manage the transition and to integrate The Inside assets into Havenly.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sef Mutari, Founder & CEO of Backed , a digital asset platform for loans and low-risk investments. He is a Tech leader and an Entrepreneur and has over 15 years in different technology sectors including banking, SaaS, and cloud organizations working on digital transformation to the cloud and customer-facing offerings.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

RideCo , a Canadian company offering cities on-demand transit tech, closed a $15.8 million (CAD $20 million) Series A round. The fresh capital will be put toward further development of its product, which will involve substantially growing its engineering team, as well as its customer service, sales and marketing teams, according to Prem Gururajan, co-founder and CEO of RideCo.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

When someone gets it right, you’d best sit up and take note Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

What’s the next step beyond Zoom calls and FaceTime? How about beaming yourself from one device to another in real-time using augmented reality? That’s the premise behind a startup called Beem , which is today announcing its first consumer app, $4 million in seed funding, and its longer-term plan to become a communications technology for the AR glasses of the future.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Proactive For Her , a digital clinic for women’s outpatient healthcare , has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India, with Nexus Venture Partners participating. The cash will be utilized to enhance the startup’s digital product offerings, build its online customer base, and open its Bengaluru flagship clinic.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Virtual veterinarian care platform Dutch has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner Ventures and Eclipse Ventures. The San Francisco-based company’s latest round comes seven months after its market launch and brings its total funding raised to $25 million. Dutch utilizes licensed veterinarians and provides a digital health platform for pets and their families to make pet care more accessible.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Jailbird entrepreneurs like Jordan Belfort, Billy McFarland, and Anna Sorokin aren’t all bad; they just used their gifts for evil. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Along comes Metriport , which aggregates all of your quantified-self data in one place, and adds clever features like mood tracking, medicine tracking and journaling. All your data lives locally on your device to protect your privacy, and the app can find correlations in your data to help you become a better you. Counting calories, summing steps, measuring your mood, proportioning your purchases, sizing your sleep span and enumerating the extent of your exercise — the quantified-self movem

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

“Place Matters”?—?Rise of the Rest’s 2022 Annual Report By Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund Managing Partners Anna Mason and David Hall Our first-ever annual report is here. Rise of the Rest has always been about backing companies that prove it’s possible to scale a startup in cities outside of Silicon Valley. This report serves to further illustrate that thesis by breaking down what we look for in what we call “tentpole companies”: local startups that are the standout successes of a com

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Cryptocurrency company Circle has announced that it has terminated its previous agreement with Concord Acquisition Corp, a publicly traded blank-check company — a SPAC. At the same time, it has reached a new deal with Concord Acquisition Corp for a new merger. If the transaction goes through, Circle would become a public company at a $9 billion valuation.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Alpha Tau Medical Ltd. (“Alpha Tau”), the developer of the innovative alpha-radiation cancer therapy Alpha DaRT™, announced today that it has signed a sponsored research agreement with investigators at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (“MD Anderson”) to evaluate potential immune stimulation by combining Alpha DaRT™ with DNA-repair inhibitors and immune checkpoint inhibitors for the treatment of breast tumors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Take a look at most subscription-based SaaS pricing strategies and they will often have a free version for a certain number of seats, a pro version for a larger set of seats and an enterprise version for large companies. But what about everything in between — the company that is just above the 10-seat threshold for the free version, but won’t be growing fast enough to make the pro version worthwhile?

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The Seraf Compass

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This profile is the fourth in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting female investors. Jenna Nicholas is Head of One Planet VC and the CEO of Impact Experience.

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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

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Retailers have traditionally onboarded their drop-ship, marketplace and wholesale suppliers using electronic data interchange (EDI), which is a fancy way of saying information that is sent from one company to another electronically. However, setting up this process can take months, time most retailers don’t have if they want to get ahead in Amazon’s world.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Try as they may, critics of SQL (syntax query language) have never really been able to dent its popularity. Decades after its creation, the majority of the world’s databases still run on SQL, and the majority of data analysis still happens via SQL queries. It’s not too big a stretch to say that the digital. Read More. The post Why SQL Needs Software Libraries appeared first on Future.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Investor attention is focused on event companies lately, especially as pandemic restrictions ease around the world and events become in-person again. Just this year, we’ve seen companies like EventX , Twine , Vendelux and Zuddl announce either funding or strategic moves that enable them to vie for attendee attention. It’s not just a matter of going to events anymore, but of helping attendees get the most out of their time and money.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Over the last few years, I’ve been lucky to work with founders and management teams to sell about $5b of startups. During that time, I’ve observed a few things about M&A. Here are 10 of my learnings: Most acquirers have built a relationship with the acquisition target. Suitors introduced during a sale process wrestle with doubts of understanding what they don’t know about the space, the team, and the business.

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