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A Guide To Angel Investing Documents: Preferred Stock Deals

The Seraf Compass

This article is intended to provide a quick overview of the principal documents in a fundraising where the investors are purchasing stock. Unlike a convertible debt issuance, these stock transactions permanently alter the capitalization of the company by adding new stockholders, who are typically purchasing a brand new class of stock created for them, typically a series designated class of preferred stock with special rights and privileges they have negotiated.

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3 Ways Your Company Can Live By Its Core Values

Entrepreneurs' Organization

If you are reading this, my guess is you have a pretty good idea of what core values are—the guiding principles companies are founded on. I want to push that definition further, dig into the challenges that come with actually living by our core values. Running my company, STATLINX, has taught me a lot; maybe the most important thing I have learned is how fundamental it was to get our core values right.

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Watershed Health Secures $13.6M in Funding to Fuel Adoption by the Industry’s Largest Health Plans and Meet Provider Demand for Real-Time, Seamless Patient Care Coordination

American Entrepreneurship

Watershed Health is fighting uncoordinated care, a problem that results in poor patient outcomes and costs the US $340 billion in waste annually Customers include most of the national insurance conglomerates; used by thousands of providers across the care continuum to drive better experiences and outcomes for more than five million patients Physician-Founder created Watershed to address local community healthcare needs; the company is now scaling to meet demand across the United States NEW ORLEA

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Lesson #360: How to Survive a Difficult VC Funding Environment

Red Rocket

CB Insights, a leading research organization that tracks venture capital financings, recently released its report on t he state of the venture capital market in 2023. The long story short is: it was a terrible year for raising capital. The global market was down 30% year-over-year, to its lowest levels in six years. The U.S. market fell to its lowest levels in 10 years, down 21% in the last quarter alone.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Scale AI’s $1 Billion Raise Positions AI for the Future

American Entrepreneurship

The company moves to the next phase of accelerating the abundance of frontier data, building a path to artificial general intelligence. Scale AI’s proprietary Data Engine powers every major model builder, providing a roadmap for any organization to apply AI. It is a foundational partner to top industry leaders including Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, General Motors, and others, assuring they will have the data to deploy AI confidentially.

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NVIDIA

Tomasz Tunguz

NVIDIA’s growth is an index on the growth of AI. “Compute revenue grew more than 5x and networking revenue more than 3x from last year.” Data center revenue totaled $26b, with about 45% from the major clouds ($13b). These clouds announced they were spending $40b in capex to build out data centers , implying NVIDIA is capturing very roughly 33% of the total capex budgets for their cloud customers.

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Backing New VC Firms With Screendoor: Welcoming OGs from First Round Capital, Pear VC, Reach Capital, and Refactor to the Cause

Hunter Walk

Darwin moves at half-speed in venture capital, allowing mediocrity and outdated ‘best practices’ to persist, much to the detriment of founders and LPs. The long time horizons, risk aversion incentives, and opaque flow of information all contribute to this stasis. What’s one possible solution? Release new hungry and competitive species into the pool.

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[Quidnet Energy in Globe Newswire] Quidnet Energy Announces 300 MW Strategic Partnership and $10M Investment from Hunt Energy Network

OurCrowd

The post [Quidnet Energy in Globe Newswire] Quidnet Energy Announces 300 MW Strategic Partnership and $10M Investment from Hunt Energy Network appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Positioning your Pitch Deck

Gust

What's the strategy behind your pitch deck? Are you providing the color investors are really looking for? The post Positioning your Pitch Deck appeared first on Gust.

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Your Fractional Finance and Accounting Team

Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.

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[BlueGreen Water Technologies in Newswire] Memorial Day Weekend Kicks Off Toxic Blue-Green Algae Season

OurCrowd

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, May 22, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — Water scientists urge parents, swimmers, and pet owners to check for health advisories before heading to favorite swimming holes this Memorial Day Weekend. BlueGreen Water Technologies (BlueGreen) is using its Beware the Bloom! campaign to educate people on harmful algal bloom safety and awareness.

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Inside PopChill’s Expansion Strategy: Interview with Co-Founder Andy Kuo Following $3.1M Funding

AsiaTechDaily

PopChill, a leading luxury resale marketplace operating in Taiwan and Hong Kong, has recently announced the successful completion of a $3.1 million Pre-A+ funding round.

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[DailyPay in Techonology Today] Contract Services Group Partners With DailyPay To Help Boost Hiring Efforts As The Busy Summer Travel Season Approaches

OurCrowd

The post [DailyPay in Techonology Today] Contract Services Group Partners With DailyPay To Help Boost Hiring Efforts As The Busy Summer Travel Season Approaches appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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[DailyPay in PR Newswire] South Carolina Becomes Latest State to Implement Earned Wage Access Law

OurCrowd

COLUMBIA, S.C., May 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — DailyPay, a worktech company and the leading provider of earned wage access, celebrates a significant milestone as South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed Senate Bill 700 into law on May 21, 2024. This legislation received bipartisan support and created a new law for earned wage access (EWA) products.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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[Stoke Space in Additive Manufaturinc] Stoke Space Uses Solukon Technology for Depowdering of Rocket Parts

OurCrowd

Stoke’s first- and second-stage engine thrust chambers are additively designed and manufactured in-house with regenerative cooling channels and built-in manifolds, which have features and internal cavities that are typically difficult to depowder. Read More here.

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[Oshi in Calcalist] Oshi dives into “the new blue ocean of opportunity” with its plant-based salmon

OurCrowd

Co-founder and CEO, Ofek Ron, spoke to CTech about its alternative salmon offering – marking a fishy difference from traditional foodtech companies.