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Vendease, a food procurement platform for African restaurants, nabs $30M led by Partech Africa and TLcom

TechCrunch

When Vendease launched in January 2020, it wanted to solve the challenges and inefficiencies in Nigeria’s highly fragmented food sector using a marketplace model that connected suppliers and farms to restaurants and food businesses, with deliveries facilitated within 24 hours. But over the next couple of months, Vendease switched from its middleman role — after noticing that some of these businesses complained of delivery times, quality of food supplies and inadequate set-up to handle oper

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I’m Not a Visionary. And That’s a Good Thing.

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Startups need both a builder and a visionary to create a rocketship that won’t explode Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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IFC and other impact investors return to backing Ukraine startups, with new $250M fund aimed at founders under the gun

TechCrunch

Funding sources for tech startups in Ukraine have gone off a cliff this year, with investors (and their LPs) wary of taking on the risk of backing potentially promising ideas and people who have stayed in the country amid the sustained, persistent and increasingly ugly onslaught from Russia. But just as there are glimmers that the tides might be changing in the wider war, an interesting story has developed on the funding front, too.

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These Are the 3 Essential Steps to Take Before Contacting Venture Capitalists

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Learn to do them and you’ll be a much more efficient fundraiser Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Checkmate captures all of your shopping deals so you don’t have to

TechCrunch

The more coupon codes we can find for online shopping the better, but Harry Dixon, Rory Garton-Smith and Elliot Rampono thought something was missing: the ability to house all of the various savings we receive in one place. “Marketing channels have become saturated and everyone is trying to figure out their own channels,” CEO Dixon, who previously worked at EasyPost, told TechCrunch. “We are used to getting personalized codes and have even changed our behaviors to wait for code, but we nev

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‘Insane’ — UK tech reacts to government moves that might hand UK startups contract to Barclays Bank

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Tech Nation is trailing in second place in the race to remain the U.K.’s government-backed “startup champion” after the latter put the £12 million contract out to tender, according to TechCrunch’s sources. First in line at this point in time — in a decision which is due in December — is banking giant Barclays. Tech Nation’s existing government funding runs until March 2023.

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The 6 Proven Video Marketing Strategies

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If I ask you when was the last time you. Read more. The post The 6 Proven Video Marketing Strategies appeared first on Feedough.

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The unicorn valuation gambit

TechCrunch

Happy Sunday, fellow startup nerds. Today we’re talking about risk in the gambling sense of the word. You see, there’s a way for unicorns to avoid painful dilution when they next raise capital, and it appears that a good number of the world’s billion-dollar startups are taking the wager. But new data indicates that the bet some of the most well-financed startups in the world are taking could be more wishful thinking than intelligent gambit.

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How to find a lasting purpose as an entrepreneur.

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Define a genuine path unclouded by ambition for status and wealth Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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3 ways to implement a product-led sales motion to unleash PLG’s revenue potential

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Stephen Moock. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Stephen Moock is the head of sales and success at Calixa, a GTM platform providing sales with the product insights and workflows they need to prioritize, close and grow self-serve accounts. Product-led growth (PLG), the go-to-market strategy where product usage drives customer acquisition and expansion, is becoming increasingly common among SaaS companies of all stripes.

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10 Predictions for Data at the Impact Summit

Tomasz Tunguz

2020 is the decade of data. Look no further than the massive companies pushing the public & the private market forward: Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud. It’s quite possible that data products have created more market cap than any other subsegment of SaaS in the last five years. On October 25th, I’ll share my 10 predictions for data in 2023 at The Impact Data Summit.

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Not So Dark helps restaurants run a second delivery-focused business

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French startup Not So Dark has raised an $80 million Series B funding round led by Kharis Capital and Verlinvest, with Convivialité Ventures also participating. The startup has launched digital food delivery brands that you can find in food delivery apps. While Not So Dark started with a network of dark kitchens, the company abandoned this business model shortly after raising its Series A round.

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Hey, look, some startups are still raising money

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Don’t forget that the code “EQUITY” can save you money on Disrupt tickets and TechCrunch+ access. And it makes us here on the show look good! Markets: Stocks are mostly down around the world today, taking especially large hits in Asia.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

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.

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Disperse, which brings AI-fuelled data to construction projects, raises $16M

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Disperse , a U.K.-based construction tech company that offers an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform to help project managers track work and capture data from building sites, has raised $16 million in funding. Founded out of London in 2015, Disperse effectively creates a digital version of an entire construction site, including visual snapshots that track the progress of work to help all stakeholders — regardless of where they’re based — keep up with things.