Revolution

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Maryland-Based Startup Offers a Fix Now, Pay-at-Closing Solution for Optimal Sale Outcomes Say hello to Curbio ?—?the proptech company seizing an untapped opportunity within the $85B pre-sale home improvement market and the latest addition to the Revolution Growth portfolio. What They’re Solving For: Today’s consumers want a move-in-ready home. However, current inventory is in short supply due to an aging housing market and slow renovation timelines.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Maria Lepskaya. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Maria Lepskaya is a senior associate at Runa Capital , leading investments in different branches of quantum technologies and advanced materials. Market trends are the best indicators we have to judge the maturity of the quantum industry. While they don’t perfectly reflect technological progress, they showcase investors’ willingness to write checks for the industry.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

Each new generation brings something different to the table and tries hard to paint the social norms in their colors. Nowadays, it’s millennials’ turn to make the world a better place and they truly managed to bring some extremely sensitive issues under the spotlight. . Let’s take the workplace as an example. What used to be a highly organized, cold, productive-oriented environment is now striving toward flexibility, collaboration, and empathy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Yet more funding is finding its way to Istanbul’s gaming startups. Today, Dream Games — the casual games developer behind the hit game Royal Match — is announcing a $255 million Series C that values the startup at $2.75 billion. This Series C is being led by Index Ventures, with Makers Fund, IVP, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Kora and Balderton Capital also participating.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

Have you ever recommended a restaurant to your friends or traveled to a city solely because your neighbor couldn’t stop talking about it? If you answer yes to any of these questions, you have experienced the buzz —hyping something so much that people start talking about it. . The concept of generating buzz to get consumers, marketers, and media to start discussing your offers is what spreads brand awareness for your new business.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

If you’re a company’s founder in an early market, you know how hard it can be to cross the chasm between early adopters and mainstream customers. Early markets are by no means easy to tackle, so in this post, I’ll discuss seven tips that will help founders navigate these difficult waters. These tips range from defining the competitive space to defining and executing the right sales strategy and will help you decide the key actions to take, regardless of your product.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Christine Tsai. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Christine Tsai is the CEO and founding partner of 500 Global. This was another blockbuster year for global venture funding, with 2021 breaking records across the board. Deal activity is at record highs. Last year, a total of $643 billion was invested globally, according to Crunchbase News , compared with $335 billion in 2020 – that’s 92% growth year over year.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 18, 2022

We’re excited to announce that on February 9, we will be hosting an event for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). If you’re interested in starting or working at a startup, we hope to meet you there. At this event, you’ll hear from a panel of YC alumni, led by Michael Seibel, Group Partner and Managing Director of YC’s early stage program.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Verana Health, a company focused on collecting and organizing troves of medical data, announced a $150 million Series E funding round on Friday. This round comes as the company sets its sights on new types of medical data, invests in organizing traditionally messy forms of information (like physician notes) and aims to extract more usable insights from Electronic Health Records (EHRs). .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 18, 2022

Don’t have a business partner? Don’t let it stop you from building your startup. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Buy now pay later (BNPL) startups are proliferating around the world and the Philippines is no exception. Today, one of the country’s biggest BNPL providers, BillEase , announced it has raised an $11 million Series B. The round was led by BurdaPrincipal Investments, growth capital arm of Hubert Burda Media. Other participants included Centauri, a joint investment vehicle between MDI Ventures and KB Investment, and Tamaz Georgadze, CEO and co-founder of Raisin DS.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 18, 2022

Be patient and practical when dealing with clients. Steal my methods for better results. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

British autonomous vehicle startup Wayve has raised a $200 million Series B funding round from investors to scale its technology and expand its partnerships with commercial fleets. Wayve is aiming to be a major player in the arena of Robo-deliveries and logistics. It’s now raised a total of $258 million to date for its technology, which relies largely on commodity video cameras around the vehicle tied to on-vehicle AI-driven software, making it highly responsive to its surroundings as it relies

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 18, 2022

You don’t have to neglect your health for profits. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Pyxis One, now Pixis , closed on $100 million in Series C funding to continue developing what it touts as “the world’s only contextual codeless AI infrastructure for complete marketing optimization.”. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round and was joined by new investor General Atlantic, and existing investors Celesta Capital, Premji Invest and Chiratae Ventures.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2022

The public software sector is weathering the second deepest multiple contraction in the last decade. Only the 2016 reduction of 57% surpasses it. Public market investors are rotating out of high growth technology companies as the Fed’s policies of quantitative easing, asset purchases, and low rates abate. The question on every software founder’s mind today must be, how will this affect the private financing markets?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Clockwise , a time management and smart calendar tool, has raised $45 million in Series C funding led by Coatue, with participation from Atlassian Ventures and existing investors Accel, Greylock Partners and Bain Capital Ventures. This latest round brings the company’s total amount of funding raised to $76 million. Clockwise uses artificial intelligence to help teams free up their workdays and avoid the challenges associated with remote and hybrid workplaces, such as burnout.

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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.

Y Combinator

JANUARY 18, 2022

In the past two years, we’ve met over 6,000 students during our virtual outreach tours. We compiled a list of the questions they most frequently asked about startups, and created this Startups for Students Guide. The guide is informed by hundreds of hours of talks, blog posts, and essays we’ve written for students who are interested in starting or working at startups – many of which can be found in the YC Library ).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Mexican revenue-based investment startup Fairplay secured $35 million in Series A funding to invest in the online marketing campaigns of direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands and marketplace sellers in Latin America. The investment round consists of $15 million in equity, co-led by Dila Capital and Kayyak Ventures, and participation from Speedinvest and Elevar Equity, and $20 million in debt led by Architect Capital.

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Feedough

JANUARY 18, 2022

What if I tell you that you don’t always need. Read more.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

Gogoro, the Taiwanese company best known for its electric Smartscooters and swappable battery infrastructure, has just added current strategic partner Hero MotoCorp, activist and impact investment firm Engine No. 1 and another investor to its PIPE investment, bringing the total funding to $285 million, up from $257 million. The oversubscribed PIPE (private investment in public equity) round, which includes investors like Foxconn (Hon Hai), GoTo, Temasek, Generation Investment Management and othe

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 18, 2022

In the past two years, we’ve met over 6,000 students during our virtual outreach tours. We compiled a list of the questions they most frequently asked about startups, and created this Startups for Students Guide. The guide is informed by hundreds of hours of talks, blog posts, and essays we’ve written for students who are interested in starting or working at startups – many of which can be found in the YC Library ).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Six months after its $20 million Series A , payroll connectivity platform Pinwheel just announced that it has nabbed another $50 million in a round led by new investor GGV Capital. . Pinwheel serves neobanks and fintechs like Block, Varo, and Lendly by providing application programming interfaces (APIs) linked to payroll, income, and employment data.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 18, 2022

In February, Michael Seibel (Managing Director, Early Stage and Group Partner at YC) and Aston Motes (Investor, Director of /dev/color and first employee at Dropbox) are bringing together a cohort of black engineers who are interested in learning about startups and finding roles at fast-growing YC companies. This month-long series is a way for participants to meet black technical founders and engineers of YC startups, learn about their career path, get mentorship from YC alum, and build a commun

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Even though the only thing the robot can do right now is pull weeds, Aigen is adamant it isn’t building a weed-whacking robot. It claims to be on a mission to terraform the earth, and says it has a path toward making agriculture carbon negative. It must have made a compelling argument, because it just announced a $4 million seed round led by NEA , with participation from AgFunder , Global Founders Capital and ReGen Ventures.

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