TechCrunch
APRIL 11, 2023
For the past five years, Lauren Maillian was tasked with asking hard questions. Questions like: How much venture funding goes to Black women and Latina founders? As CEO of the nonprofit Digitalundivided, she oversaw the organization’s biennial reports known as ProjectDianne, which tracked the progress of underrepresented women founders in the startup ecosystem.
AsiaTechDaily
APRIL 11, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register TablePointer Pte Ltd , a Singapore-based start-up that provides Energy-Efficiency-as-a-Service (EEaaS) solutions , has secured more than $3 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Wavemaker Partners , AgFunder, ENGIE, and Steve Melhuish.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 11, 2023
Work software is seeing significant investments from VCs, reflecting the continued trend toward digital transformation and remote work. In its Road to Next report released Tuesday, Deloitte found that even though overall investment in work software companies is down from the lofty heights it reached in 2021, the segment still accounted for 15% of total expansion-stage deal value in 2022 (per PitchBook).
AsiaTechDaily
APRIL 11, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Vietnamese edtech startup MindX has announced raising $15 million in a series B funding round, led by education-focused private equity fund Kaizenvest, to continue its mission of nurturing and empowering Vietnamese innovators through technology.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 11, 2023
Clear Street , which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation. Growth equity firm Prysm Capital led the financing, which brings the round total to $435 million. New York-based Clear Street raised the first tranche of the round in May of 2022 at a $1.7 billion valuation.
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The Zapier Blog
APRIL 11, 2023
There's a reason so many successful people keep a journal: it works. Taking the time to gather your thoughts and experiences, then write them down, is a simple way to manage stress, enhance creativity, increase happiness, improve health, and increase work performance. Hate every journaling app? Build your own The trouble is, keeping a journal isn't easy.
TechCrunch
APRIL 11, 2023
When Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse was first unfolding, a belated disclosure colored some of the chaos: The bank spent most of last year without a chief risk officer, and the one who left sold more than $4 million of stock in the bank before departing. The new CRO, Kim Olson, who joined in January 2023, was only three months on the job before the bank was shut down by regulators.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 11, 2023
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TechCrunch
APRIL 11, 2023
Founded in 2015, MindX was created to address the lack of coding in Vietnamese school curriculums. The startup’s goal is to create “small Silicon Valleys” across Vietnam, with educational centers that help prepare students of all ages for careers in tech. Since TechCrunch covered MindX’s Series A funding in November 2021 , it’s tripled its geographical coverage to 32 campuses across Vietnam, graduated 35,000 students so far and connected students to employers in countries like Australia, Thailan
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The Seraf Compass
APRIL 11, 2023
Having evaluated four common methods for valuing early stage companies in a previous article, it's time to take a closer look at the Seraf Method which builds on everything great that has come before it (with the debt of gratitude acknowledged!), but adds key refinements necessary to make it work reliably in real life. In a nutshell, the Seraf Method consists of four simple steps, which we have boiled down into three worksheets and a look-up table.
TechCrunch
APRIL 11, 2023
Founded in 2015, MindX was created to address the lack of coding in Vietnamese school curriculums. The startup’s goal is to create “small Silicon Valleys” across Vietnam, with educational centers that help prepare students of all ages for careers in tech. Since TechCrunch covered MindX’s seed funding in November 2021 , it’s tripled its geographical coverage to 32 campuses across Vietnam, graduated 35,000 students so far and connected students to employers in countries like Australia, Thailand, t
Founder Bounty
APRIL 11, 2023
Investing during a recession can seem daunting, but it can also be an opportunity to make smart investment decisions that could pay off in the long term. When the economy is struggling, there are certain sectors that tend to hold up better than others, and if you're looking to invest your money during a recession, it's important to focus on those sectors.
TechCrunch
APRIL 11, 2023
Kobie Fuller , a partner at Upfront Ventures , had a notion that there are certain characteristics that every successful enterprise software company shares. You might think that’s not something that’s easily quantifiable or identifiable, maybe just something that any investor knows or senses when they see it. But Fuller decided to sit down and figure out what those elements were, and he has created a framework that he released today.
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Jason Malki
APRIL 11, 2023
From Brick-and-Mortar to Digital: An Entrepreneur’s Journey in Transforming the Grocery Industry with Local Express Recently, I had a chance to sit down with Bagrat Safarian, co-founder of grocery eCommerce platform Local Express , and discuss his experience creating a successful start-up, the challenges he’s overcome, and what advice he has for other entrepreneurs who are launching their own enterprise start-ups.
TechCrunch
APRIL 11, 2023
French startup Graneet is building an all-in-one software-as-a-service product focused on small construction companies. And it has grown quite a lot since I first covered the company as the company has tripled its revenue over the past six months. That’s why the startup raised a €8 million Series A round ($8.7 million at today’s exchange rate) with its two main investors leading the round once again — Point Nine and Foundamental.
Tomasz Tunguz
APRIL 11, 2023
For each of the 14 weeks, more people searched for ChatGPT than Taylor Swift according to Google Trends data. You won’t find people outside of tech hubs googling for microservices or layer 2 blockchains or serverless databases with any great frequency. But Minnesotans & Idahoans & Vermontans are searching for ChatGPT. People are curious about AI.
TechCrunch
APRIL 11, 2023
Investors are no longer minting nearly two unicorns per day. In fact, we’re down to barely more than one new mythical horned horse per week. Welcome to the new venture normal, where it seems stories of previously well-funded startups imploding will be more common than news of mega-rounds. Tracking the global venture slowdown is a twofold task: First, you have to monitor the slowing flow of venture dollars into startups, and second, it involves watching valuations contract as pre- and post-
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StartupNation
APRIL 11, 2023
Of the 800 women executives surveyed by Chief as reported on CNBC, it comes down to two things:… The post What Do Women in the Workforce Really Want? appeared first on StartupNation.
TechCrunch
APRIL 11, 2023
TechCrunch Early Stage takes place on April 20, 2023, and we’re thrilled to announce a late addition to the program. Long-time, early-stage investor Ajay Agarwal is hosting a roundtable to discuss lessons learned with other Early Stage attendees. Ajay has been an instrumental investor since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2003. If you haven’t already, book your pass soon as we’re quickly approaching capacity.
StartupNation
APRIL 11, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic that began in March 2020 reshaped how we live and work. As office buildings shut… The post 10 Best States for Working from Home appeared first on StartupNation.
TechCrunch
APRIL 11, 2023
Infogrid , a startup that uses AI to collect and analyze data on things like air quality, occupancy and energy consumption, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series B round led by Northzone and AO Proptech. William Cowell de Gruchy, Infogrid’s CEO, says that the cash will be put toward product development, strategic hires and customer acquisition efforts. “Now was the time to raise the capital and use it to drive our expansion,” De Gruchy said. “We are comin
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Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 11, 2023
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TechCrunch
APRIL 11, 2023
When DBeaver creator Serge Rider began building an open source database admin tool in 2013, he probably had no idea that 10 years later, it would boast more than 8 million users. The open source product proved so popular that he launched a company to support it in 2017, and began building a commercial product for users with enterprise requirements. That commercial product has over 5,000 paying customers today, and the company decided that the time was right to take a $6 million seed investment t
The Zapier Blog
APRIL 11, 2023
Whether you're a small business with a single customer service specialist or a large corporation with dozens (or even hundreds) of support team members, we're almost positive those specialists are busy. Customer service is more important than ever before, and using automation helps you better deliver top-tier service. Some businesses resist automation in customer service because they worry that it means relying on chatbots instead of the human-to-human experience.
TechCrunch
APRIL 11, 2023
NetBox Labs , a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January , today announced it has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding from a slew of high-profile investors. NS1, for the uninitiated, is a 10-year-old domain name system (DNS) and network automation platform used by the likes of Salesforce, VMware, LinkedIn, and DropBox to ensure maximum uptime for all their online services.
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