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Foreign investors have a bigger role to play in growing Latin America’s startup ecosystem

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Ricardo Sangion. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ricardo Sangion previously launched operations for Facebook and Pinterest in Latin America, before joining operator-led global investors TheVentureCity as partner for first-ticket investments in the region. There has been significant hype around Latin America’s startup success. For good reason, too: Startups have raised $9.3 billion in just the first half of 2021, almost double the amount in all of 2020, and mega-rounds are a growing trend.

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Ask the Experts: Armando Ojeda, Angela Barbash, and Marcia Dawood on StartupNation Radio

StartupNation

On this week’s episode of StartupNation Radio, Jeff speaks with StartupNation’s subject matter experts from SCORE Mentors: Armando Ojeda, Angela Barbash, and Marcia Dawood. Tune in to the full StartupNation Radio show with Ojeda, Barbash and Dawood to learn about the SCORE Mentors program and hear about each mentor’s unique experiences: This episode is co-hosted by Armando Ojeda, a mentor at SCORE.

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Zoom announces first startups receiving funding from $100M investment fund

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For more than a year now, Zoom has been on a mission to transform from an application into a platform. To that end it made three announcements last year: Zoom Apps development tools , the Zoom Apps marketplace and a $100 million development fund to invest in some of the more promising startups building tools on top of their platform. Today, at the closing bell, the company announced it has made its first round of investments.

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4 Tough Lessons for Every Entrepreneur I Learned from 2 Acquisitions

Entrepreneur's Handbook

If anyone tells you selling a house is hard, they have never sold a business 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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Kocomo raises millions to give people a way to co-own a luxury vacation home

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Who doesn’t want a vacation home? Right. That’s what I thought. Kocomo is a Mexico City-based startup that wants to help make that dream a reality. And it has just closed on $6 million equity and $50 million debt financing to advance on that goal. The company aims to allow for cross-border co-ownership of luxury vacation properties that goes beyond the historical use of timeshares.

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Equity Monday: Y Combinator Demo Day Approaches

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Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.

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Gusto: The People Platform for SMBs

Y Combinator

Historically, there has been an undeniable gap in business services in the US. There are nearly six million small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the country, employing 43 million people. 1 But unlike their larger counterparts, SMBs have been ignored by service providers, who have deemed the cost of reaching and serving them too high to warrant the effort.

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Heimdal pulls CO2 and cement-making materials out of seawater using renewable energy

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One of the consequences of rising CO2 levels in our atmosphere is that levels also rise proportionately in the ocean, harming wildlife and changing ecosystems. Heimdal is a startup working to pull that CO2 back out at scale using renewable energy and producing carbon-negative industrial materials, including limestone for making concrete, in the process, and it has attracted significant funding even at its very early stage.

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Gary Vee Is a God to Me. But Not for His Hustle Gospel.

Entrepreneur's Handbook

It depends on which version of him you look at. There’s a lot you can learn from him if you go below the surface-level nonsense. 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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Flip bags $28M to turn beauty, wellness social commerce on its head

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Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. Today, the Los Angeles-based company closed on a $28 million Series A led Streamlined Ventures. Nooruldeen “Noor” Agha, a serial e-commerce entrepreneur, founded Flip in 2019 after emigrating to the United States from Iraq.

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This Billion Dollar Company Had to Fail so Amazon Could Become a Trillion Dollar Company

Entrepreneur's Handbook

What can you do to protect your startup from a similar fate? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Clay debuts a new tool to help people better manage their business and personal relationships

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A new startup called Clay , backed by $8 million in seed funding, has built a system designed to help you be more thoughtful with the people in your life, which operates somewhat like a personal CRM. With Clay, you build a collection of the people you meet by connecting your email and calendar with social apps, including Twitter and LinkedIn. Clay then populates each person’s entry with all the relevant information you would need to recall for any future meeting — ranging from their

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Newsletter: YuLife: Life insurance for millennials

OurCrowd

YuLife: Life insurance for millennials. “Life-insurance companies in the US and UK are waking up to the fact that they have a young-people problem,” The Atlantic reports in a profile of OurCrowd portfolio company YuLife , which it describes as “something of a cross between Fortnite and a Fitbit… But YuLife isn’t some “freemium” game subsidized by ads and microtransactions.

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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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Ola Electric in talks to raise at over $2.75 billion valuation

TechCrunch

Ola Electric is in advanced talks to raise between $250 million to $500 million in a new financing round as the Indian firm looks to scale its electric vehicle manufacturing business in the South Asian market, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Falcon Edge Capital is in advanced talks to lead the round, which values Ola Electric between $2.75 billion to $3.5 billion (up from $1 billion in its previous fundraise in 2019), sources told TechCrunch, requesting anonymity as the matter

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The World After Capital

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

My partner Albert has been writing a book in public over the last decade called The World After Capital. There have been alpha and beta versions which he has put out there, gotten feedback on, and revised. Yesterday he tweeted that he has now finished the book and will have it printed. That means I will read it again and you should too. If you want to read it online, you can do that here.

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Luminate aims to make hair loss from chemotherapy a thing of the past

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Hair loss resulting from chemotherapy is one of the most recognizable side effects in all of medicine, and for many is an unwanted public announcement of their condition and treatment. Luminate Medical may have a solution in a medical wearable that prevents the chemical cocktail from tainting hair follicles, preventing the worst of the loss and perhaps relegating this highly visible condition to the past.

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A Summer Of Storms In Michigan Has Made Business Income Interruption Insurance A Must

StartupNation

In early August, on one particular Wednesday, thunderstorms raged through southeast Michigan for hours – I remember well because our 1.5-year-old was awoken by every loud rumble of thunder – leaving more than 900,000 DTE Energy customers without power, according to the Detroit Free Press. Many of those customers went days without electricity in their homes.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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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Russell Westbrook, Chainsmokers join group pouring $13.5M into prebiotic soda brand Poppi

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Poppi , a prebiotic soda brand, closed $13.5 million in a Series A2 round and is on a mission to lead in the new category of “functional soda” by offering a better-for-you product that also tastes good. The investor group includes CAVU Ventures as well as sports and entertainment celebrities like Russell Westbrook, the Chainsmokers, 24kGoldn, Kygo, Halsey, Kevin Love, Ellie Goulding, Olivia Munn, Nicole Scherzinger, Chantel Jeffries, Bryce Hall, Noah Beck, Josh Richards, Griffin Johnson and Blak

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WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: E-Commerce Inflation Continues To Rise (Episode 280)

StartupNation

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses the recent increase in e-commerce prices, and what that could mean for the economy as a whole. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about today’s trend in e-commerce inflation: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE.

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Coral Capital closes third fund with $128M for startups in Japan

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Coral Capital , a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, announced today that it has closed its third fund, Coral Capital III, raising $128 million (14 billion yen). Coral Capital’s total assets under management (AUM) is now $275 million. Limited partners in the vehicle include Mizuho Bank, Mitsubishi Estate, Shinsei Bank, Pavilion Capital, Founders Found, Dai-ichi Life Insurance, GREE, and undisclosed domestic and international institutional investors.

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[Aria Pharmaceuticals in pulmonary fibrosis news] Aria Reports Positive Preclinical Data for 2 New IPF Treatments

OurCrowd

TXR-1002 and TXR-1007, two new therapeutic candidates for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) from Aria Pharmaceuticals, demonstrated significant efficacy at reducing tissue scarring and good tolerability in a mouse model of the disease. Read more here. The post [Aria Pharmaceuticals in pulmonary fibrosis news] Aria Reports Positive Preclinical Data for 2 New IPF Treatments appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Brazil’s Petlove raises $150M from Riverwood, SoftBank to sell pet products and services online

TechCrunch

Petlove&Co, a São Paulo-based digital platform for products and services for the pet market, announced today that it has raised about $150 million (R$750 million) in a funding round led by Riverwood Capital. The round is nearly double that of what Petlove has raised in its history. The company started its life as PetSuperMarket when it was founded in 1999 in the early days of the internet.

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[SmartAsset in NAPA] More RIA Firms Relocating

OurCrowd

While some firms had already planned to do so in 2020, changing preferences—such as more affordable office spaces and increased remote work options—appear to have prompted more RIA firms to relocate their headquarters, according to the study by SmartAsset. Read more here. The post [SmartAsset in NAPA] More RIA Firms Relocating appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Lessons from COVID: Flexible funding is a must for alternative lenders

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Archita Bhandari. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Archita Bhandari is a senior associate at FischerJordan , a multidisciplinary consulting firm, helping businesses achieve uncommon clarity, gain control and win in the marketplace. Deeba Goyal. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Deeba Goyal is an analyst at FischerJordan , helping organizations to exchange complexity for clarity by combining strategy, analytics and technology practices.

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[Appdome in Help NetSecurity] Debunking myths about consumer expectations around mobile apps security

OurCrowd

Appdome has released a global consumer survey which provides comprehensive insight into the complex and sophisticated security, malware and threat-defense expectations of mobile consumers in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia. Read more here. The post [Appdome in Help NetSecurity] Debunking myths about consumer expectations around mobile apps security appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.