A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Our portfolio company Dapper Labs , creator of CryptoKitties , the Flow Blockchain , and the NBA Top Shot collectible game, is announcing Dapper Collectives today. Dapper Collectives comes by way of an acquisition of Brud , a company that has been developing “community-owned media and collectively built worlds” for the last five years. Dapper Collectives will be led by Trevor McFedries, the founder and CEO of Brud and the co-founder of the FWB DAO.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2021

By Wynn Corliss, Chief Operating Officer at Metigy. Around the US, businesses are turning to digital marketing to connect with their increasingly digital audiences. Providing intimate access to customers, digital marketing, utilizing social media, offers a cost-effective way for brands to connect with consumers. With the rise of data-led marketing and artificial intelligence (AI) within digital strategies, the benefits have never been clearer.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Life insurance has had a new lease on life in the era of insuretech, and today one of the companies building a business out of rethinking everything — from target customers through to how to provision and pay for insurance, and how much coverage to give — is announcing some funding on the back of strong growth. Ladder , which providers flexible term life insurance policies providing coverage ranging from $100,000 to $8 million, has raised $100 million in equity funding, a Series D th

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. The dream of virtually every entrepreneur, regardless of their innovation or industry, is to land a successful investment for their venture.

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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Infrastructure as code (IaC) has been gaining wider adoption among DevOps teams in recent years, but the complexities of data center configuration and management continue to create problems — and opportunities. We surveyed top investors in IaC startups to find out more. Overall, they see a lot of room for growth given all of the manual work still done by DevOps teams across organizations of all sizes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

With its subscription-based legal services platform, Lawpath wants to become the Asia Pacific’s LegalZoom (in fact, LegalZoom is one of its investors). Based in Sydney, Australia, Lawpath serves small businesses with services like legal documents, customized legal workflows, e-signatures, business registration, and on-demand lawyers. The company announced today it has raised $7.5 million AUD (about $5.5 million USD) to expand into new markets, including upcoming launches in New Zealand and South

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 4, 2021

VC can be great for your startup, but it can also create lots problems. Do you really know what you’re getting into? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Company benefits make or break the ability to recruit top talent. On one side of that is 401(k), while on the other are consumer-directed benefits, any accounts offered by the employer to use for a designated purpose that typically has tax-advantaged benefits. Elevate has a new approach to how employers and employees access, manage and experience consumer-directed benefits.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff talks about the struggles and satisfaction of entrepreneurship. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn new report findings about entrepreneurs and whether you have what it takes to be one: . 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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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Byju’s has raised about $300 million as part of a larger round of new investment as the Indian edtech giant focuses on expanding its international business and aggressively explores merger and acquisition opportunities. A filing, supplied to TechCrunch by research firm Tofler, showed that the new investment values the startup at $18 billion, up from a valuation of $16.5 billion in June this year.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 4, 2021

There is magic in the number 3. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Stable , an insurtech aiming to help minimize a businesses’ risk due to volatile commodity prices, today announced it has raised $46.5 million in a Series A round of funding led by Greycroft. Notion Capital, Anthemis, Continental Grain and existing backers Syngenta and Ascot also participated in the financing, which brings the Chicago-based startup’s total raised to about $50 million since its 2016 inception.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Based on the demise of one startup’s very public and scandalous failure and its impact on the founder’s right-hand man. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It’s said that you should measure what you value, and for founders, nothing is more valuable than growth. Growth provides revenues, venture capital, prestige and scale — ultimately driving the success of every business. Yet, measuring growth is complex and challenging — and it’s only getting tougher. Changes to attribution in iOS 14 and further refinements in iOS 15, plus other privacy-preserving initiatives in the industry, have forced growth marketers to rethink how they define their growth an

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Building your following on these platforms alone is a bad idea. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The Israeli company has developed a platform in collaboration with leading Weizmann Institute researchers that enables molecular-level accurate control in the design of scent. Read more here. The post [Moodify in Calcalist] Scent digitization startup Moodify raises $8 million from Procter & Gamble, Toyota appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Are you finally ready to be your own boss and launch a new business? You probably already have your business plan written up and are ready to introduce your products or services to the market. However, before you start all of your marketing and operational activities, take a moment to think about what you should definitely avoid doing on your entrepreneurial journey.

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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.

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image Credits: Wasp. It seems that a lot of startups are trying to help developers reduce the complexity involved in coding an app. Last week we covered the seed round for RunX , a company that helps developers code back-end cloud resources more quickly. Today, Y Combinator Winter 2021 graduate Wasp announced a $1.5 million seed round to help programmers code the business logic side of the application faster.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Facebook is an awesome platform. It connects us to each other in a powerful way. This includes Instagram and What’s App. However, for several hours today, these platforms were down. The world of marketing and online slowed to a crawl. The biggest lesson this means to small business owners is the importance of OWNING their own data. Own Your Own Data.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Pioneered by Snapchat and cloned by Instagram, the “Stories” feature has become a staple for modern-day mobile apps from Google search to Pinterest to streaming apps and more. And while the addition doesn’t work for everyone — LinkedIn and Twitter recently shuttered their Stories features, for example — there’s enough demand for Stories out there on the market that a company called Storyteller has managed to create a revenue-generating business that provides &

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Mondel?z International, the multinational advertising agency Publicis, and Digitas Vietnam have partnered with visionary Artificial Intelligence startup D-ID to transform food marketing into an interactive, user-driven experience. Read more here. The post [D-ID in MarTech Series] Mondel?z, Publicis and D-ID join forces to forge new era of interactive, tech-driven marketing appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Founders seeking to raise their first round of capital may feel overwhelmed by the prospect. There is definitely plenty of capital out there, but there are also a lot of startups clamoring for it. To help new entrepreneurs figure out this dilemma, we invited three investors to speak at a panel titled, “How to Raise Your First Dollars,” during TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 so they could share their best tips on what you should do as you attempt to raise that money, as well as strategies for

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 4, 2021

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. , Oct. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — People.ai , the premiere revenue operations and intelligence (RO&I) platform, today announced it has won the Best Company Happiness and Best Company Compensation awards from Comparably, one of the fastest-growing compensation, culture and career monitoring sites in the United States. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Taking a small detour today from traditional Exchange topics — we’ll get to some IPO news later on — to talk briefly about climate, climate tech and pessimism. Last week on the podcast , the Equity crew spent a bit of time digging into the planetwide impacts that our warming world will endure in the coming years — and the role that startups can play in combating climate change.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Cigarettes, sewage, litter boxes, and all the other rancid odors on society could one day find themselves canceled… Read more here. The post [Moodify in Geektime] SNoise-canceling headphones, but for your nose: Israeli startup raises $8M to mask the bad smell appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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