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JULY 25, 2022

Typically, investors don’t take a board seat until you raise your first equity round—which means that it could be *years* before you have a real board meeting: A year of nights/weekends work researching, prototyping, and fundraising. You raise your pre-seed round and if you're lucky and good, you can get to an equity round in 12-18 months. Many people extend this round and don’t get there for two years.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Seedstars’ portfolio founders. Since its launch nine years ago, Seedstars has invested in 81 companies in over 30 emerging countries. Now it’s set a goal of investing in 100 more startups with the launch of its second emerging market seed-stage fund, called Seedstars International Ventures II (SIV), with a first close of $20 million. The fund is expected to total $30 million and its limited partners include the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Visa Foundation, The Rockefeller Found

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Rabbit Care , Thailand’s leading marketplace for insurance and financial products , has raised an undisclosed amount in its Series C funding round led by Winter Capital. The round was also participated by VGI PCL, Thailand’s leading media conglomerate.

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JULY 25, 2022

Traditionally, U.S. private market investors who adopted environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) frameworks — the very few thus far — did so to evaluate a potential company or investment on how it approached areas like sustainability or diversity. But now, in the post-Roe era, as controversial conservative legislation sweeps the nation, some VC investors and founders believe the social definition of ESG investing should expand to incorporate pressing human rights issues, such as re

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JULY 25, 2022

The post InBIA’s 2022 Entrepreneur Support Organization of the Year, Specialty and Prestigious Awards appeared first on InBIA.

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JULY 25, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register ESR Group Limited , Asia’s largest real asset manager powered by the New Economy, announced the first close of over US$1 billion in equity commitments for its inaugural vehicle, Data Centre Fund 1, which is dedicated to the development of its growing data centre business.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Bennett Carroccio. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Bennett Carroccio is the co-founder and CEO of Canal , the connected commerce platform transforming the way products are sold online. The biggest startups in the world are laying employees off. The yield curve has become inverted , inflation is at 8.6%, and economic pessimism is the highest it’s been since 2009.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Taiwan-based regulatory technology (RegTech) developer and non-custodian (DeFi/NFT) wallet provider KryptoGO has raised a total of US$3 million in its recently concluded seed funding round. The round was participated by global venture capital firm Hive Ventures, alongside other VCs including Taiwan’s National Development Council, Red Building Capital, AVA Angels, New Economy Ventures,

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Omni wants to be the human resources platform to rule them all—or at least all HR-related tasks. The software enables HR teams to digitize employee records, automate administrative tasks like employee onboarding and time-off management, and integrate employee data from different systems. Based in Singapore, it is currently active there and in Indonesia, and plans to roll out in other Southeast Asian markets after localizing for employment regulations.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 25, 2022

In Deliberately Underselling as Sales Strategy , I wrote about the importance of sizing contracts below customer needs to ensure customer success. “A key part of the formula: crafting the right account executive compensation structure to reward this strategy.” I received a pile of questions asking for more detail. Since then, I’ve spoken to many sales leaders & Lee Kirkpatrick who originally surfaced the concept during Office Hours on how to do this well.

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JULY 25, 2022

When Charles Onu’ cousin was both born with birth asphyxia and later developed a hearing condition, the seed for Ubenwa , an audio biometric company geared at identifying neurological disorders in infants, was also planted. . Onu, CEO and co-founder, said he hopes Ubenwa will change the way physicians provide care to infants. . “We’re trying to bring the world to a point where infant cries are considered to be a vital sign just as much as we would consider their heart rate to be a vi

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 25, 2022

We have been watching our portfolio of ~130 technology companies wrestle with this decision for the last two and a half years. Brought on by the covid pandemic and the work from home moment that it created, there has been a sea change in the way that technology companies organize themselves to get work done. Ben Horowitz observed this in a piece last week where he described A16Z’s decision to embrace a hybrid model that he called “ HQ in the Cloud.” It turns out that running a

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Doug Petkanics. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Doug Petkanics is the co-founder and CEO of Livepeer , an open video infrastructure for livestreaming. More posts by this contributor. Web 3.0 can repair the attention-driven digital economy. What’s your web3 strategy? I doubt it’s the first time you’ve been asked that question. It’s been on the lips of a growing number of investors on the hunt for disruptive opportunities blockchain-based technologies can offer.

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JULY 25, 2022

Tons of capital has been raised across the crypto industry in recent months, but there has been a noticeable pause in deployment. That might change in the coming months. As it’s taken longer to close crypto VC deals, valuations across the industry have dropped, according to David Nage , venture capital portfolio manager at Arca. Some VCs are taking advantage of this time as the market remains investor-friendly, while others are waiting just a bit longer to push out capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Snap, the parent company of the popular Snapchat social media service, reported earnings last week that investors rejected. In the wake of its second-quarter financial reporting , shares of Snap cratered from $16.81 Thursday afternoon, before its earnings report, to around $10 per share as of this morning. Snap was not the only victim of its lackluster earnings digest — other companies that make money off of advertising incomes saw their share prices dip on concerns that the social network

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex and Grace are back to cover the biggest and most interesting technology, startup and markets news. Sitting as we are on the precipice of a huge data dump, we had lots to chat through! Stocks are mixed around the world, while crypto selloff modestly after some recovery gains.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Given the recent economic downturn, some companies are skeptical that the pandemic-led move to remote and hybrid work will have staying power. According to an April survey by Good Hire, 77% of managers said they’d considering firing employees or cutting their pay for refusing to return to the office. Most expressed concerns about remote employees’ perceived lack of focus, negative impact on company culture, and productivity issues.

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JULY 25, 2022

Startups that solve the supply-chain and operational challenges of players in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry–by helping buyers access products from sellers on a single platform–keep attracting venture capital from investors. Cartona , one of the major players digitizing the traditional trade market, including mom-and-pop stores, FMCG producers, wholesalers, and distributors in Egypt, has raised $12 million in Series A funding.

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JULY 25, 2022

Insightly Analytics helps engineering teams stop problems before they happen, like slow release cycles, bottlenecks and uneven workload distribution that can lead to employee burnout. The San Francisco and Hyderabad-based startup announced today it has raised $1 million led by Together Fund, which it will use to expand its product, engineering and marketing teams.

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