StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

Effectively communicating your startup’s impact metrics to investors can make or break your funding opportunities. This article presents key strategies, backed by expert insights, to help you showcase your startup’s value and growth potential. From telling compelling data-driven stories to aligning metrics with investor priorities, these approaches will equip you to present your startup’s impact in a clear and persuasive manner.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 7, 2025

i2E Names Darcy Wilborn as President, Continuing Commitment to Oklahoma Innovation i2E, Inc., a nonprofit focused on accelerating startup success and commercialization efforts across Oklahoma, proudly announces the appointment of Darcy Wilborn as its new President. Wilborn brings more than a decade of leadership and operational experience within i2E.

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Jason Malki

JULY 8, 2025

Robby Prochnow I had the pleasure of interviewing Robby Prochnow , Founder and CEO of Zen Aegis , a strategic advisory firm that embeds executive leadership and fractional teams into high-growth or stalled companies seeking to accelerate revenue and operational maturity. With a background leading global initiatives for Fortune 100 companies like Avnet, TD SYNNEX, and Insight, Robby is recognized for his ability to architect change, create clarity in complexity, and build sustainable systems for

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

I've worked on projects that had a distinct "No one knows what they're doing" vibe, and others that were so tightly controlled it felt like coming up for air whenever I left my desk. In both cases, I dreamed of a happy medium. A good project management framework run by a strong project manager feels like that happy medium—a sweet spot between structure and freedom, planning and flexibility.

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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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StartupNation

JULY 7, 2025

In the business world, decisions are made every single day. Some are small, some are large, but all of them ideally should be grounded in solid information, not guesswork. This is exactly why you need solid market research. At its core, market research is all about gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data about a target market, competitors, and the industry as a whole.

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GCUC

JULY 8, 2025

GCUC Podcast Recap: Raj Choudhury Why “Work From Anywhere” Is the Future And How Coworking Spaces Fit In Insights from Harvard Business School Professor Raj Choudhury on the GCUC.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

CRMs do a lot of things well. And they're a must-have for sales teams to track leads and convert them into paying customers, keep pipelines organized, and make sure every interaction stays neatly in one place. But the minute you try to build a report that's even slightly custom, you can hit the limit of what the tool offers or a big "Upgrade" button.

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StartupNation

JULY 11, 2025

Everyone’s heard the stories. The solo founder who raised $2 million in two weeks. The startup that went public five years later. These stories get passed around like proof that success is just one smart pitch away. However, they’re not the norm. They’re the exception. The truth is that most investors aren’t interested in throwing money at a dream and hoping it works out.

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OurCrowd

JULY 9, 2025

July 9 (Reuters) – U.S. semiconductor startup Groq has spoken to investors about raising between $300 million and $500 million at a $6 billion post-investment valuation, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. Read more here.

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GCUC

JULY 7, 2025

The Multigenerational Coworking Revolution: What Every Space Owner Needs to Know What Do Boomers, Zoomers, and Everyone Between Want From Coworking? At GCUC, we’re always looking ahead. One of the biggest shifts happening right now.

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The Seraf Compass

JULY 9, 2025

When a portfolio company raises a new round, the decision to reinvest isn’t always straightforward. Emotions, relationships, and momentum can cloud even the most experienced investor’s judgment. That’s why we created the Follow-on Investment Scorecard—a structured, easy-to-use template that helps you bring clarity and consistency to your reinvestment decisions.

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Mark MacLeod

JULY 8, 2025

Matt Turck has seen venture capital evolve through multiple tech cycles, and his perspective on today’s AI boom might surprise you. As General Partner at FirstMark Capital, he’s witnessed the gap between AI hype and enterprise reality firsthand. Turck breaks […] The post FirstMark’s Matt Turck on AI Investment Opportunities, Venture Capital Timing, and Why European Startups Are Undervalued appeared first on Mark MacLeod.

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David Teten VC

JULY 7, 2025

Kudos to ffVC portfolio company Movable Ink and CEO Vivek Sharma! STG, a software-focused private equity firm, has announced they’re acquiring Movable Ink. My old firm, ffVC, invested when Movable Ink was a seed-stage company. Movable Ink has grown to 600 employees, and won more than 100 new enterprise customers in the last year across its products.

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 6, 2025

Singapore-based startup BridgePort has secured $3.2 million in seed funding to expand its platform and strengthen its team.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

A customer relationship management tool (or CRM) is a critical hub for sales and marketing teams—but it's not just a place to store contact details. When used effectively, your CRM becomes a central command center for tracking relationships, managing pipelines, and coordinating touchpoints across your entire customer journey. But here's the catch: most of that activity doesn't happen in your CRM.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 10, 2025

The funding is a catalyst for U.S. energy independence aligned with Washington policies to make domestic battery material production a centerpiece of its industrial strategy which has included more than $6 billion in grants and tax incentives since 2022. With an oversubscribed $29 million Series B, Ionic Mineral Technologies (“Ionic MT”) is doing far more than expanding a factory in Provo, Utah; it is fortifying a domestic supply chain the United States urgently needs.

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Founder Bounty

JULY 10, 2025

In this world of rising costs any way to make money to bring you a passive income will be good. Why not use AI to help you do this! We have put the best tools together to help you may the most amount of money. From AI influencers to using AI the create various forms of content. Put it this way not using AI to create content is absolutely crazy! More tools are in our AI tools section Create an AI influencer A great way to make money from the AI wave.

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Gearing up for 2025 annual planning? Our latest eBook from the Operators Guild is your ultimate guide. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community. Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 10, 2025

Airalo, a global eSIM provider based in Lewes, Delaware, has raised $220 million in a funding round led by new investor CVC.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

In college, I wrote for the school newspaper, and my beat was reporting on the Student Government Association (SGA). I often used the minutes from SGA meetings to help me write my article, but I quickly realized that's about all they were being used for—SGA members never read them and usually forgot what they'd discussed in their meetings the next day.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 9, 2025

The MedTech funding round will fuel Plexāā’s entry into the U.S. market with BLOOM⁴³, the world’s first fully wearable prehabilitation device for breast surgery designed to reduce complications. UK-based MedTech innovator Plexāā has successfully closed a $ 4.5 million funding extension to support the U.S. commercial launch of its flagship medical device, BLOOM⁴³, a breakthrough wearable platform designed to improve outcomes in breast surgery.

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OurCrowd

JULY 8, 2025

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has announced the establishment of the National Academy for A.I. Instruction, a new $23 million initiative to train the nation’s educators in the practical and ethical application of artificial intelligence in the classroom.

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Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 9, 2025

Rebee Health, a Singapore-based startup specializing in digital physiotherapy, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Malaysia’s 1337 Ventures via its seed-stage fund, 1337 Capital 1.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

A few weeks back, in a burst of misguided optimism, I found myself in an escape room with eight of my most brilliant friends. I was confident we'd bust out in record time, but we quickly realized our error: too many cooks, not enough coordination. Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier We really could have used RACI.

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Mark MacLeod

JULY 11, 2025

In this candid conversation, Lightspeed Commerce co-founder and CEO Dax Dasilva opens up about the company’s remarkable 20-year journey from a bootstrapped startup in Montreal’s Gay Village to a billion-dollar public company. Dasilva discusses how authentic workplace culture became Lightspeed’s […] The post Lightspeed’s Dax Dasilva on 20 Years of Company Building, Strategic Acquisitions, and How Spirituality Shaped His Leadership Philosophy appeared first on Mark Ma

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OurCrowd

JULY 8, 2025

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Iozera, a next-generation AI-as-a-Service platform delivering high-performance, AI infrastructure-as-a-service through a global network of intelligent, energy-conscious AI data centers, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ZutaCore®, a global innovator in waterless liquid cooling for AI factories.

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