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Why Seed Rounds Are Growing as Startups Shrink

Tomasz Tunguz

A decade ago, these smaller rounds formed the backbone of startup financing, comprising over 70% of all seed deals. We can decompose the decline to understand what reduced the small seed round & why it matters for founders today. Salary inflation isn’t driving founders to raise larger rounds. in 2015 to 37.5%

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Extend Raises $17M to Transform Document Processing with AI-Powered Cloud Platform

American Entrepreneurship

Co-founders Kushal Byatnal and Eli Badgio lead Extend’s mission to revolutionize unstructured data workflows with precision and scale. Documents are often the system of record for mission-critical business data, but reliably extracting that data has always been a challenge,” said Eli Badgio, co-founder and CTO. “We

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Lioncrest Ventures Launches $100M Equity and Credit Fund Platform for Growth-Stage Tech Startups

American Entrepreneurship

With an initial close of $30 million, Lioncrest is positioning itself as a next-generation venture firm, offering both equity and credit capital to meet the evolving needs of founders building in complex, regulated markets. Non-dilutive financing options that preserve founder ownership.

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How to Communicate Impact Metrics to Investors

StartupNation

Leveraging before-and-after scenarios may help, enabling you to showcase how your solutions solved specific customer problems. When presenting to investors who are more interested in finances, on the other hand, the conversation tends to center more around KPIs like revenue growth, cost per new customer, and other financial metrics.

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Island Raises $250M Series E Funding, Reaches $4.8 Billion Valuation

American Entrepreneurship

Reinventing the Enterprise Browser Islands core innovation lies in its reimagining of the web browsernot as a passive consumer tool, but as an active enabler of enterprise security, productivity, and IT efficiency. It improves productivity, simplifies the IT stack, reduces complexity, and embeds security.

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The VC Stack Makeover: What Today's Funds Need - Webinar

The Seraf Compass

You’re juggling pipeline, diligence, founder support, LP management, and usually doing it all with a lean team. Founders share materials via DocSend, and the cap table gets vetted in Carta or Capboard Docs & Close : Final agreements and SAFEs are dropped into structured folders. Good tools don’t replace instinct. They sharpen it.

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How Startups Can Adapt to Evolving Cybersecurity Threats

StartupNation

Ram Thakur , Founder, Solution Suggest Top Cyber security Threats Facing Businesses Isolate Customer Cloud Instances The biggest shift in cybersecurity for us wasn’t a single attack—it was the realization that internal access, misconfiguration, and supply chain dependencies pose just as much risk as external hackers.