The Zapier Blog

JULY 29, 2025

Lead transparent conversations about the opportunities and realities of AI and what it means for your colleagues' roles, career paths, and day-to-day work. " Collaboration is critical; rely on department heads from Marketing, Legal, Finance, and beyond to highlight the manual tasks ripe for AI automation.

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StartupNation

JUNE 23, 2025

Chunyang Shen , Finance Expert, Jarsy Inc. It became clear that we needed to enter new markets quickly and look for new opportunities. A well-trained, reliable staff and strong supplier relationships enabled us to ride out the storm. Work came to a halt, but I wouldn’t just sit and wait. This experience taught me a lot.

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StartupNation

JUNE 9, 2025

Consider using long-term financing options for major asset purchases rather than depleting your operating cash. Failing to Set Up a Business Bank Account Separating personal and business finances is crucial for new entrepreneurs. The Benefits of Forming an LLC for New Entrepreneurs 9.Failing

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

By staying on top of your financial position, you can avoid potential cash flow issues, specifically unexpected cash shortages, enabling planning for growth opportunities. Leverage Financing Options Strategically Sometimes, external financing can help bridge short-term cash flow gaps.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 27, 2025

The financing round includes backing from top-tier investors like Greylock Partners , SignalFire, Maverick, SV Angel, Yahoo! We saw an opportunity to build autonomous agents that can tackle these workflows for providers in minutes and more reliably.” co-founder Jerry Yang, and Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Who: Capital Connect What: Working Capital Loans; Asset Finance; Property Finance; Refinancing Solutions NZ HQ: Auckland Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? Key services and resources At Capital Connect, we provide tailored finance solutions to help New Zealand businesses grow. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Identifies opportunities: When you integrate AI tools into your existing workflows, it can use your data to flag blind spots and possibilities for your business. These learning capabilities are crucial for AI automation, enabling systems to adapt and get smarter. Let's look at some examples.

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

It’s about not just being more efficient, but fundamentally changing how one operates and leads, enabling the team to get significantly more done and overcome the previous limitations imposed by older ways of thinking or doing things. This frees up capacity and allows the business to pursue greater ambitions. We were in four cities.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2025

Its superconducting architecture enables order-of-magnitude improvements in processing speed and energy efficiency, making it a powerful alternative to today’s conventional silicon-based compute platforms. We’re building compute systems for the edge of what’s physically possible,” said Michael Lafferty, CEO of Snowcap Compute.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 30, 2025

Small Door Veterinary, the New York‑founded membership‑based veterinary care company redesigning the pet health experience, has closed $55 million in new financing. In addition the subscription economy has reshaped industries from streaming media to primary medicine, and investors see a similar opportunity in veterinary services.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 21, 2025

But, so long as market conditions remain relatively stable, you'll be able to get a good estimate of how much money your company can expect to bring in over the coming months or years—and that enables a number of important operations. Attracting investment: Investors love it when lines go up.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out. The financing included $1.05

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Source Link

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Using SourceLink’s comprehensive CRM system built specifically for entrepreneurship-led economic development, BizLink Orange leaders will be able to track network activity and engagement - looking at metrics like service delivery, connectivity, financing, talent and growth to help them make fact-based program decisions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But in 2021, Homebound expanded to Austin, Texas, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners. Nikki and Jack are terrific founders we are pleased to back,” he wrote via email.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

Businesses that provide this enabling technology and equipment can capitalize on this with special pricing and promotions. Meditation apps like Headspac e and Calm will provide opportunities for users to unwind after a long day of solitary work or managing a household full of kids off school. Opportunity in the Stay-Home Economy.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. Travis Connors, Building Ventures At Building Ventures, we see enormous opportunities developing for the use of robotics in construction over the next 20 years. I’m excited to watch this space evolve.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

If you’re an aspiring veteran business owner, check out the Veteran Entrepreneur Portal for step-by-step guidance on financing, training, government contracts and more. It enables military veterans and their spouses to take online and in-person educational courses, which teach them how to run a successful business.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 billion, up from $2 billion a year ago. The startup today leads the market.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Register Taiwanese decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Term Structure , specializing in non-custodial fixed-income protocols for peer-to-peer borrowing and lending, has successfully raised initial funding of USD 4.25 Such products are currently absent in decentralized finance (DeFi). million in a series of seed fundraising rounds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The contribution of these enterprises is pivotal to the country’s economy yet they remain underserved by traditional banking institutions making it hard for them to access the financing needed to grow. It used the financing to fund its growth which included adding Leja to its portfolio.

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Revolution

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fazeela’s experience as an investor and trusted advisor to tech-enabled businesses makes her an invaluable addition to the team, strengthening our approach of providing hands-on company portfolio support. Many other women and girls are not given a voice or opportunity to chart their path?—?something

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

On Tuesday, DeHaat , an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers, said it has raised $30 million in a new financing round as the Indian firm looks to maintain its accelerated growth despite the pandemic. We wrote about DeHaat last year, when it had raised a $12 million financing round.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

Business models are evolving, and the future of finance has never been more promising. There are fantastic rewards to be had for those who know how to exploit the new opportunities for business funding that arise in times like these. Fundbox also provides small business loans to minorities, further democratizing modern finance.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sunstone, a higher education startup that collaborates with academic institutions to help upskill their students for employability, has raised $35 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities. Sunstone founders said Friday WestBridge Capital led the startup’s Series C financing round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. “The focus was to leverage our ability as an enabler to create proprietary technology for both segments.” Appzone clearly plays a different game from other African fintechs.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

“Our banks can attest to the transformation opportunities and business growth we’ve all seen by hand-selecting some of the most impactful companies to work with community banks.”

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 16, 2023

This collaboration aims to foster co-development, testing, and iteration of innovative solutions while validating them against commercial opportunities within Visa’s extensive network of financial institutions, merchants, and digital partners.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Circles enable investors to access multiple investment opportunities at a lower investment minimum, with no fees for investors. Tom is partnering with Vidrik Frankfather, who has been in the finance industry for 16 years. The fund will make investments on their behalf in select companies on the platform.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. Many universities (e.g., 5) Student-focused VCs.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Finfra Investment Fueled Indonesian Embedded Finance Expansion Indonesian startup Finfra secured $1 million in new funding in late June. The company invests the infused capital into product development and enhancing Finfra’s engineering, data, and finance teams.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

But he almost didn’t, when he had trouble securing the necessary financing to pay his tuition. million seed round in December 2020 in a round that included participation from Citigroup and SoftBank Opportunity Fund — among others — Altro had a couple of thousand customers. By the time it raised its $2.5

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

That financing kicked off a period of accelerated growth for the company — from creating a compelling digital offering to acquiring a company three times its size to scaling to more than 250 locations across the country — that led CAVA to today: its public debut. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

Detroit has roughly 50k small businesses owned by entrepreneurs of color and the city is committed to ensuring residents are gaining equal access to educational and economic opportunities of the emerging high-growth economy. What skills do you bring to the community as a liaison between Verizon and small business owners?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 26, 2024

Unlike physical goods, digital products can be delivered instantly, offering a lucrative opportunity for fraudsters to quickly convert stolen financial information into cash or assets. Zeltcer highlights the vulnerability of these sectors due to the immediate nature of digital transactions.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Without industry-wide master unique identifiers for medical-surgical (med-surg) items, hospitals cannot easily compare products by their attributes to identify cost-savings opportunities, or map product selection to the best patient outcomes. This challenge spelled fear and opportunity in equal parts. We didn’t know the domain.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2023

This allows the fund to take a patient stance when investing in social enterprises, in comparison with traditional financing options which prioritise short-term profitability metrices.

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