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Why Seed Rounds Are Growing as Startups Shrink

Tomasz Tunguz

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. Carta data shows SaaS companies are 20% smaller at Series A today than in H1 2020. Three forces drove this transformation. in 2015 to $81.2B

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CEO Gururaj Pandurangi on How ThriveStack Redefines B2B SaaS Growth with Hybrid GTM Tooling

Jason Malki

I had the pleasure of interviewing Gururaj Pandurangi, a three-time entrepreneur and now the CEO of ThriveStack.ai , a product designed to help B2B SaaS companies grow rapidly and efficiently. We tried to compete, investing a million dollars in enabling self-serve products and revamping our GTM playbook. But it wasn’t enough.

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Google’s early-stage AI Fund Gradient Invests in Cake’s Open-Source AI Platform for All Businesses

American Entrepreneurship

Recently funded Cake addresses that concern with the launch of its open-source AI infrastructure platform enabling all businesses to deploy the latest technologies cost-effectively. Unfortunately, the cutting-edge has historically been the exclusive domain of large ML engineering teams.

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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. That bridged the trust gap between SaaS claims and clinical reality. Tips for other founders: 1. In my experience, the best way to communicate such metrics is to present them in the form of a story.

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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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Creator Ventures Raises $45M Fund II to Back the Next Generation of Consumer Internet Startups

American Entrepreneurship

Creator Ventures, founded in 2022 by cousins Sasha Kaletsky and Caspar Lee , is uniquely positioned to invest in the next wave of AI-enabled consumer applications, marketplaces, creative tools, and SaaS platforms reshaping the digital landscape. As a creator, Ive lived through the digital evolution firsthand, said Lee.

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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.