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Colombian e-commerce enablement startup Melonn raises $20M to help SMBs scale in LatAm

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NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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FintechOS nabs $60M for a low-code approach to modernizing legacy banking and insurance services

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“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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Trends in Early Stage SaaS Fundraising Market of 2016

Tomasz Tunguz

About $1B has been invested in early stage SaaS startups as of November 1. The chart above shows the early-stage investment dollars by buyer within the organization. If we compare these trends to the total aggregate market capitalization of public SaaS companies by buyer, we observe a few interesting patterns.

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The 4 Questions Startups Should Ask Themselves about Building with Generative AI

Tomasz Tunguz

Market : how to compete with incumbents? Startups have negative time to launch in many markets with Adobe, Microsoft, & Salesforce launching Gen AI enabled software in weeks. Usage & distribution, like in classical SaaS, are likely the most sustainable & repeatable. Moats : how to develop competitive advantage?

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Commercializing AI in Healthcare: The Enterprise Buyer Perspective

Andreessen Horowitz

When it comes to purchasing AI solutions specifically, some organizations have a predisposition to buying from larger incumbents, so be sure to have a crisp value proposition for why they should partner with a startup over a larger incumbent with whom they’re already working.

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Truepill’s latest funding boosts valuation to $1.6B as it works on B2B side of healthcare

TechCrunch

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. The company’s “big focus is continuing the vision of transforming healthcare,” said Sid Viswanathan, president and co-founder of Truepill.

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CommerceIQ gets its horn as capital continues to flow into e-commerce infrastructure startups

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We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. As part of the investment, Priya Saiprasad, partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, is joining CommerceIQ’s board of directors. “E-commerce

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