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How To End Your Pitch with Your Vision

Dream It

We have made the decision to invest in entrepreneurs without slides, whose ambition, passion, depth of understanding of an opportunity and compelling vision come through crystal-clear in conversation,” states Sarah Guo from Greylock Partners. As all investors know from the case of Uber, you cannot size a market based on an incumbent.

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

TechCrunch

They were brought back together by the pandemic to start the e-commerce enablement company. Additionally, Melonn works with a range of transportation providers, including incumbents such as FedEx or DHL and last-mile startups, to reduce shipping times and costs. .

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Algeria’s Yassir picks up $30M to build a super app in North Africa

TechCrunch

Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions. Tayebi felt that providing on-demand services — which solves essential needs and, more importantly, builds trust to then provide payment services — was the catalyst to enable financial inclusion in the region.

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Convoy: The Future of Truck Freight

Y Combinator

We have seen this play out across several business-to-consumer verticals over the past decade: Airbnb in hospitality, Instacart in grocery, DoorDash in food delivery, and Lyft in transportation. Domestic shippers like Unilever spend nearly $800 billion annually transporting raw materials and consumer goods by truck 1.

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After selling Bread last year for over $500M, this founder just raised millions for his new fintech startup

TechCrunch

So he teamed up with former Lyft exec Andrew Woolf to found Coast , a company that is aiming to meet those needs with the mission of becoming “the financial platform for the future of transportation.”. Coast co-founders Daniel Simon and Andrew Woolf.

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GoFreight raises $28M to become the “Shopify of freight forwarding”

TechCrunch

Unicorn Flexport is revolutionizing the world of logistics , serving as a freight forwarder with software that enables customers to manage their shipments. GoFreight, which currently has about 1,000 customers, helps manage transportation of goods through ocean, air and land routes.

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Request for Startups: Climate Tech

Y Combinator

The financial opportunity of doing so is massive: an estimated $3-10 trillion in EBITDA will be up for grabs. Sales enablement to better equip contractors to close large ticket projects with detailed ROI and performance reports (similar to what exists for solar today). EVs are now over 5% of new US sales and growing 60% year over year.

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