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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

TechCrunch

While working for strategic advisory firm Drystone Strategy, De Gruchy routinely visited companies that he was “diligencing” for private equity deals, including dairies, roofing companies and distribution warehouses. Infogrid helps our clients to provide exactly this, which improves their rental yields and asset values.”

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Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A

TechCrunch

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. Bob Ruark, principal and banking and fintech strategy leader for KPMG US, noted that pricing is difficult now given the rapid decline in valuations. and Mexico.

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Startup playbook: reverse-engineering Clay Christens’s market disruptions

Tomasz Tunguz

Instead of reviewing the incumbent’s strategy, I’m going to flip these around to reverse engineer these defenses and build a startup’s playbook for disruption with examples from our portfolio. Startups need to build and master their go-to-market strategy. The ecosystem barrier: Products don’t exist in a vacuum.

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Request for Startups: Climate Tech

Y Combinator

Problems & Ideas: Financing as a service for building electrification Contractor enablement Finding ways (at scale) to add trust as well as ensure accountability Improving the quote lifecycle to reduce time spent (and truck rolls), automate system design, and improve installed system performance.

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. Because people don't love the incumbent right now. So if you're searching for a real estate Boston or something like that, it'll look at all the pages that's indexed.