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Akeyless secures a cash infusion to help companies manage their passwords, certificates and keys

TechCrunch

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens. Image Credits: Akeyless.

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B2FI: Demystifying Software Sales Into Financial Institutions

Andreessen Horowitz

For example, a sense of needing to keep up with these technology advancements from leadership can be translated down to a VP of Consumer Finance who needs to grow a consumer banking app while battling fintech upstarts and who may be thinking about using AI products to do so–which your product could help enable.

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Document onboarding startup Flatfile nabs $50M from investors, including Workday

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When the algorithms encounter an anomaly or a data type they can’t process automatically, they prompt customers to make a decision and then add that scenario to a database for future reference. “[The] platform enables companies to leverage their data sooner. .

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Ascend raises $5.5M to provide a BNPL option for commercial insurance

TechCrunch

He referred to insurance as a “spaghetti web of money movement” where payments can take up to 100 days to get to the insurance carrier from the customer as it makes its way through intermediaries. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments.

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Pricing and Packaging Your B2B or Prosumer Generative AI Feature

Andreessen Horowitz

Many of the best practices for packaging non-genAI prosumer and B2B SaaS still apply in the genAI era at this point, so it can also be helpful to reference how companies have packaged their new non-genAI features in the past. In these cases, the logic of segmenting for value remains the same. Pricing: subscription or hybrid?

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Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

Both Sides of the Table

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. It is a household name. The value prop is pretty clear.

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

Both Sides of the Table

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better. I can’t tell you how incumbents will act and who else will choose to compete fiercely with us.