American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

The week-long initiative, held from February 24-28, 2025, marked a significant milestone in integrating 19 high-impact startups into the UAEs dynamic investment and innovation ecosystem. Amongst these groundbreaking ventures, two startupsHexemBio and Spectrohmsecured key investor interest and accolades for their revolutionary technologies.

innovation

The Seraf Compass

JULY 21, 2025

Early-stage investing is a high-context, low-resources game. Some teams streamline investor onboarding using Passthrough or Allocations Post-Investment Ops : This is where Seraf becomes the quiet engine, tracking IRR, KPIs, and cash positions, organizing documents, managing deadlines, and generating stakeholder-ready updates.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 16, 2025

In a significant step toward accelerating the global transition to renewable energy, Terabase Energy has successfully raised $130 million in a Series C financing round. Addressing the Energy Storage and Onshoring Boom This investment in Terabase arrives at a pivotal time in the renewable energy sector.

construction

StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

When presenting to investors who are more interested in finances, on the other hand, the conversation tends to center more around KPIs like revenue growth, cost per new customer, and other financial metrics. Making the data and story fit their specific interests helps ensure the information is useful and relevant.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

With this new capital, Island has now raised approximately $730 million to date, indicating the confidence investors have in its transformative technology and market trajectory. The company will continue to invest in enhancing its product, expanding global operations, and driving adoption across new markets and verticals.

hospitality

StartupNation

JULY 31, 2025

For instance, after an attempted spear-phishing incident aimed at our finance department, we rolled out automated behavioral analysis tools that flagged irregular sender domains and suspicious requests for information. Michael Ferrara , Information Technology Specialist, Conceptual Technology New to Cyber security?

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StartupNation

JUNE 18, 2025

We’ve put together eight ways to safeguard your startup—from how you build your team to managing your finances, and choosing the right tech. Invest in Legal and Intellectual Property Protection Early Many entrepreneurs consider legal protection as a checklist item rather than an essential building block.

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The Seraf Compass

AUGUST 6, 2025

Related Topics Managing Your Portfolio Build Deal Flow Management Software Benefits of Deal Flow Management Seraf Launches Deal Flow Management Angel Investing Courses - Angel 101 and Angel 201 Angel Investing Courses - Beginner Through Advanced Angel 201: 4 Critical Skills Every Angel Investor Should Master Convertible Notes: Good or Evil?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2025

These agents can work independently or collaboratively with human users, performing customer service, marketing, finance, and operations management functions. For example, start with a chatbot for customer service before integrating AI into marketing and finance. Need bookkeeping & finance help? HubSpot AI or Apollo.io

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Jason Malki

JULY 16, 2025

Steve Gomberg I had the pleasure of interviewing Steve Gomberg and he is a seasoned executive whose career spans general management, finance, and corporate development across a variety of entrepreneurial ventures. Developed creative, non-dilutive financing that supported rapid growth. How did you break into tech investing?

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StartupNation

JUNE 4, 2025

They could then see for themselves how the AI-powered web scraping solution would affect their finances. Investors could see the direct bottom-line benefits of our technology, which helped build trust and excitement around our platform.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2025

Addressing the Infrastructure Bottleneck in AI As AI workloads continue to scale exponentially, cloud giantsknown as hyperscalersare investing billions annually to upgrade their GPU clusters and networking backbones. What makes Nexthop AI stand out is its approach to co-designing with customers.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 13, 2025

The fund, which was oversubscribed in just five weeks, will focus on pre-seed and seed-stage investments in AI application companies across both the consumer and enterprise sectors. With AI advancing rapidly and transforming industries from healthcare to finance, this fund arrives at a crucial moment. billion in capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 27, 2025

The investment firm’s funding of the Tennessee-based startup builds on its portfolio of solutions that defend the nation’s cyberspace. A Strategic Investment in AI Security The investment in Starseer reflects Gula Tech’s forward-looking focus on the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.

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Jason Malki

JULY 3, 2025

Suzanne is currently the CEO and CFO of Qrescendo , a next-generation investment neobank built to empower startups and middle-market companies with seamless access to capital, embedded financial tools, and a dynamic network of investors and advisors. What motivated you to launch your startup? What excites you most about what you’re building?

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The Zapier Blog

AUGUST 10, 2025

Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack. When you're ready to process an expense, you can just click a button in your table, triggering a Zap that emails your finance team with the expense information.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 29, 2025

Real AI Transformation Leaders across industries share titles such as "VP of Digital Transformation," "Innovation Manager," "Director of Process Improvement," or even "Head of Legal Technology." Invest in your employees. Culture Culture centers around your people. Offer incentives that resonate.

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StartupNation

JUNE 23, 2025

We continued with transparent and empathetic customer communication and recognized the importance of investing in technology to help with effective shipping and preventing disruptions. Chunyang Shen , Finance Expert, Jarsy Inc. From this experience, we learned about being prepared for hiccups and put contingency plans in place.

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StartupNation

MAY 16, 2025

There’s a reason why the world’s most valuable technology companies are heavily involved with AI. In the larger business community, Goldman Sachs estimated $200 billion globally would be invested in AI by 2025 as projects go from pilots to scale. Hello, AI Big Bang! We’ve been ceding ground to forms of AI for at least a decade.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Who: Capital Connect What: Working Capital Loans; Asset Finance; Property Finance; Refinancing Solutions NZ HQ: Auckland Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? Key services and resources At Capital Connect, we provide tailored finance solutions to help New Zealand businesses grow. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 31, 2025

This brings transparency to campaign financing while underscoring ROI. But if you're an agency or consultant juggling multiple sizable accounts, it's well worth the investment to elevate your efficiency and client services. Like any good friend, ReportGarden has its quirks.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Benefits of AI automation Key components and technologies that AI automation uses How to implement AI automation AI automation use cases Examples of AI automation processes What's the difference between AI automation and RPA? Here's a rundown of some of the essential tools and technologies that power AI automation.

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

Peter Lewis , Chief Marketing Officer, Strategic Pete Legal Expertise Fuels Investment Career I started with a deep interest in law, especially ERISA, which deals with retirement plans and fiduciary responsibility. I applied everything I knew about law and regulation to help clients make smart, informed investment choices.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2025

Reimagining Compute Infrastructure Beyond CMOS In an era where the limits of traditional CMOS (complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor) technology are being pushed to their breaking point, Snowcap is charting a new course. The compute needs of these technologies are outstripping what legacy chip architectures can deliver.

energy

American Entrepreneurship

JULY 30, 2025

Small Door Veterinary, the New York‑founded membership‑based veterinary care company redesigning the pet health experience, has closed $55 million in new financing. The fresh capital will accelerate clinic openings, strengthen technology infrastructure, and enhance member services in the core Northeast and Mid‑Atlantic markets.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Free cash flow is important when the buyer intends to finance the purchase using the revenue from the purchased company itself. 4. Replacement Value: This is one of the best ways to create some minimum value, especially for young companies, where the investment in technology has been heavy and the life span of the technology is long.

real estate

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Investing in a unified platform—where all your apps are connected via a shared system—can simplify data management, prevent silos, streamline communication, and reduce operating costs. It offers business and productivity tools that run the gamut from sales and marketing to finance and legal to IT and analytics.

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StartupNation

JUNE 25, 2025

The Resilience of Blue-Collar Industries: Unlike tech or finance, industries like construction and home services are less susceptible to rapid technological disruption. Franchising offered a structured way to enter entrepreneurship with reduced risk—a key factor in my decision to invest in Ideal Siding.

construction

The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

you're managing a handful of vendors, the next, your finance team is playing Whac-A-Mole with overdue notices, drowning in an inbox full of emails with the subject line "bumping this." Now, an important note before we dive into the specific tools: expect a real investment for a comprehensive solution. One minute.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Enterprise automation is the practice of using technology to connect processes and software across large, complex organizations. How to know if your business is ready for enterprise process automation There's no perfect checklist, but a few signals can help you know when it's time to invest in enterprise automation.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 21, 2025

These tools are best for businesses already invested in data visualization that want to add forecasting to existing BI workflows. This could mean securing extra financing for historical slow periods or boosting inventory to take advantage of "hot" seasons. Attracting investment: Investors love it when lines go up.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Our investment in Kickstarter back in 2009 is an excellent example of that. Our interest in web3 which started back in 2011 was also grounded in the idea that new forms of funding are necessary to finance innovation and creative work. And that is why Regenerative Finance (aka ReFI) is so interesting to me.

finance

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 19, 2024

That statement has killed more investment deals than almost any other. Perhaps buyers cannot obtain attractive financing in the current market. Maybe there is advanced knowledge of new technologies around the corner that makes any decision today a risky one. When asked (as we always do), the response is This is new.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? We are active in construction with investments such as HOVER and Fieldwire and believe the entire sector is right for a digital and automation overhaul. About 10 percent of our time.

construction

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I''ve closed three investments in the first Brooklyn Bridge Ventures fund that haven''t quite been made public yet, bringing the total to 13 companies. These companies didn''t announce their financings right away, and for good reason. They''re building up their PR plans to make the financing announcements part of a larger story arc.

startup

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

I only invest in NYC, so I won''t take meetings with out of town companies or people "planning on moving". Investing a few hours of time to meet five random people doesn''t make a lot of sense. There are roughly 400 venture deals being done in NYC each year these days, and maybe about 30% or so of those are seed financings.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $10 million in Series A investment. Appzone is a fintech software provider.

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