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DriveNets connects with $262M as demand booms for its cloud-based alternative to network routers

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billion networked devices projected to be in use by 2023 and the growth rate currently at around 10%. If these sums sound very large, it’s because outsized funding is the order of the day for large enterprise startups taking on networking infrastructure leviathans like Cisco, Juniper and Huawei. (It

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Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice

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She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k. Founders hit the street with their pitch deck, some make it, and some don’t, but nearly all of them ascribe a lot more human influence over the process than there probably is. For all we know, white men make 99% of the pitches. I’m a female founder. I don’t have enough traction.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Creating financial models, UiPath’s plummet, pitch deck pro tips

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Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. At TechCrunch Early Stage, Managing Editor Matt Burns hosted Lotti Siniscalco, a partner at Emergence Capital, for a session on pitch deck basics. ” Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist.

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Amira Yahyaoui wants Mos to be a ‘radical’ fintech startup

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We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,” She turned down multiple term sheets, and didn’t use a pitch deck. Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.”

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Prezent.ai secures $20M to gamify deck presentations

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When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist. But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo. Prezent.ai

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AI-powered supply chain startup Pando lands $30M investment

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This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts. But Pando has a compelling sales pitch, judging by its momentum. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs.

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CEO Shishir Mehrotra and investor S. Somasegar reveal what sings in Coda’s pitch doc

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Its ambition lies in the fact that there are massive incumbents in this space, like Google and Microsoft. Mehrotra was generous enough to let us take a look through his pitch doc (not deck!) A screenshot from Coda’s pitch doc. He even pitched him for Series B fundraising — and ultimately got a no.