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MakeSpace Raises an Additional $17.5 million and Unveils Strategy to Make Public Storage the Next Blockbuster Video

Both Sides of the Table

Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. MakeSpace , the leading provider of next-generation storage for consumers, today announced an additional $17.5

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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. The growing number of competitors coincides with an uptick in VC investments in IoT companies.

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Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A

TechCrunch

Bob Ruark, principal and banking and fintech strategy leader for KPMG US, noted that pricing is difficult now given the rapid decline in valuations. On the bright side, the fact that VCs are more discriminating about where they put their dollars could actually lead to more M&A activity, according to Ruark.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. Raise here, but deploy elsewhere” is not a crazy strategy in today’s times.

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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.