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What To Do When Your Competitor Gets Funded?

Both Sides of the Table

announced they raised $9 million from Sequoia , arguably the best venture capital firm that exists. And our competitors are not really each other but the incumbent businesses that have 99.9% ” In summary: The competitors are the incumbents. This morning Clutter.io Congratulations.

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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

Image courtesy of Mint House Real estate lies at the core of our everyday lives?—?it Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years.

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Former Zillow execs raise $70M seed round for Tomo, which wants to simplify the mortgage process

TechCrunch

The latest startup to raise venture money with the goal of making the process “smarter and faster” is one that was founded by a pair of executives that spent years at real estate giant Zillow. according to Crunchbase), but especially for the real estate tech space (perhaps the largest ever). They were once rivals.

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Fintech Roundup: Will financial technology startups dodge the venture slowdown?

TechCrunch

There has been much talk as of late of a slowdown in venture funding. For example, Brex announced last week that it provided $10 million in growth capital via venture debt to Zesty.ai, a leading provider of predictive data analytics in the climate risk space. We’re seeing pretty big market changes.

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Why the startup sector should keep its eye on the SEC

TechCrunch

Although SVB’s failure can’t be blamed on the venture ecosystem, some policymakers have joined the general public in maligning the bank’s depositors — in large part venture-backed startups. This negative narrative has immense implications for the venture community. This is an inflection point.

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The Interchange: Stripe takes a swing at Plaid

TechCrunch

In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. On a more positive note, Tage Kene-Okafor wrote about how Rali_cap , an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in fintech in emerging markets, launched a $30 million fund. million in a round led by Firebrand Ventures.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. The argument threaded through Fred’s posts above is that significant venture-scale opportunities for VCs existed outside the Bay Area.

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