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Even the hottest startup categories are not immune from the venture slowdown

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Upstart tech companies delivering their product or service via an API raised mammoth amounts of capital during the final year of the 2021-era startup boom. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The venture group recently compiled the last of its 2022 information , sharing the data with TechCrunch+ ahead of its publication.

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Edtech’s venture-backed globalization pauses at China

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are increasingly going global, but recent regulatory crackdowns in China , which instructed local K-12 tutoring startups to go nonprofit, have led to a chill among check-writers looking at the country. The success of Chinese edtech was used to predict the surge of U.S. Edtech investors based in the U.S.

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What is The Best Way to Explain Your Startup?

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The best way to get across what your startup does is through video, too. In 30-90 seconds you can use visuals, story-telling, music, stats and humor to get across your message. Much has changed in online video and many startups are stuck in a metaphor created 5-7 years ago. The post What is The Best Way to Explain Your Startup?

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From electric charging to supply chain management, InMotion Ventures preps Jaguar for a sustainable future

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Since InMotion Ventures , the independent investment and incubation initiative set up by Jaguar Land Rover , launched in 2016 the firm has focused on backing companies across the mobility space broadly. As the mobility market moves to embrace electrification, InMotion wants to make sure its portfolio is in the mix.

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Yes, it’s become harder for startups to raise funding

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Today’s venture capital market feels strange because it isn’t uniform. While some companies are still able to raise mega-rounds , reach unicorn status , and even attract lots of new capital in sectors that have seen their exits struggle on the public markets, other startups are not having similar luck. Is that bad or good?

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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

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Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.”

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Fintech startup Brex was among the bidders for SVB’s early-stage and growth portfolios

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As our fellow fintech enthusiast Alex Johnson pointed out , there was one name that stood out on that list for being “not like the others”: fintech startup Brex. So it’s no surprise that we have seen a flurry of financial technology startups offering banking services catered to certain populations based on factors such as age and ethnicity.