What is valuation?
Valuation through ancient times has been the method to determine the value of any commercial exchange and make the transaction fair for all the parties involved. Valuation brings stability to the economy as it promotes the culture of fair dealings as well as the confidence in long term wealth building. Recent trends have even shown […]
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Jobber fixes on $100M as its platform for home services pros hits 200K users
Jobber, a startup founded out of Canada that’s built a platform for home services professionals to book customers and manage all of their workload around those jobs, has raised another $100 million, equity funding that it will be using to build out more tools for its users after seeing their ranks double in the last […]
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Riot prepares your team against highly sophisticated cyberattacks
French startup Riot has raised a $12 million Series A round to iterate on its all-in-one cybersecurity awareness platform for businesses and their employees. The startup originally focused on fake phishing campaigns. It now also offers customized educational content that can help grow the cybersecurity culture in your team. While it is still quite difficult […]
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VC Mark Crane explains how to raise funding beyond Silicon Valley
Once upon a time, if you wanted to build a tech startup, you relocated to Silicon Valley. Full stop. While there’s no disputing SV’s place and continued prominence in the startup world, today’s early-stage founders have more geographic freedom and funding options than ever before. While that’s certainly a good thing, it’s still far from […]
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Edtech reacquaints itself with fintech
Amy Jenkins left her post at Outschool, a marketplace for live online classes for kids, when the company decided to focus more on consumers and less on the enterprise — a shift that included numerous rounds of layoffs at the richly backed education unicorn. Now, Jenkins is the COO of Meadow, a platform that aims […]
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What’s the difference between the solution and product slides in a startup’s pitch deck?
There are a thousand different ways of telling the story of a startup in a pitch deck. The order of the slides can differ, the slides you choose to include can vary, and the aspects of the pitch you focus on can vary dramatically from company to company, depending on what’s unusual about the product […]
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Moderne is building automated code remediation for complex code bases
Software today is highly complex, built on APIs, open source libraries and other common code repositories. These pieces make life easier for developers, but when anything needs updating, it can have a rippling impact across a company’s code base. And the larger that code base, the more time it will take to implement these changes, […]
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Flox raises $27M to bring Nix to more developers
Nix, the open-source tool for creating reproducible builds and deployments, is becoming increasingly popular among developers, but it’s not always the easiest service to work with. It’s maybe no surprise then that we’re now seeing a new batch of startups that aims to bring Nix to more developers by building the tooling necessary to bring […]
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New social investment platform Follow taps influencers to mirror their investment strategies
If you’d like to invest the same way that fintech influencers, including Austin Hankwitz, WOLF Financial, Breyanna Nava and Patrick Meng do, Follow can help you do that. The new social investment platform enables users to subscribe to a creator’s financial feed and set up an investment portfolio that mimics that particular person’s investment strategy. […]
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Moonhub wants to transform the way companies find job candidates using AI
Moonhub founder and CEO Nancy Xu was studying for her computer science PhD at Stanford when she had an epiphany about hiring. She believes that 90% of the candidates that are a great fit for any job opportunity are not being identified by recruiters because the tools they are using are too fixated on a […]
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Cybersecurity teams, beware: The defender’s dilemma is a lie
David J. Bianco Contributor Share on Twitter David J. Bianco is the staff security strategist on the SURGe by Splunk team. Practically every security professional has run across “the defender’s dilemma” sometime in their career. It goes like this: “Defenders have to be right every time. Attackers only need to be right once.” The idea […]
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