Tag: Startups
Best practices for Zoom board meetings at early-stage startups
There are only 4 things a board really needs to consider Isaac Roth 11 hours Isaac Roth Contributor Issac Roth is a seasoned entrepreneur who advises founders on open-source technology and keeping communities engaged. Over this career, he’s created and sold multiple enterprise software companies and stays active as an…
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TechCrunch’s favorites from Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and workforce accelerators
Building off TechCrunch’s coverage of the recent 500 Startups demo day, we’re back today to talk about some favorites from three more accelerator classes. This time we’re digging into Techstars’ latest three accelerator classes. What follows are four favorites from the Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and “workforce development” programs. As a team…
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Robinhood’s pain is Public’s gain as VCs rush to give it more money
Public.com, a social-focused free stock trading service, is nearing the close of a Series D just two months after raising a $65 million Series C, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The San Francisco-based fintech aims to give people the ability to invest in companies using any amount of…
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Immunai raises $60M as it expands from improving immune therapies to discovering new ones, too
Just three years after its founding, biotech startup Immunai has raised $60 million in Series A funding, bringing its total raised to over $80 million. Despite its youth, Immunai has already established the largest database in the world for single cell immunity characteristics, and it has already used its machine…
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Tillit, a fintech offering buy now, pay later for B2B purchases, is closing in on investment from Sequoia
Tillit, a fintech startup that is building something akin to buy now, pay later for B2B purchases , looks set to become Sequoia’s next European investment, TechCrunch has learned. According to multiple sources, the Silicon Valley VC — which recently expanded to Europe with an office in London — is…
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How African startups raised investments in 2020
The venture capital scene in Africa has consistently grown, with an influx of capital from local and international investors reaching unprecedented heights in recent years. To understand how much growth has occurred, African startups raised a meagre $400 million in 2015 compared to the $2 billion that came into the…
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