The Motley Fool

APRIL 12, 2024

And on top of all that, you also need to manage your company's finances. There's a lot to manage, including developing products or services, keeping customers happy, and hiring the help you need. The financial side is arguably the most important part of operating a successful business. There are several mistakes many entrepreneurs make here.

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FinSMEs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

TotalEnergies (Paris:TTE) (LSE:TTE) (NYSE:TTE), a Paris, France-based multi-energy company, acquired three startups that have benefited from its TotalEnergies On acceleration program based at STATION F in Paris.

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SuperAngel.Fund

MARCH 11, 2024

Consumer startups make for better businesses than enterprise SaaS. Recently, the team at Forerunner ( Jason Bornstein Kirsten Green ), published a deep-dive on the size and impact of consumer companies in the United States. I genuinely believe this. And, as it turns out, there’s a lot of data to back this up.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 25, 2021

.” And yet the thing that makes me think this could be the new normal and not the late stages of a bubble is the dramatic increase in the number of people who are choosing to work in or form new startups. It has never been easier to start a company, build a team, and build a product. And many people are choosing to do just that.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

AOL was the first internet company to IPO, and its merger with Time Warner was the largest merger in business history (at the time). That eventually became “ Revolution ” which invests in all stages of companies: The Rise of the Rest Seed Funds, Revolution Ventures, and Revolution Growth. Rubenstein.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2023

For example, Austrian digital-education company GoStudent cut more than 10% of its workforce and pulled out of the US, The Wall Street Journal reported. At least the companies working on replacing us all one day are in good shape. So far, Europe has sold roughly $700 billion in bonds.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

These are people that didn’t make their money through a tech startup or startup investing. Some of these folks are founders and CEOs, but not at high-growth tech startups. They might not understand how a pre-revenue startup could be worth anything, let alone be valued at $5mm. Perhaps they inherited it.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. This is where you’ll find the most experienced, most ambitious, top employees.

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Entrepreneur - VC

AUGUST 4, 2023

Discover the key considerations when choosing between a startup and a big company for your career path. Expert insights and practical tips.

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FinSMEs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

SeaFund, a Bangalore, India-based investment firm, invested Rs 5 crore across five DeepTech startups. The backed startups are Redwings, Docker Vision, Swapp Design, Simatricals and Evhicle. In addition to the monetary investment, the companies will also benefit from market access and acceleration programs over the next few months.

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AltAssets

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Specialist VC investor Oxx has closed its second flagship fund at $190m to scale B2B software companies across the continent. The post Oxx boosts European software startups with $190m first appeared on AltAssets Private Equity News.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 20, 2024

The Ascent is spotlighting a few unique eco-friendly startups and small businesses that are doing good things for the planet -- while making great products! But unlike many companies, Canary Clean Products does not use plastic packaging. That's the mission of Canary Clean Products Company.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

A new startup called Roam wants to use a little-known aspect of home loans called an assumable mortgage to make buying a home more affordable. The company's site boasts potential mortgage rates that are as low as 2%. What's all this about a 2% mortgage rate? In this case, Roam's offer isn't quite as good as it sounds.

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FinSMEs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Savvas Learning Company, a Paramus, NJ-based K-12 learning solutions company, acquired Outlier.org, an edtech startup that has created a portfolio of online college-level courses. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. The acquisition will bring cinematically-produced, dual-credit online courses to high school students.

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FinSMEs

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Shiseido Company, Limited, a global beauty company, launched Shiseido Long Term Investments for the Future (LIFT) Ventures. The New York City-based limited liability company invests in innovative early-stage companies within the beauty wellness space.

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 9, 2023

a Tokyo, Japan-based mobile entertainment company, is to begin investment activities into startups in India. billion JPY) in startups developing 2C (to-consumer) services, mainly in the entertainment industry in India, to create synergies with portfolio companies. Mixi, Inc., the firm will invest 50 million USD (around 7.5

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Insight Partners

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Early stages of the venture-backed startup lifecycle can be daunting. Companies that graduate from this phase of the lifecycle to growth-stage ScaleUp have always been a rare breed, but with the current market backdrop and venture dollars that are difficult to come by, those companies are rarer than ever. How did they find you?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Now you want to take that skillset over to the startup world and you’ve got a lot to offer. You can bring some serious business chops to a company that is going up and to the right but needs to take it to the next level. As investors, we do make these introductions to companies, but we do it with people that we can vouch for.

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 29, 2023

Toyota has launched Toyota Open Labs, a new open innovation platform bringing together startups with business units across the Toyota ecosystem to help them scale up and develop future sustainability and mobility solutions.

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FinSMEs

JULY 16, 2023

XLerateHealth (XLH), a healthcare accelerator headquartered in Louisville, KY, with a second location in Flint, MI, selected eight startup companies to participate in the 2023 flagship accelerator program.

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MARCH 18, 2019

Across the world, various economic development organizations, government agencies, and non-profits are putting in admirable and well-intentioned efforts to develop startup ecosystems. Everyone is excited when a new company gets funded in their ecosystem, but no one spends much time thinking about where the money comes from to fund that deal.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Of the 229 fledgling companies in the latest batch of start-ups to earn backing from famed accelerator Y Combinator, 138 are self-billed as working in artificial intelligence or machine learning. Who, What, Where, When, and Y Twice a year, Y Combinator brings a new class of baby companies into its fold, offering funding and guidance.

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FinSMEs

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

inDrive, a Mountain View, California, USA-based global mobility and urban services platform, launched a new venture and M&A arm aiming to invest up to $100m in promising startups. The new unit is dedicated to help investee and acquired companies scale quickly across inDrive’s platform.

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 17, 2023

-based global cyber foundry that invests in and co-builds next-generation cybersecurity and data science companies, opened its call for applications for the 2023 Cybersecurity Startup Challenge. The competition identifies pre-series A, technology startups with a vision to disrupt cybersecurity and data science.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 9, 2021

On Monday, a copy of Startup CXO , my friend Matt Blumberg’s new book, arrived at the USV office. ” That’s when I realized that Startup CXO is not really a book. ” That’s when I realized that Startup CXO is not really a book. I picked it up to take a quick look and thought “this a heavy book!”

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FinSMEs

JUNE 26, 2023

AI is making a big difference in tech startups, which is one area where its effects are especially clear. These fast-paced companies, often full of new ideas and eager to […] The post AI and Ari Stiegler: How Tech Startups Are Incorporating AI appeared first on FinSMEs.

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FinSMEs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The firm will use the capital to invest in Seed and Series A startups specializing in enterprise software, data and AI, cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud, and networking.

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FinSMEs

JUNE 20, 2023

its corporate venture capital arm, is expanding into the European market with plans to invest in startups in the region. The company selected London as the site of its first outpost for its quest to nurture energy transition, electrification, and decarbonization throughout Europe.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The same is true in the startup world, where there are definitely things that signal that someone is pretty unfamiliar and inexperienced with this space. But that’s the name of my company!” Yes, yes it is… but that’s also the startup equivalent of putting “MBA” after your last name on a business card. No, it’s just Apple.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The food giant is investing $100 million into Wonder Group, the food-truck-turned-regular food delivery start-up, the two companies announced on Tuesday. The plan is for the companies to work together to sell equipment and food to other businesses such as hotels, hospitals, and sports venues. That turned out to be.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

In fact, it’s why many startup folks leave the early stage world to go over to the big company side—because the benefits tend to be much better. A lot of smaller startups are complaining that it’s super difficult to recruit talent right now, but few are differentiating their offering.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

When I was in my mid-20s and had just gotten a job in venture capital, I read a piece on Alan Shugart , the larger than life founder of Seagate, one of the most successful disk drive companies. Cash is everything in a startup. And startups fail largely because they run out of cash. Over the years, I have learned what Alan meant.

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Entrepreneur - VC

JUNE 30, 2023

Oula is a new pregnancy care startup that's providing "incredible" results, while aligning the interests of insurance companies, hospitals, and patients.

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FinSMEs

JULY 26, 2023

-based venture capital firm focused on investments in breakthrough scientific startups, raised $245m for its third early-stage fund (fourth overall fund). The fund brings the venture capital firm’s total assets under management to more than $1.2

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AUGUST 30, 2020

You’re told that you can’t raise until you have a product, yet pre-product companies get funded all the time. This year, while a lot of companies have raised big rounds, there haven’t been as many super early, crazy ideas backed during the quarantine. Why does it seem like there’s an exception to every rule? What gives?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

is for those founders that are spending real money on their startups—theirs or someone else’s. The chances of the very first startup idea you have being the one is very low—and the best companies often go through several iterations. One of the reasons we build Feedback.vc What do you have to lose?

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Insight Partners

JULY 21, 2023

For an early-stage tech startup or other budding business, there’s nearly nothing more exciting than growth. When business is booming you get to really flex your muscles as a company, and run full speed ahead toward your biggest goals. So the real question isn’t “if” a company should recruit, but “how” it should recruit.

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