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How to Raise First Dollars in a Difficult Market: The Venture Perspective

TechCrunch

What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market? Before joining Kleiner Perkins, Case worked at Uber, where she supported the SVP of operations and helped scale the Uber Eats business to international markets. He is also the GP of the 500 Fintech fund.

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8 cannabis investors share their outlook on the European market in H1 2022

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Another important data point that connects both regions: the black market is a competitive factor. However, things are moving on the legal side of the market — it appears medical cannabis still carries most of the momentum, and it is only accelerating. Leah Fletcher , founder and director, Arbutus Innovation Centre.

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Soci raises $120M in debt and equity to grow its marketing management platform

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“Soci became an essential partner to brands for this transformation, which led to an increased need for brands to turn to technology to manage their presence in local digital market channels.” Khoury says he was inspired to found Soci by the dearth of options for brands to manage their presence across digital marketing channels.

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CIO as enabler: Building an ecosystem of innovation partners

CIO

The reason for this shift is simple: While CIOs can often call on talented teams of internal IT professionals to deliver business solutions, no technology department can be expected to generate every innovation necessary to compete in a fast-moving digital age. White says being an enabler isn’t a straightforward role, either.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

AWS licensed their technology , rebranded it Redshift, and launched in 2012. If you looked at Redshift in 2012, there was a lot of things that favored it. It's expected that innovation shifts away from big companies to startups. The cloud market will grow to $1T/year in revenue. I'm very happy we're out of this era.

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Come hear about the opportunities in space observation at TC Sessions: Space

TechCrunch

The market for space observation is one of the few commercialized segments of the nascent industry and could be worth upwards of $8 billion by the end of the decade, according to some estimates. Peter Platzer co-founded Spire Global back in 2012 with a vision to provide satellite-powered data from any location on earth.

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Fintechs in Africa continue to overshadow all other startups in funding gained

TechCrunch

Fintechs dominated the fundraising, accounting for nearly $3 billion, or two thirds of all the investment realized by startups across the continent last year, a report by markets insights firm Briter Bridges shows. Many more lending apps have since emerged in the market including Silicon Valley backed Tala and Branch.

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