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Marketing automation startup Retail Rocket nabs $24M for expansion

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Founded in 2013 by Leonid Shangin and Yakov Filippenko, the company offered services to collect customer data and leverage it to create games, texts, and tasks designed to encourage repeat business. We expect that the global e-commerce market will continue its growth at more than 10% per annum, with Latin America leading the race.”

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

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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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In freemium marketing, product analytics are the difference between conversion and confusion

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Jeremy Levy is CEO and co-founder of Indicative , a product analytics platform for product managers, marketers and data analysts. A serial entrepreneur, Jeremy co-founded Xtify, acquired by IBM in 2013, and MeetMoi, a location-based dating service sold to Match.com in 2014. More posts by this contributor.

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IFC backs Bolt with $24M to expand its transportation network in emerging markets

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Bolt , an Uber competitor that is building an international on-demand network of services to transport people, food and other items in cars, scooters and bikes across Europe and Africa, has picked up some strategic funding today to continue expanding its business in emerging markets.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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$10B is the new $1B, and we need a new framework for startup valuations

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In the past, we might have said that once a private-market company earns a $1 billion valuation, it is no longer a startup. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors). That’s about.07

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Nubank files to go public

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Since its 2013 inception, Nu has raised $2.3 Earlier this month, Business Insider reported that Nubank had turned its first-ever half-year profit in its home market. A Q4 2021 Nu IPO followed by a Q1 2022 IPO would shift a simply huge fraction of global neobank equity from the private markets into the public.

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