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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

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After the events of 2020, however, no doubt many already lean businesses are hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Atrium (2017-2020). Essential (2017-2020). Timing, broader marketing issues and troubling allegations of sexual misconduct were all contributing factors that stopped Essential’s big plans dead in their tracks.

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In 2020, VCs invested $428M into US-based startups every day

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Despite a pandemic that sparked a global recession, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. venture capital market in 2020 was hot, it was not newly so. But while the U.S. A first read of the data indicates that the U.S.

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M-KOPA raises $75M as it clocks 2 million customers across four African markets

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The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarantor, announced today that it has raised $75 million. In the company’s more established markets, Kenya and Uganda, customers can access the full suite of M-KOPA’s offerings.

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How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020

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Typically, pre-seed rounds are raised when the startup is still in the product development phase, yet to make revenue or discover product-market fit. While most African pre-seed investments in 2020 went to fintech, there were exceptions, including Egyptian edtech startup Zedny, which raised $1.2 “Fintech is compelling.

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7 Questions Every App Team Should Ask

In its 2020 Embedded BI Market Study, Dresner Advisory Services continues to identify the importance of embedded analytics in technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence. Which sophisticated analytics capabilities can give your application a competitive edge?

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Emotional marketing and an e-mail titan walk into a bar

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How Klaviyo used data and no-code to transform owned marketing (3,000 words/12 minutes). Marketing in 2021 is emotional and not just transactional (2,200 words/9 minutes). All Raise, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the footprint of women founders and funders, has released its annual report for 2020. All (aren’t) Raise(d).

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ZoomInfo drops $575M on Chorus.ai as AI shakes up the sales market

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Shares of ZoomInfo are unchanged in pre-market trading following the news, per Yahoo Finance data. Sales intelligence, Chorus’s market, is a hot space that uses AI to “listen” to sales conversations to help improve interactions between salespeople and customers. for $575 million.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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Monetization Monitor: Monetization Models and Pricing 2020

Tech companies must focus on how to take products to market, through effective pricing, delivery, and monetization. The COVID-19 global pandemic emphasizes the need to both protect current revenues and build a foundation that promotes growth as the economy recovers. Download this research report from Revenera to learn more.

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The Retailer’s Playbook for Customer Acquisition

The economic disruption of 2020 has left retailers facing a host of barriers to growth. We developed this guide to help retailers build a data-centric acquisition program that lowers their acquisition costs, eliminates wasteful spending, attracts high-value customers and provides a competitive advantage in a tight market.

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The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?

Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries

He’ll explain how stitching together pre-existing solutions is often the best way to bring a stable, secure product to market most quickly. March 11, 2020 11AM PST, 2PM EST, 7PM GMT. How do you help your engineers get on board with buying instead of building?