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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). The closure came just three years after it launched with the goal to build software for startups to navigate fundraising, hiring, acquisition deals and collaboration with their legal team.

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10 investors discuss the no-code and low-code landscape in Q1 2022

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No-code and low-code development suites have so far been used mostly by marketers and analysts. Initially, no-code/low-code was primarily a way for non-technical builders to create (sometimes gimmicky) applications,” said Navin Chaddha, managing director at VC firm Mayfield. How much has adoption increased since?

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Ally.io rasies $50M Series C as the OKR software market stays explosive

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This morning Ally.io , a software startup with a focus on the OKR (objectives and key results, in case you’ve somehow avoided being exposed) goal-setting technique, announced that it has closed $50 million in new capital. In 2020, Gtmhub , Perdoo , WorkBoard , and Ally.io all grew in the triple digits.

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Alloy raises $4M to build out its e-commerce automation service

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Alloy Automation , a startup that was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 cohort , announced today that it has closed $5 million across two rounds, the most recent of which brought $4 million to the company in October of 2020. Per the pair, Q4 2020 was good for Alloy. Why $4 million? Finally, let’s talk growth.

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Weights & Biases raises $135M Series C to keep building MLOps software

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ML, or machine learning, is a big market today. The market that Weights & Biases plays in, then, is active these days. According to Carta data , data and analytics-focused Series C rounds since the start of 2020 have median values of $43.75 The company is now worth around $1 billion, it said in a release. and the like.

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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 investors discuss augmented reality and VR startup opportunities in 2020

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The reasons are plentiful, but all tend to circle around the idea that it’s too early for software and too expensive to try to take on Apple or Facebook on the hardware front. ” While Gigi Levy-Weiss of NFX says that the market is “sadly not happening yet,” Facebook’s Quest headsets have shown promise.

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