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Why Corporate VC Will Be A Critical Funding Outlet For Startups In 2025

Crunchbase News

Here are several representative examples of corporate venture investments delivering measurable success to their portfolios of startup companies: Customer base access: Google Ventures initial investment in Uber enabled seamless integration with Google Maps, boosting user access and geographical scalability Distribution networks: Intel Capital s funding (..)

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Creative adtech is on the cusp of a revolution, and VCs should take note

TechCrunch

Consider how much has been spent over the 15 years on digital advertising mechanics such as targeting, serving, measuring and verification. ” The medium is practically crying out for a creative revival that can only be sparked by scalable tech.

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Admix raises $25M Series B to scale up in-game ads, and prep for Metaverse gaming

TechCrunch

In-game advertising at scale, where advertisers can bid programmatically through traditional ad-buying platforms, rather than relying on an ad agency model, remains an enormous area, largely under-exploited. Last year we covered Adtech startup Admix’s $7 million Series A funding.

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Amagi tunes into $100M for cloud-based video content creation, monetization

TechCrunch

New Delhi-based Amagi provides cloud broadcast and targeted advertising software so that customers can create content that can be created and monetized to be distributed via broadcast TV and streaming TV platforms like The Roku Channel, Samsung TV Plus and Pluto TV.

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History of MongoDB

The Crazy Programmer

All three of them experienced relational database scalability issues when developing web applications at their company. Dwight Merriman & Kevin O’Connor made the popular advertising company online with the name DoubleClick. Both realized they were solving horizontal scalability problems again.

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Jungle Scout raises $110M, acquires Downstream Impact to help 3rd parties sell on marketplaces like Amazon

TechCrunch

Within that, advertising remains a huge and growing part of the equation. That makes it somewhat of a dark horse in the world of advertising, which up to now has been more concerned with the rise of Facebook among “new” players. You may not know the name, but Jungle Scout is quietly huge.

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5 tactics for managing paid customer acquisition during a downturn

TechCrunch

Advertising costs had risen for nearly my entire operating career, so I biased heavily toward developing scalable organic channels and building in-product growth loops. It’s important to recognize that paid advertising is arbitrage: You pay to acquire a customer for less than their value.