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Essential steps to thriving and surviving while fundraising

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He was previously a product manager at Facebook, where he arrived via the acquisition of his startup Pursuit.com, and has held roles at Dropbox, Greystripe and Trulia. From your first meeting with a VC to money in the bank, a seed round takes on average 18.5 Image Credits: DocSend’s weekly PDI metrics. Russ Heddleston.

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Leland breaks into the coaching space with a focus on careers, not classes

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If you ask John Koelliker , a former product manager at marketplaces including Uber and LinkedIn, the answer is obvious enough that he started a company. Edtech has always been in search of a magic metric , or a way to quantify the balance it strikes between outcomes, engagement and actual comprehension. Image Credits: Leland.

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Spend management space sees a large raise, and layoffs, in the same week

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Now I’m throwing it over to Mary Ann, who got the scoop on Navan’s growth metrics. For the unacquainted, Navan was initially focused on travel expense management before accelerating efforts on its general spend management offering in 2020 after its revenue literally dropped to zero when the pandemic hit.

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Credo AI launches backed by $5.5 million to help companies with ‘ethical AI’

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One of those people is Navrina Singh, a former product manager for Qualcomm, then Microsoft, who saw firsthand at Microsoft how a Twitter bot it developed in 2016 as an experiment in “conversational understanding,” was, to quote The Verge, “ taught to be a racist a **e in less than a day.”

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Layoffs spell opportunity for some fintech startups

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Kikoff is hiring for 10 roles (a mix of hybrid and remote), including senior product manager, associate product manager, senior product designers, engineers and a growth marketing manager. The consumer fintech company is focused on helping people build credit and raised $30 million in June 2021.

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Ex-Chime engineers raise $4M for B2B payments infrastructure startup Streamlined

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For de Souza, who was also a founding engineer at digital bank Chime and a product manager at Slack, the whole business payments space “has not really evolved” over the past several decades. I figured out there was a bug in the system, fixed it and wired the money. Image Credits: Streamlined.

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Check out these startups from Pear’s Demo Day (there’s usually a breakout or two in the bunch)

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Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health. to efficiently add personalization and intelligence to their products. ” Health U.

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