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Beyond Metrics – Why Human Capital is Key in Founding and Leadership Team Assessments

N2Growth Blog

Evaluating founding and leadership teams of portfolio companies and acquisition targets has become crucial for investment and operating partners. As businesses grow and adapt to shifting market demands, the strength of the leadership team often dictates a company’s ability to scale and succeed.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Pricing strategy, technical due diligence, pitch deck appendix fever

TechCrunch

.” Until you’ve conducted extensive research on your users and competitors, there’s no way to know whether your services are priced improperly. “The principles are basic, but it’s easy for founding teams to miss details that matter,” he says. Formerly a general manager at AWS, Amberflo.io

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The key to operational AI: Modern data architecture

CIO

From customer service chatbots to marketing teams analyzing call center data, the majority of enterprises—about 90% according to recent data —have begun exploring AI. This team serves as the primary point of contact when issues arise with models—the go-to experts when something isn’t working.

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VCs who want better outcomes should use data to reduce founder team risk

TechCrunch

So why aren’t they doing that when evaluating startup teams? Sixty percent of startups fail because of problems with the team. Instinct matters, but a team is too big a risk to leave to intuition. I like to think I can sense when someone has that special something and when a team has chemistry. But I am human.

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‘Knowledge-as-a-service’ platform Lynk announces collaboration with UBS

TechCrunch

The collaboration means the banking giant’s research analysts and institutional clients, including hedge funds, private equity firms and sovereign wealth funds, will have access to Lynk’s database of 840,000 experts around the world. As COVID-19 era drags on, VCs look beyond Zoom calls for due diligence and sourcing.

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Hebbia raises $30M to launch an AI-powered document search tool

TechCrunch

Hebbia , a startup developing AI-infused search tools, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures with participation from Radical Ventures. is TechCrunch’s parent company) and Raquel Urtasun, a former head of AI research at Uber. Of note, among the investors was Yahoo!

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How African startups raised investments in 2020

TechCrunch

But with the pandemic bringing in utter confusion and panic, companies downsized as investors re-strategized, and due diligence slowed during the first few months of the year. This can be attributed to an increase in seed rounds (up 88% from 2019) and bridge rounds due to shortage of cash amidst a pandemic-induced lockdown.