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Flippa raises $11M to match online asset and business buyers, sellers

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The company also offers due diligence and acquisition financing from Thrasio-owned Yardline Capital and a new service called Flippa Legal. Online retail, as a share of total retail sales , grew to 19.6% Our strategy is verification at the source, i.e. data,” Hutchison said. in 2020, up from 15.8%

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Location data analytics startup Placer.ai raises $50M Series B

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It’s been a very tough year for Placer.ai ’s core customer segments of retail and commercial real estate, to put it mildly. But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence.

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Productfy raises $16M to build the ‘Shopify of embedded finance’

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The company claims that with its platform, developers can “configure in hours, integrate in days, and go from idea to full stack deployment in as little as three weeks.” . But Productfy, unlike many other BaaS companies, is not just focused on developers. Today, they still have to have an engineering team to do that.

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Founders of well-funded Egyptian B2B startup Capiter fired following fraud allegations

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Last September, Egyptian startup Capiter raised $33 million in Series A funding to compete in the country’s growing B2B e-commerce and retail space. Another publication stated the founders had not been reporting to the board, its representatives and shareholders during on-site in-person due diligence for a potential merger. .

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Use radical objectivity to create and retain an inclusive workforce

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Recent research by McKinsey shows that organizations with the most ethnically diverse teams are 36% more likely to financially outperform those with the least. At Inbeta, we recently partnered with a prominent high-street retailer to recruit a board director and encountered in our search a prominent candidate from a working-class background.

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Daily Crunch: After buying Twitter, will Musk bite back at Apple’s in-app purchase fees?

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99 Twitter problems, and Apple might have one : It’s no secret that Elon Musk thinks Apple’s 30% IAP (“inventor assistance program” to those of us not up on tech lingo) transaction charge to developers is “a lot.” I promise you two things, you promise me two, too : Make 4 promises to hire better staff for your startup team , by Haje.

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How Antler East Africa is building early-stage startups with experienced professionals

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” It helps founders build complementary co-founding teams, provides support with deep business model validation and a global platform for scaling their businesses. After six months of incubation, the firm invests in the teams they can help further. To date, Antler has invested in and helped build over 250 companies.