The long-awaited re-correction of private tech startup valuations and fundraising expectations has a web3-sized asterisk next to it. While many funds are returning to more conservative check-writing, with a focus […]
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Back to news homeWhen it comes to growth marketing, ‘so much of CRO is psychological’
As the number of startups competing for attention from investors and consumers continues to swell, growth marketing has become more critical than ever. Based on the feedback we received in […]
Welcome to the it’s-so-subtle pivot season
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. As late-stage tech startups face the changing […]
Early stage Euro VC Backed brings in another €150M, and puts a heavy focus on founder events
London-based early-stage European VC fund Backed is bolstering its position by adding €75M to its Seed fund, while adding another €75M via a new follow-on fund vehicle. The ‘Backed Core […]
VC-backed DAO startups are racing to define what DAOs actually are
Amid the growth in web3, NFTs, DeFi and tokens, institutional investors are also looking at how they can leverage another crypto structure called DAOs to build a new model for […]
Why aren’t female founders getting a bigger piece of the pie? Theories abound
Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low, new data from Pitchbook shows. All-female founding teams did receive 83% more […]
Register today for DeFi and the Future of Programmable Money Summit
Yes, money makes the world go around, but touch-and-feel currency controlled by banks is so 2008. Cryptocurrency aims to be the decentralized future of finance, and that’s why we’re excited […]
More than another check, founders need activation energy
As capital continues to flood the startup market, I keep thinking about the activation energy needed to not only start a company, but remain in charge of one. This type […]
Vauban, an AngelList-like platform for VCs and angels to run and raise funds, closes $6.3m
It’s always been a slight puzzle why AngelList never really properly took off in Europe, especially when, a few years ago, there was such a dearth of funding options for […]
How one founder built the gold standard in office guest sign-in, then shifted the business for COVID
The way COVID-19 has changed the way we work comes up a lot, founders have had to pivot and innovate to build companies during lockdown but the workplace restrictions seemed […]