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Alumni Ventures launches Women’s Fund 1

American Entrepreneurship

billion from 10,000 individual investors since its founding in 2014, the firm has funded to date over 350 companies founded or led by women of its 1300+ current portfolio companies. Data about Funding Women Founders While data analysis shows that female startup founders are very strong candidates for funding, biases in venture capital remain.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

TechCrunch

For many companies, data is their greatest asset and at the same time, their largest problem. With more data available than ever, are companies making smarter decisions?

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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

TechCrunch

With that in mind, Sesamm enables businesses to track textual data from across the web — including news portals, NGO reports and social networks — and convert this into actionable insights. Supply chain Sesamm founders Pierre Rinaldi, Sylvain Forté and Florian Aubry.

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9count, maker of Wink and new dating app Summer, scores additional funding

TechCrunch

If looking at growth metrics alone, Hofmann claims it’s the fastest-growing dating app to hit the market since Bumble arrived in 2014. To benefit from this method, 9count tests and iterates on its products using a combination of A/B testing, data analysis, and user feedback. The 9count co-founder says Summer hit the No.

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9count, maker of Wink and new dating app Summer, scores an additional $27.5M

TechCrunch

If looking at growth metrics alone, Hofmann claims it’s the fastest-growing dating app to hit the market since Bumble arrived in 2014. To benefit from this method, 9count tests and iterates on its products using a combination of A/B testing, data analysis, and user feedback. The 9count co-founder says Summer hit the No.

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Series A SaaS Startup Benchmarks for 2018

Tomasz Tunguz

But the average MRR has increased substantially from the last time I analyzed the data. First, the science of building SaaS companies is better understood today than in 2014. The usual caveats to this data analysis apply. To be fair, 22% of companies raised at $0 in ARR. That’s quite a growth rate.

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Leapfin pulls together financial info across data siloes to simplify reporting

TechCrunch

He attributed this to too much siloed data and rigid financial systems. He says that data has shown that even today, most CFOs don’t think their financial systems are flexible enough. A year after he left Zynga in 2014, he launched Leapfin to help solve this problem. Today, his company announced a $12 million Series A. “In