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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

TechCrunch

Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti , an economist; Bode Ogunlana , a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim , a data scientist; and Preston Ideh , a corporate lawyer — and in 2017, they launched a media startup to address the dearth of information and data-driven insights in the West African country. .

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Landbot closes $8M Series A for its ‘no code’ chatbot builder

TechCrunch

Since its seed it’s also increased recurrent revenues 10x — and is expecting growth to keep stepping up, fuelled by the new financing. The startup, which launched its “no code” flavor of chatbot builder back in 2017, previously relocated HQ from Valencia to Barcelona to help with recruitment. Landbot gets $2.2M

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S., AI has also begun to play a bigger role in the construction supply chain, production scheduling, labor management, insurance and financing, risk assessment etc. according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics ( Recode ).

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Cribl raises $150M to beat back rival observability tools

TechCrunch

Clint Sharp says he foresaw the observability tool market’s growth while working at Splunk, where he and colleagues Dritan Bitincka and Ledion Bitincka had to deal with moving data across different IT tools without a central point of control.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection. Most of this data is sourced directly from the business through service providers such as QuickBooks , Xero , MX , Shopify , Stripe , Google Analytics , and Crunchbase.

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Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection. Most of this data is sourced directly from the business through service providers such as QuickBooks , Xero , MX , Shopify , Stripe , Google Analytics , and Crunchbase.

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Hidden First Rounds

Ian Hathaway

Many startups in Silicon Valley and other leading startup hubs have increasingly relied on unpriced rounds (SAFEs or convertible notes) for their first or even second rounds of financing. But as today’s data pull (the October 2019 Vintage) shows, 2017 was actually an increase from 2016 (though still down compared with 2014).