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Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100M on a $640M valuation

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Now a Berlin-based startup called Billie that has built a similar service — but specifically targeting B2B transactions — is seeing a lift of its own boat from that rising tide. . What is also notable about Billie’s round is that it has a very interesting mix of financial and strategic investors.

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Fund Investor Profile Series: Nicolas Biet, Partner, The Faktory Fund

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Nicolas Biet is a partner in The Faktory Fund, a private early-stage investment fund, which invests in startups developing disruptive technology that enables new products to take worldwide leadership in B2B markets primarily in the Internet of Things and Software as a Service (SaaS) startups located in BeNeLux and France.

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Which software consultants do startups love to work with?

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Outsourcing engineering has become more common in recent years, so we’re starting a new initiative to profile the software consultants who startups love to work with the most. Founders and other startup leaders, just fill out this quick survey with a few more details to help us find the right ones. Which is an advantage.”

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ManoMano raises $355 million for its home improvement e-commerce platform

TechCrunch

French startup ManoMano has raised a Series F funding round of $355 million led by Dragoneer Investment Group. In addition to France, the startup operates in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany and the U.K. and Germany in particular — they are Europe’s two biggest markets for home improvement and gardening.

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Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box raises $10.6M Series A led by Paladin Capital

TechCrunch

Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box , which emerged originally from Greece, has raised a Series A investment round of $10.6 million, led by Paladin Capital Group and joined by Osage University Partners, Brighteye Ventures and existing investors Marathon Venture Capital. It will use the funding to expand.

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Building a lean B2B startup growth stack

TechCrunch

Keith Putnam-Delaney Contributor Share on Twitter Keith Putnam-Delaney is the founder and CEO of Primer , a platform that offers hyperprecise targeting for B2B marketers. Growing a B2B business is becoming increasingly complex. A data warehouse is where you aggregate all your data to perform analyses.

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Listen Up! Why Revolution Ventures is Investing in Indianapolis-based Casted

Revolution

As a result, they lack the ability to extract valuable engagement metrics, integrate content and data with their existing marketing / CRM technology stacks, or effectively atomize and recycle their content in a highly engaging manner across marketing channels.

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