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Constrafor, a construction procurement company, goes ‘SAFE’ route with new capital

TechCrunch

Ghauche and Douglas Reed started Constrafor, a SaaS construction procurement platform, to provide embedded financing and software for general contractors to manage their subcontractor workflow. That potential for additional capital gives Constrafor “scalable credit and capital for our business,” Ghauche said.

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Wing Venture Capital’s Fifth Annual Enterprise Tech 30 List

American Entrepreneurship

GenAI, Developer-and Data Stack-Focused Companies Dominate List as well as 80% of ET30 founders are Millennials Five years ago, Wing Venture Capital introduced their annual Enterprise Tech 30—a list of the most promising, private enterprise tech private companies across all stages of maturity. years median time since founding versus to 2.7

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Mayfield’s Arvind Gupta discusses startup fundraising during a downturn

TechCrunch

Now, there’s some extremely capital-intensive businesses where you need buckets of money before that traction is generated, and that becomes harder to finance in downturns. It’s just different in different economic environments, it’s never shut, so to speak. The exit value is what drives it all.

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The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021 Part 2 • 2022 From a Startup Equity Seller’s to an Equity Buyer’s Market

Angel Capital Association

This is Part 2 of a two-part examination of the state of the startup capital market during the past two years. This transformation has already led to an increased number of startup failures, a growing venture capital reset2 and 210,000 tech sector layoffs since the start of 2022. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset?

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Taking on Bilt, Stake aims to expand its cash-back rewards program for renters

TechCrunch

Co-founder and CEO Rowland Hobbs says the new capital will be put toward expanding the platform and increasing Stake’s workforce from 17 employees to 23 by the end of the year. “Today, affordability for rentals is front-and-center in every aspect of our current economic environment.

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Arena raises money from Peter Thiel and David Petraeus for its decision-making AI

TechCrunch

But that’s what startup Arena claims to do, fueled by a round of funding ($32 million) led by Initialized Capital and Goldcrest Capital along with Founders Fund, Flexport and a colorful cast of characters, including retired general David Petraeus, Peter Thiel, and Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel. Image Credits: Arena.

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What's Happening to the SaaS Market?

Tomasz Tunguz

Since I wrote “ The Correction in SaaS Company Valuations ”, SaaS company valuations have continued to fall. As a basket, SaaS companies have fallen 33% from their highs (median), wiping all the gains for the last year. And these share price decreases have been distributed across all the basket of SaaS companies.

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