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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. Arvind Gupta.

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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. Constrafor grabs $106M in equity, credit to finance construction subcontractors The company raised $106.3

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

TechCrunch

“Today, affordability for rentals is front-and-center in every aspect of our current economic environment. “Every major industry, from hospitality and travel to credit cards and finance, has used loyalty to reduce the cost of marketing and to increase the lifetime value of customers.

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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

2022: The Aftermath In 2022 war, inflation, rising interest rates and a tougher economic environment–one not buoyed by historically low interest rates–brought an end to the long-term bull market in assets (the “everything bubble”), including startup capital. By Q4, for every dollar of available capital there were 1.4x

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