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Wing Venture Capital’s Fifth Annual Enterprise Tech 30 List

American Entrepreneurship

“It’s also exciting to see the profound success previous listees have achieved, from IPOs to acquisitions raising billions in follow-on rounds despite an ever-changing economic environment.” No security, fintech, or defense/aero companies were identified in early and mid-stages for the ET30 in 2023.

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Mayfield’s Arvind Gupta discusses startup fundraising during a downturn

TechCrunch

It’s just different in different economic environments, it’s never shut, so to speak. After that $150 million is in, tell me about that next stage — that’s going to require more creative business models, different go-to-market strategies that generate revenues along the way.

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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. Its Early Pay Program assumes the risk for the subcontractor invoice, freeing up cash flow and reliance on traditional and costly lending options.

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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. The pandemic has changed real estate forever,” Hobbs told TechCrunch in an email interview. Inflation and rising rents are crushing renters — and rising mortgage rates are turning even more people into renters.

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

TechCrunch

It brings to mind the AI Economist , a Salesforce-developed research environment that similarly runs millions of simulations to come up with plausible fiscal policy. Beyond pricing, Arena can ostensibly simulate things like inventory management. Image Credits: Arena.

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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.

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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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