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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.

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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. The exit value is what drives it all.

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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

Aiming to compete with Bilt in the nascent property renter rewards market, Stake , a startup that provides cash back and banking services to renters, today announced that it raised $12 million in a Series A round led by RET Ventures’ new RET Ventures ESG Fund.

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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. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset? Higher litigation risks.

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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. The business had grown “profitably” up to this point.

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2024 Theory Ventures Go-to-Market Survey: Optimism Rises Amid Changing Market Dynamics

Tomasz Tunguz

Last week at SaaStr, we unveiled the results of the Theory Ventures 2024 Go-to-Market Survey. This annual survey shines some light into the state of SaaS sales & marketing, offering a glimpse into how founders & companies are navigating the current business landscape. The average outlook score has risen from 6.1 in 2022 to 6.7