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How to Raise First Dollars in a Difficult Market: The Venture Perspective

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What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market? Before joining Kleiner Perkins, Case worked at Uber, where she supported the SVP of operations and helped scale the Uber Eats business to international markets. She helped lead investments in companies like Contra and Landing. .

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

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Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets. per share, a premium of around 60% over the market price. May 2012: A senior member of HP’s Autonomy unit raises concerns about Autonomy’s accounting practices.

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Bug bounty giant HackerOne lands $49M, thanks to cloud adoption boon

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The company — which mediates between hackers finding security issues and companies keen to fix them — said its recent growth was driven by a rise in zero-day vulnerabilities like the flaw in the ubiquitous open source logging platform Log4j, which put the internet on notice ahead of the December holiday.

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Jumia reports 30% growth in value of goods sold on its platform during Black Friday season this year

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E-commerce in Africa is growing fast and its potential remains enormous as more people get connected to the internet. Black Friday sales on Jumia started in 2012 and run from the first Friday of November to the end of the month. Orders made during that period rose by 39 percentage points to reach 4.3

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YC-backed Deskimo, an on-demand coworking space app, launches in Singapore and Hong Kong

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Its on-demand booking app is currently available in Singapore and Hong Kong, with plans to enter more markets after Demo Day. Its founders are former Rocket Internet executives who say that their main competition aren’t spaces like WeWork or other hot desk booking apps.

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Fintechs in Africa continue to overshadow all other startups in funding gained

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Fintechs dominated the fundraising, accounting for nearly $3 billion, or two thirds of all the investment realized by startups across the continent last year, a report by markets insights firm Briter Bridges shows. Many more lending apps have since emerged in the market including Silicon Valley backed Tala and Branch.

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Indian logistics startup Xpressbees raises $110 million

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Xpressbees, an Indian logistics firm that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, said on Monday it has raised $110 million in a new financing round as online shopping booms in the world’s second largest internet market. Xpressbees started its journey within FirstCry, an e-commerce for baby products, in 2012.

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