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A look at the nine teams that just presented at Pear’s latest demo day

TechCrunch

In exchange for 14 weeks of help with everything from product-market fit to the go-to-market strategy a team should employ, the startups in Pear’s accelerator program give Pear the right to invest from $500,000 to $750,000 in each team at a valuation that it caps at $10 million. . Founded in: 2020. HQ: Barcelona, Spain.

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So much fintech M&A

TechCrunch

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. But what’s the end game?

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Infinidat’s InfiniBox - What’s the Big Deal? A Better Business Model! - Part 2

Infinidat

As mentioned in Part 1 , I’ve come to learn that there are three things that differentiate Infinidat’s InfinBox from all the alternative Enterprise Storage offerings in the market while providing greater customer value: A better product. Native FC, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB support, or native Mainframe FICON support. Ken Steinhardt.

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Infinidat’s InfiniBox - What’s the Big Deal? A Better Business Model! - Part 2

Infinidat

As mentioned in Part 1 , I’ve come to learn that there are three things that differentiate Infinidat’s InfinBox from all the alternative Enterprise Storage offerings in the market while providing greater customer value: 1.) Native FC, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB support, or native Mainframe FICON support. A better product. Ken Steinhardt.