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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

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Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when it’s your turn? Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. We’ve looked at the contributions of over 200,000 developers who have collectively written 4 billion lines of code.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Technical due diligence, web3’s promise, how to hire well

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“It’s still much easier to develop a Web 2.0 app simply because the ecosystem is mature and enjoys a large and thriving developer community,” says Devin Abbott, who specializes in design and development tools, React and web3 applications. 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence.

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After a record 2022, 8 investors explain why it’s ‘still just Day 1’ for Africa’s startup ecosystem

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For the first time, the sector attracted over 1,100 unique investors in 2022, which in turn resulted in a record fundraising haul of $6.5 We also have a very wide top funnel such that in 2022, we made initial contact with over 2,500 startups and ideas, and eventually only partnered with less than 1% of that top of the funnel.

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8 investors weigh in on the state of insurtech in Q3 2022

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“Short term, it might be more difficult to raise at valuations we have seen before the public market adjustment, but with a strong business model and an experienced management team that understands the market and growth KPIs, it is possible,” she said. Insurtech IPOs don’t seem to be on the cards for 2022.

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7 investors reveal what’s hot in fintech in Q1 2023

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However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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

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The 1990s: Founding myth 1990: Mike Lynch, an academic in Cambridge, England, borrows—or so the legend goes—£2,000 to start Cambridge Neurodynamics, going on to develop the software that would later give rise to Autonomy. Lynch’s lawyers will later claim that HP executives spent just six hours in conference calls with his team.

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6 investors discuss why AI is more than just a buzzword in biotech

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. “Most of the companies we have seen have an AI component to support the discovery or development processes,” Francisco Dopazo, a general partner at Humboldt Fund told TechCrunch recently. IBM sold Watson Health to private equity in 2022 after investing billions into it. We are many more above this.

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