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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. Here’s the not-so-good news: Companies can pass the business test, but fail TDD.

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

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Then again, I’m not a developer, so I didn’t truly appreciate the value of mobile gaming, GPS and cloud storage until they’d achieved product-market fit and were integrated into my smartphone. 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence.

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3 views: How due diligence will change in 2022

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A few years ago, VCs were expected to perform extensive due diligence on startups. This compressed diligence cycles, leading to less intrusive vetting. The acceleration of venture capital and the burgeoning check sizes in the last few years has led to a decline in traditional due diligence.

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The tech jobs market is as strong as it ever was

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After the big companies conducted mega layoffs at the beginning of this year, it would be natural to think that the tech unemployment rate would skyrocket. If we think about tech jobs as purely IT, engineering and developer kinds of roles, then those jobs are definitely still in demand and less affected than you might imagine.

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Due diligence is ever more critical as the battle for cloud sovereignty intensifies

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Indeed, it puts the EU in a precarious position as well, given that 72% of the European cloud market spend was aligned with AWS, Microsoft, and Google in Q2 2022. The EU wants a fair market and a protected European cloud without compromising cloud functionality. All these issues and many more are putting U.S. legislation.

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14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies

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Last year, round sizes for climate tech startups quadrupled, with more than 600 investments totaling over $40 billion. The start of 2022 shows no signs of slowing, with more startups jumping into the fray to tackle one of humanity’s biggest challenges. What is your climate tech investment thesis in H1 2022?

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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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Last year was a good 12 months of firsts for African tech startups. 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 are slowly building a more durable capital base for African tech. billion, according to data from Partech.