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Founders of well-funded Egyptian B2B startup Capiter fired following fraud allegations

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Last September, Egyptian startup Capiter raised $33 million in Series A funding to compete in the country’s growing B2B e-commerce and retail space. Others described a workplace with poor management and no structure and a company finding it hard to onboard merchants to its platform while running out of money simultaneously.

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Daily Crunch: Citing slow growth and desire to be ‘at the forefront of the AI era,’ Dropbox CEO lays off 500

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That’s code for “help me out over here” : Kyle reports that Replit, the web-based IDE developing a GitHub Copilot competitor, raised $100 million. On yer bike : Rebecca reports how Grubhub and Joco team up to give NYC delivery workers access to e-bikes. brands get into web3. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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UnitQ raises $30M in Accel-led round to help companies improve product quality

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The SaaS company’s goal is to give engineering, support, product ops and product management teams the ability to identify and, more importantly, fix quality issues that might be impacting customer satisfaction and retention. The startup is mostly focused on consumer companies, but also has some B2B clients.

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Extra Crunch roundup: RapidSOS EC-1, how to prep for an M&A exit, inside Genki Forest

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“It’s closed dozens of partnerships and business development deals, and with some of the biggest names in tech. The fact that Duolingo is raising its IPO price range indicates that we are more likely on the path for a strong offering than a weak one,” Alex Wilhelm notes. How does it do it?

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10 growth marketing experts share their 2022 predictions and New Year’s resolutions

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This is a quiet period for marketing: End-of-year campaigns are already underway, teams are on holiday vacations and there’s little to do until after the new year. Should marketing teams be leaning into this, or is it industry/customer-specific? Where does AI marketing fall on your list of priorities for 2022?

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Extra Crunch roundup: BNPL bonanza, scraping Toast’s S-1/A, early-stage SaaS pricing

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Runa Capital’s Asia business development manager Denis Kalinin studied data from iTjuzi, a database of Chinese venture capitalists, and found: “…Chinese funds invested around $250 billion in 2020 (three times higher than the figure reported in Crunchbase). ” Is it so bad to take money from Chinese venture funds?

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B2B Lead Generation Strategies For SaaS Companies

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SaaS lead generation in a B2B environment can be quite challenging, and SaaS marketing is famous for being very data-driven with extremely little margin of error. In this guide, we will discuss some of the most effective B2B lead generation strategies for SaaS companies, starting with the first one. Effective B2B Content Marketing.

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