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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

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With the cloud market maturing significantly, the company could now look at what it had and compare it to other solutions out there. We put dollars in and got services out, but couldn’t say to the board, with confidence, that we were really in control of things like compliance, security, and due diligence.”

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How to pitch me: 5 investors discuss what they’re looking for in April 2023

TechCrunch

Based on my conversations, VCs are very open to working with novices who can show that they understand the market in which they hope to compete. But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: eVTOL takes off, pivoting with agility, when to hire a lawyer

TechCrunch

In a column for TC+ , Ben Tigner, co-founder and CEO of electric aerial mobility company Overair, identified four trends that are changing how investors, entrepreneurs and the market are responding to expanding opportunities in eVTOL: An expanding competitive landscape. Mainstream attention is increasing. An emphasis on noise pollution.

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How African startups raised investments in 2020

TechCrunch

With other outlets like media publications WeeTracker and Disrupt Africa disclosing different results for the African venture capital market, we compared and contrasted their results last year. This can be attributed to an increase in seed rounds (up 88% from 2019) and bridge rounds due to shortage of cash amidst a pandemic-induced lockdown.

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On Deck tried to do it all. Now, it’s trying to do less, better

TechCrunch

On Deck told TechCrunch that Booth was unable to do a phone interview due to a family obligation today. “A The next iteration, starting September 27, ranges from an onboarding process in which founders are introduced to the community, to weekly programming on skill development and workshops.

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How Antler East Africa is building early-stage startups with experienced professionals

TechCrunch

” It helps founders build complementary co-founding teams, provides support with deep business model validation and a global platform for scaling their businesses. After six months of incubation, the firm invests in the teams they can help further. To date, Antler has invested in and helped build over 250 companies.

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Productfy raises $16M to build the ‘Shopify of embedded finance’

TechCrunch

The company claims that with its platform, developers can “configure in hours, integrate in days, and go from idea to full stack deployment in as little as three weeks.” . But Productfy, unlike many other BaaS companies, is not just focused on developers. Today, they still have to have an engineering team to do that.