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How to make the math work for today’s sky-high startup valuations

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Venture capital price discipline is out the window ; venture funds are looking to make faster, earlier deals; and more unicorns were minted in the last three months than during any quarter in history. Now weeks into July, it’s increasingly clear that 2021 is shaping up to be a record-setter for venture capital investment.

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Compass files S-1, reveals $3.7B in revenue on net loss of $270M

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The company’s last fundraise was in July 2019, when Compass — a company that has built a three-sided marketplace for the real estate industry, along with a wide set of algorithms to help make it work — raised a $370 million round of funding. The company had 19,385 agents on its platform as of Dec.

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A tale of two surveys: Fintech VCs change tune on investment landscape

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What a difference a few months makes. Here we are, not even six months later, and the vibe from the responses of our latest survey — this time of eight fintech investors — is a very different one. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2021

TechCrunch

Chanje reportedly still owes “many” of its former employees months of back pay and promised bonuses, with at least four having filed suit against the startup. From the get go, Apple had made clear that the Android app would shutter that July. The fate of the iOS app and API service, however, remained fuzzy. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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Covid Data: An anomalous blip, or the new normal?

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While it can be argued that digital transformation was already underway; it’s hard to dispute that it has accelerated in recent months. A recent McKinsey survey, cited in CRN , shows that worldwide, 58 percent of customer interactions were digital as of July 2020. Read more below for expert suggestions from both industries. .

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Match Group’s background check provider Garbo ends its partnership

TechCrunch

In particular, a damning investigative report by ProPublica and Columbia Journalism Investigations published in December 2019 prompted the company to begin to better focus on user safety, which also included a 2020 investment in Noonlight to help it power new safety features inside Tinder and other dating apps.

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When a startup’s founders are pretty much its board

TechCrunch

For some context, I have been covering Pipe since it raised $6 million in a seed round led by Craft Ventures back in 2019. Its valuation was not inflated, so after raising $25 million earlier this year in a Series B round, investors clamored to offer it another $15 million earlier this month — at a 50% higher (undisclosed) valuation.

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