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The Shrinking Series E: More Senior Startups Raise Smaller Follow-On Rounds

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Typically, when a venture-backed startup raises a follow-on round, the size of the investment and the company’s valuation go up as well. One expects a Series D round, for instance, to be larger than a Series C. Another bump usually occurs should the company secure a Series E.

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Tripledot snaps up $116M at a $1.4B valuation as casual mobile games become serious business

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In the latest development, a startup out of London called Tripledot — the company behind a popular Solitaire app, another game called Woodoku (“wood blocks meet sudoku”), and more — is today announcing that it has raised $116 million. The funding puts the London-based startup’s valuation at $1.4

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Powder and profits: the economics of ski resorts

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In Utah, Park City Mountain also priced its peak season one-day tickets at $299. It was yet another contradictory situation for an industry that’s chock-full of them. Although demand has soared to record heights, there are fewer ski resorts than there were 40 years ago and almost no opportunities to build new ones.

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Share Of Funding To App Startups Hit Lowest Point In A Decade

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companies tied to the app economy peaked as a percentage of total investment back in 2016. For one thing, many of the most seminal app companies launched over a decade ago. Meanwhile Nursa , another health care staffing platform and app, also picked up $80 million in an August Series B. Uber , for instance, picked up $3.7

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Tech Nation looks for new home as UK Gov hands tech ecosystem contract to Barclays

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After over ten years in operation, Tech Nation , the UK’s government-sanctioned ecosystem builder for UK tech startups and growth tech companies is to cease operations after losing its grant funding to a programme run by Barclays Bank Eagle Labs. Indeed, state bank Bpifrance is pumping another €500m into deeptech startups.

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Nigerian YC-backed startup Anchor comes out of stealth with $1M+ to scale its banking-as-a-service platform

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Amplify was another payment platform that launched during that period. However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquired the startup in 2019. Treasury Prime raises $20M to scale its banking-as-a-service biz.

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Clikalia clicks on $86M to expand its iBuyer marketplace across Europe and Latin America

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Companies like Opendoor opened the door to a new way of buying and selling properties by inserting a strong middle player who could buy in houses or apartments and redevelop them at scale, and then sell them to new homeowners at a profit. Both it and Fifth Wall were big backers of Opendoor, one of the pioneers in the space.