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Australian graphic design startup Canva raised $85 million, just five months...
On Wednesday, graphic design startup Canva announced $85 million in Series E funding led by existing investor Bond Capital.The new funding comes just five months after Canva raised a $70 million Series...
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As Big Tech doubles down on Austin, startups are moving to its cooler...
The Zebra, an insurance startup backed by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel, moved to trendy East Austin in October when it outgrew its downtown office space. High rents for office space in...
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Startup school is back in session and the rules are changing
Hello,Welcome to this week's edition of Trending, the weekly newsletter highlighting the best of BI Prime's tech coverage. I'm Alexei Oreskovic, Business Insider's West Coast Bureau Chief and Global...
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Galileo, the profitable 'best-kept secret in fintech,' is raising $77 million...
Galileo, a Utah-based payments-infrastructure-software startup, announced its first outside funding round, a $77 million Series A, on Thursday.Accel led the round for the profitable 19-year-old...
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The opioid-addiction epidemic costs $200 billion a year. These 5 digital...
To curb the opioid-addiction epidemic, startups have been jumping on the opportunity to provide greater access to different types of treatment. The startups are focused on medication-based treatment...
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Northwest Austin has historically been the Texas city's 'Silicon Valley,' and...
The tech industry has a long history in Austin, Texas, and the city largely has its northwest sector to thank for that.In the 1970s, a handful of tech companies, like IBM and Texas Instruments, set up...
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Austin is seeing a startup boom. Meet Austin's top VCs, giving Silicon Valley...
Austin, Texas, has long been a hub for sales and customer service outposts for some of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies. In recent years, the city has seen a revival of entrepreneurship, and...
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A VC best known for organic-food investments just made its first foray into...
BIGR Ventures, a Colorado-based fund that focuses on the food industry, made its first foray into the hemp and CBD space.The firm led a $3 million Series A investment round into RE Botanicals, a CBD...
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Investors say these are the 11 hottest startups from Austin's booming tech...
Austin, Texas, is becoming a tech hub in its own right, with massive tech companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google moving in with an army of well-off employees looking for better cost of living...
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Startup founders need 3 kinds of pitch decks tailored to different...
When raising venture capital, you'll need more than one version of a pitch deck.Each version will go into a different level of detail about your startup.For example, the teaser deck will include just...
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The woman who founded Maven explains how her first career taught her 2 key...
Kate Ryder is the CEO and founder of Maven Clinic, a digital-health startup that helps women and families get access to healthcare.Maven offers tools for companies to support working parents, such as...
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SoftBank is reportedly taking control of WeWork. Here's a running list of all...
SoftBank has invested hundred of millions of dollars in technology-forward companies since 2008.The company's portfolio includes acquisitions of big names like Boston Dynamics and ARM. Its most recent...
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‘The power of revelation’: Adam Neumann and Elon Musk show how startup...
Since Adam Neumann's ouster from WeWork as CEO and now board member, reporting from Business Insider and many other publications has revealed several idiosyncrasies with the former CEO and the company...
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Truebill's CEO discovered he was being charged for a monthly security service...
Truebill, a financial management app that tracks spending, subscription charges, and credit scores, announced it raised $15 million in Series B funding on Wednesday.Truebill cofounder and CEO Haroon...
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A Seattle-based machine learning startup advised by the computer scientist...
Seattle-based machine learning startup OctoML raised $3.9 million in seed financing led by Madrona Venture Group.The startup is advised by Carlos Guestrin, the computer scientist who sold his machine...
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WeWork’s co-CEOs will walk away with millions in severance payments if...
According to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday, WeWork's recently named co-CEOs Artie Minson and Sebastian Gunningham will each receive a multi-million-dollar exit package if they are removed as part of...
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This game lets you roleplay as a tech CEO, and it was way harder than expected
The Financial Times newspaper has created a game that lets you try out being CEO of a tech startup.As founder and CEO, your mission is to "balance profit and purpose," using limited resources to keep...
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LA startup Modern Animal wants to be the One Medical for pets, and Peter...
Modern Animal, a veterinary clinic startup out of Los Angeles, announced $13.5 million in seed funding on Thursday.The round was led by Founders Fund in its first foray into the red-hot petcare...
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Governance sank WeWork from the start, a VC and Stanford lecturer says....
Rob Siegel, a lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and partner at XSeed Capital, details where WeWork, and companies like it, went wrong.WeWork lacked proper governance,...
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Austin Ventures' $900 million VC fund was supposed to make the city the next...
Austin, Texas, was home to Austin Ventures, a large investment firm that, at its peak, had about $900 million in assets under management.The firm specialized in venture-capital investments in the Texas...
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