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Check out the pitch deck a 26-year-old founder used to get Twitter cofounder...
Online tutoring platform Scoodle has raised $760,000 in a pre-seed funding round backed by Twitter cofounder Biz Stone. The UK firm has signed up more than 100,000 tutors, students and parents...
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PITCH-DECK LIBRARY: The pitch decks that helped hot startups raise millions
Billions of dollars are invested in startups every year.Whether a startup seeks to raise money from angel investors, venture-capital firms, or other backers, the presentation — or "pitch"— about the...
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A founder whose startup was acquired by Cisco for $3.7 billion reveals the...
Startup acquisitions aren't a black-and-white issue.Jyoti Bansal, the founder of AppDynamics, recommends selling some stock in your company if you need cash now, but want to retain control over your...
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HOW TO START A BUSINESS: The ultimate guides for founders on launching a...
Entrepreneurship doesn't come with a rule book, but successful founders and investors have a wealth of experience to serve as a guide. If you're planning to start your first business in 2020, these...
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Here are all the companies Airbnb has acquired to help it grow into a $31...
Since its launch in 2008, Airbnb has gone from a startup renting air matresses to a multi-billion dollar global travel company.After a wave of lukewarm receptions for tech IPOs last year, Airbnb...
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Meet EQRx, a startup that just raised $200 million to take on Big Pharma by...
Meet EQRx, a company developing new drugs that'll compete with some of the highest-priced drugs on the market at a lower price. The startup just raised $200 million from investors including GV, Arch...
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These are the top 21 clean-tech startups to watch that are set to transform...
VCs flooded the clean-tech industry with nearly $10 billion in 2019, according to PitchBook. It's the second-highest investment sum in a decade.While investors are betting big on clean tech, only five...
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The 6 most surprising and unusual takeaways from Casper's IPO filing
Mattress startup Casper filed to go public last week.Its IPO paperwork contained a few surprising takeaways about how Casper views its business and the sleep market in general.For example, the company...
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SoftBank and Zume had letter of intent in December for a funding deal that...
SoftBank's Vision Fund has been rocked by the implosion of star portfolio company WeWork and the reverberations in the venture capital industry.Among the casualties is Zume, the pizza-making robotics...
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A partner at a $1.2 billion fund told us a 'fundamental paradigm shift' is...
Few people know how much energy they use, but that's soon to change, according to Sameer Reddy, a partner at the $1.2 billion investment firm Energy Impact Partners."I think there's going to be a...
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Here are the top 14 venture-capital firms making deals in the cannabis...
Business Insider identified the top venture-capital firms making deals in the cannabis industry based on how many investments they made in 2019.The firms told us they were looking to invest in areas...
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The 9 best 'Shark Tank' products that didn't land deals but are still doing...
We love watching "Shark Tank" because it gives us a preview of the startups and products that have the most potential to make it big.As these 9 products underscore, the show's contestants don't...
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20 years before WeWork, SoftBank raised a massive fund and plowed money into...
SoftBank Vision Fund's recent investments have attracted a great deal of scrutiny in the aftermath of WeWork's failed IPO, especially after SoftBank Group reported a $6.5 billion loss in the third...
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Here are the top venture-capital firms in the cannabis industry, and where...
Business Insider identified the top venture-capital firms making deals in the cannabis industry based on how many investments they made in 2019.This is the second edition of our list of the top VC...
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AOL's cofounder is touring the country to fund startups outside Silicon...
AOL cofounder Steve Case's venture capital firm, Revolution, has been running "Rise of the Rest" bus tours since 2014. In 2017, it raised a complementary $150 million Rise of the Rest seed fund, and...
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These 11 milestones in venture capital funding will determine whether the...
"More is more" was the mantra for startups seeking funding in 2019.A new report from PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association summed up the trends that led to record deal sizes, higher...
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'They don't even plan to go public' — NYU professor Scott Galloway says...
Casper, the online mattress seller that filed for an IPO last week, would prefer to find a buyer than go public, Scott Galloway told Kara Swisher on the pair's Pivot podcast this week."They don't even...
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VC investing in cannabis surged above $2 billion in 2019, but a year-end...
Business Insider looked at how much money VCs have put into cannabis, analyzing when investments surged, when they declined, and why.Though investments declined steeply in the second half of 2019, the...
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Casper's money-losing mattress business will face a tough IPO path, and some...
Online mattress company Casper, which filed for an initial public offering last week, could find it hard to complete its IPO, business experts told Business Insider.Wall Street has soured on unicorns,...
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A top clean tech group reveals 4 major trends shaping the energy industry —...
The research firm Cleantech Group released its Global Cleantech 100 list on Thursday, which showcases the top startups in sustainable innovation.Startups in the power and energy sector account for...
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