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Fundraising: Don’t Waste Time Convincing Skeptics

Austin Startup

The product is a complex AI service in an industry vertical that is large and growing fast. Didn’t make sense to him that the industry vertical had revenue anywhere near their forecast. Originally published at [link] on June 22, 2020. How could a company only six months old have $600k in revenue this month?

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2020 Accel Euroscape: Decacorn Unleashed

Cracking the Code

The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA. 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit? While the number of IPOs in 2020 is close to 2019, the average valuation has doubled compared to last year, driven in particular by the massive IPO of Snowflake, which reached a $70 billion market cap on its first trading day.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” . Source: Fundera .