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Honor Technology Closes $370 Million in Financing, Plans to Triple its Engineering and Product…

Austin Startup

the world’s largest senior care network and technology platform which recently acquired global home care provider Home Instead , today announced it has raised $70 million in Series E funding and $300 million in debt financing. Honor Technology, Inc. , ultimately increasing the ability of Honor and Home Instead to meet rapidly growing demand.

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

Both Sides of the Table

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. Either would be fine with startups, so long as they can easily change their valuation. Photo credit: D. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media. When I’m in, I’m in.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. This happens slowly because while public markets trade daily and prices then adjust instantly, private markets don’t get reset until follow-on financing rounds happen which can take 6–24 months.

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Austin A-List Entry Deadline: April 8

Austin Startup

Central Texas startups should enter the Austin A-List Competition before the April 8 deadline The Forrest Four-Cast: March 25, 2019 50 of the world’s top startups came to Austin for SXSW 2019. Click here to enter your startup for this competition. There is no entry fee to be part of the 2019 Austin A-List Awards.

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Capital?

Austin Startup

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. My primary mission was to learn from the impressive entrepreneurial ecosystem in Austin and draw lessons for developing the entrepreneurship education program for Beetroot Academy. However, prices are rocketing.

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DISCO Raises $40 Million More in Debt Financing

SiliconHills

DISCO, the legal tech startup, announced Thursday that it has raised an additional $40 million in debt financing from Comerica. In October, Austin-based DISCO announced it had raised $60 million in equity funding. The post DISCO Raises $40 Million More in Debt Financing appeared first on SiliconHills. That […].

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How the COVID-Preneur Led to a Micro Business Renaissance

Austin Startup

In fact, our team at Austin-based ZenBusiness , a one-stop-shop to form, run and grow a business, recently announced that more than 100,000 micro businesses have been formed using the platform since the onset of the pandemic?