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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

On the back of this momentum, Melio today announced a $110m funding round, rocketing the company to a valuation of $1.3b When Accel led Melio’s series B last year, we had high expectations for the company and its vision but didn’t imagine it would become one of Israel’s cloud unicorns in such a short space of time. over 190 rounds.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

In summary: Snap’s current business doesn’t justify a $20B valuation. How can one justify a $20B valuation for Snap? The product that could most likely justify Snap’s $20B valuation is Spectacles. And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further.

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Israeli startup Landscape Maps (Updated April 2021)

VC Cafe

The map showcases over 120 startups across 14 different areas of focus, including endpoint security, cloud security, threat intelligence, identity and access management, network security, zero-trust and more. billion valuation just one year from funding, or Israeli founded Deel, that recently raised $156M series C at a $1.25

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Take Five – how shut are the venture markets right now?

VC Cafe

According to new research by Pitchbook , the trickle down effect has already started in seed and series A startups with round sizes and valuations shrinking in size compared to 2021. But recently those round sizes and valuations have tumbled to about $10 million and $50 million, respectively, he said. Lemkin #????????????

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How to Optimize SaaS Development Costs

Up and Running

They were able to take their market valuation to $1.0 Use cloud backends like AWS or Azure. You can reduce your initial cost by using cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud since these platforms charge you only based upon the usage. billion just with the iOS MVP. . Do your design first.

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Meet the 32 Israeli Centaurs that reached $100M in ARR

VC Cafe

“The Centaur is a business that reaches $100 million of annual recurring revenue (ARR)—a rare breed of cloud business, part of an elite subset of the growing unicorn herd.” But becoming a Unicorn, or receiving a billion dollar valuation is no longer an indication of growth. ” Bessemer.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the 2023 Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

We now store everything on the cloud, for instance, but if we decentralize data storage and encrypt that data using blockchain, our information would not only be secure but also have novel access and analysis methods. #17- As more businesses migrate to the cloud, I expect to see a corresponding increase in the importance of cloud security.