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Hey everyone, my team and I at Ground Up Ventures have curated a library of articles, books, tools, templates, videos, and other helpful links for startup founders. Huge props to Shlomo Genchin for running point on this. Originally built for our portfolio companies, the library includes only resources we actually use and recommend to our founders all the time. We're launching it on Product Hunt today, and it would be really awesome to get your feedback: https://lnkd.in/dhpKqtgs Also if you have suggestions for links we should add, I'd love to hear them. Thanks! :) #startup #founders #producthunt

Top 10 pre-seed to Series A funding rounds of the week: ⚫ AI ⚫ 🔶 1. Cove, a startup building an AI-powered collaboration board, raised a $6 million seed round. → Investors: Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil, Homebrew, and Adverb → Founded by: Stephen Chau, Andy Szybalski, and Mike Chu 🔶 2. Braintrust, a San Francisco startup that helps companies evaluate and improve the performance of their AI products, raised a $36 million Series A round. → Investors: Andreessen Horowitz and others → Founded by: Ankur Goyal 🔶 3. Layer Financial, a startup that offers developers tools to create apps that use blockchain technology for security, data storage, and more, raised a $6 million seed round. → Investors: 1kx, Fabric Ventures, Arrington Capital, and others → Founded by: Justin Meretab and Daniel O’Neil ⚫ Blockchain ⚫ 🔶 4. Lithios, a startup focusing on extracting lithium from brine using a method inspired by battery manufacturing, raised a $10 million seed round. → Investors: Clean Energy Ventures and others → Founded by: Mohammad A. Alkhadra ⚫ Education ⚫ 🔶 5. Revyze, a French startup that provides an education-focused app where users can create and watch short, TikTok-style videos for learning various topics, raised a $6 million seed round. → Investors: Speedinvest and others → Founded by: Guillaume Perrot, Anatole Blanc, and Florent Sciberras ⚫ Analytics ⚫ 🔶 6. Truthset, a San Francisco startup that helps businesses verify the accuracy of their consumer data, raised a $5 million Series A round. → Investors: Data Point Capital → Founded by: Scott M. McKinley 🔶 7. Lightdash, a four-year-old San Francisco startup whose open source software works with existing data models to let users create charts, reports, and dashboards without needing to write code, raised a $11 million Series A round. → Investors: Accel and others → Founded by: Hamzah Chaudhary and Oliver Laslett ⚫ Marketing ⚫ 🔶 8. Unify, a startup that helps sales, marketing, and revenue teams reach potential buyers by using AI to generate tailored outbound messages, raised a $12 million Series A. → Investors: Emergence Capital, Thrive Capital, and others → Founded by: Austin Hughes 🤝 and Connor Heggie 🔶 9. Claim, a startup whose mobile app lets users discover new brands, earn cash back on purchases, and share rewards with friends, raised a $12 million Series A round. → Investors: VMG Technology, Lightbank, Sequoia Capital and Susa Ventures → Founded by: Sam Obletz and Tap Stephenson ⚫ Videogames ⚫ 🔶 10. Loot Labs, Inc, a trading platform for video game collectibles, raised a $6 million seed round. → Investors: BITKRAFT Ventures → Founded by: Milan H. Well done to everyone! 💰 ⚜⚜ ⚜ ⚜ ⚜ PS: If you're new here, I'm Ivelina, head of content at doola and founder of EverythingStartups #startups #funding #venturecapital #fundraising

📋 PlumdaleCo.com || Web3 Industry News: " The Funding: Top VCs reveal why they invested $85 million in AI-Crypto startup Sentient…" 🟪 𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮: This funding enables Sentient to rapidly scale their operations, hire top talent, and accelerate product development. This translates to quicker market impact and strengthens their Brand presence. ⚡️Media Spotlight: The Block ↕️ Please email: [email protected] or 𝘿𝙈 us, if you have any Media Spotlight Feature/Partnership Questions today. 𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝖼𝗈𝗇𝗍𝖾𝗇𝗍 𝖾𝗑𝗉𝗋𝖾𝗌𝗌𝖾𝖽 𝗂𝗌 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝗂𝗇𝖿𝗈𝗋𝗆𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝖺𝗅 𝗉𝗎𝗋𝗉𝗈𝗌𝖾𝗌 𝗈𝗇𝗅𝗒 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗌𝗁𝗈𝗎𝗅𝖽 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝖻𝖾 𝖼𝗈𝗇𝗌𝗂𝖽𝖾𝗋𝖾𝖽 𝖿𝗂𝗇𝖺𝗇𝖼𝗂𝖺𝗅 𝖺𝖽𝗏𝗂𝖼𝖾. 💡News: https://lnkd.in/da-ViNCW

What The 2023 Looked Like for ScaleX: An Overview from ScaleX Team as highlighted in the startups.watch Year in Review report. 🚀 Highlights from ScaleX in 2023: - Co-Investment Partnerships: Co-invested with over 70 investors globally including Andreessen Horowitz, Mango Capital, Y Combinator, Accel. - Investment Milestones: 18 investments made, with 53% of portfolio companies securing follow-on investments. - Community Impact: Allocated 10% of fund profits to empower portfolio founders. - Global Reach: Hosted the ScaleX Summit, drawing over 200 attendees from 10 countries. - Finding jewels: From 3,050 startups to 5 investments in 2023 - total 18 investments. We aim to find the best founders and startups with disruptive innovation in the early stages. ScaleX believes innovations centered around artificial intelligence, robotics, cyber security, software infra, and DNA sequencing, will change how the world works and deliver outsized growth as industries transform. Discover more in the full report. Thanks to Serkan Unsal for bringing the ecosystem together. https://lnkd.in/dewEGk7M

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Interesting news in the VC world - Horowitz's company has raised 💲7.2 billion across five funds, primarily targeting late-stage tech startups. This substantial investment demonstrates a renewed confidence in the tech sector, despite recent market challenges. Key areas of focus include AI, apps, and sectors critical to national interests such as aerospace and defense. Exciting times ahead! 💥 More details here: https://lnkd.in/dzGphZQU #TechInvestment #StartupGrowth #VentureCapital #AI #Funding

Cognitiwe proudly announces the successful closure of its latest funding round, securing USD 1.05 million from a diverse group of investors, including prominent venture capital firms TechOne VC, Eleven Ventures, Flat6Labs, Domino VC, and Caucasus VC, along with support from angel investors. This marks another milestone for the innovative company specializing in Artificial Intelligence solutions for Visual Analysis. In 2021, Cognitiwe AI led an investment round with TechOne VC, StartersHub, Startup Wise Guys, and EGIAD Angels. The recent funding success highlights the company's strong market position and global reach, showcasing resilience and adaptability. #CognitiweAI #FundingSuccess #AIInnovation #VisualAnalysis #TechInvestment #VentureCapital #AngelInvestors #MilestoneAchievement #GlobalReach #ResilienceandAdaptability #TechOneVC #ElevenVentures #Flat6Labs #DominoVC #CaucasusVC #StartupWiseGuys #EGIADAngels #ArtificialIntelligence #InnovationMilestone #TechInnovation #FinancialSuccess

“The Great Venture Reset is well underway. Expect a quite different industry to emerge on the other side.” Great insights on what’s happened in startups and venture and what might be coming from Techstars CEO Maelle Gavet in her year end letter - not many people are better placed to read the market given the breath of the Techstars portfolio. #givefirst #startups #venturecapital https://lnkd.in/eNusJdh6

Funding is the lifeblood that powers startup growth, and the landscape is shifting in notable ways. 💰 Here are the latest investment trends shaping the entrepreneurial ecosystem: 🌐 While venture capital remains crucial, investors are becoming more selective and gravitating toward startups creating solutions with positive societal impact. 💡 Game-changing technologies like AI, cybersecurity, healthcare tech, and sustainability solutions are top priorities for investors looking to back transformative innovations. 💰 Alternative funding sources beyond traditional VCs are surging, including revenue-based financing, crowdfunding, corporate venture arms, and more. Understanding these funding dynamics is key for startups seeking investment and investors looking to diversify their portfolios. Get the full scoop on startup funding patterns in our must-read report: https://buff.ly/4bx5Wsw

🔋 #TodayinVC - All of the biggest deal announcements in venture capital - August 16th, 2024. Sourced from Litquidity's Exec Sum. 💰 Fundraising Announcements: - Fei-Fei Li's AI startup WorldLabs raised a $100M round at a $1B valuation led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) (TC)  - Quantum Circuits, Inc., a superconducting quantum computers startup, raised a $60M Series B led by ARCH Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, and more (PRN)  - Chaos Labs, a startup building on-chain risk management tools, raised a $55M Series A led by Haun Ventures(PRN)  - Vanilla, an estate planning software company, raised $30M in funding led by Insight Partners (BW)  - Black Forest Labs, a GenAI for images/videos, raised a $31M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (TC)  - Amount, a digital origination and decisioning SaaS platform, raised $30M from Curql (BW)  - AI code review startup CodeRabbit raised a $16M Series A led by CRV(TC)  - Intramotev, a startup developing autonomous EV trains, raised a $14M Series A led by Flybridge Capital Partners and Alpaca VC (FN)  - Consensus, an AI-powered search engine for scientific research, raised an $11.5M Series A led by Union Square Ventures (FN)  - Boosted.ai, a workflow automation startup for institutional investors, raised a $10M growth round from CIBC (BW)  - Goodfire, a startup developing tools to debug AI, raised a $7M seed round led by Lightspeed (BW)  - Software sales platform trumpet 🎺 raised a $6.4M seed round led by AlbionVC (EU) Congrats to all - what #startups do you have your eyes on? 👀 Follow Today in VC for daily #venturecapital news! 📆