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Every Monday, the team here at Bearhug Recruiting aggregates, researches, and publishes a recap of the prior week's fundraising activity within the early and growth-stage Environmental Technology & Enterprise Software startup ecosystem. Here’s the startup funding recap from 4/15/24: 1. Archetype AI, led by Ivan Poupyrev, Dr., has raised $13m in Seed funding. 2. Cyera, led by Yotam Segev, has secured a $300 million Series C funding round at a valuation of $1.4 billion. 3. Symbolica AI, led by George Morgan, has raised $33 million in funding. 4. Cobot - Collaborative Robotics, Inc, led by Brad Porter, has raised a $100 million Series B funding round. 5. PETE Learning, led by Jacques Fu, has raised a $2 million Seed funding round. 6. MODE, Inc., led by Gaku Ueda, has raised a $8.75 million Series B funding round. 7. Oden Technologies, led by Willem Sundblad, has raised a $28.5 million Series B funding round. 8. Tabs, led by Ali Hussain, has raised a $7 million Seed funding round. 9. Captura, led by Steve Oldham, has raised a $45.3 million Series A funding round. 10. CleanFiber, led by Jonathan Strimling, has raised a $28 million Series B funding round that also includes a $31.5 million project financing facility. 11. Abre, led by James Stoffer, has raised a $24 million Series A funding round. Watch our Google NotebookLM podcast summary on YouTube here: https://lnkd.in/e4HFg5VW To get more detail on each featured startup in this and our other weekly recaps, visit: https://lnkd.in/eg2Sk8aA #startups #startuplife #startupstory #startupfunding #startuptips #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurlife #marketing #sales #technology #tech #fundraising #venturecapital #venturecapitalist #investors #founder #recruiting #hiring #career #jobhunt #jobsearch #kraigward #bearhugrecruiting #archetypeai #cyera #symbolicaai #sprinto #collaborativerobotics #petelearning #mode #odentechnologies #tabs #captura #cleanfiber #abre

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🚀 Check out last week's venture capital investment summary (our 1st of many featuring 11 companies!) spanning early & growth-stage US based Environmental Technology & Enterprise Software startups! 🎯 Every Monday (starting next week!), the team here at Bearhug Recruiting aggregates, researches, and publishes a recap of the prior week's fundraising activity within the early and growth-stage Environmental Technology & Enterprise Software startup ecosystem. 🌎 This research not only allows us to keep our finger on the pulse of the markets we serve, but also benefits others who, like us, enjoy analyzing the latest trends that signal investor confidence AND startup growth within what we believe are the most exciting and impactful segments. ❤️ We also hope the people and companies we feature enjoy both a virtual fist bump from the team at Bearhug, plus benefit from some additional free market exposure to amplify their mission. So, make sure to give each one a look! 💥 Link: https://lnkd.in/euYasxxA 👈 #archetypeai #cyera #symbolicaai #sprinto #collaborativerobotics #petelearning #mode #ogdentechnologies #tabs #captura #cleanfiber #abre #environmentaltechnology #enterprisesoftware #startupfunding #startup #entrepreneur #startuplife #entrepreneurship #startups #funding #startupnews #startupcompany #startupfounder #startupcommunity #startupsuccess #business #venturecapital #privateequity #investment #technology #vc #investing #innovation #investor #venturecapitalist #investors #entrepreneurs #angelinvestor #tech #finance #smallbusiness #success #money #founder #angelinvestors #motivation

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Welcoming Carta's Peter Walker to Above Board. In our conversation, we talk about Carta's data from over 45,000 startups and Peter shares thoughts on: Why founders should understand the VC model in order to have realistic expectations around their VC conversations How (and why) founders can better structure advisor agreements Why VC's should be ensuring that their data points are up-to-date with the market The half life of data and when to be revisiting employee equity grants https://lnkd.in/gSqe_ifa

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📣 New in Carta Total Compensation: Notional Equity Value Benchmarks Calling all later-stage companies: We heard you loud and clear. While early-stage startups may thrive on ownership percentages for equity benchmarks, you offer equity grants in dollar amounts and need your benchmarks to do the same. Introducing notional value equity benchmarks for companies with $500M+ post-money valuations. Here’s the scoop: 🔸 These benchmarks are tailored for peer groups in the $500M-$1B and $1B+ ranges. 🔸 They reflect 4-year new hire grants calculated using shares multiplied by the preferred price at grant date. 🔸 Perfect for companies where equity is all about dollar value. How to access:
 1⃣️ Go to the Benchmarks page in Carta Total Compensation
 2⃣ Select either the $500M-$1B or $1B+ peer group 3⃣ In the Equity Unit dropdown menu, choose “Notional Value” This is just the beginning—stay tuned as we integrate these benchmarks into other parts of Carta Total Compensation 👏

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New data - this time for emerging VCs! VC Fund Performance report, with data up through Q1 2024. From more than 3,000 venture firms across many categories, narrowed this analysis in a few ways to make it more impactful. Only U.S. funds are included, and all included funds are direct venture investors (as opposed to fund of funds). Funds must have been in vintage years 2017 through 2022. Each vintage year includes at least 120 underlying funds (and far more in most vintages). We believe this represents a dramatic expansion of the public data available for small VC fund performance. Note that this report does include some data from funds over $100 million as well, a traditional delineation point between emerging and established managers. 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 • 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Funds in the 2022 vintage have deployed about 43% of their committed capital at the 24 month mark, the lowest share of any analyzed vintage. Prior vintages ranged from 47%-60% after 24 months. • 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: 30.6% of companies that raised a seed round in Q1 2018 made it to Series A within two years. Only 15.4% of Q1 2022 seed startups did so in the same timeframe. • 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗣𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲: Less than 10% of 2021 funds have had any DPI after 3 years. Thanks, Credit & Kudos as always to Peter Walker . Full Repot https://lnkd.in/g7Fy33Ya #valuations #startups #fundraising #founders #Startup #innovation #entrepreneurship #kaaria #sustainability #kaariastartupvaluation #investing #networking #venturecapital #kaariagetfunded

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🚀 Exciting News from Alpha Partners! 🚀 We're thrilled to announce that our Managing Partner, Steve Brotman, has been featured in TechCrunch's latest article discussing the growing trend of pro rata rights funds. 🎉 Maintaining your stake in a winning startup is more crucial than ever. Alpha Partners is leading the charge by helping early-stage VCs secure their pro rata rights and avoid dilution. With our new fund raising over $150 million, we're committed to empowering our partners to double down on their most promising investments. 💪 Check out the full article on TechCrunch to see how Alpha Partners and other industry leaders are changing the game for seed VCs: https://lnkd.in/etVc4vsF Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to innovate and support the venture capital community! 🌟 #VentureCapital #ProRataRights #AlphaPartners #TechCrunch #StartupInvesting #VC #Innovation #EarlyStageVC #InvestmentStrategy

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In episode 13 of Private Equity Value Creation Podcast, we explore how SaaS companies can move from a VC-funded, high-burn model to a PE-focused, profitability-first mindset with Krista Morgan, General Partner at Stage Fund. Hear how Stage Fund helps struggling portcos tackle budgeting, efficiency, and growth through foundational financial work. Krista also shares insider advice on acquisitions, responsible investing, and more. Tune in to the episode on your podcast platform to hear Krista's advice --> https://lnkd.in/eZ_4Pjtk

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ICYMI: Ashby announced our Series C funding round this week. From The Wall Street Journal VC Pro:  “Ashby, a San Francisco-headquartered recruiting platform, landed $30 million in Series C funding led by Lachy Groom.” From Y Combinator: “Founded in 2018 by Benjamin Encz and co-founder Abhik Pramanik, Ashby provides a recruiting platform that scales hiring from startup to enterprise. The product serves as a foundation for workflows, powers AI functionality that improves efficiency and personalization and consolidates the full recruiter workflow into one system.” From Kyle Wiggers at TechCrunch:  “Since emerging from stealth in September 2022, Ashby’s customer base has grown to over 1,300 brands, including Quora, Ironclad, Vanta, Reddit, Inc. and Lemonade. Revenue is up 6x.” From Jay Farber of F-Prime Capital:  “This company has incredible ambition, and an insane quality and quantity of product releases to back it up. There is no doubt in my mind that this company will massively change the People function in the fullness of time. It’s no wonder they had multiple competitive term sheets — even during the hardest time to raise a growth round (or build a recruiting tech company!) in the last 15 years.” Links to full coverage in the comments.

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Finance expert Paul Mendelssohn discusses the catalysts for VC backed companies to upgrade their finance leadership, and specifically the trigger for moving from VP of finance to CFO   https://lnkd.in/erKPbhjW #finance #VC #nextgenleadership

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Every Monday, the team here at Bearhug Recruiting aggregates, researches, and publishes a recap of the prior week's fundraising activity within the early and growth-stage Environmental Technology & Enterprise Software startup ecosystem. Here’s the startup funding recap for 12/2/24 ($135.2 million raised across 7 featured companies): 1. Teleo, led by Vinay Shet, has raised $16.2 million in a Series A funding round. 2. Wherobots, led by Mo Sarwat, has raised $21.5 million in a Series A funding round. 3. Constrafor, led by Anwar Ghauche, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round and secured a $250 million credit facility. 4. /dev/agents, led by David Singleton, has raised $56 million in Seed funding at a $500 million valuation. 5. Cofactor AI, led by Adi Tantravahi, has raised $4 million in a Seed funding round. 6. PlayAI, led by Mahmoud Felfel, has raised $21 million in a Seed funding round. 7. Circleback, led by Ali Haghani, has raised $2.5 million in a Seed funding round. Watch our Google NotebookLM podcast summary on YouTube here: https://lnkd.in/ecAYT58Z To get more detail on each featured startup in this and our other weekly recaps, visit: https://lnkd.in/eg2Sk8aA #startups #startuplife #startupstory #startupfunding #startuptips #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurlife #marketing #sales #technology #tech #fundraising #venturecapital #venturecapitalist #investors #founder #recruiting #hiring #career #jobhunt #jobsearch #kraigward #bearhugrecruiting #teleo #wherobots #constrafor #devagents #cofactorai #playai #circleback

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