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Solrise said the capital will be used to make the DeFi ecosystem more accessible to wider investor audiences. By: Tanzeel Akhtar Solrise Finance, a fund management and investment protocol based on Solana, said it raised $3.4 million in a funding round that included Alameda Research. CMS Holdings, Delphi Digital, Jump Capital, Parafi Capital, DeFi Alliance, …

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The round was led by Greenspring Associates and included Goldman Sachs. By: Ian Allison Blockdaemon, a provider of blockchain staking infrastructure, raised $28 million in a Series A round of funding that included Goldman Sachs. The fundraising round was led by Greenspring Associates and also included Coinfund, CoinShares, BlockFi, Uphold and Voyager Digital. Blockdaemon simplifies …

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Distributed Global, Coinbase Ventures and others are betting the data protocol can help lending applications attract users to NEAR. By: Danny Nelson Some of crypto’s leading venture capitalists are placing a $10.3 million bet on decentralized finance (DeFi) burgeoning on the NEAR blockchain, according to an announcement Thursday. The seed funding round in DeFi infrastructure …

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After a bit of a hiatus from posting in Q4, I’m excited to get back to writing here in 2021. I reflected a bit on the feedback I received through 2020 and thought of ways to improve the content track for the year ahead. As a result, I want to write more about the specific …

Our Investment in Tealbook – Leveraging Data to Fix Supplier Management Read More »

Yotam Yemini, fmr. CRO at Quantum Metric & VP at Turbonomic, on the importance of revenue operations Today we welcome Yotam Yemini, fmr. CRO at Quantum Metric & VP at Turbonomic, to discuss the importance of revenue operations to scaling your business. Yotam is a passionate student, builder, and coach of high-growth software companies.  He …

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Will Gen Z be a catalyst for change in financial services? Here’s what we know so far. The generation born after 1996 is unique in many ways. Generation Z, as they are known, is more racially and ethnically diverse than any preceding generation. They will be the most educated generation yet. And they are the …

Gen Z: Influencers or Followers? Read More »

When I was at FiscalNote, I often spent nights and weekends reading about go-to-market strategy. Our CEO, Tim Hwang, used to tell me that part of our jobs as entrepreneurs is to personally learn and improve as fast, or faster than the company is growing. If you can do that successfully, it’s possible to distill …

The Builder’s Book List: Lessons in Go-to-Market, Leadership, and Strategy Read More »

Jeremy Kagan, Professor of Digital Marketing Strategy at Columbia Business School, on running the first marketing experiments at your startup I’m very excited to have Jeremy Kagan with us today to talk about digital marketing strategy. Jeremy has been a Professor at Columbia Business School for over a decade teaching coursework in Digital Marketing, Strategy …

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In the wake of last week’s post, I received follow-up questions about how to approach making your first sales hire as a founder. I wrote down my thoughts on the topic a few years ago and figured it might be helpful to recirculate them in a #TBT post. It’s a bit longer than what I’ve …

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Vik Duggal, Growth Consultant, on when to ramp your go-to-market spend Vik Duggal is an engineer and business executive who is currently a full-time independent consultant and coach. He’s also a Venture Partner with NextGen Venture Partners. As a consultant, he has worked with over 50 growth stage companies helping them accelerate revenue. He actively …

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