Cleo Capital’s Sarah Kunst explains how to get ready to raise your next round – TechCrunch

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TechCrunch virtually sat down with venture capitalist and Cleo Capital managing director Sarah Kunst at our latest Early Stage event last week. Kunst joined us to chat about preparing for raising capital in today’s frenetic fundraising environment, digging into the gritty mechanics for the audience. Cleo Capital invests $500,000 to $1 million into early-stage startups,…

Vyrill, winner of the TC Early Stage pitch-off, helps brands discover and leverage user-generated video reviews – TechCrunch

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Vyrill helps brands discover and leverage video reviews created by authentic customers and users. The company presented its product at TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising, where it beat out nine other companies, winning the pitch-off. The judges were impressed with Vyrill’s novel approach and innovative technology around discovering and filtering relevant videos. This is…

Vyrill, winner of the TC Early Stage pitch-off, helps brands discover and leverage user-generated video reviews – TechCrunch

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Vyrill helps brands discover and leverage video reviews created by authentic customers and users. The company presented its product at TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising, where it beat out nine other companies, winning the pitch-off. The judges were impressed with Vyrill’s novel approach and innovative technology around discovering and filtering relevant videos. This is…

Software AG, StarHub and the ‘blueprint’ for carrier-led industrial private 5G

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Software AG remains set on its strategy to make mobile operators the go-to agents for private 5G in ‘vertical’ spectrum, and particularly in the Industry 4.0 space where it retains a developing crossover telecoms-and-enterprise customer base. While most of the market speculates about whether traditional telecoms carriers, which have had the cellular market to themselves…

Paytm files for $2.2 billion IPO – TechCrunch

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Digital payments giant Paytm, one of India’s most valuable startups, plans to raise up to $2.2 billion in an initial public offering, it said in draft papers submitted to the country’s market regulator on Friday. The Noida-headquartered firm — backed by Alibaba, Berkshire Hathaway, and SoftBank among others — said (PDF) it will issue new shares…