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Splunk Ventures Launches With $150 Million to Fuel the Next Generation of Data Analytics
“Organizations around the world are not only racing to make faster, better decisions, they’re also hoping to turn data into business outcomes that are both cost and time effective,” Doug Merritt, Splunk president and CEO, said in a statement.
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- Investing
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- data, startups, venture capital
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Working With Data In Latin America: Challenges And Strategies
It’s important to analyze the obstacles associated with data collection in emerging economies, and what companies can do to overcome them.
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- Latin America
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- data, venture capital
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Viewpoint: Venture Financing For The Bottom 99.98% Of The Pyramid… And When You Don’t Know Where You Rank
This top-down view of the venture capitalist (VC) works for about 20/100,000 entrepreneurs. But even these 20 could keep control of the venture and of the wealth created by delaying VC – and by letting the VCs come to them, as Jan Koum of WhatsApp did.
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- Investing
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Goldman Sachs, Point72 and Others Invest $42 Million in Mexico’s Credijusto
Mexico has experienced a steady rise in startups aiming to use technology and mobile phones to sell financial services to poor and middle-class customers who do not use traditional banks.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Latin America
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LGT Acquires Impact Investor Aspada From Soros Fund
Aspada was launched in 2013 by the Soros Economic Development Fund. It also manages the portfolio of the SONG Fund, an early stage venture capital firm backed by the Soros Economic Development Fund, Omidyar Network and Google.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Yes, Your Pitch Deck is That Important: Here’s How to Get Investors’ Attention and Raise Your First $100K
Entrepreneurs often have a lot of misconceptions around fundraising when they start their business. And according to Mehak Malik, Investment Associate at Beyond Capital Fund, these misunderstandings can undermine one key element of their success: the all-important pitch deck. She discusses the questions entrepreneurs need to ask themselves before drafting a pitch deck, based on a recent series of entrepreneur workshops from Beyond Capital and ANDE.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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PayPal-Backed Money Lender Tala Raises $110M to Enter India
Tala looks at a customer’s texts and calls logs, merchant transactions, overall app usage and other behavioral data through its Android app to build their credit profile.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Venture Capital Funds Led by People of Color Face More Bias the Better They Perform, Stanford Researchers Find
In their evaluations of high-performing venture capital funds, professional investors rate white-led teams more favorably than they do black-led teams with identical credentials, a new Stanford study finds.
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- Investing
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- venture capital