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☆ Dating Apps Like Hinge, Tinder and Bumble Are Getting Worse - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Magdalene J. Taylor | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
“The golden age of dating apps is over,” a friend told me at a bar on Super Bowl Sunday. As we waited for our drinks, she and another friend swiped through Bumble and Hinge, hunting for new faces and likes. Across the bar were two young men: phones out, apps open, clearly doing the exact same thing. What’s lamentable here isn’t only that dating apps have become the de facto medium through which single people meet. Or maybe the apps have functionally, intentionally gotten worse, as have our romantic prospects.
Persons: ”, swiped, What’s, Cory Doctorow Organizations: Super Locations: U.S
☆ Healthcare deals are picking up as VCs finally reopen their wallets. Here's what they are betting on.
  + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Investors aren't anticipating healthcare funding to surge to anything resembling 2021 levels this year, and fewer deals could mean shutdowns for many companies running low on cash. Multiple healthcare startups have announced raises this year at Series B and beyond. Investors said there's now a higher bar for which startups get venture funding compared to 2021, however. Exits and shutdowns aheadWhile a number of biotech startups have jumped into the public markets already this year, the IPO window for healthcare startups has remained firmly shut. Still, many investors are optimistic that a few healthcare startups will test the waters later this year.
Persons: Anargha Vardhana, There's, they're, Christina Farr, haven't, Richard Drury, Scott Barclay, Shiv Rao, Vardhana, there's, Farr, Sara Choi, Ritankar Das, Supriya Jain, Jain, Barclay Organizations: Business, Insight Partners, Investors, Entrepreneurs, Wing Venture Capital, Boston Consulting Locations: orthopedics
☆ LiveRamp says it will acquire data startup Habu in $200 million deal
  + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Lauren Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Read previewPublic data company LiveRamp has agreed to acquire five-year-old startup Habu in a cash and stock deal valued at $200 million. LiveRamp CEO Scott Howe said the deal will help LiveRamp scale and grow partnerships with the cloud companies and platforms that Habu works with — like Google, Meta, and Disney. Habu will help LiveRamp expand its base of small and midsize clients. Habu's capabilities extend beyond marketing, and its clients use its technology to support applications around supply-chain data, healthcare data, and financial services data. Howe said these use cases could help LiveRamp expand its business beyond marketing to help companies manage data more broadly.
Persons: —, LiveRamp, Clark, Habu, Matt Kilmartin, Scott Howe, Howe, Vihan Sharma Organizations: Service, Business, Danone, Google, Asics, PepsiCo, Wing Venture Capital, Snowflake Ventures, Disney Locations: Kimberly
☆ Meet the contrarian VC: Why Mayfield's Navin Chaddha is writing more checks than ever before while other investors pull back
  + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Vishal Persaud | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
The longtime VC firm just announced a new $250 million seed fund focused on AI. In tough economic times, the firm's leader, Navin Chaddha, believes it's a prime time to invest. That has essentially been Navin Chaddha's mantra since he took over the reins at venture-capital stalwart Mayfield Fund in 2009. With a dedicated $250 million AI seed war chest, Mayfield is now prepared to lean in even more. "We believe that AI will emerge as our teammate and that the Gen.AI wave will create many iconic companies," Chaddha said in a press release.
Persons: Mayfield, Navin Chaddha, it's, Navin, that's, Chaddha, – who's, Forbes, –, Vijay Reddy, Reddy Organizations: VC, Mayfield Fund, Mayfield, Tiger, Insight Partners, Clear Ventures, Intel Capital, Wing Venture Locations: Bessemer, Sequoia
☆ Potential regulator challenges to Big Tech M&A may have far-reaching consequences for the tech ecosystem
  + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Paayal Zaveri | April Joyner | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
M&A deals involving large tech companies may get harder as US regulators ramp up scrutiny. If regulators increase scrutiny, it could deter other large tech companies from buying startups. More challenges to proposed tech M&A deals may also mean that the pool of potential acquirers shrinks. Of course, there are cases where a large tech company seeks to buy out a smaller, more innovative competitor because it is scared of getting displaced. ​​"There has to be the hope and dream of selling to a larger tech company some day," Sherman said.
☆ Stripe, Instacart, and Reddit valuations fare better in Fidelity's latest filings, but it's still a sobering reminder of how far the tech market has tumbled
  + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Stripe, Instacart, and Reddit fared better month-over-month in Fidelity's latest holdings report. The valuations of Stripe, Instacart, and Reddit all fared better in Fidelity's latest monthly holdings report, with Stripe seeing an over 20% bump from the previous month, according to recent filings. Although promising, the new valuations still serve as a sobering reminder of how far the tech industry has fallen from its 2021 highs. Faced with a muted welcome from the private markets, Stripe might not be the only company looking to the public markets for liquidity. But the public markets may prove more pain.
☆ We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck that edtech startup Ignite! Reading used to raise $10 million from Rethink and Citadel founder Ken Griffin
  + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
So far, Ignite says students have learned to read 2.4 times faster than before with its lesson plan. Reading, a virtual tutoring startup that helps children from grades K-8 learn how to read through targeted, one-on-one sessions with an online tutor. While other tutoring companies like Varsity Tutors and GoStudent offer online tutoring and reading assistance, Ignite! Reading focuses specifically on teaching children the processes of reading and comprehension, with a main goal of reaching 1st grade students. Reading, tutors meet with students every day one on one virtually for 15 minutes a day, with a total teaching time of 75 minutes a week.
☆ See the 12-slide presentation that a health-insurance startup used to land $58 million after its public competitors tumbled
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Angle Health wants to use tech to transform health insurance where other upstarts have failed. Angle Health raised $58 million to disrupt employer-sponsored health benefits using this pitch deck. Companies like Oscar Health, Clover Health, and Bright Health raked in investor cash on the promise that they could transform health plans with tech, and each went public in 2021 at a lofty valuation. Angle Health provided Insider with the pitch deck it used to raise $58 million in Series A funding from Portage and other investors. Here's the pitch deck Angle Health used to land a $58 million Series A.
☆ Small businesses are saving the economy from a recession, for now
  + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Data shows a boom in small businesses likely to employ workers, suggesting job growth could keep going well into the future. Small businesses have seen their openings soar, compared to larger businesses, from where they stood before the pandemic. While openings for small businesses are not as high as they were in spring 2022, there still are more openings in these kinds of businesses than big ones. Yet Swonk remains optimistic that small businesses will prevail. "Although small businesses fail at a much higher rate than any other businesses out there, I have some hope in the traction that they've already gained," she said.
☆ Small businesses are saving the economy from a recession for now
  + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Data shows a boom in small businesses likely to employ workers, suggesting job growth could keep going well into the future. Small businesses have seen their openings soar, compared to larger businesses, from where they stood before the pandemic. While openings for small businesses are not as high as they were in spring 2022, there still are more openings in these kinds of businesses than big ones. Yet Swonk remains optimistic that small businesses will prevail. "Although small businesses fail at a much higher rate than any other businesses out there, I have some hope in the traction that they've already gained," she said.
☆ Exclusive: Ex-Tiger Global partner John Curtius to raise $1 billion for new venture capital fund -source
  + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Krystal Hu | Shadia Nasralla | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Nov 30 (Reuters) - John Curtius, a former partner at investment firm Tiger Global, is in talks with institutional investors to raise $1 billion for his new venture fund Cedar Investment Management, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. The fund will focus on investing in early stage enterprise software companies in the United States and Europe, the source added, requesting anonymity while discussing private matters. If closed, the fund will likely be one of the largest new funds raised by first-time fund managers amid a slowing venture capital market. Curtius joined Tiger from Elliott Management in 2017 and had been running enterprise software investment at the prolific tech investment firm that has $125 billion in asset under management. His portfolio of tech companies includes security software SentinelOne (S.N) and unicorns such as data infrastructure firm Databricks and cybersecurity company Snyk.
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