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☆ Pitch Decks That Advertising Tech Startups Used to Raise Millions
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Business Insider | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

Check out these pitch decks that they've used to sell their vision and raise millions from private equity and VC investors. Blocking ad fraudAdtech startup Lunio, announced a $15 million Series A funding round in September 2022. In May 2022, the software-as-a-service startup raised a $30 million Series B round, led by Insight Partners. Marketing in the metaverseAnima, an augmented-reality startup, raised a $3 million funding round from investors in Janury. He raised $50 million in Series D after closing a $34 million Series C last year, bringing its total raised to $100 million.

☆ The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green breaks down big picture outlook on ad tech
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailThe Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green breaks down big picture outlook on ad techCNBC's Julia Boorstin sits down with The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green on big picture outlook on ad technology.

☆ On the other hand: Should invesotrs be concerned about widespread tech layoffs?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailOn the other hand: Should invesotrs be concerned about widespread tech layoffs? CNBC's Jon Fortt reports on the recent wave of technology layoffs.

☆ Why Southwest is still melting down
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( David Goldman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Still, Southwest canceled another 2,300 flights today, long after its rivals had resumed normal service. Here’s why is Southwest taking so long to get its operations back on track: Southwest got unlucky with the location of the storm and its timing. And outdated scheduling technology left Southwest scrambling to match crew with planes. Bad luckThe storm hit Chicago and Denver hard, where Southwest has two of its biggest hubs – Chicago Midway airport and Denver International airport. Although Southwest says it was fully staffed for the holiday weekend, illness makes adjusting to increased system stress difficult.

☆ Privacy and crypto will likely lead tech policy under split Congress as hope for passing ambitious antitrust reforms dwindles
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

After what started as a hopeful year for tech policy, the 117th Congress is about to close out its term with many key efforts tabled. That's the case with privacy legislation, where a bill proposed this year gained bipartisan support, passing out of a House committee with a near-unanimous vote. The pair blamed the bills' failure to advance on intense lobbying efforts by the tech industry against them. One prominent bipartisan bill in the Senate would put the CFTC in charge. "But the importance of tech policy issues will still be strong."

☆ The share of American homes bought with all cash reached the highest level in 8 years as people wary of high mortgage rates and a looming recession turned to hard real-estate assets instead
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Robert Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Higher mortgage rates push people to pay all cash for homes to save on interest, Redfin said. Rising interest rates and persistent inflation increased fears of a recession in 2023. Cleveland saw its share of all-cash offers grow from 32% last year to 42% in October, while Philadelphia's grew from 29% to 37%. Selma Hepp, the interim chief economist at CoreLogic, told Insider in November that mortgage rates could go as low as 5.5% by the end of next year. "For homebuyers, it's good to be aware that you can avoid paying high interest rates by paying in cash," Fairweather said.

☆ 6 predictions for Apple's growing ad business in 2023 — from ads on Apple TV+ to building and buying adtech
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Its App Store search ad business is growing at a clip and Apple has begun pitching advertisers Major League Soccer ad packages. Here's what experts think Apple might have in store for its advertising business next year, from TV ads to further privacy interventions. Prediction 2: Ads will be placed on Apple TV+Apple's 10-year, $250 million-a-season deal to broadcast Major League Soccer on Apple TV will air its first game in February 2023. It could become the key entry point for advertisers looking to reach Apple users across its portfolio of apps and services. "Apple is about to find out how difficult it is to serve TV ads," he added, referring to its MLS telecasts.

☆ Here's what a 2023 recession could mean for entrepreneurs and how they can prepare
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

If we're heading into a recession, entrepreneurs will have to prepare their businesses now. If these predictions are accurate, entrepreneurs will need to begin preparing their businesses now for the challenges ahead. Insider spoke with founders and experts to understand how a recession could affect entrepreneurs' bottom lines and the steps they could take now to prepare. Ryan Niddel, a serial entrepreneur and growth specialist, said a recession was not an ideal time to be in debt. "Even in a recession, there are market sectors that continue to do well or even, in some cases, do better," he said.

☆ These companies are flush with cash if a recession hits. Consider buying these 10 fortress stocks
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Because of this, Morgan Stanley compiled a list of fortress stocks that could situate and protect investors' portfolios for a pending recession. It offers a cash-to-enterprise value of 11.3%, with free cash flows expected to grow just 1.6% next year, before jumping to nearly 31% the year after. The company's free cash flows are forecasted to grow 20.9% next year and 11.1% the following year. Multiple semiconductor names were included in the screen, including Qualcomm , which offers cash as a percentage of enterprise value of 4.3%. The company is expected to grow free cash flows by 64% next year, but that's forecasted to slow to just 17.4% the following year.

FRANKFURT, Nov 28 (Reuters) - U.S. buyout firm Carlyle Group (CG.O) has raised more than three billion euros ($3.12 billion) for a pan-European technology fund that is taking advantage of "pockets of life" in the economy, the co-heads of Carlyle Europe Technology Partners told Reuters. Carlyle aims to invest in approximately 20-30 companies through the new fund and in most cases will buy a majority stake. It will, however, reserve about 15% of the fund for growth equity transactions, Wand and Lasocki said. The fund will write equity cheques of up to 250 million euros, resulting in deals from between 100 million euros and 500 million euros in enterprise value, they said. Targeting B2B technology businesses in Europe, Carlyle will support portfolio firms with plans to become more international, for example breaking into the U.S. market.

☆ A tech rebound may be needed for a full market recovery. These are the stocks that could lead
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The S & P 500, meanwhile, is down 15.5% this year, dragged down by the communication services and information technology sectors, along with consumer discretionary. The Nasdaq is up 6% in the fourth quarter, while the S & P 500 has surged 12% in that time. But, some investors think tech's cooperation will be needed for the market to bounce back from this bear market. "[Tech stocks] have to participate, they have to move up to get a big market move," the company's co-chief investment officer said. Tech stocks that could lead Given this backdrop, CNBC Pro searched for stocks in the Nasdaq 100 — which is made up of the 100-largest Composite stocks — that could lead tech out of its rut.

☆ Investors should brace for uncertainty after Tuesday's elections, according to RBC. Here's what they should buy if Republicans gain power or Democrats complete an upset win.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Marley Jay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Election nights and morning-afters are becoming wild times in the stock market as traders track the results race by race or county by county and assess the implications. That could continue Wednesday as it was too early to determine whether Democrats or Republicans will end up with control of the House of Representatives or the Senate. Also positive for stocks is the potential for divided government, with Democrats in control of the White House and Republicans holding at least one house of Congress. Republicans could still control Congress, but on Tuesday that wave was well short of what they, and many pundits, had expected. Dozens of races haven't been called, and it's possible that the Georgia Senate race will go to a runoff election.

☆ Streaming platform Roku's shares slump on dour holiday-quarter forecast
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nov 2 (Reuters) - Shares of Roku Inc (ROKU.O) fell more than 20% in extended trading on Wednesday after the streaming platform forecast holiday-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates as ad spending dries up. Top players including Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) and Snap Inc (SNAP.N) have warned of shrinking ad spending, which led to a broad tech sell-off in recent weeks. Roku added 2.3 million "active accounts" in the third quarter, compared with 1.3 million net additions last year. "Roku’s growth will be disrupted by a recessionary environment because advertising budgets on the whole will see cuts, while at the same time TV ad budgets continue to see migration to digital," Third Bridge analyst Jamie Lumle said. "We will continue to slow headcount and operating expense growth in response to the macro environment," Wood added.

Google has for years faced regulatory scrutiny over whether it has abused its market power in ad tech. Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai met in Washington several months ago with Sen. Mike Lee , a Utah Republican who sponsored legislation that would require a breakup of the tech giant’s advertising-technology business. Mr. Pichai’s message in opposing the bill was one that has been a common refrain for the company in the face of concerns about its dominance in the sector: Ad technology is a small part of what Google does, he said, and doesn’t make up a significant share of the company’s revenue, according to people familiar with the meeting.

☆ New York Magazine cut digital ads on abortion-related content so readers wouldn't be tracked — showing the challenges publishers face post-Roe v. Wade
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Elizabeth Pham Janowski | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Vox Media, which owns the magazine, pulled ads from the digital versions of the articles to protect readers from being tracked. Walton told Insider that Vox Media made the decision because the priority was to "provide a utility and service" to their audience. Vox Media declined to comment on the financial loss from pulling ads and removing the paywall. Shah said that in his view, Vox Media took all reasonable measures to mitigate reader privacy risks by pulling digital ads. Shah agreed that these ad products minimize opportunities for readers' data to leak out to third parties.

☆ U.S. tech giants face pressure from Europe's telcos to pay for building the internet
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Michael Bocchieri | Getty ImagesIn Europe, the battle between U.S. Big Tech companies and telecommunications firms has reached fever pitch. In May 2022, EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager said she would look into requiring Big Tech firms to pay for network costs. In South Korea, companies have similarly lobbied politicians to force "over-the-top" players like YouTube and Netflix to pay for network access. Tech companies, naturally, don't think they should pay for the privilege of sending their traffic to consumers. There's also the matter of why internet users pay their providers in the first place.

☆ New York Magazine axed digital ads on abortion-related content so readers wouldn't be tracked — and it shows the new challenges publishers face post-Roe v. Wade.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Elizabeth Pham Janowski | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

☆ See the pitch deck media company Jubilee used to raise $1.1 million
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jubilee is a media company best known for its YouTube videos about empathy. See the pitch deck that persuaded investors to bet on Jubilee and its new venture. In September, the media company Jubilee announced a $1.1 million seed-plus round, led by Strong Ventures and with the support of several angel investors. "We were really strategic to actually look for angel investors who had tech experience," Lee said. Read through 12 pages of the pitch deck Jubilee used to raise its $1.1 million seed-plus round:Note: Four slides containing confidential information were removed at Jubilee's request.

☆ Read the 12-page pitch deck that content studio Jubilee used to raise $1.1 million to expand beyond YouTube and TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Weber , which went public in August 2021 and is trading at half its offering price, is the latest example of a recent IPO to attract a bid to go private. Recent IPOs ducking for the door First, to understand why we selected these criteria, let's look at the recent deals. Kennedy Lewis' $4 per share cash offer was an 83% premium to F45's closing price ahead of the deal announcement, even though it was far below the stock's $16 IPO price. Even with the lift from the deal news, shares are only trading at less than half its $14 IPO price. Private equity company AEA Investors had a 28.4% stake in the company, and CEO Jeremy Andrus owns an 11% stake, according to FactSet.

☆ More people are going to focus on Netflix's guidance, says Wedbush's Pachter
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailMore people are going to focus on Netflix's guidance, says Wedbush's PachterMichael Pachter of Wedbush Securities and Mark Douglas of ad tech firm MNTN join 'The Exchange' to discuss Netflix ahead of this afternoon's earnings announcement. Can an ad-supported tier make a difference in the company's fortunes?

☆ Baristas in San Francisco went on strike. Their robot co-workers went right on serving
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

For three days last month, 1,000 food-service workers at SFO went on strike over wages and working conditions. For decades, robots have been replacing, or at least nudging aside, human labor. But at SFO, robot baristas didn't simply replace humans — they crossed a picket line. Cafe X robot baristas stayed on the job when food-service workers went on strike at San Francisco International Airport last month. The short version is: Every new robot per thousand human workers reduces employment by 0.2 percentage points and decreases wages by 0.42%.

☆ This market is not the dot-com crash or the financial crisis. Here's how to play it
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +21 min

The S & P 500 never really got out of control back then — and, relative to bonds, it didn't either. The Fed chairman, correctly, feared the economy was going to crash, and he would have been right. I think that's certainly how people act. I think that most participants have decided there's no hope and they are using an analogue that's 2000-2001 (dot-com bubble bursting) or even 2007 (before the financial crisis and the Great Recession). Autos have been hurt by supply chain but I think that's coming to an end.

☆ I drove a Tesla Model Y and discovered 6 reasons not to buy Elon Musk's $66,000 electric SUV
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Driving the Tesla Model Y showed me why people are so in love with Elon Musk's cars. Impressive as it may be, the Model Y SUV isn't the perfect electric SUV for everyone. Bumpy rideThe Tesla Model Y. Tim Levin/InsiderThe Model Y's firm suspension gives it the liveliness and precision of a sports car but not without sacrifice. All-digital interfaceThe Tesla Model Y. Tim Levin/InsiderThere's another double-edged sword in the Model Y: Its iPad-like, 15-inch touchscreen. Rear visibilityThe Tesla Model Y. Tim Levin/InsiderThe Model Y's slanted roof pinches its back window, impeding visibility.

Kanye West’s breakup with Gap Inc. reflects a broader trend of celebrities seeking more control over the brands they create or back. But in this instance, Mr. Shabelman said the friction between Mr. West and Gap fits into a larger development in the world of celebrity marketing. Mr. West “doesn’t need those corporations,” said Anjali S. Bal, an associate professor of marketing at Babson College. Mr. West formally notified Gap on Thursday that his Yeezy LLC fashion brand was terminating his partnership with the apparel chain. More recently, tennis champion Naomi Osaka last year began a media company called Hana Kuma in partnership with SpringHill Co., an entertainment firm co-founded by LeBron James.

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