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Series A, B, C, D, and E Funding: How It Works

As Startups.co and Fundable founder Wil Schroter likes to says, “There’s not a lot of ‘fun’ in funding.”

Raising equity funding for your startup is a long, difficult, and often demoralizing process. However, if you’re successful, you walk away with money that will help your startup grow and become everything you hope it could become.

One of the major challenges that founders run across is that raising a round often takes more time than they expected. While a founder might know that your startup is excellent, convincing other people to invest thousands — and potentially millions — of dollars into their company is not a simple task.

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Series A, B, C, D, and E Funding: How It Works

 

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Circle has raised another $110 million — at a nearly $3 billion valuation — in one of the largest rounds yet for a crypto startup

Circle launched four years ago as a sort of “bitcoin for dummies” wallet and payments service. Since then, it has ridden the highs and lows of the bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets, expanding internationally and acquiring its own crypto exchange, Poloniex, earlier this year for around $400 million.

Now it is launching a new product aimed at addressing one of the biggest issues of the crypto world: Its instability. The company is also launching a new “USD Coin” tied to the value of the U.S. dollar.

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Circle has raised another $110 million — at a nearly $3 billion valuation — in one of the largest rounds yet for a crypto startup

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Six charts that show how to get the most out of digital investment

Huge investment is going into digital technology. Some fear this won’t boost productivity as much as the steam engine, the assembly line, or the computer did in previous waves of technical change. Others are more optimistic. New research from the World Economic Forum and Accenture suggests there’s room for hope.

Based on data from 16,000 companies using four technologies — Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, the Internet of Things, Robotics, and mobile/social media — the following trends emerged.

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Six charts that show how to get the most out of digital investment

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Robinhood rides to $5.6B valuation after raising $363M in new funding

Robinhood Markets Inc. is a mobile-based trading application that allows investors to buy and sell stocks and virtual currencies.

On Thursday said it has raised $363 million in new funding to help it expand beyond its no-fee stock trading roots to become a full-fledged consumer finance company.

The valuation of the business, which moved its headquarters from Palo Alto to Menlo Park this year, soared more than fourfold to $5.6 billion in the Series D round. The latest funding comes about a year after Robinhood was valued at $1.3 billion in a Series C round.

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Robinhood rides to $5.6B valuation after raising $363M in new funding

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SoundHound has raised a big $100M round to take on Alexa and Google Assistant

Founded in 2005, SoundHound is an audio and speech recognition company that develops sound-recognition and sound-search technologies.

As SoundHound looks to leverage its ten-plus years of experience and data to create a voice recognition tool that companies can bake into any platform, it’s raising another big $100 million round of funding to try to make its Houndify platform a third neutral option compared to Alexa and Google Assistant.

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SoundHound has raised a big $100M round to take on Alexa and Google Assistant