Daily Crunch: Thoma Bravo buys Coupa Software for $8B, but will that price satisfy shareholders?
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Of course, we are referring to that time of year when all the startup chaos continues apace, and we are just hanging on for […]
Sydney-based Pathzero helps investors track their portfolios’ carbon emissions
Financial institutions are waiting for the SEC and other regulators to pass rules about how to disclose emissions from their portfolio companies. Until then, many are following the standard set by the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF). Pathzero helps them with a platform to exchange carbon information securely and analyze it. The Sydney, Australia-based […]
How much money should you raise for your startup?
The correct amount of money to raise for your startup is “as much as you need to hit the milestones to raise your next round of funding.” It isn’t rocket science, and yet, the vast majority of founders I talk to are very fuzzy about exactly how much money that is, and there are a […]
Private equity could be gearing up to shop for vulnerable tech companies
TechCrunch noted a week ago that an investor in Coupa was sounding the alarm that the software company might be sold to private equity for a price below what the money manager felt was fair. The plea went unanswered, with Coupa selling for a discount to what the investor had demanded as a minimum, we […]
Child Help Foundation celebrated its 12th Foundation Day on 19th November 2022
CHF, a Pan-India, non-profit organization, completed 12 successful years of serving society Mumbai, December 12: Child Help Foundation (CHF), a pan-India, non-profit organization, celebrated its 12th Foundation Day on 19th November 2022. Founded in 2010 by Mr. Rajendra Pathak, Mr. Sunil Varghese and Mr. Jugender Singh, Child Help Foundation propagates the ‘culture of giving’ with […]
MessageGears, a cloud customer engagement platform, raises $62M
Dan Roy, a former software engineer at Delta, says he witnessed firsthand the challenges companies face when making the shift from an on-premises model to a software-as-a-service business. Accucast, where he served as CTO after leaving Delta, struggled with this as it pitched software and services for email marketing. The solution, he came to believe, […]
Using the blockchain to enhance KYC processes for web3 businesses
Nimantha Siriwardana Contributor Share on Twitter Nimantha Siriwardana is the co-founder and CTO of Metacask, the marketplace for spirits-backed NFTs. Nim has over 20 years of experience in delivering technology solutions and previously worked for Goldman Sachs and Source Capital AG. There’s no way for blockchain-based businesses, financial service providers or banks to bypass Know […]
How to implement a video SEO strategy
Mark Munroe Contributor Share on Twitter Mark Munroe is a long-time SEO veteran and the creator of technical SEO monitoring tool, SEORadar. He was most recently vice president of SEO at Nuvolum. We all know that content is king when it comes to SEO. However, winning SEO strategies today demand more than just good textual […]
Nillion raises over $20 million to build new web3 infrastructure
Nillion, a web3 startup aiming to build a non-blockchain decentralized network, closed an oversubscribed round of more than $20 million, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. “Nillion is a deep technology infrastructure project,” Andrew Yeoh, the company’s founding chief marketing officer, told TechCrunch. “While blockchains decentralize finance, Nillion aims to decentralize everything else and the rest […]
White Chocolate Cherry Cranberry Cookies
White Chocolate Cherry Cranberry Cookies are the perfect holiday cookie, with velvety white chocolate, red tart cranberries, and cherries in a chewy, tender treat. Ideal for making any time of the year, you have to try them now! Plate these along with some of my favorites for a holiday plate of cookies you won’t soon […]
