Monthly Archives: July 2022

The right questions to ask investors when fundraising in a down market

Blair Silverberg Contributor Share on Twitter Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital, a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. More posts by this contributor 8 steps for building a financial model to calculate your fundraising needs A founder’s guide to calculating CAC and LTV the right way With…

Balance raises $56M to tip the one-click checkout scales in favor of B2B merchants

There are many companies bringing one-click checkout to the direct-to-consumer marketplace, but few are developing similar tools for the business-to-business marketplace. B2B payment volume is five times the size of business-to-consumer retail payments, yet much of those payments are not being done online. That’s where Balance comes in. The company, co-founded by former PayPal employees…

U.K. antitrust authority sees no competition concerns in music-streaming industry

Some nine months after the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) revealed it was carrying out a market study into music-streaming services, the government department has revealed it believes there is no case to answer — for now, at least. The CMA already has a pretty full plate, as it’s currently locking horns with Facebook’s…

Why this founder feels confident facing the economic downturn

Welcome to another episode of Found, the podcast where you get the stories behind the startups. This week we’re joined by Nikki Pechet who started Homebound to make home-building easier and more accessible after a wildfire ripped through Northern California and thousands of people were put on years-long waiting lists to get started building their…

A climate scientist explains the record-breaking heatwave engulfing Europe

While July 2021 was marked by devastating floods across Europe, this summer the continent is enduring a record-breaking heatwave. Many European regions have reached all-time high temperatures, resulting in the spread of wildfires. This includes the UK, where temperatures reached 40.2°C for the first time in history. To make sense of it all, we spoke…