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GUIDES Revenue Based Financing for Startups Beats Equity but Only If You Do the Math
Revenue-based financing for startups is growing fast, but most founders who take it don't fully understand how the repayment mechanics work or what it actually costs at different growth rates.Revenue-based financing for startups has moved from a niche instrument to a genuine mainstream option, with platforms like Clearco, Capchase, and Lighter Capital collectively deploying billions into software ...
Janet Harrison
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Revenue Based Financing for Startups Beats Equity but Only If You Do the Math
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AI Google Zero is here and every startup built on SEO traffic just got a hard lesson
Google AI Overviews now appear on 48% of searches and zero-click rates have climbed past 68%, gutting the SEO-driven growth models that powered a generation of startups. Here's which categories are most exposed and what the pivot to generative engine optimization actually looks like.
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Google Zero is here and every startup built on SEO traffic just got a hard lesson
Cognition buys Poke to plant its AI agent inside your text messages
Cognition, the $26 billion startup behind autonomous coding agent Devin, has acquired Poke, the only AI agent Apple officially supports inside iMessage. The deal signals a strategic pivot toward ambient consumer AI embedded in SMS rather than standalone apps, as Poke logged over 100 million message exchanges in its first three months.
HCLTech bets $1.48 billion on AI infrastructure in Odisha with Sarvam as its model partner
HCLTech announced a $1.48 billion investment to build its first AI data center in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, partnering with Indian AI unicorn Sarvam to del...
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HCLTech bets $1.48 billion on AI infrastructure in Odisha with Sarvam as its model partner
Anthropic upgrades Claude voice mode to run Opus and Sonnet while automating Gmail, Calendar, and Slack
Anthropic's July 23 update to Claude's voice mode adds Sonnet and Opus model support alongside cross-app automation across Gmail, Google Calendar, Sla...
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Anthropic upgrades Claude voice mode to run Opus and Sonnet while automating Gmail, Calendar, and Slack
Midjourney buys Co-Star to seed a consumer app empire it never needed to build before
Midjourney has acquired Co-Star, the astrology app with over 30 million users, as Bloomberg reported today, July 24. The bootstrapped AI image company...
5 min 678 reads Julian Lim
Midjourney buys Co-Star to seed a consumer app empire it never needed to build before
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