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💻 Resources of the Week

In this section, you will find the best resources that we have seen in the last week. All of them help you grow your startup from 0 to 1.

🔥 How to generate $1M ARR influenced pipeline in 90 days with ABM

This 16 step-by-step guide shows actionable details to launch an ABX (Account-Based Experience) program.

🔥 5 steps to growing your audience with Claude

This playbook covers ideation, writing styles, audience-focused guides, post formats, and AI avatars to enhance engagement and content creation.

🔥 The #1 skill every executive should have

Mastering "high-low" work—balancing strategic vision with day-to-day execution—is the essential skill every executive needs to drive both immediate results and long-term growth.

🔥 How big brands can adopt challenger strategies

Embracing a mindset of innovation, focusing on customer needs, reimagining offerings, and continuously improving to stay competitive and agile can help big brands become challenger brands. 

⚙️ Founder Tool of the Week

In this section, we share one tool that helps you build your startup.

🎬 Retape

This AI-driven video platform simplifies the creation of personalized outreach videos at scale by allowing users to transform their videos into templates incorporating customizable variables tailored for individual contacts.

📕 Interesting read

What’s the secret behind Plaid’s success? Smart moves and perfect timing.

Plaid revolutionized account verification, making it faster and easier during fintech's big growth era. By walking away from a $5.3 billion Visa deal, Plaid stayed independent and seized a booming market opportunity.

With developer-friendly tools, strong bank partnerships, and new services like payments and fraud prevention, Plaid is building its future. Plaid’s story proves timing and strategy can change everything.

Read more on Plaid’s journey here.

💼 Get a Startup Job

🟢 Credo is looking for a Customer Success Manager

🟢 Field Nation looking for a Business Development Manager

🟢 Freshworks is looking for a Senior Business Development Representative

🟢 Higher Logic is looking for an Event Marketing Manager

🟢 Entertainment Benefits Group is looking for an Email Marketing Associate

🗒️ Best Startup News of the Week

 🗒️  ChatGPT now lets you schedule reminders and recurring tasks

OpenAI introduced a beta feature called "Tasks" for ChatGPT, allowing paying users to schedule reminders and recurring requests, such as daily weather updates or reminders of important dates. Available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro users, the feature is OpenAI's first step into AI agents, enabling more personalized and practical uses beyond traditional assistants like Siri or Alexa.

🗒️ A 24-year-old who exited his first company to Coinbase raises $3M for his next venture

At only 24 years old, Pryce Yebesi, who sold his first company, Utopia Labs, to Coinbase, has raised $3 million to launch his new venture, Open Ledger. The AI-driven accounting platform embeds modular tools directly into enterprise workflows, offering automation and efficiency for small businesses. With backing from Kindred Ventures and others, Open Ledger aims to transform financial operations while scaling to support one million users by year-end. 

🗒️ Google’s search market share drops below 90% for first time since 2015

Google's global search market share fell below 90% for the last three months of 2024, marking the first time since 2015. The decline was driven by regional losses, particularly in Asia, while Bing, Yandex, and Yahoo saw modest gains.

🗒️ Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming, and they'll be running Linux

Nvidia’s Project DIGITS, a $3,000 AI-powered Linux desktop running on the Grace Blackwell Superchip, is making waves as a powerful PC option beyond AI developers. Nvidia plans to broaden its reach, collaborating with MediaTek and major PC vendors like Acer and Lenovo to offer more affordable options, possibly starting at $1,000. This move highlights the growing potential for Linux-based PCs to cater to mainstream users seeking cutting-edge AI and performance capabilities.

 🗒️ Top New York VC Ben Lerer says more mid-sized VC firms are heading for failure

Top New York venture capitalist Ben Lerer, managing partner at Lerer Hippeau, predicts a growing divide in the VC landscape. According to Lerer, funding will increasingly flow to top-tier firms like Thrive and a16z, as well as smaller, specialized funds, while mid-sized firms managing a few billion dollars and lacking a clear niche may struggle to survive.

🦄 Mega Funding Rounds of the Week

 ➡️ Infinite Reality, a startup that specializes in creating AI-powered immersive experiences for 3D websites, applications, and virtual environments.

Raised: $3 billion round at a $12.25 billion valuation. The capital was provided by a single private investor whom the company declined to name.

➡️ Verdiva Bio, a company that is developing new treatments for obesity and related health issues.

Raised: $410 million Series A round co-led by Forbion and General Atlantic, with participation from RA Capital Management, Orbimed, Logos Capital, Lilly Asia Ventures, and Lyfe Capital.

➡️ Fire1, a company developing remote monitoring devices to help patients manage heart failure at home.

Raised: $120 million round co-led by Polaris Partners and Elevage Medical Technologies, with participation from Sands Capital, Longitude Capital, and previous investors including Andera Partners, Gilde Healthcare, Gimv, Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, Lightstone Ventures, Medtronic, NEA, Novo Holdings, and Seventure Partners.

➡️ Aviceda Therapeutics, a startup that develops treatments for diseases caused by chronic inflammation.

Raised: $207.5 million Series C round co-led by Omega Funds and TCGX, with participation from Enavate Sciences, Jeito Capital, Blue Owl Healthcare Opportunities, Longitude Capital, OrbiMed, Logos Capital, Marshall Wace, Catalio Capital Management, abrdn, and Digitalis Ventures.

➡️ Ouro Medicines, a startup that is developing immune reset therapies for chronic immune-mediated diseases.

Raised: $120 million Series A round co-led by TPG Life Sciences Innovations, NEA, and Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from Monograph Capital, GSK, Boyu/Zoo Capital, and LongRiver Investments.

➡️ Truveta, a startup that aggregates de-identified electronic health records from its partner healthcare providers.

Raised: $320 million round at a $1+ billion valuation. Investors included Regeneron, Illumina, and 17 health systems, including Advocate Health, CommonSpirit Health, Henry Ford Health, Northwell Health, Providence, and Trinity Health.

➡️ Innovaccer, a company that unifies patient data across various systems and care settings.

Raised: $275 million Series F round at a $3.45 billion post-money valuation. Investors included B Capital Group, Banner Health, Danaher Ventures, Generation IM, Kaiser Permanente, and M12.

➡️ Whatnot, a startup whose online platform allows people to buy and sell items.

Raised: $264 million Series E round co-led by Greycroft, DST Global, and Avra, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Durable Capital Partners, and previous investors Andreessen Horowitz, CapitalG, BOND, and Y Combinator.

➡️ XOCEAN, a startup that provides ocean data services using unmanned surface vessels to map the seabed and monitor environmental conditions.

Raised: $118.7 million round. Investors included S2G, Climate Investment, Morgan Stanley, and CC Industries.

➡️ Cera, a company that provides healthcare services in people's homes.

Raised: $150 million in debt and equity. BDT & MSD Partners and Schroders Capital co-led the round.

➡️ Geneoscopy, a company that has created an at-home stool test that detects colorectal cancer and precancerous lesions.

Raised: $105 million Series C round led by Bio-Rad Labs, with participation from Petrichor, Labcorp, Morningside Ventures, Lightchain Capital, NT Investments, Granger Management, Mercy Health, and Tri Locum Partners.

➡️ Evergreen Nephrology, a startup that works with kidney specialists to provide personalized treatment plans.

Raised: $130 million round co-led by Rubicon Founders and Oak HC/FT, with participation from K2 HealthVentures.

➡️ Tune Therapeutics, a startup that develops treatments for conditions such as hepatitis B that adjust gene activity without altering DNA sequences.

Raised: $175 million Series B round. Investors included NEA, Yosemite, Regeneron Ventures, and Hevolution Foundation.

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