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The Extra Crunch stage is all about giving founders and operators as much strategic insight as possible, across a wide variety of startup core competencies, such as fundraising, product iteration, tech stack development, growth marketing and more. More speakers will be added to this agenda, but we couldn’t resist giving you a peek under the hood. In this session we’ll hear from experts who’ve shepherded multiple companies from the earliest to the latest fundraises.

Disrupt 2020 was an absolute banger of a conference, but we’re not ones to rest on our laurels. We have an incredible Disrupt in store for you this September 21-23, with an amazing line up of speakers across the hottest of topics, like crypto, health/biotech, SPACs, the creator economy, and the usual spread of startup […]

Winnipeg Free Press By: Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press Posted: Last Modified: 1:48 PM CDT Monday, May. 3, 2021 Save to Read Later TORONTO - A new financing deal involving plenty of star power and venture capital investors has pushed Wealthsimple's valuation to $5 billion and has its CEO anxious to build the brand even further. A Wealthsimple Trade app icon is shown on a smartphone on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jesse Johnston TORONTO - A new financing deal involvi...

Gaming infrastructure startup Pragma raises $12M from Greylock, Mark Pincus and others Pragma is building what it calls a “backend as a service,” providing ready-made infrastructure to developers of online, live service games. And it’s announcing today that it has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The round was led by David Thacker at Greylock, with participation from Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Oculus founder Nate Mitchell and Cloudera founder Amr Awadallah, along with previous investors Upfront Ventures and Advancit Capital. Amy Chang, who sold her business intelligence startup A...

Updated: 5:32 PM EDT April 6, 2021 TIFFIN, Ohio — Have you been on one of those pedal bars with friends or colleagues? It's a growing trend across the country, and one northwest Ohio company's reached a whole new gear because of it.  Dan Perry, owner of Tiffin Pedal Company, needed some work done on his old pedal bar, so he brought it to Sarka Conveyor and Automation in Tiffin. There, Sarka saw some improvements they could make to Perry's old bike, and then decided to build him a brand new one as well. "To add a few things here and there, and how we want it to drive," Perry...