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Exclusive: This founder, who sold his first influencer agency at 17, just raised $4.3M to automate the industry
At 11, Erik Romdhane started creating Instagram pages focused on brands, compiling content about football and interior design,…
The LinkedIn stack for founders: 7 tools worth knowing before your next fundraise
Before a founder sends a cold email, most investors have already looked them up. LinkedIn is now where…
Spotify’s initial backer leads $12.3M round for Yope to build a private alternative to Snapchat
Yope, a private photo and video sharing app from London, raised $12.3 million in a pre-Series A round…
Exclusive: Fanvue doubles ARR to $200M, targets $2B in a market it pegs at $1.3T
Fanvue, a creator monetisation platform based in London, has doubled its annual revenue run rate to $200 million…
After Trump, Musk, and bans, European founders race to build sovereign social media
European founders are building sovereign social media platforms, driven by geopolitical urgency. W and Eurosky are using open…
Seventure backs Mediads’ €3M seed as it bets premium media trust can fix broken social ad performance
Mediads, a Paris-based startup, secured €3 million in seed funding from Seventure Partners, 404 Ventures, and business angels…
AI, remote work, and the attention economy: TFN and Native Teams launch event to explore the future of the ‘human internet’
The internet could look entirely different in the coming years. As AI reshapes communication, remote work replaces offices,…
Exclusive: a16z, Accel and Kleiner Perkins’ scout funds back sisters in $3M round for kid-safe messaging app after seeing this pitch deck
A Tennessee-based startup building a safer messaging app for children has just closed a $3 million in pre-seed…
Bluesky quietly raised $100M and it’s aiming to be more than a Twitter (X) alternative
Bluesky has entered a new phase with the disclosure of a $100 million Series B round. It was…
