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Hello, and welcome to a new week. Haje is off today, so it's just me and you going through the day's biggest stories. Let's hit it! — Christine | | Image Credits: Richard Drury / Getty Images | | |
The TechCrunch Top 3 - Price cut in aisle five: Invesco cuts Indian food delivery giant Swiggy's valuation to $5.5 billion. In October, the valuation was cut to $8 billion. Manish writes, "The recent valuation reductions bring a fresh perspective to the effects of waning global market conditions on Indian startups"; where funding was down, valuations didn't follow.
- Bet paid off: Qualcomm acquires Autotalks, reportedly for $350 million to $400 million, to boost Snapdragon's automotive safety technology. Ingrid writes that this deal didn't come as much of a surprise, noting, "In the world of advanced automotive technology, safety has become one of the most important issues, but also one of the most lucrative opportunities, in the building of autonomous and driver-assisted systems."
- Don't blink or you'll miss it: Ingrid also wrote about Go1, which acquired Blinkist, a speed reading app, with plans to expand enterprise learning.
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Startups and VC When my husband and I bought our first house, we were eager to see builders break ground and get it built. Months later, we were still waiting in what the builder said was a municipality holdup — aka, permits weren't being issued fast enough. After reporting on PermitFlow's new $5.5 million round, I now know why this is a problem. Meanwhile, Natasha M spoke to Mayfield's Navin Chaddha about the VC firm's new $955 million fund, writing that now that the firm is bigger — and busier— "the capital will be used to ramp up the firm's investment cadence in a more realistic market. Chaddha also admits that Mayfield has missed out on a lot of opportunities because of high valuations, but that he's okay with it." Now here's four more for you: | | | |
Are you a seed-stage founder who's building a unicorn? NFX founding partner James Currier would like to save you some time: Startups that grow into billion-dollar companies have three basic forms of defensibility: - Network effects: Your product becomes more valuable as more people use it.
- Embedding: Integrate your services so deeply, customers "cannot rip them out."
- Data loops: Gather, process and act on real-time data.
"This is really only talking about world-changing, big-ass businesses with a lot of impact that could be a billion dollars or more in value," he said at TechCrunch Early Stage last month. Three more from the TC+ team: TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. You can sign up here. Use code "DC" for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! Read More | | Image Credits: Haje Kamps / TechCrunch | | |
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