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The Sales Test This Norwest Partner Gives Founders Before He’ll Invest

Crunchbase News: Data-driven reporting on private markets, startups, founders, and investors • Publié le 9 septembre 2026

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The Sales Test This Norwest Partner Gives Founders Before He’ll Invest

In an interview with Crunchbase News, Sean Jacobsohn, a partner at venture firm Norwest, discusses where he still sees openings in the crowded market for finance software, how far companies should trust AI with accounting work, why HR startups may be better off attacking the secondary products of large platforms, and why he tests a CEO's sales ability before investing.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Large Rounds For AI Infrastructure, Space Tech And Investment Management Lead

After a week of multiple billion-dollar-plus rounds, startup investors have reduced the number of zeroes on their funding checks. This past week, the largest U.S. startup funding rounds were in the hundreds of millions, topped by a $550…

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What 25,000 Startup Applications Reveal About The New Rules Of Seed-Stage Startups

The most-fundable startups prioritize a clear go-to-market strategy and test distinctive marketing channels early, treating distribution and disciplined focus as durable competitive advantages, explains guest author Aaron Golbin, a…

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Exclusive: Fintech Offers Startups Alternative To Venture Debt With A New Model To Finance Customer Acquisition Costs

Newly launched Skalar provides startups with capital to fund sales and marketing initiatives in a fairly straightforward, though somewhat unusual model which lets the startups pay it back out of the revenue generated by the customers…

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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: Floating Nuclear Power, Robot Report Cards And Voice AI For Farmers

From putting nuclear reactors on barges to grading how well AI models can control robots, this month’s crop of interesting startup deals takes AI and other emerging technologies well beyond the conventional software stack.

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A Hard Year For Software IPOs

U.S. venture-backed technology companies have secured around $90 billion in domestic public offerings this year, per Crunchbase data. That’s already the second-highest annual tally on record, and we’ve still got a few months to go.

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AI Is Creating Wealth Faster Than Financial Lives Can Adapt

AI startups are reaching massive valuations and liquidity events so quickly that young founders and employees often acquire life-changing wealth before they are prepared to manage it. Ron Honig of From-Honig Family Office, advises that the…

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Sector Snapshot: AI Takes A Growing Share Of Sales And Marketing Startup Funding

Startups across sales, marketing and customer management have raised $7.5 billion so far this year, according to Crunchbase data. The largest rounds span everything from advertising and customer data to sales software, e-commerce and…

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Y Combinator Still Busiest Startup Investor In August As Nvidia Ramps Up Its Dealmaking Pace

We ranked August’s most active startup investors across several categories, including lead backers, prolific venture dealmakers, highest spenders and seed investors, which were once again dominated by familiar names.

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