Thursdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look at why startups are not for everyone.
Companies
- Game maker Roblox is now valued at over $4 billion. (news.crunchbase.com)
- Grab aims to be South Asia's super-app. (techcrunch.com)
- Minute Media just raised more capital to help building its portfolio of sports and entertainment-related sites. (axios.com)
- Restaurant reservation provider Tock keeps building momentum. (techcrunch.com)
- Shogun, which helps companies build their online retail presence, just raised a Series A. (techcrunch.com)
Agritech
- Hello Tractor is like Uber for tractors. (uk.reuters.com)
- Where agtech funding went in 2019 including meat alternatives. (news.crunchbase.com)
- Tillable is Airbnb for farmland. (npr.org)
Fintech
- Unpacked five trends from the Intuit ($INTU) purchase of Credit Karma. (semilshah.com)
- Fidelity is spinning off Akoya which hopes to put an end to “screen scraping.” (wsj.com)
Startups
- Bain & Co's Global Private Equity Report 2020 has a lot on technology including the payments space. (bain.com)
- Private equity is increasingly an exit option for VC-funded startups. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- Why judging VC performance ex-post is so difficult. (medium.com)
- The secret of scaling startup teams. (tomtunguz.com)
- Reasons why you can't sell your business including "Your books are a mess." (permanentequity.com)