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Fintech giant Klarna raises $639M at a $45.6B valuation amid ‘massive momentum’ in the US

TechCrunch LA

Overall, Klarna is live in 20 markets, has more than 90 million global active users and more than 2 million transactions a day conducted on its platform. We’ve scaled up so massively in investments in our growth and technology, but running on a loss is very odd for us,” he told TechCrunch. “We We will get back to profitability soon.”.

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Cedars-Sinai Backs Censinet In $7.8M For Risk Management

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According to Censinet, it will use the funding round for scaling its go-to-market, and to accelerate its adoption by healthcare providers and vendors. Cedars-Sinai's participation in the funding was led by Darren Dworkin, the healthcare system's Senior Vice President and CIO. Censinet is led by founder and CEO Ed Gaudet.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Evangelism marketing is an advanced form of word of mouth marketing (WOMM), now largely replaced by Facebook and Twitter. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). What's the theme of your investments? That's why we have investments in Heal, Saucey, and FragMob.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

I kind of think LA is just LA and doesn’t need some clever marketing term. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. I know that I call them often to co-invest. That’s OK with me.

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

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David Loo: Ultimately, at the C-level, the CIO requires data metrics and intelligence, in order to compete and make decisions and take actions to further a company's agenda. The third part we're trying to help get into this is the service provider market. That's how we started. What specific problem were you seeing? So, it's quite new.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles.