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This Pipe-ing hot startup just raised $50M to be the ‘Nasdaq for revenue’

A little over one year ago, Pipe raised a $6 million seed round led by Craft Ventures to help it pursue its mission of giving SaaS companies a funding alternative outside of equity or venture debt. The buzzy startup’s goal with the money was to give SaaS companies a way to get their revenue upfront by pairing them with investors on a marketplace that pays a discounted rate for the annual value of…

Enterprise events management platform Bizzabo scores $27M Series D

Bizzabo, the brand-new York and Tel Aviv-based events management platform, has raised $27 million in successions D funding. Leading the circular is Viola Growth, along with brand-new investor Next47.

We’re also told that previous backers, including Pilot Growth, followed on. The brand-new funding brings the total raised by the company to $56 million.

Originally launched in 2012 as a networking…

@Siemens founds #next47 as separate unit for startups

News Hour:

To be effective from October 1, 2016, Siemens will set up a separate unit to foster disruptive ideas more vigorously and to accelerate the development of new technologies. The unit’s name, “next47,” plays on the fact that Siemens was founded in 1847.

Pooling its existing startup activities at next47 will enable the company to unite the best of two worlds: next47 will couple agility,…