Tweet SAN DIEGO, CA, BlueNalu announced the successful completion of its $20 million Series A round of funding.

The Series A round is co-led by Stray Dog Capital, CPT Capital, New Crop Capital, and Clear Current Capital, each of which participated in BlueNalu's seed round.

The strategic investors include global supply chain leaders that will provide guidance and raw material expertise to BlueNalu.

"BlueNalu has made considerable progress toward bringing cell-based seafood products to the world," said Lou Cooperhouse, president & CEO of BlueNalu.

New investors to this round include KBW Ventures, led by His Royal Highness Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582741806.8835115/BlueNalu-Secures-$20M-in-Series-A?ref=audio_experience

With more than half a million contracts under management, LinkSquares helps its hundreds of customers understand and better mitigate risks and liabilities in minutes, not months.

With LinkSquares, customers have automatically extracted more than five million unique data points on parties, contract effectiveness date and other key legal terms.

With LinkSquares, customers are tackling universal contract management problems that historically have kept their legal teams buried in countless manual tasks," said Vishal Sunak, CEO of LinkSquares.

LinkSquares has made it easy for legal teams to simplify the contract management process and harness untapped insights locked away in scanned documents.

Smart Values enable organizations to extract contract data, trends and patterns via pretrained algorithms in customized reports in approximately five minutes. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582740007.629777/LinkSquares-Secures-$14.5M-in-Series-A?ref=audio_experience

In fact, VISIT PHILADELPHIA and the James Beard Foundation have even announced a special partnership to drive foodies to the city.

Small Business Trends contacted xtraCHEF CEO and Co-Founder Andy Schwartz to learn about this product.

And why Philadelphia is a great place to launch a hospitality tech startup.

Pool of Tech TalentSchwartz explains:“My co-founder Bhavik Patel and I are both local to Philadelphia.

Philly coincidentally has a great pool of tech talent as well as an incredible food scene, with more restaurants per capita than New York City. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582738210.9720798/Why-was-Philadelphia-the-Place-to-Launch-Tech-Startup-xtraCHEF??ref=audio_experience

The best way to do that is to look at the construction ERP software, that can take the load off you and have all the data in one place (readily to be shared within diverse departments inside your construction business).

A construction ERP system will help you save timeIDC’s Information Worker Survey stated that workers were wasting up to 2,5 hours/day just searching for what they needed.

The next-generation construction ERP software is cloud-based (and most of them even have fitted mobile apps), and that makes the information readily available even when you are on holiday!

A construction ERP system will help you protect your dataYou might not be a technical person, but the next-generation construction ERP software providers will make sure that all safety measures are set properly.

Next-generation construction ERP software will help you in your daily job! | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582736508.8821812/Increasing-productivity-in-your-construction-business?ref=audio_experience

AnsweriQ last raised a funding round in 2017, when it received $5 million in a Series A round from Madrona Venture Group.

AnsweriQ, which has customers that use Freshworks and competing products, will continue to operate its existing products for the time being.

Over time, Freshworks, of course, hopes to convert many of these users into Freshworks users as well.

As for the AnsweriQ leadership team, CEO Pradeep Rathinam will be joining Freshworks as chief customer officer.

With the acquisition of AnsweriQ, it now also has a foothold in Seattle, which it plans to use to attract local talent to the company. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582734713.6585598/Freshworks-acquires-AnsweriQ-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience

These questions and more were answered by Amazon Internet Services leaders, startup founders, investors, and accelerator heads at the AWS CXO Mixer held on February 6, 2020 in Ahmedabad.

AWS has a bunch of programmes to help startups accelerate their startup journey, including AWS Marketplace, AWS Well-architected, Amazon Launchpad, Amazon Alexa Fund, AWS Activate, among others.

"It means that founders now have more opportunity to get some of that funding because VCs now have $500,000 to spread around.

Reverse pitch: VCs take the stageUsually, entrepreneurs pitch to VCs.

At the AWS event, the tables were turned, and two VCs took to the stage to pitch to startup founders. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582732805.0327377/At-AWS-Startup-CXO-Mixer-in-Ahmedabad,-established-founders-and-VCs-share-confessions-and-best-practices-for-success?ref=audio_experience

Hasura, a San Francisco, CA and Bangalore, India-based company providing data access and data flow tools and services via GraphQL APIs, raised $9.9m in Series A funding.

The company intends to use the funds to invest in engineering and product development, providing ready-made integrations with databases and other data sources, in addition to hiring across sales and marketing.

Led by Tanmai Gopal, CEO and co-founder, Hasura provides data access and data flow tools and services via GraphQL APIs.

The solution automatically generates a real-time GraphQL API using declarative metadata configuration and authorization policies that gives consumers instant use.

The enterprise product also adds GraphQL API management and governance features, including monitoring, traffic management and testing, and integrations for SSO and APM vendors. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582731009.962776/Hasura-Raises-$9.9M-in-Series-A-Funding?ref=audio_experience

Estonian company Timbeter, which is digitalising and bringing transparency to the forestry sector, has closed a seed round of approximately €920K.

Timbeter, founded in 2013, is a global industrial timber measurement, logistics and reporting platform.

Timbeter’s precision forestry platform eliminates manual counting, measuring and tracking of timber assets, cutting measurement and documentation times by 10 and increasing accuracy by 5 times.

Compared to traditional methods, its algorithms use artificial intelligence to speed up forestry operations, raise transparency, increase employee safety and save resources.

By combining precision forestry, forest governance and legal trade, Timbeter’s solution is helping to create conditions for a more secure trade and prevent illegal logging. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582729209.4383225/Tallin-based-Timbeter,-precision-forestry-startup,-closes-€920K-to-expand-in-SE-Asia-and-Latin-America?ref=audio_experience

Enterprise solutionsEnterprise solutions are those that integrate the different parts of a business’ operations through various means.

Enterprise IT-based solutions are specially dedicated to address the particular needs of smaller businesses that may not be well served by the one-size-fits-all software solutions.

Through expert consultation, holistic enterprise solutions can be developed that will contribute to the growth and scalability of a business.

Data management solutions can allow enterprises to provide more effective customer engagement and increased customer lifetime value (CLV).

More enterprises are required to redirect their business strategies and implement mobile solutions that account for this new trend. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582727406.766135/The-business-benefits-of-choosing-enterprise-IT-based-solutions?ref=audio_experience

So what are the revenue models Indian edtech startups are experimenting with?

Emerging Revenue Models In EdtechManjeet Singh, the cofounder and CEO at Buddy4Study believes that success-based revenue should be the most successful model in edtech/reskilling.

In the last few years, the number of edtech startups in India has gone up quite significantly, yet only a few have been successful.

According to Datalabs by Inc42, between January 2014 and September 2019, over 4,450 edtech startups have been launched in India.

“Edtech startups in India rely mostly on referrals and word of mouth market. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582725630.7310512/Edtech-Startups-On-Cracking-The-Revenue-Model-Formula-In-India?ref=audio_experience