Small Business Finance Presentation: Creating Your Money Map

 Small Business Finance Presentation

Creating Your Money Map

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 Small Business Finances - Creating your Money Map

Description  

Join us for this webinar that we have tailored for small business owners. We know that business owners are busy working in the business, and have little time to work on the business with things such as money management and financial planning.

In this webinar, we want to help business owners expand their awareness about money matters, including:

- the psychology of money
- how your perception and relationship with money can improve your business success
- overcoming the mental roadblocks to financial freedom
- tools and tips to remain cash-flow positive
- tax planning and tax-efficient investment ideas

Speakers:

Michelle Cooper, CEO, Alchemy Accounting & Bookkeeping

In her business, Michelle has built a solid team of bookkeepers, accountants, tax professionals, and business coaches who support impact driven entrepreneurs to have highly profitable, sustainable businesses while creating the peace of mind that comes from a solid financial foundation. Michelle supports the growth of her clients' businesses with strategic planning while also addressing the mindset issues that arise with growth, in order to bust through and rise up to levels they never dreamed possible.

Tara Lamond, Small Business Advisor, Vancity Savings Credit Union

Tara has been in the financial services industry since 2004 in a variety of roles. Today, she works with small business owners and solopreneurs to achieve their dreams and influence them to think differently when it comes to making a positive impact in their local economy.

Jordan Hopper Portfolio Manager, Vancity Savings Credit Union

Jordan provides personalized investment management services and solutions for families, individuals, businesses, trusts and not-for-profits groups.

Nazlin Sunderji, Portfolio Management Consultant, Vancity Savings Credit Union

Nazlin has 17 years experience in the financial services industry and works with portfolio managers in supporting their clients in achieving their financial goals.

Time  

Jun 17, 2021 11:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Registration

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xBVZtmK8RSevd77D4-Y85Q

 

StradVision Nets $27M For Skeleton Detection And Emergency Braking Software For Autonomous Vehicles

VC Deals

Levelset, a 13-year-old, New Orleans, La.-based platform that helps contractors get paid faster and eliminate cash stresses, has raised $30 million in new funding led by Horizons Ventures, with participation from S3 Ventures, Altos Ventures, Operating Venture Capital, and Brick & Mortar Ventures, among others. The company has now raised $47 million to date. More

StradVision, a Seoul, South Korea-based company at work on vision processing tech for autonomous vehicles, has raised $27 million in Series B funding. Posco Capital led the round, joined by IDG Capital, Industrial Bank of Korea, Lighthouse Combined Investment, LSS Private Equity, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Neoplux, and Timefolio Asset Management. More

Coral, is two-year-old, Bay Area-based company at work on a device that can automate manicures (it requires that customers buy nail polish made by the company, too), has raised $4.3 million in funding. Investors include CrossLink Capital, Root Ventures, Tandem Capital and Y Combinator.

Osano, a 1.5-year-old, Austin, Tex.-based data privacy transparency platform, has raised $5.4 million in Series A funding co-led by LiveOak Venture Partners and Next Coast Ventures. More

Ripple, a somewhat controversial, seven-year-old, San Francisco-based company that uses cryptocurrency to move money across borders, has raised $200 million in Series C funding. The investment firm Tetragon led the round, joined by SBI Holdings and Route 66 Ventures. More

Exits

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New Funds

Truffle Capital, a 15-year-old, Paris-based venture firm focused on biotech and med-tech startups, has closed on $278 million for a new fund that it plans to use to fund a dozen new startups, mainly in France. More
 

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VC Deals

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As the UK continues on its slow march to leave the European Union, a London-based startup that enables companies to work internationally has raised a huge round of funding from a strategic backer to expand its business. Ebury, which provides foreign exchange, money transfer and other currency services to small and medium businesses and their banking partners, has picked up £350 million (about €400 million, or $452 million) led by Spanish banking giant Santander. With the deal, Madrid-based Santander will become a majority shareholder at 50.1% but notes that Ebury will continue to operate as an independent entity. More 

FreeTrade the U.K. challenger stockbroker that offers commission-free investing, has closed $15 million in Series A funding. The round includes a $7.5 million investment from Draper Esprit, the U.K. publicly listed venture capital firm, along with previously announced equity crowdfunding via Crowdcube.The funding will be used by Freetrade for further growth and product development, including “doubling down” on engineering hires. The firm, which claims more than 50,000 customers, is also planning to expand to Europe next year. More 

Faire, a curated wholesale marketplace that connects independent retailers and makers, raised $150m in Series D funding round at $1 billion valuation.The round was co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Founders Fund with participation from existing investors including Forerunner Ventures, YC Continuity, and Khosla Ventures.The company, which has raised $266m in total funding to date, intends to use the funds to expand into new markets, improve the marketplace, and continue building its tools. More 

Boston-based PathAI, maker of artificial intelligence tools for pathology, has capped off its Series B funding round with a $15 million strategic investment from the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and Bristol-Myers Squibb. This raise brings the startup’s full round to $75 million, and its total funding to just over $90 million. More 

Tel Aviv-based online payments fraud prevention startup Riskified Ltd. has completed a $165 million funding round, the company announced Tuesday. The round was led by New York-based General Atlantic according to a company valuation of more than $1 billion, the company said. Minneapolis-based Winslow Capital participated in the round, as did existing investors Qumra Capital, Entrée Capital, and Pitango Venture Capital. More 

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myCareBase™is a platform for seniors and their families to find, evaluate, hire and manage home support services, to improve the seniors’ ability to remain living safely in their current home for as long as possible. The caregiver marketplace currently offers candidates in Greater Toronto and Greater Vancouver.

To compliment this platform the company also offers an innovative care management app that centralizes communication and task management among family members and the caregiver, along with a Care Concierge service to help family members with administrative, navigational or organizational tasks. 

New Funds 

London-based VC firm Frog Capital has announced the first close of its second scale-up fund, which is expected to accumulate over €150 million. The fund is dedicated to European software companies that earn around €5 million in annual revenue. More 

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Aspirant Group, a Japanese middle-market buyout firm, closed a ¥50 Billion fund. AG III’s commitments were secured from European and U.S. investors, and several global fund of funds, as well as major Japan institutional investors. Investors included major financial institutions, pension plans, asset managers, and family offices. More 

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Are you a Canadian GP/LP/CI or a Canadian startup that needs to grow or scale? Give us a call! One of our representatives would love to explain how we vertically design, and then systematically layer each of our communication platforms to effectively reach niche target audiences for our clients. WC offers a unique synergistic approach to effectively communicate our client's message to their target audience.

Serving Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Waterloo, Ottawa and Halifax. 

IPOs 

China’s Megvii Technology Ltd. is considering whether to delay its initial public offering given uncertainty over whether it can secure its existing $4 billion valuation while on an American blacklist, according to people familiar with the matter. More 

Chinese autonomous air mobility company EHang has filed with the SEC the paperwork required to go public in the U.S. on the Nasdaq exchange, with a $100 million initial public offering. The company, which has been flying demonstration flights with passengers on board for a while now, is gearing up to launch its first commercial service in Guangzhou after getting approval from local and national regulators to deploy its drones in the area. More 

Exits  

Veeva Systems is buying Crossix Solutions with an eye to integrating the Veeva healthcare professional (HCP) cloud software services with the more patient-centric Crossix data and analytics.Under the $430 million cash deal, Crossix will remain an independent unit inside Veeva called Veeva Crossix and will continue to be run by Crossix CEO Asaf Evenhaim. More

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VC Deals

Logixboard, a Seattle, WA-based digital partner for freight forwarders, raised $4.2m in seed funding. The company intends to use the funds to expand its platform and accelerate product innovation. More

Octave, a national behavioral health practice, raised $11M in Series A funding. The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand nationally, with additional locations planned for California and New York next year. More

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Clay Wilkes had already been retired for six years when he launched Galileo Financial Services in 2000. The serial entrepreneur, who had been an early pioneer in telecommunications technologies now runs the backend integrations with financial institutions for some of the biggest names in financial technology and has just raised $77 million in financing from Accel Partners. More

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Sponsor

myCareBase™is a platform for seniors and their families to find, evaluate, hire and manage home support services, to improve the seniors’ ability to remain living safely in their current home for as long as possible. The caregiver marketplace currently offers candidates in Greater Toronto and Greater Vancouver.

To compliment this platform the company also offers an innovative care management app that centralizes communication and task management among family members and the caregiver, along with a Care Concierge service to help family members with administrative, navigational or organizational tasks.

Partnerships

A new digital health company is being launched by two well-known names in healthcare: the Cleveland Clinic and telemedicine company American Well.  The joint venture — called The Clinic and based in Cleveland— will leverage the hospital expertise of Cleveland Clinic providers and the telemedicine platform devised by American Well to deliver virtual care and high-acuity services to patients. More

New Funds

The Australian tech industry has, in the last few years, started to generate a swathe of startups that have broken through internationally. In fact, it’s now gaining a reputation as a serial producer of high-quality tech platforms, the hottest of which right now is Canva, which recently raised an additional $85 million to bring its valuation to $3.2 billion, up from $2.5 billion in May.  More

Exits

The Kik messaging platform has been bought by MediaLab, a holding company which operates Whisper and a number of other apps, the company announced Friday. More

Micron Technology said it acquired Fwdnxt, a maker of hardware and software tools for artificial intelligence deep learning applications. When combined with Micron‘s memory chips, Fwdnxt (pronounced “forward next”) will enable Micron to explore deep learning solutions required for data analytics, particularly with internet of things and edge computing. More

Amazon has acquired Health Navigator, a startup that develops APIs for online health services. According to CNBC, which first reported the deal, Health Navigator will become part of Amazon Care, its pilot healthcare service program for employees. More

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VC Deals Only. Weekend Edition. Level Home raises $71 million from Walmart to imbue locks with connected smarts

VC Deals

Wheels, the startup founded by Wag founders Jonathan and Joshua Viner, just announced a $50 million round led by DBL Partners. This round brings Wheels’ total funding to $87 million. Wheelscurrently operates in six markets, including San Diego, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and Scottsdale, Ariz.The plan is to use the funding to deploy in additional markets throughout the U.S. and in international markets.  More

Blue Canoe, a Bellevue, WA-based provider of an artificial intelligence (AI) B2B platform for non-native English speakers to improve their clarity and confidence in speaking English, closed its seed round, raising $2.5m.  More 

In less than two years, Revel has gone from an idea to a shared electric vehicle startup with more than 1,400 mopeds across Washington, D.C., and Brooklyn and Queens, New York. Now, it’s ready to grow up — and beyond these three cities — with a fresh injection of $27.6 million in capital raised in a Series A round led by Ibex Investors .  More 

Smart locks that play nicely with HomeKit and similar platforms are a proposition almost too good to pass up. Level Home today revealed that it’s raised over $71 million in funding from Walmart, Hut 8 Ventures, and home construction and real estate company Lennar. More 

Thimble, which offers flexible, short-term insurance to small businesses and freelancers, is announcing that it has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round led by IAC.  More 

New York’s Rho Business, which wants to create a digital business banking system for early-stage and high-growth startups, has raised a $4.9 million seed round led by Inspired Capital.  More 

Sponsor

myCareBase™is a platform for seniors and their families to find, evaluate, hire and manage home support services, to improve the seniors’ ability to remain living safely in their current home for as long as possible. The caregiver marketplace currently offers candidates in Greater Toronto and Greater Vancouver.

To compliment this platform the company also offers an innovative care management app that centralizes communication and task management among family members and the caregiver, along with a Care Concierge service to help family members with administrative, navigational or organizational tasks

New Funds 

Singapore based Insignia Ventures Partners has hit an oversubscribed final close for its second fund at US$200 million. Limited partners include premier institutional investors such as sovereign wealth funds, university endowments, foundations and renowned family offices from Asia, Europe and North America, said Insignia.  More

M13, an early-stage consumer technology venture capital firm that has invested in Lyft, Pinterest, Ring, Bird and more has raised a second, $175 million fund. The fund was raised by a number of limited partners, including Sir Richard Branson, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Virgin Group and Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post and Thrive Global.  More 

Exits 

Intel Corp (INTC.O) has agreed to purchase a software business from Toronto-based Pivot Technology Solutions Inc (PTG.TO) for $27 million, the U.S. chipmaker. Intel said it would buy Smart Edge, a software that helps split up data and store it closer to users to make computing devices respond faster. More 

As Facebook prepares to launch its new cryptocurrency Libra in 2020, it’s putting the pieces in place to help it run. In one of the latest developments, it has acquired Servicefriend, a startup that built bots — chat clients for messaging apps based on artificial intelligence — to help customer service teams.  More 

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IPOs 

Endeavor Holdings Group has officially withdrawn the registration of its planned IPO, about three weeks after it halted the launch of the stock on the New York Stock Exchange the same day it was to debut.  More 

Saudi Aramco’s board is expected to give final approvals to proceed with its mammoth share sale next week, according to people familiar with the matter. The board is planning to meet with its advisers on the initial public offering around Oct. 17, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter isn’t public.  More

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VC Deals

myDigitalOffice, a Bethesda, MD-based hotel information management platform for sourcing, processing and storing hotel data in the cloud, secured $4m in Series A funding. More

Simon Fraser University (SFU) is receiving $17 million from the government of British Columbia over the next five years to establish the Quantum Algorithms Institute, at its campus in Surrey, BC. More

Next Insurance, a Palo Alto, CA-based digital Insurtech company focused on small business insurance, raised $250m in Series C funding. Munich Re provided the funding in a round that brought total funding to $381m in over three years, with a valuation of over $1 billion USD. More

Swift Health Systems, Inc., an Irvine, CA-based maker of invisible orthodontic braces, raised $45M in series C funding. The round, which brought total capital raised by the company to more than $70m, was co-led by Vivo Capital, Novo Holdings and venBio Partners. More

Missing out on a month’s rent because you can’t find a tenant is a huge loss. Doorstead’s approach to the hot sector of “iRenting” has attracted a $3.3 million seed round co-led by M13 and Silicon Valley Data Capital, and joined by Venture Reality Fund and SOMA Capital. More

Osaro, a San Francisco startup developing AI-based solutions for industrial robots, today announced that it’s closed a $16 million series B funding round led by King River Capital (KRC), with participation from Alpha Intelligence Capital, Founders Fund, Pegasus Tech Ventures, GiTV Fund, and existing and strategic investors. More

DeepRoute, a Shenzen, China-based L4 full stack self-driving system provider, raised approx. $50m in funding. DeepRoute is a full-stack solution provider focusing on L4 autonomous driving with a global presence. More

Sponsor

myCareBase™is a platform for seniors and their families to find, evaluate, hire and manage home support services, to improve the seniors’ ability to remain living safely in their current home for as long as possible. The caregiver marketplace currently offers candidates in Greater Toronto and Greater Vancouver.

To compliment this platform the company also offers an innovative care management app that centralizes communication and task management among family members and the caregiver, along with a Care Concierge service to help family members with administrative, navigational or organizational tasks.

New Funds

Voyager Capital is ditching California and doubling down on the Pacific Northwest — with a new interest across the border up north. The Seattle-based venture capital firm has closed its fifth fund, raising $100 million that it will use to invest in 15-to-20 early stage B2B startups across Washington, Oregon, and Western Canada. It has already made five new investments as part of the fund.  More

Thin Line Capital, a Pasadena, CA-based venture capital firm, launched a seed-stage fund with a first close of over $5m. The firm believes that, after the downturn in 2009, the industry has entered a “2nd wave” of cleantech investing. More

IPOs

Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) said on Tuesday it was reviewing its involvement in Megvii Technology Ltd’s planned initial public offering after the U.S. government placed the Chinese artificial intelligence firm on a human rights blacklist. More

PayPal Holdings Inc. will report a $228-million loss on investments before taxes in the third quarter, driven in large part by a bad bet on Uber Technologies Inc. just before it went public. More

Sponsor

Fangdd Network Group Ltd., a Chinese software as a service (SaaS)-enabled online real estate marketplace, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States. The company listed the size of the offering at $150 million, a placeholder amount likely to change, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The company plans to float its shares on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “DUO.”

Read more at: https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/fangdd-us-ipo-157236/  

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Are you a Canadian GP/LP/CI or a Canadian startup that needs to grow or scale? Give us a call! One of our representatives would love to explain how we vertically design, and then systematically layer each of our communication platforms to effectively reach niche target audiences for our clients. WC offers a unique synergistic approach to effectively communicate our client's message to their target audience.

Serving Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Waterloo, Ottawa and Halifax.

Partnerships

A biotech company developing cell and gene therapies for blood cancers and hematological disorders is partnering with a European company to develop genome-editing technology for genetic diseases. More

E Health News

Healthcare services providers generate huge amounts of data in the course of any given year. Many organizations, though, see this work as a source of financial losses. In a more modern view of the situation, however, all this healthcare data maintenance can be seen as a potential way to decrease losses and to create profit centers.  More

Fangdd Network Group Ltd., a Chinese software as a service (SaaS)-enabled online real estate marketplace, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States. The company listed the size of the offering at $150 million, a placeholder amount likely to change, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The company plans to float its shares on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “DUO.”

Read more at: https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/fangdd-us-ipo-157236/
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VC Deals Only. Weekend Edition. Everledger raises $20 million to track assets with blockchain tech

VC Deals Only

Seattle startup SEngine Precision Medicine has raised $5.1 million in fresh funding as it looks to commercialize a platform that can match cancer patients to the right drug and aid in drug discovery. The Series A round was led by the Bangarang Group along with other unnamed investors. More

An Indian startup that is attempting to improve the way how millions of people in the nation lease or buy an apartment — by not paying any brokerage — just raised a significant amount of capital to further expand its business. NoBroker said on Wednesday it has raised $50 million in a new financing round More

Amboss, the Berlin-based “medtech” startup that originally offered a learning app for students but has since pivoted to a knowledge platform for medical professionals, has raised €30 million in Series B funding. More

ZenBusiness, an Austin, TX-based online platform to create and run small businesses, closed a $15m Series A venture capital financing. The round was led by Greycroft, with participation from Lerer Hippeau, and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and new investors Rosecliff Venture Partners, Interlock Partners, and Recruit Strategic Partners (RSP). More

DeadHappy, a U.K.-based insurtech startup that wants to offer more flexible life insurance and remove the taboo surrounding death, has raised £4 million in Series A funding. Backing comes from e.ventures, alongside the company’s seed investor Octopus Ventures. More

Everledger, a London-based startup developing and maintaining an immutable ledger for asset ownership, today announced that it has secured $20 million in a series A round led by Tencent, with participation from Graphene Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Rakuten, Fidelity, and Vickers Venture Partners. More

Sponsor 

 myCareBase ™ is a platform for seniors and their families to find, evaluate, hire and manage home support services, to improve the seniors’ ability to remain living safely in their current home for as long as possible. The caregiver marketplace currently offers candidates in Greater Toronto and Greater Vancouver.

To compliment this platform the company also offers an innovative care management app that centralizes communication and task management among family members and the caregiver, along with a Care Concierge service to help family members with administrative, navigational or organizational tasks

IPOs 

In an S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Beam Therapeutics announced its planned $100 million initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Market, where it would trade under the symbol BEAM. JP Morgan, Jefferies and Barclays are joint bookrunners on the IPO, while Wedbush PacGrow is lead manager. More

Last week, Progyny, which provides fertility benefits to employees filed its intention to go public with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The New York company, founded in 2016, has created a fertility benefits program that includes access to pharmacy for treatments that may be required as well as a fertility expert it bills as a Patient Care Advocate. More

New Funds

Think Jack Dorsey’s jobs are tough? Well, Tom Chavez is running six startups. He thinks building businesses can be boiled down to science, so today he’s unveiling his laboratory for founding, funding and operating companies. More

Exits

Some consolidation is afoot in the world of advertising.  Taboola and Outbrain, rivals that both operate advertising-based content recommendation engines for publishers — which typically appear in the form of boxes at the bottom of articles online that feature a mix of stories from the publications themselves, plus ads and sponsored content from other sites — are forming a single company.  More

Vice Media, the insurgent media brand known for its arch take on youth culture and entertainment, has acquired the women’s lifestyle publisher Refinery29. The deal is valued at about $400 million and includes mostly stock with some cash. More

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Are you a Canadian GP/LP/CI or a Canadian startup that needs to grow or scale? Give us a call! One of our representatives would love to explain how we vertically design, and then systematically layer each of our communication platforms to effectively reach niche target audiences for our clients. WC offers a unique synergistic approach to effectively communicate our client's message to their target audience.

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Tech News

Here we go again. Western governments are once again dialing up their attack on end-to-end encryption — calling for either no e2e encryption or backdoored e2e encryption so platforms can be commanded to serve state agents with messaging data in “a readable and usable format.” More