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The TechCrunch Top 3

• Tooling around: Two years ago, two former Palantir engineers started Kurtosis, a crypto-focused developer tool system, and have now raised $20 million in fresh funding to hire a team to get a new product out in the next year, Jacquelyn reports.
• Strapping on some capital: Argentine fintech Geopagos leaves the bootstrap life behind as it takes in $35 million in new capital to help businesses launch their own financial services products, Mary Ann writes.
• ‘Snap’ping into some share buybacks: Moves by Snap and Airbnb to buy back shares amid slower growth has Alex raising his eyebrows and looking under the hood to see what’s going on.

Startups and VC

Lots of startup news again today, so let’s dig in. First, Natasha M brings us some additional layoff news from On Deck, which is cutting another third of its staff after cutting a quarter a few months ago. For those of you who can add fractions, that’s a lot, right?

We enjoyed reading Becca’s investor survey story, where she interviewed six first-time fund managers about their approach to weathering the downturn.

Also, buy now, pay later is still more prevalent in the world of consumers (see Anita’s funding story on Halliday), but businesses want in on the fun, too. That’s where Kontempo comes in with $30 million and its approach to enabling sales teams to approve credit, Kyle reports.

• An app a day keeps the ads away: No one likes pop-up ads, and a new app, Banish, feels you, Sarah writes.
• Connecting content to people: Clutch closed on some early-stage funding to match creators with businesses that need content, Dominic-Madori reports.
• Rill good: Rill, a business dashboard tool, talks for the first time about a new round and its product that embeds database and instant user experience, Ron writes.
• An offer they couldn’t refuse: MiroBio, a startup developing treatments for autoimmune patients, accepted an offer to be a part of Gilead Sciences for $405 million, Paul reports.

From NDA to LOI: What really happens when your startup is being acquired?

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Last week, VP and managing director of Dell Technologies Capital Yair Snir shared an article explaining why founders should plan on getting acquired, particularly since their odds of going public are so long.

In a follow-up, he takes readers inside the postacquisition integration period/process:

• The shopping sprint
• The road to an LOI
• Bringing in bankers
• Diving into due diligence
• Defining “day one”
• You’ve been acquired!

“While IPOs may get more headlines, a well-timed, well-planned acquisition can mean even larger opportunities for you, your team and the technologies you’ve built,” says Snir.