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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

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Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. Eva Pittas (Co-founder and COO at Laika) and Dicken Chaplin (CFO at Laika) discuss the value a well-versed CFO brings to their business as well as a few key lessons they’ve learned along the way. And if so, why?

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What We Learned from Analyzing 2000+ Series A fundings in H1 of 2022

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Here’s what we did: We used Crunchbase public data and filtered only companies that had announced their Series A funding rounds in the first half of 2022. Discovery 5 – Not Enough to Show for Enterprise-Readiness. enterprise Single-Sign-On (SSO), audit logs, advanced roles & permissions, SLA, etc).