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July 12, 2023

Bored of working out valuations? Here’s an AI that’ll do it for you

The platform offers equity investors both a data collection and startup valuations tool in one place

Sadia Nowshin

3 min read

France-based 73 Strings — a service that helps investors like VC firms, private equity and asset managers with startup valuations and portfolio monitoring — has raised a $10m Series A round from Blackstone and FISV. 

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Sadia Nowshin

Sadia Nowshin was a reporter at Sifted covering foodtech, biotech and startup life. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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