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Celus, which uses AI to automate circuit board design, raises $25.6M

TechCrunch

Just about every electronic contraption you care to think of contains at least one printed circuit board (PCB), which serves to house and connect the various components that allow the device to function as a whole. Engineers save a massive amount of time through this, meaning they can experiment, try different things, and be creative.”

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Why I Create a Vision Board Every Year—and How It Creates Impact for Me and My Team

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Katty is an EO San Francisco member and president of Artisan Creative , a staffing and recruitment agency for digital, creative and marketing talent. Each January, I look forward to Artisan Creative’s first company-wide team meeting: The day we present our annual vision boards. Creating my annual vision board.

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Eight Ben Franklin TechCelerator Finalists Chosen from Erie, Pennsylvania!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

The eight entrepreneurial teams chosen for the 2024 Erie program represent an exciting mix of products & ideas: Premier Manufacturing – d.b.a employs the widely recognized Big Five personality traits, Objective Key Results for performance measurement, and a proprietary job board for candidates and recruiters.

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Never Raising, Always Raising

Tomasz Tunguz

Startups used to raise once every 18 months. Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. We, as an industry, are marking-to-market much more frequently than we used to. Today, we joke in Startupland that a startup is never raising and always raising. Then, every 12 months. Just kidding.

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

In board meetings, we scrutinize the efficiency of sales and marketing (S&M) spend, costs of goods sold (COGS), and general and administrative costs (G&A). The mix of short- and long-term, offensive and defensive bets depends on your product and business priorities. Why do those priorities make sense in the current market?

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WaitWhat raises $12M to double down on what comes after podcasts

TechCrunch

Its solution, in part, may be based on creative ways of presenting content to users, but also keeping a focus on strong material to use in those channels. In part this is about hiring people from a mix of backgrounds but also about how it approaches management and how it endorses those with whom it works.

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Deepdub raises $20M for AI-powered dubbing that uses actors’ original voices

TechCrunch

Now, a startup called Deepdub is capitalizing on the growing demand for localized content by automating parts of the dubbing process using AI technology. What’s more, it does this by using just a few minutes of the actors’ voices — so the dubbed version sounds more like the original.

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