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Big Ideas in Tech for 2024

Andreessen Horowitz

Smart energy grids. Voice-first companion apps. Programmable medicines. AI tools for kids.
We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview one big idea they believe will drive innovation in the coming year.

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PM Pham Minh Chinh’s Roadmap to Drive Vietnam’s Startup Ecosystem

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Vietnam is intensifying efforts to become an innovation hub in the global startup industry. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh focused on the role of startups and innovation in driving economic growth while speaking at the “ TECHFEST – WHISE 2023 ” imprint program in Ho Chi Minh City on November 25.

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OurSky lands $9.5M seed to build out developer platform for space data

TechCrunch

A developer platform for the…sky? That’s the vision of OurSky, a startup founded last year that’s aiming to make space observational data more accessible via a software platform and global telescope network. The company announced that it closed $9.5 million in seed funding led by Upfront Ventures alongside Oceans Ventures, Venrex Investment Management, Marlinspike Partners, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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5 Crippling Mistakes That Ruin Impulsive Entrepreneurs’ Startup Careers

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Beware: The very traits that drew you to entrepreneurship just may trigger your demise.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Commercial companies to collaborate for DARPA’s new lunar economy study

TechCrunch

Establishing commercial markets on the moon is going to require thinking a little differently. That’s DARPA’s hunch, anyway. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is the U.S. Department of Defense’s R&D arm, which has just selected 14 companies to participate in a new study to develop technological frameworks for a lunar future. “The next decade […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Titan AI leverages generative AI to streamline mobile game development

TechCrunch

Generative AI is attracting a significant level of investment, including in the gaming space. Titan AI, a new mobile games studio, raised over $500,000 in pre-seed funding led by Berkeley SkyDeck. Titan AI joins several other generative AI gaming startups that aim to reduce the cost and speed of creating 2D and 3D content for games. […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Easier Than You Think: 3 Ways Your Business Can Improve Sustainability

Entrepreneurs' Organization

One of the most fundamental business principles I’ve learned involves strategy. Strategy, at its core, is a choice. The choice to be the cost leader, the choice to pursue a certain market sector, the choice to sell through e-commerce vs. brick-and-mortar. With strategy, there needs to be a choice and a contrast (ie, would you consider doing the alternative?

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European neobroker Scalable Capital raises $65M on a flat $1.4B valuation

TechCrunch

Scalable Capital, a Munich startup that aims to make investing in financial markets accessible to a wider range of consumers, is putting more fuel in its tank to drive deeper into Europe. The company has raised €60 million in equity ($65 million at today’s rates). It will be using to build out its business in […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Strong Foundations: Venture Capital Legal and Accounting - Approaches, Tools and Software [Part III]

The Seraf Compass

In Part I of this article we discussed the major topics covered by the legal documents that set up a venture fund. In Part II we addressed the limitations placed on investors in funds, governance standards and key accounting issues. Now let's talk about how to find good legal and accounting services and what tools you will need to manage your fund efficiently and successfully.

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Your Fractional Finance and Accounting Team

Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.

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Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet

TechCrunch

Google today announced the launch of its new Gemini large language model (LLM) and with that, the company also launched its new Cloud TPU v5p, an updated version of its Cloud TPU v5e, which launched into general availability earlier this year. A v5p pod consists of a total of 8,960 chips and is backed by […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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[Klook in Klook] Klook Completes US$210 Million Funding, Embarks on a New Era of Profitable Growth

OurCrowd

Klook, Asia’s leading platform for experiences and travel services, announces that it has successfully completed a US$210 million financing, supporting business growth and fortifying financial stability.

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Liquid AI, a new MIT spinoff, wants to build an entirely new type of AI

TechCrunch

An MIT spinoff co-founded by robotics luminary Daniela Rus aims to build general-purpose AI systems powered by a relatively new type of AI model called a liquid neural network. The spinoff, aptly named Liquid AI, emerged from stealth this morning and announced that it’s raised $37.5 million — substantial for a two-stage seed round — […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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The State of Proptech Exits

Revolution

Unpacking Proptech: A data-driven series on advancing built world innovation In Part 1 and Part 2 , I reviewed proptech financing trends, sources of capital and investor types, scaling and fundraising lessons from the past five years, and potential conflicts of interest. That brings us to one of the most exciting topics — exits. Diving into the Data According to Pitchbook, there have been 390 exits in proptech between 2018 and 2022.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Your mobile password manager might be exposing your credentials

TechCrunch

A number of popular mobile password managers are inadvertently spilling user credentials due to a vulnerability in the autofill functionality of Android apps. The vulnerability, dubbed “AutoSpill,” can expose users’ saved credentials from mobile password managers by circumventing Android’s secure autofill mechanism, according to university researchers at the IIIT Hyderabad, who discovered the vulnerability and […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[EduNav in PRWeb] EduNav’s Summit™ spurs 191% increase in degrees at Dallas College

OurCrowd

DALLAS, Dec. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Recent consolidation has elevated Dallas College into one of the largest community colleges in Texas. Using the Summit™ application from EduNav, however, has also made it one of the most successful, resulting in a 191% year-over-year increase in the number of nonapplicant degrees awarded for the 2022–2023 academic year.

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Millions of patient scans and health records spilling online thanks to decades-old protocol bug

TechCrunch

Thousands of exposed servers are spilling the medical records and personal health information of millions of patients due to security weaknesses in a decades-old industry standard designed for storing and sharing medical images, researchers have warned. This standard, known as Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, or DICOM for short, is the internationally recognized format […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[CropX in PR Newswire] CropX acquires Green Brain to expand in Australia

OurCrowd

ADELAIDE, Australia , Dec. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — CropX Technologies, a global leader in digital agtech solutions, including the CropX agronomic farm management system, announced its acquisition of Green Brain, a prominent digital irrigation management solutions provider based in Adelaide, Australia.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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CISA says US government agency was hacked thanks to ‘end of life’ software

TechCrunch

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has warned that unknown hackers broke into the servers of a federal government agency by taking advantage of a previously known vulnerability in software that no longer receives updates — meaning the agency couldn’t have patched it even if it wanted to. On Tuesday, CISA released an advisory detailing two separate […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[OurCrowd in Nikkei Asia] Israeli VC OurCrowd to target Southeast Asian AI, food tech

OurCrowd

BANGKOK — Israeli venture capital firm OurCrowd is setting up a roughly $50 million fund that will back Southeast Asian startups in fields like artificial intelligence, founder and CEO Jon Medved told Nikkei. Read more here.

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Meta launches a standalone AI-powered image generator

TechCrunch

Not to be outdone by Google’s Gemini launch, Meta’s rolling out a new, standalone generative AI experience on the web, Imagine with Meta, that allows users to create images by describing them in natural language. Similar to OpenAI’s DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, Imagine with Meta, which is powered by Meta’s existing Emu image generation […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[Ursa Major in PR Newswire] U.S. Propulsion Leader Ursa Major Achieves AS9100D Certification

OurCrowd

DENVER, Dec. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Ursa Major, America’s leading privately funded company focused solely on rocket propulsion, announces successful completion of AS9100D certification with TUV Rheinland of North America. Read more here.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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US senator warns governments are spying on Apple and Google users via push notifications

TechCrunch

U.S. senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has warned in a letter to the Justice Department that unidentified governments are spying on Apple and Google phone users through their push notifications. The letter says his office received a tip last year that government agencies in foreign countries were “demanding” push notification records from the tech giants.

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[Ossio in Business Wire] OSSIO’s ground-breaking option for fixing bone fractures in children receives FDA clearance

OurCrowd

The post [Ossio in Business Wire] OSSIO’s ground-breaking option for fixing bone fractures in children receives FDA clearance appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Google unveils AlphaCode 2, powered by Gemini

TechCrunch

Alongside its Gemini generative AI model, Google this morning took the wraps off of AlphaCode 2, an improved version of the code-generating AlphaCode introduced by Google’s DeepMind lab roughly a year ago. AlphaCode 2 is in fact powered by Gemini, or at least some variant of it (Gemini Pro) fine-tuned on coding contest data. And […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[ICON in Medium] NASA To Build 3D Printed Houses On The Moon And Mars By 2040

OurCrowd

NASA is working to build a 3D-printed human settlement on the moon. But is the tech really this close to being ready? Read more here.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.