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16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Generative AI took the consumer landscape by storm in 2023, reaching over a billion dollars of consumer spend 1 in record time. In 2024, we believe the revenue opportunity will be multiples larger in the enterprise. Last year, while consumers spent hours chatting with new AI companions or making images and videos with diffusion models, most enterprise engagement with genAI seemed limited to a handful of obvious use cases and shipping “GPT-wrapper” products as new SKUs.

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Celebrating ReJoule, VentureWell’s 2024 Sustainable Practice Impact Awardee

Venture Well

ReJoule won our 2024 Sustainable Practice Impact Award for its circular economy for lithium-ion electric vehicle (EV) batteries. The post Celebrating ReJoule, VentureWell’s 2024 Sustainable Practice Impact Awardee appeared first on VentureWell.

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Fuel Me Raises $18 Million Series A Round

HPA

HPA is excited to announce our investment in Fuel Me ’s $18M Series A Round , which was co-led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Tribeca Venture Partners and includes co-investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Interplay Venture Capital, and FJ Labs. Fuel Me is a first-of-its-kind platform that revolutionizes fuel procurement and management. Focusing on mission-critical energy needs across industries like data centers, construction, and transportation.

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Celebrating ReJoule, VentureWell’s 2024 Sustainable Practice Impact Awardee

Venture Well

ReJoule won our 2024 Sustainable Practice Impact Award for its circular economy for lithium-ion electric vehicle (EV) batteries. The post Celebrating ReJoule, VentureWell’s 2024 Sustainable Practice Impact Awardee appeared first on VentureWell.

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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Two Local Erie Startups win Ben Franklin’s TechCelerator Business Bootcamp

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

On March 20, 2024, the Samuel P. Black III Knowledge Center in Penn State Behrend’s Knowledge Park buzzed with excitement as the Ben Franklin TechCelerator in Erie Finale unfolded, marking the culmination of a transformative 10-week program aimed at nurturing entrepreneurial talent in the Erie region. Eventive AI (Erin Kerner & Barry Snyder), an AI-powered platform for personalized event management solutions, emerged as the first-place winner, securing $10,000 in funding.

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How Influencers Can Legally Raise Capital for Funds and Companies

David Teten VC

How can influencers raise capital for companies or funds, without running afoul of restrictions on “general solicitation”? The 2012 bipartisan JOBS Act was supposed to empower funds and individuals to raise capital more openly: to publicly advertise their track record and what they’re selling, just like almost every other industry. However, as far as I know, the great majority of private capital raises for funds and companies are still not using general solicitation.

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Kirchner Group Advises Investor in $82M Series A Financing in the BioTech Sector

American Entrepreneurship

20 March 2024 – Kirchner Group is pleased to announce that it acted as a scientific advisor to the Alaska Permanent Fund during their due diligence process related to the recently announced Kenai Therapeutics, Inc. $82M Series A financing. Kenai Therapeutics, is a biotechnology company leveraging induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology to discover and develop a platform of allogeneic neuron replacement cell therapies for neurological disorders.

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Japan Unveils Residency Program for Angel Investors to Stimulate Startup Investment”

AsiaTechDaily

Japan will introduce a residency program for angel investors to encourage investment in the country’s startups. The program aims to attract much-needed investment capital and will offer residency lasting up to five years. This initiative comes as Japan seeks to boost its startup ecosystem in key sectors.

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CyberSaint Announces $21M in Series A Funding to Accelerate Global Expansion

American Entrepreneurship

Funding led by Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC) supports the company’s mission to lead the cyber risk management market with patented AI automation and financialized cyber risk Boston, MA – March 6, 2024 – CyberSaint, the leader in cyber risk management, today announced the company has raised $21M in Series A funding led by Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC).

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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8 Types of Email Content to Send Your Audience

Campaign Monitor

Engaging your audience with new email marketing strategies can be exciting, but knowing where to start can be daunting. While there are dozens of routes you can take when creating email marketing content that aligns with your audience’s preferences, we’re sharing some content inspiration that will ensure you’re sending compelling emails that your subscribers will look forward to seeing in their inboxes.

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Investing in Espresso

Andreessen Horowitz

a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that has been investing in crypto and web3 startups — across all stages — since 2013.

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The Power of Networking: A Guide to Elevate Your Conference Experience

INBIA

In the area of professional growth and career development, few tools wield as much power as networking. Despite its undeniable importance, many people are daunted by the prospect of this activity, turned off by past experiences that were transactional and uncomfortable.

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[Harpoon Ventures in PR Newswire] Tarsal Accelerates Development of Modern Security Data Stack With New Funding and Leadership Expansion

OurCrowd

The post [Harpoon Ventures in PR Newswire] Tarsal Accelerates Development of Modern Security Data Stack With New Funding and Leadership Expansion appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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.

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The Reddits

Y Combinator

I met the Reddits before we even started Y Combinator. In fact they were one of the reasons we started it. YC grew out of a talk I gave to the Harvard Computer Society (the undergrad computer club) about how to start a startup. Everyone else in the audience was probably local, but Steve and Alexis came up on the train from the University of Virginia, where they were seniors.

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Former Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang Ventures into VC with Firstred Capital

AsiaTechDaily

Daniel Zhang, the former CEO of Alibaba Group, has taken on a new role as managing partner at China-based venture capital firm Firstred Capital. The announcement comes six months after Zhang’s departure from Alibaba.

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Build for customers, not VCs

Y Combinator

It’s easy to analyze your way out of taking the first step. It’s something we see a lot, particularly when founders try to choose what to build based on what they think VCs will like. These founders will find a great problem that they could solve, only to convince themselves it’s not “venture scale.” Before they’ve written a line of code or even talked to a single person about it, they’re trying to predict market opportunities and exit strategies

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Hire a consultant; ignore the advice!

Berkonomics

The ideal use of consultants… At one time or another, most all businesses use consultants to fill the gaps in knowledge or to provide guidance for management. Consultants are good in that you can sample their work with short projects, change to other consultants quickly, and stop using them when a project is completed. A personal story of ignorance of good advice.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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How To Improve Your Customer Care?

The Groove Blog

“The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.” Jeff Bezos The reality is of course very different. Particularly when you are growing your business and establishing your processes, customer can run into problems that you did not even know existed. This […] The post How To Improve Your Customer Care?

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JCO® Precision Oncology (JCO PO) publishes study demonstrating clinical validity and utility of OncoHost’s PROphet® NSCLC Test

OurCrowd

The post JCO® Precision Oncology (JCO PO) publishes study demonstrating clinical validity and utility of OncoHost’s PROphet® NSCLC Test appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Sales Strategy for the new financial year – Three key things every business owner must do

NZ Entrepreneur

With the new financial year beginning on April 1st, it is a critical time to lay the foundations for your sales success in the year ahead. Here are three key things you can do at the start of a new financial year to get your sales rolling. 1. TAKE THE BEST FROM LAST YEAR AND MOVE FORWARD The first quarter of the calendar year is often tough in the NZ market.

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[Connected Energy in electric & hybrid] Energy storage helps Volvo truck dealerships to electrify their fleets

OurCrowd

The post [Connected Energy in electric & hybrid] Energy storage helps Volvo truck dealerships to electrify their fleets appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr