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Top 10 Fintech Startup Investments Powering Southeast Asia in 2023

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The Southeast Asian fintech startup has been a dynamic landscape, with countries like China, India, Singapore, and Indonesia emerging as fintech hubs, each with unique strengths and focus areas. Besides, governments across Asia actively work on fintech regulations to balance innovation and consumer protection.

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How to pitch me: 7 investors discuss what they’re looking for in September 2023

TechCrunch

If you’d like to know what investors are looking for, how they want to be approached and what they’re most likely to ask, keep reading.

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Singapore’s InterContinental Energy Attracts $115M Funding from GIC and Hy24

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore-based InterContinental Energy has secured $115 million in equity investment to advance its mission of scaling up green hydrogen production. The funding comes from two investors: GIC, a global institutional investor, and Hy24 , recognized as the world’s largest clean hydrogen pureplay investor.

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The Evolution of the Satellite Economy

Andreessen Horowitz

The cost of launching payloads to orbit has dramatically dropped, igniting a space renaissance. In 2022, a record 186 rocket launches (41 more than the previous year!) underscores this shift. In Part 1 of our satellite economy mini-series, we sit down with John Gedmark, co-founder of Astranis, to reflect on today’s innovations, who’s on the other side of the satellite market, the capabilities they’re looking for, competition, and their mission to provide internet access to 4 billion unders

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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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How To Use Automation As A Competitive Advantage

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Ft. Sabrina Castiglione | Pento SUBSCRIBE Each week, we interview real experts about topics you need to know about. Today we have Sabrina Castiglione, COO at Pento and ex-CFO at Tessian. Tessian make UK Payroll Smooth, Compliant and Error-Free. We’re covering How To Use Automation As A Competitive Advantage. Full episode here Next 3 weeks: Ali Tajskander (Founder of Wishpond)  — How To Scale Faster Through Acquisitions.

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If You Want to Be a Great Founder, Stop Thinking Like a Venture Capitalist

Entrepreneur's Handbook

My hot take: Your target market is wrong, your timeline is wrong, and you’re setting yourself up for heartbreak and failure.

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Three Arrows Capital co-founder Zhu arrested in Singapore airport, sentenced four months in prison

TechCrunch

The liquidators behind Three Arrows Capital (3AC), the now-defunct crypto hedge fund, shared that the firm’s co-founder Su Zhu was arrested in Singapore at the Changi Airport while trying to leave the country.

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Customer Feedback Is (Almost) Useless

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Unless you gather it properly Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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X (Twitter) has paid almost $20M to creators, CEO says

TechCrunch

The company formerly known as Twitter has paid out nearly $20 million to creators, according to a post from X CEO Linda Yaccarino. The platform, now called X, began paying creators in July for a share of the ad revenue they earned from ads served in the replies to their posts to other verified users.

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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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AI Revolution: Top Lessons from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, & More

Andreessen Horowitz

The AI Revolution is here. In this episode, you’ll learn what the most important themes that some of the world’s most prominent AI builders – from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, Roblox, and more – are paying attention to. You’ll hear about the economics of AI, broad vs specialized models, the importance of UX, and whether we can expect scaling laws to continue.

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VW bails on its plan for a $2.1B EV plant in Germany

TechCrunch

Volkswagen’s $2.1 billion plan to launch a dedicated electric-vehicle factory in Wolfsburg, Germany is kaput. The automaker instead reportedly plans to modify its existing plants in Zwickau and Wolfsburg to handle production of a new flagship EV — the postponed Project Trinity — and an all-electric Golf hatchback.

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AI Revolution: Disruption, Alignment, and Opportunity

Andreessen Horowitz

The AI Revolution is here. In this episode, you’ll learn what the most important themes that some of the world’s most prominent AI builders – from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, Roblox, and more – are paying attention to. You’ll hear discussion around the real-world impact of this revolution, on industries ranging from gaming to design, and the considerations around alignment along the way.

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Elon Musk’s X headed for ‘rule of law’ clash with EU, warns Twitter’s former head of trust & safety

TechCrunch

The former head of trust and safety at Twitter has warned the platform now known as X is charting a collision course with the European Union’s rebooted digital rulebook, the Digital Services Act (DSA) — which carries penalties of up to 6% of global annual turnover for confirmed breaches of the online governance regime.

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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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Salary Transparency: Clarity or Chaos?

Andreessen Horowitz

With recent landmark legislation being passed around salary transparency, many companies are playing catch up as they interpret and implement changes. In this episode, members of the a16z People Practices Team, Shannon Schiltz and Brandon Cherry explore how companies can best prepare themselves to not just survive, but thrive in this new environment.

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BeReal pushes back at report that it’s losing steam, says it now has 25M daily users

TechCrunch

Just under a year ago, the buzzy new social app BeReal looked to be on the rise, with reportedly 20 million users launching the app every day to snap their candid photos.

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‘Backstory’ introduces you to YC’s Group Partners, starting with the unbeatable Surbhi Sarna

Y Combinator

When Surbhi Sarna was just thirteen, a sudden and excruciating pain in her side changed her life. The pain led to weeks of testing and flimsy diagnoses that would ultimately boil down to “Ovarian cancer, maybe ?” At this already pivotal time in her life, Surbhi and her family had to make an impossible decision: undergo a risky and potentially harmful surgery, or… wait and see.

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Two large equity funds launched this week. What gives?

TechCrunch

Two large equity funds came out of the gate this week. So, what gives? Earlier this year we covered how Liquidity Group, a growth-stage debt financier, raised $40 million and launched a $250 million debt fund for tech companies. Backers included Apollo (private equity, and Yahoo! owner) and MUFG (a Japanese bank).

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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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AD Summit 2024 Registration

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Pudgy Penguins’ approach may be the answer to fixing NFTs’ revenue problems

TechCrunch

The company's toy-focused expansion is its bet that NFTs should have a broader presence, one that’s not limited to the digital world.

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[DailyPay in PR Newswire] With an unwavering commitment to data security, DailyPay achieves the highest security certification in the industry

OurCrowd

The post [DailyPay in PR Newswire] With an unwavering commitment to data security, DailyPay achieves the highest security certification in the industry appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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When predatory investors damage your chances of success

TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. You know what isn’t a great idea for my energy levels? Enjoying a week of TechCrunch Disrupt and then getting straight on a plane to attend a startup event in Oslo, Norway.

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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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[ThetaRay in IBS Intelligence] TangoPay taps ThetaRay AI Solution to monitor global remittances

OurCrowd

TangoPay an Authorized Payment Institution based in the UK has partnered with ThetaRay to protect its global payments platform from financial crimes amid growth. TangoPay enables expats living in the UK to access fast and affordable financial services to transfer money abroad through its app-based service to 70+ countries.

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So what happened to Blue Apron?

TechCrunch

How Blue Apron got to where it is today an interesting story, and one that we should trace from the company's IPO through to today.

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Startups may have trouble finding their enterprise footing

TechCrunch

According to a survey from Battery Ventures, the percentage of respondents that let their engineers self-select tools fell from 74% in Q3 2023 to 44% last quarter.

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Google Pixel Event 2023: Pixel 8, Watch 2 and everything else we expect

TechCrunch

It’s been a wild few weeks for consumer hardware news, but it seems the season is finally winding down. We’ve already seen big events from Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, and now it’s time for Google to get in on the action. After all, being fashionably late to consumer electronics is kind of Google’s thing.

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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.