Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
APRIL 27, 2023
Creating climate solutions with YLAI alumni: Bevon Charles in Grenada The climate crisis affects everyone, and we must all do our part to find solutions to current and impending climate challenges. Global entrepreneurs are leading the charge in creating solutions that impact their communities and inspire others to do the same on the path toward a greener future.
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 27, 2023
Source: Midjourney The generative AI boom is compute-bound. It has the unique property that adding more compute directly results in a better product. Usually, R&D investment is more directly tied to how valuable a product was, and that relationship is … The post Navigating the High Cost of AI Compute appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
APRIL 27, 2023
Creating climate solutions with YLAI alumni: Nina Escamilla in Mexico The climate crisis affects everyone, and we must all do our part to find solutions to current and impending climate challenges. Global entrepreneurs are leading the charge in creating solutions that impact their communities and inspire others to do the same on the path toward a greener future.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
When Pinecone launched a vector database aimed at data scientists in 2021, it was probably ahead of its time. But as the use cases began to take shape last year, the company began pushing AI-driven semantic search. With the rise of LLMs in the public consciousness, companies are beginning to see the value of vector databases even more. Investors apparently agree.
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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?
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
APRIL 27, 2023
Creating climate solutions with YLAI alumni: Refica Attwood in Antigua and Barbuda The climate crisis affects everyone, and we must all do our part to find solutions to current and impending climate challenges. Global entrepreneurs are leading the charge in creating solutions that impact their communities and inspire others to do the same on the path toward a greener future.
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AsiaTechDaily
APRIL 27, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Korean human safety technology company Safeware Inc. has got the top award at the Edison Awards 2023 held in Fort Myers, Florida, USA. Safeware’s Smart Airbag product has been recognized as the gold winner in the ‘Personal Technology – Smart Wearable’ category at the prestigious Edison Awards 2023 held in Fort Myers, Florida, USA.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States.
AsiaTechDaily
APRIL 27, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Capria Ventures , a venture capital firm specializing in investments in the Global South , has announced the first close of its $100 million fund, which will focus on investing in 20 to 25 tech startups in key entrepreneurial hotspots across India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
Careerist claims it closed an $8 million round of funding with a tight 12-slide deck and gave us a lot to learn from in the process. Not all in good ways, but I’m getting slightly ahead of myself. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. Slides in this deck The team submitted this slide deck with the note that it was submitted exactly as it pitched it to the investors.
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AsiaTechDaily
APRIL 27, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Asia is a significant market for startups due to its large and diverse population, as well as its rapidly growing economies. South Korea is considered a gateway to Asia due to its strategic location and well-developed infrastructure. South Korea also has a relatively open and business-friendly environment, with a highly educated and skilled workforce.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google , Amazon , Microsoft , Yahoo and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts across all sectors, from crypto to enterprise SaaS. The reasoning behind these workforce reductions follows a common script , citing the macroeconomic environment and a need to find discipline on a tumultuo
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 27, 2023
With the inflection of large language models (LLMs), we’re witnessing a paradigm shift in software development and the computing industry as a whole. AI is happening and a new stack is forming before our eyes. It’s like the Internet all … The post Investing in Pinecone appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
In her presentation at last week’s TechCrunch Early Stage event in Boston, SOSV general partner Pae Wu tossed out the tongue-in-cheek phrase “recovering academic” to describe founders in the firm’s IndieBio program. It’s a fitting label, given many founders in the program are academics, and their journey from academia to accelerator has its share of growing pains as they often have to adapt to the business world without a business degree.
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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.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
APRIL 27, 2023
Passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, economic development, community engagement, and higher education, Sammy has been able to work at the intersection of his passions through his ecosystem building efforts at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is naturally inclined to connecting people who could benefit from knowing each other. Activating and catalyzing meaningful engagements either professional or personally energizes him, and with that in mind, he envisions being remembered
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
Italian climate startup Energy Dome , which has developed a “CO 2 Battery” for storing renewable energy, has closed a €40 million (~$44M) Series B round — bringing the total raised for its novel energy storage solution to €54M (or just shy of $60M). The round was co-led by Eni Next, the corporate VC arm of Italian energy giant Eni; along with Neva SGR, the VC company owned by European banking group Intesa Sanpaolo.
OurCrowd
APRIL 27, 2023
PHOENIX, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Universal Technical Institute (UTI), a division of Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (NYSE: UTI) and a leading workforce solutions provider of transportation, skilled trades and energy education programs, is announcing the addition of EquipmentShare to its Early Employment Program at campuses in California, Arizona, Read more here.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
Luca , a startup building price planning and prediction tools for retailers, today announced that it closed a $2.5 million seed round led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Y Combinator (Luca was in Y Combinator’s winter 2023 class), Soma Capital and angel investors. Luca was co-founded by Tanvi Surti and Yonah Mann, who worked together on Uber’s dynamic pricing team.
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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.
Y Combinator
APRIL 27, 2023
Y Combinator runs a website where we help people find potential co-founders. While running that, we’ve had a lot of people ask for a set of questions to help figure out whether they’re a good match with a potential co-founder. We’ve compiled a list of the 10 questions that we think are the most important ones to answer. The best time to go through these is after you’ve gotten to know someone, have found an idea you’re both interested in working on, and ar
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
More than 10,000 people from across the country and around the world will converge on San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 on September 19–21. A startup crowd that size has a wide range of roles, interests and budgets, and we’re proud to offer six different pass types — plus a group option — to meet those diverse needs. Pick the perfect pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Let’s break it down so you know exactly which pass type suits your specific circumstances.
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 27, 2023
If business partnerships are a high-stakes form of matchmaking, then the strategic partnership between Lyft and the automotive services giant Holman was something of an odd-couple proposition at the start. When first broached five years ago, the companies’ working styles … The post Both Sides of the Partnership: Executing Lyft’s “Impossible” Ask appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
Easyship , the New York- and Singapore-based startup that enables e-commerce sellers to integrate with more than 250 courier services, announced today it has expanded its partnership with eBay to support eBay International Shipping, a newly-launched program. This means that buyers can now access more regional and express shipping solutions for international destinations through eBay’s platform.
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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.
Berkonomics
APRIL 27, 2023
Everyone who manages a company, a workgroup or a sales force wants to write as many new deals as possible and is usually wary about doing anything that might threaten the positive outcome of a pending sale. We hesitate to enforce our own rules. So, it is common practice to leave an offer containing a discount open, following up periodically to attempt to nudge a prospect into signing.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
Chief , a professional network designed for women in leadership, has cut 14% of staff, or 43 jobs today, saying in an email seen by TechCrunch that the move is a response to the economy and that the outfit is restructuring to further focus on member experience. The layoff largely hit Chief’s U.S. employees as the business’s newly launched U.K. presence is smaller.
Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category
APRIL 27, 2023
Kellyn Smith Kenny, Chief Marketing and Growth Officer at AT&T, explains the power of defining your company's purpose.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
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