TechCrunch
JANUARY 4, 2024
Exponent Founders Capital, an early-stage venture firm founded by alumni of startups such as Plaid, Robinhood and Ramp, has closed on $75 million in capital commitments, TechCrunch is the first to report. The firm, which is emerging from stealth today, raised $50 million for its first fund in November of 2021. Managing Partners Charley Ma […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
AsiaTechDaily
JANUARY 4, 2024
Techstars, established in 2006, stands as one of the most active pre-seed investors, having extended support to over 3,800 companies. The company aims to facilitate a broader flow of capital to entrepreneurs worldwide, ensuring remarkable returns for investors. On average, an impressive 74.5% of Techstars companies secure funding within three years of participating in their […] The post Innovation, Investment, and Impact: A Journey with Dr Dan Swan in the Techstars Era first appeared on AsiaTec
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 4, 2024
Hopes that it would become easier for startups to raise capital in 2023 were left unmet as the year ended. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. New data from business database PitchBook paints a modestly dim picture of venture capital investment […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
American Entrepreneurship
JANUARY 4, 2024
Leaders and investors share common vision of building enduring consumer brands to reach their potential Well-positioned consumer brands may now have the backing of a new fund, Forward Fund 1, launching in June 2023 by Forward Consumer Partners and which recently closed this past December. The private equity firm’s debut fund backed by global investors was oversubscribed with $425 million committed.
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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?
TechCrunch
JANUARY 4, 2024
At the end of 2022, like many, I made some predictions about what 2023 would bring to the technology investing ecosystem. Namely, the Fed would tame inflation, and the fundraising market would thaw, but overall, claiming that 2023 would be the first year of a “new normal” era for the markets and that machine learning […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.
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AsiaTechDaily
JANUARY 4, 2024
Indonesian ed-tech company Zenius has officially announced its temporary shutdown due to operational challenges, as revealed by its co-founder and CEO, Sabda Putra Subekti. Expressing regret for any inconvenience caused, Subekti apologized and thanked users and partners for their trust in a statement. The suspension of operations by Zenius Education, one of Indonesia’s prominent ed-tech […] The post Indonesia’s Zenius Announce Brief Halt in Operations Amidst Financial Headwinds first appeared on
Berkonomics
JANUARY 4, 2024
We’ve been measuring & disagreeing since COVID. Do home-based employees work with the same dedication and productivity as those in office cubicles next to each other? That depends upon the management as much as the employee. I have a friend who was a CEO of a recruiting firm who “virtualized” her company after a decade of maintaining a fixed office location.
Impact Hub
JANUARY 4, 2024
sefit: revolutionising exposure therapy through virtual reality sefit, a pioneering startup founded by Elena Börlin in September 2022, addresses the challenges faced by individuals with impaired stimulus filtering. Recognising the unmet need, sefit employs innovative technology, including virtual reality (VR) and gamification, to make exposure therapy accessible and empower individuals to navigate everyday situations seamlessly.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JANUARY 4, 2024
A ride filled with lessons, mistakes, and unique experiences Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »
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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.
OurCrowd
JANUARY 4, 2024
The post [Foretellix in PR Newswire] Foretellix and Nuro announce partnership to accelerate safe deployment of autonomous vehicles appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 4, 2024
An international law firm that works with companies affected by security incidents has experienced its own cyberattack that exposed the sensitive health information of hundreds of thousands of data breach victims. San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe said last week that hackers stole the personal information and sensitive health data of more than 637,000 data […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 4, 2024
Bio Eats World is now Raising Health! On this first episode of Raising Health, Sean Duffy, cofounder and CEO of Omada Health, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of Bio + Health. Sean and Vijay discuss the building and growth of Omada, from the early days to now. As the cofounder of one of the original digital health companies, Sean has unique insight into the growth of both the digital health field and the changing venture capital environment.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 4, 2024
OpenAI plans to launch a store for GPTs, custom apps based on its text-generating AI models (e.g. GPT-4), sometime in the coming week. In an email viewed by TechCrunch, OpenAI said that developers building GPTs will have to review the company’s updated usage policies and GPT brand guidelines to ensure that their GPTs are compliant […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
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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.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JANUARY 4, 2024
Refresh, refresh again. Still no new email. This is so frustrating, they promised to get back today. Oh, how I wish I would have gone the bootstrap way instead of wasting months on fundraising. My previous startup was bootstrapped, easy, fast, and 100% control. I didn’t have to put up with this Shi*. Refresh again. Still nothing. Fundraising it’s not only frustrating, it’s boring.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 4, 2024
2024 is going to be a huge year for the cross-section of generative AI/large foundational models and robotics. There’s a lot of excitement swirling around the potential for various applications, ranging from learning to product design. Google’s DeepMind Robotics researchers are one of a number of teams exploring the space’s potential. In a blog post […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JANUARY 4, 2024
Investors, myself included, see hundreds, if not thousands, of decks The #1 repeating mistake I see in a deck is that the customer story is missing; moreover, in nearly every pitch deck, the “story” is incomplete or entirely missing. I work with over a dozen+ pre-seed startups at any given time, and I know that just because the story is missing from the deck, doesn’t mean the story doesn’t exist.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 4, 2024
Microsoft would like 2024 to be the “year of the AI PC” and to put a point on that, the company today announced a new key for Copilot — that is, a physical key that will soon make its way to your keyboard and join the Windows key, together with its friends the Control key, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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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.
OurCrowd
JANUARY 4, 2024
The post [Innoviz in PR Newswire] Innoviz strengthens board of directors with industry executives to support next chapter of growth as a global automotive LiDAR leader appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 4, 2024
Clicks Technology is today unveiling the Clicks creator keyboard for the iPhone. It’s less “the future” than an unpleasant glance back to a world we thought we had left behind, in a nostalgia-tinged flashback to the days of BlackBerry and Nokia, where pressing physical buttons was the pinnacle of mobile communication. “We use keyboards on […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
OurCrowd
JANUARY 4, 2024
The post [Polarisqb in EIN Newswires] POLARISqb and Scientist.com Partner to Offer Online Access to Quantum-Aided Drug Design appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 4, 2024
CES 2024 will be here before we know it, taking over Las Vegas with throngs of crowds, booths full of products and a lot of companies making claims about how AI is improving their offerings. As noted in our CES preview, though the conference has had its ups and downs of late, it’s increasingly become […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.
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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.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JANUARY 4, 2024
289 days ago, 3 of us created a no-code custom chatbot building platform in 4 days — and launched it on ProductHunt. Fast forward to this month: Our startup, CustomGPT , was named to “ Top 10 Emerging Leaders in Generative AI ” along with OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, Cohere, Databricks, A121 Labs and Aleph Alpha — by GAI Insights, an analyst firm focussed on Generative AI.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 4, 2024
In the wake of centralized “crypto-in-name-only” financial collapses, 2023 bore out a recommitment to advancing sustainable decentralized networks. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 4, 2024
CES has always been the place for weird, out-there gadgets to make their debuts, and this year’s show is no exception. Skyted, a Toulouse, France-based startup founded by former Airbus VP Stéphane Hersen and acoustical engineer Frank Simon, is bringing what look like a pair of human muzzles to CES 2024. Called the “Mobility Privacy […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 4, 2024
Fisker remains far from meeting CEO and founder Henrik Fisker’s publicly stated goal of delivering 300 electric SUVs per day globally, according to internal documents viewed by TechCrunch. The EV startup spent much of December aiming to meet an internal sales goal of between 100 and 200 vehicles a day in North America, where the […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
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