The Seraf Compass

MAY 10, 2023

Staying on top of the early stage investing world requires a lot of reading. One of the biggest trends we witnessed over the past few years is the rapid pace of new early stage venture fund formation combined with significant growth in the amount of capital invested. A decade or two ago, most of the new funds were traditional VC funds located in technology hubs in the US and a few other countries around the globe.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 11, 2023

Stop hustling eighty hours a week, and start building your business like a system.

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

Curtis Fonger and Matthew Busel met on YC’s Co-Founder Matching (CFM) Platform, a tool we built to help co-founders find each other. Even in early conversations, their fit as co-founders was clear to each of them. With both eager to build, work began on Whalesync — which helps businesses sync their data across no-code tools like Airtable and Webflow — before the two even met in person.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Insights and soundbites from our second Beyond Silicon Valley Summit This year, we had more than 150 investors from 31 states join us for our second Beyond Silicon Valley Summit. And while this May’s economic backdrop was markedly different from last’s , enthusiasm was high and outlooks remained positive for the startup momentum building between the coasts.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , the most prominent global startup acceleration program of South Korea, is garnering a positive response from global startups as the deadline for the application stage approaches on May 18, 2023,16:00 (GMT+9).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 12, 2023

The parallels between entrepreneurship and parenthood are plentiful. With Mother’s Day weekend upon us in the US, we asked EO members what lessons they have inadvertently learned through parenting their children. Here’s what they shared: 1. Be fearless It’s remarkable to see the faith that my two toddlers have that everything will be ok.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Millions of people use sign language, but methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly those for written and spoken languages. SLAIT School aims to change that with an interactive tutor powered by computer vision , letting aspiring ASL speakers practice at their own rate like in any other language learning app. SLAIT started back in 2021 as the sign language AI translator (hence the name): a real-time video chat and translation tool that could recognize most

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 9, 2023

Organovis hopes to transform drug testing by making it more precise, ethical, and affordable NEW YORK, May 8, 2023 – The City College of New York (“CCNY”) student-led start-up, Organovis has won the 2023 Women in Tech (“WiT”) Incubator Competition. Sponsored by Standard Chartered Americas (“Bank”), the WiT competition is part of the Bank’s longstanding partnership with the Zahn Innovation Center (“Zahn Center”) at CCNY to promote greater gender diversity in the technology sector.

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Y Combinator

MAY 11, 2023

Every batch, we invite founders to advise YC companies as Visiting Group Partners. These advisors bring valuable insights and recent operational experience to YC’s early-stage companies. Throughout the batch, they take on a variety of responsibilities, including application reading, interviews, group and individual office hours, Demo Day prep, and more.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 10, 2023

Like a lot of entrepreneurs, I find there are rarely enough hours in the day, but EO helped make me a more complete person. And I want to make time to help others enjoy the same experience. By Ami Kassar, EO Philadelphia president FY2023-25 In late April, I attended the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Global Leadership Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, along with more than 1,300 EO members from around the world.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between. It’s time to disrupt TechCrunch Disrupt This year, we’re reimagining and refreshing Disrupt to deliver the essential tools, knowledge, and connections that help ignite ideas and accelerate the next ge

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 11, 2023

BlueHalo Launches Next Generation of Lighter, Stronger, More Efficient Intense Eye UAS Featuring HX5® Injection Molded Chassis from Alpine Advanced Materials ARLINGTON, VA & DALLAS, TX (May 2023) – BlueHalo has launched the next generation of its Intense Eye Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) platform that incorporates an injection molded chassis using HX5®, a multi-scale reinforced polymer from Alpine Advanced Materials (“Alpine”).

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register South Korea venture investment firm ‘1Billion Partners Inc. participated in the BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) in Macau, recognized as Asia’s largest technology expo. This renowned event, held from May 10 to 12, provides a valuable platform for global technological innovation and industrial modernization, attracting participation from over 800 exhib

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Jason Malki

MAY 9, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Jonathan Capriola, the founder of AI Blockchain Ventures , who has a successful track record of entrepreneurship and innovation. With his identical twins, he is building an AI platform to transform 3D animation storytelling by using AI modularity and tying final outputs to blockchain technology. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

Are you a seed-stage founder who’s building a unicorn? NFX Founding Partner James Currier would like to save you some time: Startups that grow into billion-dollar companies have three basic forms of defensibility. Network effects: Your product becomes more valuable as more people use it. Embedding: Integrate your services so deeply, customers “cannot rip them out.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 11, 2023

$43 million invested to foster regional collaboration to support the economic growth of communities through innovation Universities, nonprofits, businesses and other organizations across the U.S. and territories are the recipients of $43 million in investments made by the NSF, as part of its Regional Innovation Engines Development Awards. These first-time awards were given to 44 teams around the country tasked with driving American innovation into the future.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 10, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The highly anticipated in-person third edition of the BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) Asia’s foremost annual gathering for technology and innovation, commenced with grandeur in Macau today, on May 10. With a resounding vision of bridging Asia and the rest of the world amidst geopolitical tensions, Jason Ho, one of the co-founders of BEYOND Internat

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 8, 2023

How many startups with female founders are getting funding?

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi Contributor Share on Twitter Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member and mentor to startups, and an angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. More posts by this contributor Finding your startup’s valuation: An angel investor explains how 5 sustainable best practices for bootstrapped startups After viewing thousands of presentations and pitch decks over many years, even the most experienced angel

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 9, 2023

Renewable Energy World , a top source for green energy and storage news, will be hosting a virtual panel discussion on May 11 th at 10 am ET, titled “ Innovations in Battery Technology and Infrastructure Fueling the EV Revolution ”. The panel will focus on the challenges facing the EV landscape. They include the need for a domestic supply chain of critical minerals, advancements in EV battery technology and the establishing of the country’s charging infrastructure.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 8, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register City University of Hong Kong has announced the launch of the HK Tech 300 Southeast Asia Start-up Competition in Kuala Lumpur, extending its successful HK Tech 300 initiative to Southeast Asia. The competition is aimed at fostering innovation and technology development in the region and supporting start-ups.

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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.

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Jason Malki

MAY 9, 2023

Revolutionizing the In-Vehicle Connected Experience: An Interview with Todd Thomas, CRO of Aiden Automotive I had the pleasure of interviewing Todd Thomas the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) of Aiden Automotive. Todd joined Aiden from his most recent position as the CEO of a stealth startup within the SBD Radical Innovation Accelerator. He is a recognized voice in connected products & services, connected vehicles, telematics, mobility, IOT, AI and data science.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

How far has the psychedelics medicines industry come over the past 12 months ? Well, it depends on where you look. If you look at the stock market, the view isn’t very good: the charts are all down and in the red, and all you can see are psychedelics companies tottering by, doing their best to impress cynical investors. Similar to most other sectors today, that crumbling of confidence in the sector has trickled down to the private markets as well, slowing down venture dealmaking and further shri

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 9, 2023

Funding will be used to enhance the world’s first AI debugging workspace SAN FRANCISCO–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Openlayer , the creator of the world’s most comprehensive platform for testing AI, today announced that it has closed a $4.8 million seed round. The funds will be used to expand its workforce and enhance the platform’s functionality so it is capable of handling additional machine learning (ML) tasks.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register beSUCCESS Media Group , a well-known media group in South Korea, participated in the prominent BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) in Macau as a designated media partner. Asia’s largest technology Expo, held from May 10 to 12, serves as a platform for global technological innovation and industrial modernization, hosting over 800 exhibitors from 120 countries

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