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SXSW 2022: Building the Sustainable Startups of the Future

Revolution

As the imperative to tackle climate change mounts and more consumers seek brands that align with their environmental values, major companies have sustainability firmly on their radar. But implementing green initiatives is easier said than done?—?which is why we assembled a panel of founders paving the way for a more proactive future in their industries.

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how funding can kickstart student innovation on campus

Venture Well

Learn how VentureWell support helped three grantees introduce students to scientific innovation to solve social and environmental challenges. The post how funding can kickstart student innovation on campus appeared first on VentureWell.

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Keeping It Simple

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Investing is humbling. At 60, with 35 years of venture investing experience, I still get most things wrong. Which is why I like to keep things simple. And when I do I am rewarded. My friend Gordon asked me last night how I got into Bitcoin. I told him the story of how I bumped into Rikki Tahta walking through the garment district in NYC in the spring of 2011 and Rikki told me he was working on a Bitcoin startup.

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Colabs gets $3 million seed to expand across Pakistan, launch back-office SaaS solution

TechCrunch

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. It also plans to hire more staff, which will include increasing the product team for its SaaS workspace business service that is emerging from the beta phase.

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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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Data50: The World’s Top Data Startups

Andreessen Horowitz

Over a decade after the idea of “big data” was first born, data continues to be one of the most important and furiously growing innovation drivers across both large enterprises and new startups. From providing pulse checks that are foundational to business operations to intelligently automating daily tasks through machine learning, data has become the.

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The Spicy Future for Data

Tomasz Tunguz

What’s the price of spice ? If you’ve never seen a data app, that’s the question you should be asking yourself. Data apps are living documents that weave narratives around data and charts to explain, persuade, or empower. Imagine your future self. You work for a large company selling spices and you’re tasked with exploring the impact of pricing changes.

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Fintech startup Jeeves raises $180M, quadruples valuation to $2.1B in half a year

TechCrunch

Less than seven months after closing on a $57 million Series B , fast-growing fintech Jeeves has raised $180 million in a Series C round that values the company at $2.1 billion. Financial technology companies raising multiple rounds in a short period of time has become more the norm than an exception as of late. Still, the velocity of Jeeves’ growth and increase in valuation is impressive.

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Corporate Venture Capital?—?Self-Deception At An All-time High

Entrepreneur's Handbook

In the middle of our fundraising efforts for our seed round, I got a call from Joshua. He invited us to pitch in front of a coalition of… Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Prima’s Assaf is Combating Stress via Pure and Potent Plant Therapeutics

Jason Malki

I had the pleasure of interviewing Jessica Assaf, Co-Founder and Chief Education Officer of Prima , a B Corp and purpose-driven brand elevating hemp-based cannabinoids and functionally innovative botanical ingredients. A graduate of Harvard Business School, award-winning entrepreneur and activist on a mission to use business to improve health, Jessica has been a leading advocate for safe products, corporate accountability, consumer wellness and female empowerment since the age of 15.

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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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Founder Spotlight – People-first logistics with Joshe Ordonez from Airpals Technologies Inc.

Gust

Welcome to the Gust Launch Founder Spotlight! Gust Launch supports a variety of exciting founders doing amazing things. In this ongoing series we’ll highlight the experiences of Gust Launch founders, in their own words, as they navigate the challenges of early-stage entrepreneurship. Want to share your story? Reach out at spotlight@gust.com. The Founder, the company, and why […].

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Kenya-based agritech Apollo raises $40 million in Softbank-led round, joined by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, CDC

TechCrunch

Kenya-based agritech Apollo Agriculture , which helps farmers access high-quality farm inputs, financing and markets, plans to double the number of farmers it is serving by the end 2022 and to introduce other products that deliver more value per acre of land. This is after raising $40 million in Series B funding in the equity round led by Softbank Vision Fund 2.

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#21. How To Build A Successful Business Without Venture Capital w/ Aaron Dinin

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Image courtesy of Aaron Dinin Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube. Today’s guest is Aaron Dinin who is a professor of Entrepreneurship at Duke University. He has an unconventional background with a Ph.D. in English and a published fiction book. He then went on to create venture-backed tech businesses before a health scare forced him to re-evaluate.

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Investing in Flock

Andreessen Horowitz

Being a landlord sounds like a terrific thing, and it has been a powerful path to wealth creation for so many people for centuries. But there are two problems: It’s very hard to just “retire” — owning stocks and bonds. … The post Investing in Flock appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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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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SportsBiz’s Feuerstein is Leveraging AI to Create Industry Standards for Sports Marketing &…

Jason Malki

SportsBiz’s Feuerstein is Leveraging AI to Create I ndustry Standards for Sports Marketing & Sponsorships I had the pleasure of interviewing Steve Feuerstein, the Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of SportsBizGroup. Mr. Feuerstein is a thirty-year veteran of the sports marketing industry. Steve began his career in 1990 in Asia with the founding of Sports International, which became the number one sports marketing business in its field for over 12 years in the Republic of China.

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RapidAPI nabs $150M at a $1B valuation, with its API marketplace now used by 4M+ developers

TechCrunch

RapidAPI , the startup that has built a platform that helps businesses find and integrate third-party APIs, as well as manage their own usage of their own internal APIs, has picked up another big round of funding of $150 million — underscoring both its growth and that of the so-called API economy, where digital services that are often complicated to build and run from the ground up are being built once and turned into extensible units by way of APIs that in turn help power functionality wh

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The Most Important Skill in Startups Isn’t What You Think

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The biggest factor in entrepreneurial success is something few people ever talk about. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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I Love Backing ‘Mission-Driven’ Founders But Here’s Where They Can Struggle as Startup CEOs

Hunter Walk

Learnings From a Decade Investing In These Types of Leaders. We’ve sent hundreds of millions of dollars to startup bank accounts but none of those have gone to teams which don’t have at least one founder we consider to be ‘mission-driven.’ How do I define that term? Loosely, someone who has a personal connection to the problem they’re trying to solve.

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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 TECHCELERATOR@STATE COLLEGE ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF PITCH EVENT!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Recently, eight entrepreneurial teams completed a ten-week, virtual, business startup boot camp. This exciting program has been offered by Ben Franklin’s Tech Celerator @State College, in partnership with the Invent Penn State initiative, for ten years. On Tuesday, March 22, 2022, beginning at 2:00 PM, the teams pitched their business concepts to a panel of independent judges for a cash prize of up to $10,000!

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Weeks after launch, Island hits $1.3B valuation with $115M round

TechCrunch

Island, a Dallas-based startup that built a secure browser for the enterprise , has raised $115 million in a Series B round, valuing the company at $1.3 billion just weeks after emerging from stealth with $100 million in initial funding. The astonishingly fast raise was led by previous lead investor Insight Partners, and comes just weeks after the New York-based venture capital firm raised over $20 billion for its twelfth flagship fund.

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Investing in Hex

Andreessen Horowitz

Much has been discussed, written, and reconfigured around the modern data stack – and for good reason, it’s one of the most significant shifts in data architecture of our time. But as close followers of its evolution, one of the … The post Investing in Hex appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Indonesian aquaculture startup DELOS raises $8m in funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register DELOS, an Indonesian aquaculture-tech company , has raised $8 million in Seed extension financing co-led by Centauri, a collaborative fund between MDI Ventures and KB Investment Co., Ltd. and Southeast Asian venture capital fund Alpha JWC Ventures.

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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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EXPLORE! Entrepreneurship Summit: Growing a Business in the Alleghenies

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Featuring Keynote Speaker Joe Veneto, Chief Experience Officer, Veneto Collaboratory. If you are looking to start an outdoor recreation business, or one that supports outdoor recreation tourism in the Alleghenies, Explore! Entrepreneurship Summit is for you. Presented by Startup Alleghenies, the event will be held at River Mountain, on May 15-16, 2022.

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AI creative platform D-ID, the tech behind those viral videos of animated family photos, raises $25M

TechCrunch

D-ID , the Israeli company leveraging artificial intelligence to create unique, viral experiences like “Deep Nostalgia ,” which animates the faces of long-lost relatives in your old photos, announced today the raise of a $25 million Series B round of funding led by Macquarie Capital. The additional funds shortly follow D-ID’s recent launch of its Deep Nostalgia follow-up project, LiveStory , which adds audio to the animated photos, allowing the people in the photos to narrate t

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The App Store Model Comes to Web3

Tomasz Tunguz

Six months ago, I wrote about how the cap tables of crypto companies have approached the structure of web2 startups. Recently, EVMOS , a web3 project, pushed forward an important innovation for the web3 ecosystem. EVMOS enables Ethereum’s virtual machine on the Cosmos chain. The EVMOS token model innovates on its predecessors by introducing the App Store dynamics to web3.

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Nepalese PE firm Team Ventures invests in AI healthtech startup WISEYAK

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Nepalese alternative investment firm Team Ventures has invested about $250,000 in artificial intelligence (AI)-based healthtech startup WISEYAK. WISEYAK has developed an AI and Machine Learning (ML) technology-based platform that offers unique solutions to Clinical Decision Support across the healthcare industry in a unified platform.

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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