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Alternative seafood startup Aqua Cultured Foods reels in $5.5M

TechCrunch

Venture capital investors focused on food tech are calling 2023 the year when alternative seafood startups will make notable strides. For example, one of the biggest venture capital investments into alternative seafood in 2022 went into Wildtype , which raised $100 million in a Series B round for its cultured salmon product.

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Forecasting Fintech’s Future and Keeping Culture Alive: A Q&A with the CEOs of BILL and Mercury

Andreessen Horowitz

They also talked about the difficulties — and potential advantages — of selling into small businesses, taking alternative approaches to interviewing candidates, and the importance of keeping culture a vital part of a company as it scales. Alex Immerman: If 2023 was the year of efficiency, 2024 is the year of generative AI.

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Singapore’s SPH Media Boosts News Offerings with Tech in Asia Acquisition

AsiaTechDaily

Wong Wei Kong, Editor-in-Chief of the English/Malay/Tamil Media Group at SPH Media, expressed the strategic significance of the acquisition, which will enable them to provide a more comprehensive array of products and services to their readers. Also read: Circular Raises $7.6M

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Empowering Members to Lead Leaders: EO’s Path of Leadership

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Two significant ways that EO Path of Leadership has influenced my company for the better are: PoL has enabled me to put the structure and culture in place to make my business less dependent on me day to day. Applications for Regional Council Members, Standing Committee Members and Portfolio Team Members are due 1 December 2023.

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Daily Crunch: Zoom’s new AI-powered features include whiteboard generation and meeting summaries

TechCrunch

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and reimagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth — new stages, new content, and new opportunities. Oh, and if you were laid off recently, we are offering a free Expo+ pass to TC Disrupt 2023. Kyle has more.

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Meati Foods sinks teeth into $150M to expand its mushroom-root meat operations

TechCrunch

by 2023, Huggins said. The new funding enables the company to complete its over 100,000-square-foot Mega Ranch facility in Colorado. Huggins plans to get Meati into “10,000 doors by the end of 2023,” with a goal of reaching a $1 billion in revenue run rate by 2025. Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time?

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In Their Own Words: Female Founders and CEOs Discuss the Discourse That’s Missing (and Hitting)…

Revolution

of allocated capital in 2023 (compared to 18.2% When people can Zoom into a call from nearly anywhere, and teams are distributed, you have to find a different way to build culture and collaboration. A brighter spot: Funding going to startups with at least one female founder ticked up to 26.1%

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