Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

I ran into Joe Hyrkin after his company Issuu (where he’d been CEO) was been purchased by Bending Spoons. Since I’m always interested in startup outcomes – especially those where there’s a private equity-like exit , Joe was kind enough to share the backstory with me, and here with you! Five Questions with Joe Hyrkin Hunter Walk: You sold Issuu to Bending Spoons , which has recently acquired a number of legacy products including Evernote, Meetup, WeTransfer and Brightcove.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 17, 2025

In the soft glow of a cocktail bar, Brandonthe head bartender of Stupid Barcarefully demonstrates how to mix a classic cocktail through a livestream.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 17, 2025

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2025 Komodo Health,the Evidentiary Standard for real-world data and healthcare analytics,today announced an expanded partnership with Databricks, the data and AI company, to deliver its comprehensive, data-driven patient journey insights through theDatabricks Marketplaceand Delta Sharing. This collaboration leverages the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to enhance the accessibility and scalability ofKomodos Healthcare Mapto provide unprecedented insights into patien

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GCUC

APRIL 17, 2025

GCUC Podcast Recap: Niki and Giles Fuchs From Black Tie to Broadband: Hospitality Wisdom from the Fuchs Siblings What happens when you cross one of Londons most respected coworking brands with.

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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 17, 2025

Software systems work best when they’re connected to each other. For years, incumbents use deep integrations as a competitive moat. But AI upends this dynamic. A few of our portfolio companies are starting to develop integrations with AI in a matter of hours, completely upending the two or three quarter timeframes of classic enterprise integration development.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 17, 2025

Today, we are thrilled to welcome the Fennel team to Databricks. Fennel improves the efficiency and data freshness of feature engineering pipelines for batch, streaming and real-time data by only recomputing the data that has changed. Read more here. The post [Databricks in Databricks] Fennel joins Databricks to democratize access to machine learning appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 17, 2025

Consumers are facing a number of financial and economic challenges that may coalesce in a rise in bankruptcy filings during the summer months. The financial strain on American households is becoming increasingly visible, with new data from LegalShield signaling a potential summer surge in consumer bankruptcies. According to the latest release of LegalShields Consumer Stress Legal Index (CSLI) , bankruptcy-related legal inquiries hit their highest level since early 2020, offering a stark warning

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OurCrowd

APRIL 17, 2025

The post [Anodot in PR Newswire] Umbrella achieves SOC 1 & SOC 2 Compliance, reinforcing commitment to enterprise-grade cloud financial management appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 17, 2025

Finding good AI image generators that are unrestricted may proove to be difficult but they do in fact exist and some even allow payment in both crypto and fiat. They are all unrestricted.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 17, 2025

ProFuses novel technology addresses the growing need to preserve muscle in the face of aging and the popularity of weight-loss drugs. Read more here.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 17, 2025

Jon RobertBradford I had the pleasure of interviewing Jon Robert Bradford, CEO of Colab Venture Studio. Hes helped launch more than 100 startups with a combined valuation of over $2B and has been part of nine successful exits. With over a decade of experience building, operating, and structuring companies across multiple industriesfrom early validation to acquisitionhes widely recognized for championing fractional talent, capital efficiency, and ruthless founder/operator alignment.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 17, 2025

DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR) today announced that Anthropic will leverage Palantirs FedStart offering to make Anthropics Claude application available to the government sector at FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) security standards.

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