The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Drives innovation: AI automation is a powerful R&D assistant. These learning capabilities are crucial for AI automation, enabling systems to adapt and get smarter. Increases organizational agility: AI automation helps your business keep up with zig-zagging market trends without missing a beat. Let's look at some examples.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Tracking: Project tracking enables ongoing oversight so you can measure progress against your plans, monitor team or individual performance, and identify bottlenecks before they derail your timelines. If you've ever used Trello , you've used a Kanban board for project management. Those are the ones I'll cover here.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2025

Its superconducting architecture enables order-of-magnitude improvements in processing speed and energy efficiency, making it a powerful alternative to today’s conventional silicon-based compute platforms. The company is leveraging innovations in low-temperature physics, chip design, and hardware integration to bring this vision to life.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you are interested in entrepreneurship, innovation and accelerating your growth, then you will want to register for EO24/7 , EO’s annual virtual-learning event. This year’s event will feature profound insights from today’s top teachers in the fields of business growth and innovation. Learn more now. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me. I believe the changes to the industry will be lasting rather than temporal change.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 25, 2024

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (Ben Franklin CNP) continues its mission of catalyzing innovation and fostering growth in the technology sector with its recent investments in four dynamic companies. Rooted in the founder’s speakeasy-style restaurant, Blind Tiger embodies elegance and innovation in every sip.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Increasing one’s imagination creates possibilities and can enable a person to pursue and accomplish many great goals. Goal board: create a board where you have goals or strategies that your company is striving for and each week you can focus on one goal or problem to solve or work on. It opens up the mind to unexplored paths.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

Businesses that provide this enabling technology and equipment can capitalize on this with special pricing and promotions. You can expect to see families invest in toys, to keep their children occupied, as well as board games, projects and puzzles that can be done as a family in the evening and on weekends. Direct to Consumer Brands.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Just about every electronic contraption you care to think of contains at least one printed circuit board (PCB), which serves to house and connect the various components that allow the device to function as a whole. Thus, the global PCB market is big business, expected to grow from a $60 billion industry in 2020 to $75 billion by 2027.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 1, 2023

Consumer frustration with their existing healthcare has spurred innovation, in particular, emerging health focused digital platforms such as Lifeforce that have received investor funding. Lifeforce is a telehealth driven model that lowers cost, reduces friction, and makes personalized health optimization more accessible.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

MessageGears intends to use the investment to accelerate the innovation of its technology platform, with an emphasis on bolstering its mobile channel capabilities, expanding its global presence, and opportunistically exploring acquisitions that align with its vision for the future.

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Gust

JUNE 8, 2014

Experts on this subject, including Yael Zofi, in her book, “ A Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams ,” has identified eight key characteristics of high-performing virtual teams that I have observed, and every startup founder should understand and enable: Members exhibit a global mindset – they look outward, not inward.

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Guy Kawasaki

AUGUST 3, 2020

This post has a different twist – let’s look at why and how you can foster change and the art of innovation in your company by driving your company with data. You need executives to ask ad hoc questions of their analytics and brainstorm with other board members on innovative solutions. Background: data is a good thing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But in 2021, Homebound expanded to Austin, Texas, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners. This is a tough category to build a business in,” Pechet said. But with a 5.5

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

We recently released the video sharing app Ferris and announced that Upfront Ventures led the funding in the company in our seed round of $2 million and I personally joined the board. The backend services to enable scrolling, click-and-watch, scroll forward with minimal buffering, etc. If you’re captivated you click and watch.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The future of TV will follow the rule of Deflationary Economics as I outline influenced by the book The Innovator’s Dilemma. It will enable the naturally creative but geographically and socially disenfranchised to make money doing what they love – participating. Serialized TV with Audience Participation. billion views.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

Commentary and Market Context Commenting on the news, Piotr Orzechowski, CEO at Infermedica, said: “We’re thrilled to welcome EBRD and Heal Capital as new investors on board of our venture. The tool has been used by more than 500K patients and has been implemented by 300 organizations, including two national governments.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

As part of the Series A round, yabeo’s Dr. Gerrit Seidel will join Wellth’s Board of Directors as the new Chairman of Wellth. Wellth’s platform has the potential to enable new models of patient engagement and drive further transformation for the 200,000 patients we serve.” ? ?

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 18, 2020

At the March 2020 Board of Director’s meeting, six companies were approved to receive an investment: CPNet, located in Harrisburg , is an industrial IoT and AI company founded to bring Industry 4.0 Using this platform, educators easily learn new concepts that ultimately build on the district’s goals and enable student success. [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

It’s what venture capital teams at innovators like First Round Capital and True Ventures realized 15 years ago?—?they So within a matter of days post shelter-in-place, Bevy took everything they were already enabling offline and started applying those tools to running remote communities and meetings. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 25, 2024

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (Ben Franklin CNP) continues its mission of catalyzing innovation and fostering growth in the technology sector with its recent investments in eight dynamic companies. This innovative approach is set to make significant contributions to cancer research and treatment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Current round: $20mm in Series C by Accel Partners (Jim Breyer, board member at Wal-Mart, Dell, and FaceBook), KPCB, and DAG Ventures. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 18, 2018

Yet, since late 2016, he has also worn the hat of chairman of the Maharashtra State Khadi and Village Industries Board (MSKIB) , a position that lets him serve as an agent and driver of social and economic change for rural communities throughout his home state in India.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software. Other prominent use cases include AML checks, customer onboarding and fraud prevention.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Bilden’s background includes his current position as Chairman Emeritus of the Naval War College Foundation and previously Director on the Board of Directors of Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc., He currently teaches a course, “Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition” as an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Funding supports innovative technology companies that are taking community banks into the future. Strategic investment fund BankTech Ventures invests in companies that are developing innovative technologies that enhance the ability of community banks to serve their customers. as of December 31, 2022, according to the FDIC.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2023

Launched in August 2022, AIFF has an investment mandate to support innovative and high-growth social enterprises in the region as it targets to reach a fund size of $50 million and expects to provide catalytic growth capital to 10 to 15 social enterprises in Asia.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 10, 2024

The other teams who participated include: Digital Evaluation Board , founded by Oren Gall (Centre County): OZG Systems’ Digital Evaluation Board (DEB) revolutionizes digital circuit design education with a portable, self-contained learning tool, enhancing flexibility and practical learning.

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Revolution

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fazeela’s experience as an investor and trusted advisor to tech-enabled businesses makes her an invaluable addition to the team, strengthening our approach of providing hands-on company portfolio support. Tell us about your experience as a UN Women Metro New York Chapter board member. all with a more personalized approach.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 21, 2024

July 17, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board today approved an investment from the New Jersey Innovation Evergreen Fund (NJIEF) into an emerging women-led company, The Many Company. Bullpen Capital has invested over $3 million into The Many Company TRENTON, N.J.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 19, 2024

July 17, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board today approved an investment from the New Jersey Innovation Evergreen Fund (NJIEF) into an emerging women-led company, The Many Company. Bullpen Capital has invested over $3 million into The Many Company TRENTON, N.J.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 25, 2024

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (Ben Franklin CNP) continues its mission of catalyzing innovation and fostering growth in the technology sector with its recent investments in eight dynamic companies. This innovative approach is set to make significant contributions to cancer research and treatment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Image Credits: WaveOne WaveOne’s main innovation was a “content-aware” video compression and decompression algorithm that could run on the AI accelerators built into many phones and an increasing number of PCs. Perhaps we’ll see similar innovations from the Apple-owned WaveOne team soon.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If we want to maintain and support sustainable economic growth while meeting the broader needs of society, we will need an economy underpinned by innovation and new technologies. It is our startup sector which will drive this innovative progress. Strategy is everything for a startup company board. Accountability. Compliance.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 8, 2024

The platform enables clients to drive growth across the digital marketing funnel, using deep artificial intelligence and machine learning. Companies with women on their boards tend to perform better on the stock market. Societies that educate girls and allow women to participate in decision-making are more successful.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2020

At Talview, our company vision is to enable everyone to build the best career for themselves, no matter where they’re located. As such, creating an effective, innovative and accessible way for students to continue learning virtually is in-line with our core mission and vision of breaking down barriers to opportunities for growth.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Even a partially remote workforce, when appropriate, enables organizations to expand their talent search to a more diverse and highly skilled pool of professionals. How will you measure success, both on a project basis and across the board? Remote workers are often more productive and engaged. Establish trust.

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