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Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in

TechCrunch

In the process, they’re betting that innovative approaches to solving those problems will not just create returns but create disruptions and innovations that spill over into adjacent sectors. What sort of growth are you expecting in the sector?

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InstaDeep’s acquisition is a classic case of an African startup gone global 

TechCrunch

To my question on whether InstaDeep is an outlier, Begiur expressed optimism that more success stories from Africa’s deep tech and AI community would be told sooner rather than later, especially as the venture capital market has turned red-hot for AI-based innovation.

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Today’s startups should terrify you

TechCrunch

It’s through our data that so many tech giants (though not all) made their billions. Some call it innovation and disruption; others see it as exploitation. We’ve seen how our data is used by companies to consolidate power, like market or user share, to make money.

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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

Forward Cities

As the Economic Innovation Group states, “the startup-less recovery revealed one of the glaring failures of the response to the Great Recession.” As disruptive as COVID-19 is, new entrepreneurial opportunities will open up because of it. In the ensuing years, entrepreneurship in America struggled to recover.

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Bright Cellars lands more funding to personalize its subscription-based wine collection

TechCrunch

Yau also talked about industry trends that he’s seeing because of all that data collection. But fortunately, so far for this year, we haven’t had any operational or supply-chain disruptions. RY: We’ve had conversations, more in terms of partnerships because we have lots of data and can help them.

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Indonesian consumer research startup Populix gets $1.2M in pre-Series A funding

TechCrunch

We felt it was important to do consumer sentiment in Indonesia, because it’s going to be a big market and Indonesia has seen very little innovation so far,” Astandu added. That gives us a chance to disrupt it, in the sense that it has always catered to the big clients.

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Navigating Supply Chain Disruption: 7 Strategies for Small Businesses

StartupNation

According to the weekly pulse data collected by the U.S. Wherever your business sits on the spectrum, you’ll want to follow these tips to navigate supply chain disruption. Wherever your business sits on the spectrum, you’ll want to follow these tips to navigate supply chain disruption. You got this!