TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Dutchie , a four-year-old, Bend, Oregon company that charges cannabis dispensaries a monthly fee to create and run their websites and manage orders, is on a roll this year, raising its second large round of funding — this time a $350 million Series D at a $3.75 billion valuation. The new valuation is more than double what was announced in March when Dutchie brought in $200 million in Series C funding at a $1.7 billion valuation.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 14, 2021

More companies across the world are now discovering the benefits of hiring interns for their small and large companies. Not only does it give young hopefuls the chance to try a new career, but businesses can also reap the rewards of having a fresh new graduate on their team, as well as improving the formation of the company and investing in valuable leadership programs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Tala , an emerging markets digital lender that offers loans between $10 to $500 to consumers and small business owners, has raised $145 million in Series E funding. Upstart, a company founded by ex-Googlers Dave Girouard, Anna Counselman and Paul Gu, led the round. DeFi network Stellar Enterprise Foundation participated, alongside new investors Kindred Ventures and the J.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 14, 2021

co-authored with Patrick Chase. We are thrilled to announce that Redpoint has partnered with Spot AI to lead their $20M Series A. Video cameras are everywhere: in warehouses, factories, car washes, hospitals, schools, banks, and stores. These cameras generate petabytes of data daily, but the software interfaces to access video today limit their use and value.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

MagicCube , a mobile security startup, has raised $15 million in a round led by Mosaik Partners. Bold Capital, Epic Ventures, card-reader/POS hardware maker ID Tech and unnamed individual investors in the fintech space also participated in the financing, which brings the Santa Clara-based startup’s total funding raised to $30 million since its 2014 inception.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Andy Stinnes. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. More posts by this contributor.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You’ve plunged into starting a solo business venture from home. Being a solopreneur is a fantastic experience for motivated individuals, but it can easily become stagnant if you aren’t careful. When everything starts piling up, you can lose sight of what drew you to your passion project in the first place, and y our tools of escape can become your shackles.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

When flying cargo from one part of the world to another, you typically need a pilot for two parts: The take-off and the landing. As so elegantly outlined in the 1980 Jim Abrahams movie !Airplane — the rest of the time, you’re pretty much on instruments. Reliable Robotics is aiming to solve that pesky needing-to-have-a-pilot-in-the-plane problem by, instead, putting the pilot on the ground when you need it, and leave the plane to find its destination on its own the rest of the time.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Here’s one for debate around a cup of coffee or a glass of wine. Most innovation occurs when creative people are relaxed and thinking about other things. Coffee, wine, quiet time, showers…. How it occurs in large companies…. We all can picture the corporate R&D lab with tens of scientists working at white boards, or over computer models, or with prototypes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On the one-year anniversary of Copy.ai ’s launch on Twitter , the company, a GPT-3 AI-powered platform that generates copywriting tools for business customers, secured another round of funding. This time, the company brought in an $11 million Series A round, led by Wing Venture Capital, with participation from existing investors Craft Ventures and Sequoia, and new investors including Tiger Global and Elad Gil.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Among the financing solutions available to startups and small business owners, microlending is one of the more accessible. Also known as microcredit, microlending has been gaining popularity in recent years – and for good reason. Keep reading to learn more about microlending and why you should consider this option to fund your startup. What is microlending?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Tom Zick. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Tom Zick is a researcher in AI ethics at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where she is also a J.D. candidate. She holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and was previously a fellow at Bloomberg Beta and the City of Boston. Founders tend to think responsible AI practices are challenging to implement and may slow the progress of their business.

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Feedough

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There was a time when you had to face the. Read more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

During the pandemic and shift to remote work that came with it, many people took advantage of their newfound flexibility to try living in different places. One startup poised to benefit from this is Zeus Living , which is focused on giving people “flexible living” options and has just raised $55 million in a round led by SIG. Initialized Capital, CEAS Investments, TI Platform, NFX, Opendoor’s Eric Wu and Miras also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $125 mi

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We want to congratulate Sid Sijbrandij, Dmitriy Zaporozhets, and the entire GitLab Inc. team on today’s IPO! GitLab Inc., from YC’s Winter 2015 batch, is YC’s first open-source company to go public, the first alum of the YC Growth Program to go public, and one of the earliest investments made by the YC Continuity Fund. GitLab Inc. is one of the most innovative companies to participate in YC’s programs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

AI shopping assistant and shopping network Karma announced that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Target Global followed by MoreTech Ventures, with participation from existing investors including NFX and Altair Capital. Karma allows users to plan their next online purchases, get notified about real-time price and inventory updates, access coupons and earn automatic cashback.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“BlueGreen is committed to making water safe,” says Eyal Harel, the chief executive and co-founder of the company. “We undertook this project pro-bono, knowing it was the only chance for this community to access clean drinking water, enjoy Setumo Dam as a safe water source, and unleash its potential for recreational purposes. We wish to empower local authorities to reclaim their water sources and advance the health and livelihood of their communities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

YouTube is the third-most-used website within schools, according to Matthew Gross , CEO and co-founder of Newsela. “That is incredible, considering how difficult it is to find videos, how unfiltered it is and how inaccessible it is for many students who have different learning abilities and learning levels,” said Gross. “Video has to evolve.”. To that end, Newsela announced today that it has acquired HapYak, an interactive video software business for the enterprise, for an undisclosed amount.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Fintech start-up Tala said Thursday it raised $145 million in a Series E funding round that the company intends to use to expand its borrowing, savings and money management options across Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, India and the United States, including crypto offerings. Read more here. The post [Tala in cnbc] Tala, fintech for the underbanked, raises $145 million to expand globally and into crypto appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Any subscriber to the Daily Crunch newsletter is familiar with just how often Indian startups take point in our coverage of emerging technology companies around the world. The country’s prominence has perhaps also risen as the Chinese venture capital market evolves in the face of a changing regulatory environment. A number of Indian companies have recently gone public or started the IPO process.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 14, 2021

What 35 Years Experience Can Teach (Image courtesy of Shutterstock) Intuition can help reveal the hidden character of the applicant. As a Corporate Psychologist for the last forty years, I have been asked by public safety agencies in the United States and Australia to assist in hiring frontline staff. These include police, firefighters, ambulance services, and other professions in which people will make life and death decisions as part of their daily job.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

South Korean travel tech startup Yanolja has acquired a 70% stake in a listed South Korean e-commerce pioneer, Interpark , for about $250 million. . The company plans to use the acquisition to make further inroads into the overseas tourism industry. Interpark offers online travel booking services and international shipping to more than 230 countries and targets Korean, English, Chinese, and Japanese-speaking customers.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

By James Munnerlyn, President and Co-Founder of Blip Billboards. Apple is going full throttle with its privacy measures for users with its recent release of iOS 15. But what does this mean for SMBs? What does this mean for your business? Digital ads (particularly on social media platforms owned by Facebook) are now more expensive and less effective.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The successful commercial launches of Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic have officially ushered in a new era of space tourism. But unlike these companies, which are planning on taking people to space using rockets or spaceplanes , two-year-old startup Space Perspective is taking a different tack. Instead of going to space on a rocket, which are prohibitively expensive to develop and may not appeal to all customers, the startup plans to offer rides to the stratosphere using a capsule attach

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Farming accounts for 24% of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions, and this is largely due to the intensive, “industrial” farming methods employed in the last few decades, together with the rise in the consumption of meat. However, a new approach has been taking the farming world by storm. “Regenerative farming” practices hand unproductive land back to nature, boosts wildlife and stores planet-killing CO2, literally using soil as a carbon sink.

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