Tomasz Tunguz
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Will year-end Series A and B valuations top or trail those of January? This question sits atop most founders' lips and boardroom agendas. The broad market sentiment is they will be lower. Public-market software valuations have withered more than 60% from their highs. Alarm about interest rates, QE ending, and geopolitical risk have swirled around public technology companies, kinking the valuation curve.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Artificial intelligence-powered voice and video technologies have been gaining steady popularity in recent years. A Korean startup called Neosapience has developed a synthetic voice and video platform, Typecast , that lets users turn text into a video without recording and editing in a studio. . Today, Neosapience announced it has raised $21.5 million in a Series B round to accelerate growth and expand new geographies, specifically into the U.S.
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Smart Hustle Magazine
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
There’s a misconception that the most successful business leaders are born with their leadership credentials imprinted in their DNA. Surely because they are more successful than their peers, it stands to reason they’re extremely sharp or even smarter than their non-CEO cohorts. But in truth, what sets successful business leaders apart is their innate curiosity and sponge-like ability to draw out insights about their business from all kinds of places.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The global chat commerce’s total addressable market is worth an estimated $80 billion and is seen as the third big wave of digital commerce after e-commerce and app commerce markets. As the largest digital platform in the world with more users than the internet’s 4.7 billion users, it only makes sense for businesses to communicate and transact with consumers through chat channels.
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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
Impact Hub
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Vienna, February 22, 2022. Impact Hub proudly announces a partnership with sustainable hotel booking platform, Goodwings. Why? To take climate action. How? By better understanding, reducing and removing its travel-related carbon emissions — at scale. Petr Skvaril, Partnerships Director at Impact Hub, says “This partnership will allow us to better understand and manage our carbon footprint and remove our travel-related emissions from the atmosphere.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Understanding the Pre-Pre Round and its industry investors Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Hasura , the company behind the popular open source Hasura GraphQL Engine that can turn virtually any database into a GraphQL API, today announced that it has raised a $100 million Series C funding round led by Greenoaks. Previous investors Nexus Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Vertex Ventures also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $136.5 million and its valuation to $1 billion.
AsiaTechDaily
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register India-based healthy snacking brand Happilo has raised US$25 million from Motilal Oswal PE (MOPE) to build its direct-to-consumer (D2C) snacks business. Last year in February, the company had raised US$12 million from A91 Partners. “Covid-19 has emphasized the importance of healthy eating and nutritious food in the mind of every customer.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Online language learning continues to be a huge opportunity for startups, with the most engaging experiences meeting a surge of interest from consumers looking for more productivity out of the hours that they spend on their smartphones. In one of the more recent developments, a language learning app called EWA — which has built a media-based approach to language acquisition, with excerpts from films and TV, and books, to familiarize learners with vocabulary and speaking — has passed
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Jason Malki
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Jonathan Bobrow is an award-winning designer and technologist at the forefront of digital, hands-on play. He’s an alumnus of MIT and UCLA with degrees in media arts, and currently leads Move38 as Founder and CEO. Move38 is a new kind of game company with emerging technology, including Blinks, a tabletop game system with a mind of its own. Jonathan has successfully Kickstarted six products, raising more than $750,000 on the crowdfunding platform.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Christian Ebersol was working for a health insurance company when he became interested in carbon capture storage and plant-based food. After joining the entrepreneur-in-residence program at OMERS Ventures to figure out where his next move might be in those spaces, he started reading Marl Bittman’s book, “Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal,” and that’s what introduced him to regenerative agriculture , which is a way of having plants and animals co-exist on th
Innovation 2 Enterprise
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Alloy Automation , a Y Combinator graduate focused on connecting different e-commerce tools, announced this morning that it has closed a $20 million Series A led by a16z. The startup characterized the funding event as brisk, a contrast to its 2021 capital event when it was harder for the company to secure funding. TechCrunch covered Alloy’s seed round just over a year ago , when the startup raised a $4 million round at a $16 million pre-, and $20 million post-money valuation.
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Impact Hub
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
It’s not any news that the world is a little bit off track when it comes to achieving its sustainability objectives. You can choose which ruler to use for measuring the progress towards them. Equality indexes, CO2 emissions, species growth/loss, you name it — the outcome is urgent for all of them. If we are to change this scenario, we have to rethink the future and redesign the way we live, consume and move around.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Enticing people to change their eating habits, especially to try alternative meat products, is a challenge for food tech companies because people want that product to taste, smell and feel like actual meat. Yali Bio is one company that thinks it has cracked that code by focusing on designer fats for plant-based meat and dairy products. It is building a platform to tailor-make fats aimed at enhancing the flavor of alternative meats.
Secure Docs
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
2021: An Astounding Year for M&A. Q4 capped a record-breaking year for M&A, driven by a unique combination of powerful tailwinds. All told, 2021 saw nearly $6 trillion in M&A value, crushing any previous year by more than a trillion dollars. Healthcare, technology, finance, and logistics were standout sectors, all driven in different ways by the global restructuring brought by the pandemic.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The world’s labs are under pressure to do more tests and process more materials, not just due to COVID but from the growing biotech and drug development sectors — and automation is the sure path forwards. Automata, which got its start making a robotic arm for handling individual tasks, has now raised $50M to automate entire lab processes from start to finish.
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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Clinch, the “Personalization Everywhere” company that leads the industry in AI-driven omnichannel personalization (DCO) and dynamic ad-serving, today announced the launch of Flight Control, the very first powerful SaaS platform built to eliminate complexity in campaign workflows and make agencies and internal brand media organizations more efficient and profitable.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Companies sit on a lot of unstructured data and often don’t have the capabilities to get much out of it. Now imagine having a way to store data and actually be able to ask it questions, for example, “When did ABC Company sign its first contract with us?” or “Show me videos that contain blue skies.”. That is what SeMI Technologies is building with Weaviate, a vector search engine.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Today, TytoCare has partnered with Alice, Brazil’s first primary care-driven health insurance plan, to expand Alice’s telehealth offerings with at-home medical examinations. Read more here. The post [TytoCare in HIT Consultant] TytoCare, Alice partner to expand telehealth offerings in Brazil appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Minded , a psychiatry-focused telehealth company specializing in managing mental health medication for consumers, has raised $25 million in seed funding. Launched in 2021 in New York, Minded provides consumers with access to online psychiatry. Minded is currently available in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, Illinois and California.
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
BALTIMORE, Feb. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Slinger® (OTCQB: SLBG), a leading connected sports technology company, today announced the completion of its acquisition of PlaySight Interactive Ltd. (www.playsight.com), a pioneer in video technology, data capture, high performance analytics and automated video production for sports. Read more here.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Companies that help businesses integrate voice and video communication into their apps and services have proliferated in recent years, with services such as Twilio and Diagflow, an NLP platform developed by Google, burgeoning. Voximplant has raised $10.1 million so far to do similar things, and is now launching the beta version of its Avatar product.
HPA
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
New data collected by Crunchbase News indicates that the value of global unicorns has crested the $4 trillion mark. The valuation milestone is notable not merely for its scale, but its relative size. Compared to what? The value of the major tech companies of the West, namely the U.S. Big Five. Once they were known as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Facebook.
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
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