TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2022
If data is at the heart of any modern business, it needs to be easier to access and manipulate it without expertise. While there are many data analysis tools available, including the sophisticated data science variety, and more line of business-focused BI tools, it hasn’t been easy for a person with little experience to work with data without going to one of these experts for help.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JUNE 29, 2022
Weekly ?? #11: TikTok isn’t just for kids Welcome to another edition of our new newsletter! You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss: Finding killer ideas for your next startup venture Making a million-dollar audience Why the current Web3 Ice Age is perfect for builders Let’s get to it.
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TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2022
In February 2020, as the world was shutting down, and as businesses downsized on account of the Covid pandemic, John Kamara was busy establishing another new startup Adanian Labs in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. It had taken him two years to finally make this dream a reality, and nothing — not even the pandemic — was going to derail him. And so, swimming against the tides, he set up the venture studio in partnership with co-founders Irene Kiwia and Bendon Murgor.
AsiaTechDaily
JUNE 29, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register GetVantage , a revenue-based finance platform (RBF), has raised $36 million in funding, backed by returning investors Chiratae Ventures and Dream Incubator Japan as well as Varanium Nexgen Fintech Fund and DMI Sparkle Fund. Sony Innovation Fund, InCred Capital, and Haldiram’s Family Office also participated in the funding round, according to the announcement.
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TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2022
Kukua , a Nairobi- and London-based educational entertainment company and the creators of “ Super Sema ,” the first African animated superhero franchise, has raised $6 million in its latest round of investment. Tencent, which made its first African edtech bet in Nigeria’s uLesson last December, co-led this Series A round with Italy-based VC Alchimia.
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TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2022
Some SMEs don’t want to get (or have access to) equity funding, but also want to stay away from high-interest bank loans. That’s the gap that revenue-based financing platforms like GetVantage want to fill. The Mumbai-based startup announced today that it has raised $36 million in equity and debt led by Varanium Nexgen Fintech Fund, DMI Sparkle Fund, along with returning investors Chiratae Ventures and Dream Incubator Japan.
The Seraf Compass
JUNE 29, 2022
Good decisions begin with good information. During due diligence, you will want to determine whether the risk level is low, medium or high for each area. For low risk areas, you shouldn’t put in any effort from a due diligence perspective. For medium risk areas, you might need to perform some cursory diligence. It’s the high risk areas where you will need to apply significant resources.
TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2022
AlgiKnit is on a mission to offer more environmentally conscious materials for the heavily polluting fashion and textile industries. The startup is developing materials from seaweeds such as Macrocystis pyrifera, one of the planet’s most renewable and regenerative organisms, creating yarns and fibers that don’t rely on petroleum or toxic chemicals.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JUNE 29, 2022
Have you been watching Start It Up, EO’s mini-series chronicling the 2022 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) competition? The finale airs on 30 June 2022. You can watch all four inspiring episodes on EO’s GSEA Competition YouTube Channel. Libby Rothschild is an EO New Jersey member, a registered dietitian nutritionist and founder of Dietitian Boss , where she shows dietitians how to go from zero to creating a six-figure virtual practice using her trademarked method.
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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.
TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2022
Walmart is expanding its array of virtual try-on services for shoppers with today’s news that it’s planning to acquire Memomi , an AR optical tech company and current Walmart partner offering virtual try-on experience for eyewear. Deal terms were not disclosed, but Memomi has enabled digital measurements for all Walmart and Sam’s Club customers since 2019, the retailer said.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JUNE 29, 2022
It’s entirely possible to buck convention, shirk the rules, and still succeed; in fact, doing so just may help you get there faster. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2022
Snežana Gebauer. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Snežana Gebauer, a partner with StoneTurn , has 20 years of experience in managing complex international investigations for major law firms, Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies and sovereign nations. The economic sanctions that have been imposed following the war in Ukraine pose an intricate set of challenges for private equity (PE).
Andreessen Horowitz
JUNE 29, 2022
By the time you think you’ve got crypto figured out, something new emerges — or an old innovation comes back to the fore. Since the last Crypto Winter thawed, we’ve experienced a DeFi Summer, scaled the ramparts of an NFT revolution, and then logged onto Discord for a DAO resurgence. As enthusiasm over prices gives. Read More. The post Crypto/Web3 So Far in 2022 appeared first on Future.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2022
Y Combinator has announced Launch YC , a platform where people can sort accelerator startups by industry, batch and launch date to discover new products. The famed accelerator, which has seeded the likes of Instacart, Coinbase, OpenSea and Dropbox, invites users to vote for newly launched startups “to help them climb up the leaderboard, try out product demos, and learn about the founding team.”.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JUNE 29, 2022
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TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2022
Helios , a Tel Aviv–based startup that wants to make it easier for developers to understand, troubleshoot and test their distributed systems during the development phase, today announced its general availability and that it has raised a $5 million seed round co-led by Entrée Capital and Amiti VC. A number of angel investors, including Benny Schnaider, Guy Podjarny (co-founder of Snyk), Adi Sharabani and Yair Amit (co-founders of Skycure) and Guy Fighel (GM at New Relic), also participated in thi
Andreessen Horowitz
JUNE 29, 2022
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TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2022
Most Americans dread doing their taxes. Surveys show as much. But as many as 40% rely on money from tax refunds to satisfy some financial obligation. Ben Borodach, a former Deloitte fintech strategist and the CEO of tax service provider April , believes this points to the need for taxpayers to change their behavior from thinking about taxes as a once-a-year obligation to a “continual,” yearlong assessment. “Understandably, the complexity of the tax code is a turnoff for many Am
Y Combinator
JUNE 29, 2022
Today we launched a new way to discover recently-backed YC startups and product updates from YC alum — Launch YC. A version of Launch YC has existed for years on Bookface, our internal platform for YC founders. But now, we’re bringing “Launch Bookface” to the world. On Launch YC, you can sort by industry, batch, votes, and launch date to uncover products that are most relevant to you.
TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2022
E-commerce marketplaces are big businesses. It was estimated that some $3.2 trillion was spent globally on the top marketplaces in 2021, with those like Taobao, Tmall and Amazon accounting for over 60% of the activity, according to research firm Digital Commerce 360. With that number expected to grow 14% per year, Nautical Commerce wants to provide tools to retailers, B2B businesses and brands of any size so they can build their own multivendor marketplace, in as little as 90 days and without ex
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JUNE 29, 2022
Photo by chester wade on Unsplash The internet was a clunky technology in 1995 that promised to change the world. Consumers didn’t understand it, and pundits mocked its significance. The internet, as we know it, eventually went on to transform the world, emerging as one of the most significant technological leaps of our lifetime. Now, twenty-seven years later, we find ourselves at a similar juncture.
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TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2022
New data indicates that startups are laying off more staff. That said, the pace of layoffs is modest compared with the early-2020 economic correction. As COVID locked down many nations for the first time, the global economy shuddered and startups were left to deal with an immensely changed world effectively overnight. Layoffs at companies like Toast, Airbnb, TripActions and others were symbolic of how some still-private companies found their markets effectively shuttered overnight.
OurCrowd
JUNE 29, 2022
VENTURA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ultrafast industrial 3D printing leader Nexa3D is now shipping market-ready desktop XiP™ 3D printers to customers. Since introducing its first Lubricant Sublayer Photo-curing (LSPc®) system for the desktop at Formnext in November 2021, Nexa3D has seen the new product’s waitlist extend to hundreds of product designers and creators looking to increase the throughput and efficiency of desktop 3D printing.
TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2022
Alex Song. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Alex Song is the CEO and founder of Proxima , a data science company that helps brands better reach consumers across all major platforms. More posts by this contributor. Why D2C holding companies are here to stay. Every day, the advertising world faces new challenges and opportunities. New platforms, mediums, M&A activity, privacy rules and ever-changing consumer behavior can all wreak havoc on the digital landscape.
OurCrowd
JUNE 29, 2022
The days are over on GitHub’s Copilot standing as a free offering — the AI-powered programming companion for developers now costs $10 per month or $100 per year, GitHub announced last week. Read more here. The post [Tabnine in The New Stack] Code stays behind firewall with Copilot alternative Tabnine appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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