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upcycling plastic pollution using microorganisms: a Q&A with Alec Brewer of Transfoam

Venture Well

Alec Brewer of Transfoam is protecting the environment by using microorganisms to transform plastic pollution into a biodegradable plastic alternative. The post upcycling plastic pollution using microorganisms: a Q&A with Alec Brewer of Transfoam appeared first on VentureWell.

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LightForce Orthodontics wolfs down $50M to straighten out that crooked smile of yours

TechCrunch

Everyone’s set of teeth are different enough that orthodontics has traditionally been part artistry, part medical witchcraft. In the late 1990s, Invisalign changed the industry with customizable aligners, but it turns out that aligners only serve 30% of orthodontics patients. For the rest, there hasn’t been much in the way of innovation — until LightForce came along and shook things up.

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How Process Optimization Cures Employee Burnout

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Now more than ever, retaining your top talent matters most. Your employees are the foundation of your business and its future success. For them to stick around and help your business grow, they need processes and systems that don’t overwork them. But if your business is full of inefficient workflows, chances are you’re at risk of losing your employees.

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Martie launches with $3M to divert shelf-stable food items from landfills

TechCrunch

Companies are attacking food waste in different ways, from developing a better food supply chain to “skins” for produce to food sharing. And today, Martie officially enters the market with its approach to stop from going into landfills food that is thrown away due to package changes, being a seasonal product or reaching its expiration date before purchase.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

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.

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6 Ways to Create News that Attracts Media Coverage

StartupNation

A steady stream of media coverage is one of the best ways to ensure that you are keeping your business visible and relevant. While product launches, mergers and multimillion dollar-acquisitions grab attention and often take the spotlight in news, they aren’t always going to be available to share from your company. So when your company’s well of announcements runs dry, what can you do?

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9 Marketing Hacks to Grow Your Business On a Budget

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Marketing your startup doesn’t have to be expensive Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Independent worker network Contra goes commission-free as it secures new NEA-led capital

TechCrunch

Contra , a professional network for independent workers, unveiled a new payment model Tuesday that lets users accept payments for their services on Contra without paying any commission fees. The new feature comes as the company brings in $30 million in Series B funding, led by NEA, with participation from Unusual Ventures and Cowboy Ventures, both of which invested in Contra’s $14.5 million Series A earlier this year.

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Twelve Things I Wish I Knew Earlier About Making Money Online

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“Be so good that you don’t even have to think about algorithms.” Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Walmart acquires design tool Botmock as its invests in shopping by voice and text

TechCrunch

With its latest acquisition Walmart is further investing in technology that will enable shopping via voice and chat. The retail giant announced it’s acquiring “select technology assets” from a startup called Botmock , which had developed a set of tools for designing, prototyping, testing and deploying conversational applications across platforms.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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[Tortuga Logic in Business Wire] Four exceptional innovators selected to receive the Design Automation Conference Under-40 Innovators Award

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SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The future of innovation for the design and automation of electronic systems and circuits can be found each year at the annual Design Automation Conference (DAC). DAC and its sponsors – the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – are pleased to announce the four winners of the Under-40 Innovators Award.

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Visual workspace Whimsical closes first funding as it enters next phase of growth

TechCrunch

Whimsical , a startup creating tools for workplace collaboration, announced Tuesday its first funding round, a $30 million Series A investment led by Accel. The company was founded by Kaspars Dancis in 2017 when he saw that the tools most people use for work — the documents, spreadsheets and slide decks — were not conducive to the way people were working, for example, increasingly remote.

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WJR Business Beat: Mobile Commerce Is Having Big Holiday Shopping Impact (Episode 314)

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On today’s Business Beat, Jeff talks about the importance of being well-suited to mobile commerce. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn what your business can do to make the most of mobile commerce this holiday season: . Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE.

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Activeloop snags $5M seed to build streaming database for AI applications

TechCrunch

Activeloop , a member of the Y Combinator summer 2018 cohort , is building a database specifically designed for media-focused artificial intelligence applications. Today the company announced a $5 million seed investment led by 468 Capital and CM Ventures with participation from Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures and various tech industry angels. Davit Buniatyan, founder and CEO at the company says the company developed out of research he was doing at Princeton where saw the need for a streaming da

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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How I Built a Craft Beer Search Engine For Free

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The tools and tech stack I used to created Burplist without spending a dime Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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EV startup BasiGo debuts in Nairobi after $1 million pre-seed funding

TechCrunch

Electric vehicle startup BasiGo has today announced the launch of its operations in Nairobi, bringing clean energy options to Kenya’s public transport industry, currently dominated by fossil-fuel buses. . The startup plans to sell locally assembled electric buses using parts from China’s EV maker BYD Automotive , the company said while announcing it had raised $1 million in pre-seed funding.

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[NeuReality in Forbes] IBM Research and NeuReality Announce Partnership For AI

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NeuReality, an Israeli AI systems and semiconductor company, have signed an agreement to develop the next generation of high-performance AI inference platforms. IBM and NeuReality will focus on computer vision, Natural Language, and recommendation systems systems in finance, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, and smart cities.

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E-commerce aggregator Una Brands raises $15M Series A five months after its launch

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Una Brands , the e-commerce aggregator focused on Asia-Pacific brands, announced today it has raised $15 million for its Series A. The full-equity round was co-led by White Star Capital and Alpha JWC, along with participation from returning investors and Ninjavan co-founder Alvin Teo. This news comes only five months after Una launched with a $40 million equity and debt seed round.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

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.

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[Lemonade in Financial Buzz] “The Buzz” show: Lemonade Inc. (NYSE: LMND) Lemonade Car as it moves to insure cars

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FinancialBuzz.com’s latest The Buzz Show: Featuring Our Corporate News Recap on “Lemonade Inc. Launches Lemonade Car as It Moves to Insure Cars”. Lemonade Inc. (NYSE: LMND) surged over 21% in premarket trading after the company unveiled its newest product – Lemonade Car, now available in Illinois and to be rolled out nationwide. Read more here. The post [Lemonade in Financial Buzz] “The Buzz” show: Lemonade Inc.

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Magnify raises $6M for its post-sales orchestration platform

TechCrunch

In many companies, post-sales can be a bit of a haphazard process, with customer success, marketing and product teams all trying to figure out how to provide the best service to new and existing customers. With limited resources, that often means focusing on a few customers. Magnify aims to automate more of this process so that companies can reach more of their customers to drive product usage, adoption and retention.

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[DreaMed Diabetes in Bakersfield] Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic at University of Florida expands implementation of DreaMed technology

OurCrowd

DreaMed Diabetes AI LTD. (“DreaMed” or the “Company”), developer of the AI-powered Advisor Pro Clinical Decision Support System and expert-care platform for diabetes, announced today the expansion of its commercial relationship with the Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla. Read more here. The post [DreaMed Diabetes in Bakersfield] Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic at University of Florida expands implementation of DreaMed technology appeared first on Our

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Shareholders approve Bird-SPAC merger, stock promptly falls

TechCrunch

Shares of Switchback II Corporation are off more than 14% in morning trading today, appearing to sell off sharply in the wake of news that the blank-check company’s merger with scooter company Bird has been approved by shareholders. Shares of the SPAC were off as far as 20% before recovering. dot.LA first spotted the vote news ; Bird is based in the Los Angeles metropolitan agglomeration.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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

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[Virgin Hyperloop One in Al Arabiya News] Virgin Hyperloop to transport 200 million passengers a year by 2040: MD

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Virgin Hyperloop – the next-generation technology that aims to connect cities in record time through transport pods zooming through tubes at hundreds of miles per hour – will carry 200 million passengers a year by 2040. Read more here. The post [Virgin Hyperloop One in Al Arabiya News] Virgin Hyperloop to transport 200 million passengers a year by 2040: MD appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Tempo launches a $395 home fitness system the size of a minifridge

TechCrunch

The pandemic drove explosive growth for the connected fitness industry, as gyms shut down and people struggled to find ways to work out without leaving their homes. Along with the likes of Peloton and Mirror, Tempo is one of the companies that has benefitted from the trend. The San Francisco-based company specializes in cardio and strength training through guided workouts using a system of barbells and dumbbells.

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[Corelight in PR Newswire] Corelight Announces Integration for Microsoft Defender for IoT as a Data Source for the Platform

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Corelight, provider of the industry’s leading open network detection and response (NDR) platform, today announced product compatibility with Microsoft Defender for IoT. Corelight is the first Microsoft NDR partner to take advantage of Defender for IoT’s cross-industry integration capabilities. Corelight customers can send data from deployed sensors to Microsoft 365 Defender, and in turn Defender for IoT to apply its behavioral analytics and machine learning techniques to discover and

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Lumigo raises $29M for its cloud-native application monitoring platform

TechCrunch

Lumigo , a cloud-native application monitoring and debugging platform, today announced that it has raised a $29 million Series A funding round led by Redline Capital. Wing Venture Capital and Vertex Ventures US , together with existing investors Meron Capital , Pitango First and Grove Ventures , also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $38 million since its launch in 2019.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

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.