TechCrunch
MARCH 27, 2023
Apple has quietly acquired a Mountain View-based startup, WaveOne , that was developing AI algorithms for compressing video. Apple wouldn’t confirm the sale when asked for comment. But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees , including one of WaveOne’s co-founders , now work within Apple’s various machine learning groups.
The Zapier Blog
MARCH 27, 2023
Consuming video is easy. Producing good video is not. Putting together a script, getting all the footage, and editing everything to perfection—or as close as possible—can eat up enormous chunks of your time. Learn more about how to use AI at work Get the Zapier blog in your inbox. Subscribe As it does for everything right now, AI has a few solutions to slash the time it takes to go from idea to MP4.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 27, 2023
Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper , announced Deep Agency , a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio and modeling agency.” Using art-generating AI, Deep Agency creates and offers “virtual models” for hire starting at $29 per month (for a limited time), letting customers place the models aga
Jason Malki
MARCH 27, 2023
I had the pleasure of interviewing Shawn Taikratoke, he is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mozee. A startup focused on redefining the human journey. Shawn Taikratoke is a seasoned software engineer and leader with a remarkable career spanning over a decade in the tech industry. With an unwavering passion for innovation, Shawn has made his mark on the world by developing cutting-edge solutions and working with leading companies such as Apple, Fossil, and worked with various organizations within the Dep
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When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course. Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. To thrive in a challenging environment, sales teams need a rock-solid grasp of the fundamentals and the biggest force-multipliers they can get their hands on.
TechCrunch
MARCH 27, 2023
Mysty Rusk Contributor Share on Twitter Mysty Rusk is founder of San Diego Angel Conference and Executive Director of the Knauss School of Business’ Free Enterprise Institute. Something happens in the process when you collaboratively have the right people and objectives in place as an angel investor. At some point for the people in the room there is a realization that the next generation of business leaders is there right in front of us and that there’s ways to help them succeed.
Startup Catalyst Brief brings together the best content for the entrepreneurial ecosystem from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
TechCrunch
MARCH 27, 2023
The concept of “shoppable videos” has been around for at least a decade, with some big companies, like Showroom, Firework , Vimeo , YouTube and Klarna getting in on the action. There have also been startups embracing this space that have received some attention from investors in the past, like Cinematique , which gave it a go in 2017, Clideo and, more recently, Kahani , which doesn’t exactly describe itself as doing “shoppable video,” but its concept of content videos for e-commerce brands can c
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 27, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Auros , a crypto-native algorithmic trading and market making firm that operates in New York and Hong Kong , has raised $17 million in its latest funding round. The fundraising was led by global high-frequency trading firm Vivienne Court, with participation from Bit Digital Inc, Trovio, Epoch Capital, Primal Capital, and a consortium of senior alumni from market-making giant Optiver.
TechCrunch
MARCH 27, 2023
Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google , Amazon , Microsoft , Yahoo and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts across all sectors, from crypto to enterprise SaaS. The reasoning behind these workforce reductions follows a common script , citing the macroeconomic environment and a need to find discipline on a tumultuo
HPA
MARCH 27, 2023
We’re excited to announce that Zengines , the first AI-powered data conversion platform, raised $5M in funding. HPA participated in the round , which was led by Hyde Park Venture Partners. The funding will be used to expand product, engineering, and go-to-market capabilities. Zengines has created an entirely new way of converting data. When organizations migrate data to new applications, systems, or outsourced services, Zengines automates the end-to-end data conversion process.
Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker
The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l
TechCrunch
MARCH 27, 2023
If the past few years, and even the past week , has reminded us soundly of anything — it’s that the startup world will never be predictable. To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and re-imagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth. What’s new at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023?
American Entrepreneurship
MARCH 27, 2023
CRM Software offers Small Businesses a Way to More Efficiently Grow Sales Sustainable growth for any small business is tied to building sufficient operational infrastructure to support a growing customer base. Only by having the right facility, technology and personnel can a growing company maintain the quality of its product and services it needs. On the revenue side, how well a company builds and manages it sales staff is also a determining factor of long-term success.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 27, 2023
Sending high-quality emails is the best way to get investors interested in your startup Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »
TechCrunch
MARCH 27, 2023
Among the casualties of the mass tech layoffs are people who helped get their co-workers hired in the first place. Paraform , a startup that wants to change how the recruiting industry works by taking a marketplace approach, is giving professional recruiters a new way to find work by going freelance. Today, Paraform announced that it has raised $1.4 million in seed funding led by Primer Sazze Partners with participation from Twitch co-founders, including Kevin Lin, and leaders at Scale AI and Fo
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ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. In a recent survey with Demand Gen Report, we found 59% of experienced practitioners (those with ABM programs more than a year old) indicated their ABM programs are meeting or greatly exceeding their expectations, while only 45% of novices (those with ABM programs less than one year old) could say the same.
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 27, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Etana Biotechnologies Indonesia (Etana) has received new investments to develop high-quality and affordable biopharmaceutical products for patients in Southeast Asian countries. The company ‘s President Director, Nathan Tirtana, stated that the financial support would help provide better treatment and improve healthcare for their target population.
The Zapier Blog
MARCH 27, 2023
Managing projects in a small business setting might seem simple—there are fewer people involved and fewer processes to navigate. But big businesses often have a dedicated project manager for marketing, another for sales, and another for product development. The small business project manager, on the other hand, oversees multiple departments and wears more hats than can comfortably fit a human.
TechCrunch
MARCH 27, 2023
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Monday Crunch, our Crunch-a-licious friends! Our favorite part of Lorenzo ’s excellent piece on how the feds busted a cybercrime forum : “In a spectacular snafu on the hacker’s part. the second piece of evidence came from Pompompurin himself.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 27, 2023
Real-World Crypto: How DeFi Can Help Millions of Farmers Around The World This is part of a series of blog posts I’m writing about the REAL world use cases of crypto. A Real Problem Climate-related risks threaten the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of farmers globally. These farmers can benefit from crop insurance to protect themselves from unpredictable weather patterns that destroy their yield.
Speaker: P. Andrew Sjogren, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Very Good Security, Matt Doka, Co-Founder and CTO of Fivestars, and Steve Andrews, President & CEO of the Western Bankers Association
PCI compliance can feel challenging and sometimes the result feels like you are optimizing more for security and compliance than you are for business outcomes. The key is to take the right strategy to PCI compliance that gets you both. In this webinar, we have a great set of panelists who will take you through how Zero Data strategies can be used as part of a well-rounded compliance and security approach, and get you to market much sooner by also allowing for payment optimization.
TechCrunch
MARCH 27, 2023
Early-stage investments inherently have a higher risk of failing, but these risks also come with potentially higher rewards — getting in at the ground floor of a startup’s journey gives VCs more negotiation clout. This is particularly true at the very early pre-seed stage, where companies might barely have a functioning product to shout about.
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 27, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Southeast Asian Web3 technology startup Gaspack has secured additional funding through a pre-seed round with the support of eMerge , the angel investor network of MDI Ventures, and Arise. The amount of investment was not disclosed but the startup said 500 Global and Tokoin also participated in the funding round.
TechCrunch
MARCH 27, 2023
Douwe Osinga and Jack Amadeo were working together at Sidewalk Labs , Alphabet’s venture to build tech-forward cities, when they arrived at the conclusion that most spreadsheet software doesn’t scale up to today’s data challenges. Data science tools like Pandas and Jupyter Notebooks do, but they tend to be too inaccessible to the layperson — at least in Osinga and Amadeo’s experience. “Talk to any analyst or financial modeler and they’ll tell you that Excel just doe
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
MARCH 27, 2023
Out of 25 applicants, eight finalists were selected to participate in Ben Franklin Technology Partner’s Spring TechCelerator Business Bootcamp ! These eight finalists are all developing new products, processes, and solutions that are highly innovative and scalable. The TechCelerator program is a 10-week virtual business “boot camp” designed to assist inventors and very early-stage entrepreneurs in converting their business ideas into operating ventures.
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More than two years into the pandemic, COVID-19 is far from over. Businesses are tasked with beating pre-pandemic numbers, making marketing more essential than ever before. This is your chance to create unprecedented brand awareness, bring in the best leads sales has ever seen, and play an instrumental role in generating new and existing business revenue.
TechCrunch
MARCH 27, 2023
Three years after announcing its sixth fund, OpenView Venture Partners is back with $570 million in capital commitments for its new, seventh fund. It represents a 25% increase over the firm’s $450 million sixth fund, its largest to date. The Boston-based venture capital firm gave its intent to raise the fund back in January 2022, according to an SEC filing that noted OpenView intended on a hard cap of $800 million.
OurCrowd
MARCH 27, 2023
American baseball team Tampa Bay Rays have brought a new checkout-free concessions experience to the Budweiser Porch located in Center Field. Read more here. The post [Zippin in Retail Tech Innovation Hub] The Tampa Bay Rays tap Zippin technology for checkout free Short Stop store launch appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
MARCH 27, 2023
Sach Chitnis Contributor Share on Twitter Sach Chitnis is co-founder of Jump Capital , a thesis-led, sector-focused and operating-centric venture capital firm specializing in Seed and Series A investments. With the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, founders find themselves in a predicament when looking to raise either equity or debt. Most companies run their business on equity capital alone and have access to a venture debt facility.
OurCrowd
MARCH 27, 2023
LONDON, March 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Gorilla Technology Group Inc. (“Gorilla”) (NASDAQ: GRRR), a global provider of AI-based edge video analytics, IoT technologies, and cybersecurity, today announced a significant partnership with Lanner and Hailo to deliver the E-300 Edge AI Appliance, with an industry-leading price to performance ratio for robust video analytics.
Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic
Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in
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