A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JULY 7, 2021
My partner Albert shared this article yesterday which suggests that the price of carbon will have to reach $150/ton by 2030 in order to create the conditions for the world to get to zero carbon by 2050. The current price of a ton of carbon on the EU’s Emission Trading System is about $60/ton and you can buy carbon offsets for much less than that although you may be purchasing junk credits if you are not careful.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JULY 7, 2021
Written for EO by Kate Holden , an entrepreneur, philanthropist and business leader behind De Luca Fine Wines , a fast-growing retail and e-commerce wine business. Kate is president of the EO Winnipeg chapter and serves on the EO Canada Board as Canada’s MPD (Member Products Director). As a kid, I grew up feeling different than everybody else. Some of my most vivid childhood memories consist of a constant stream of questions, asking me “why” I was the way I was.
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The Seraf Compass
JULY 7, 2021
Do you remember the first time you became excited about investing in an early stage technology company? You were impressed by the CEO and you loved the market opportunity. But, you knew you had to dig deep to find out whether there was a real winner in the making. So, you took a step back and started putting together a list of all the questions you had and the research you needed to do before making an investment.
TechCrunch
JULY 7, 2021
Jalal Nasir. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jalal Nasir is the founder and CEO of Pixalate , a global ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform. Previously, he was one of the early engineers on Amazon’s fraud prevention and risk management team and held various product leadership roles building ad tech and enterprise privacy technologies.
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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.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
JULY 7, 2021
How to make the field of entrepreneurship more inclusive to groups that have been historically and systematically left behind, namely migrants and refugees, people with disability, seniors, women and youth? Together with members of the European Business & Innovation Centre Network (EBN), the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) and Caritas organizations , Impact Hub gathered experts and entrepreneurs from underrepresented groups in a series of virtual working sessions – Communiti
Startup Catalyst Brief brings together the best content for the entrepreneurial ecosystem from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
StartupNation
JULY 7, 2021
Financing a small business initiative by offering investors a percentage of ownership equity in your business is called equity financing. When angel investors or an equity firm invest in a company, they don’t do it for a loan payment. They do it for a percentage of ownership, or equity. And, instead of periodic payments, the investor is anticipating what’s sometimes called a liquidity event — either a public offering or an acquisition — to earn profits from their investment.
TechCrunch
JULY 7, 2021
Many teachers and parents in Indonesia rely on WhatsApp to keep in touch, creating “multiple groups that often become messy and highly ineffective, and result in confusion or lost threads,” says Rizky Aniez, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Gredu. The Jakarta-based startup was created to give everyone involved in the educational process—school administrators, teachers, parents, guardians and students—apps that let them keep track of everything and communicate with one another.
StartupNation
JULY 7, 2021
Business Builders coaching is a collaboration with Jeff Sloan, founder and CEO of StartupNation, and business coach Jon Dwoskin. It is an affordable resource for entrepreneurs to learn what it takes to start and grow a profitable business. Join to receive exclusive content and collaborate with a group of like-minded individuals. Business Builders meets virtually Wednesdays at 5 p.m.
TechCrunch
JULY 7, 2021
Outbrain , an adtech company that provides clickbait ads below news articles, has raised $200 million in funding — Outbrain didn’t disclose the valuation of the company for this deal. The Baupost Group is investing in the company — it’s a Boston-based hedge fund. Outbrain filed for an initial public offering just last week. Today’s funding round should be the last traditional private investment round before going public.
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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.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JULY 7, 2021
I realised not everyone can do this Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
JULY 7, 2021
WellSaid Labs, whose tools create synthetic speech that could be mistaken for the real thing, has raised a $10M Series A to grow the business. The company’s home-baked text-to-speech engine works faster than real time and produces natural-sounding clips of pretty much any length, from quick snippets to hours-long readings. WellSaid came out of the Allen Institute for AI incubator in 2019 , and its goal was to make synthetic voices that didn’t sound so robotic for common business purp
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JULY 7, 2021
Conquer your fear of entrepreneurship with these 6 lesser-known truths Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
JULY 7, 2021
AI teams invest a lot of rigor in defining new project guidelines. But the same is not true for killing existing projects. In the absence of clear guidelines, teams let infeasible projects drag on for months. They put up a dog and pony show during project review meetings for fear of becoming the messengers of bad news. By streamlining the process to fail fast on infeasible projects, teams can significantly increase their overall success with AI initiatives.
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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.
OurCrowd
JULY 7, 2021
In the world of technology, it seems for a category to truly stand out and earn the ultimate title of “disruptive,” it first must go through a few other nomenclature-related steps. First, it’s defined as a trend, then an innovation, then as a penultimate step. It’s awarded a unique category name. While the name is more hype than substance in some instances, in other cases, it’s a distinct category worthy of its own label.
TechCrunch
JULY 7, 2021
Y-Combinator- backed Localyze has nabbed $12 million in Series A funding led by Blossom Capital for a SaaS that supports staff relocations and hiring across borders. Previous investor Frontline Ventures also participated,with a number of angel investors joining the round — including Andrew Robb (ex-Farfetch); Des Traynor, co-founder and CSO at Intercom; Hanno Renner, co-founder and CEO at Personio; David Clarke, former CTO at Workday; and Michael Wax, CEO of Forto.
OurCrowd
JULY 7, 2021
Kenco Logistics, one of North America’s leading third-party logistics (3PL) providers, is proud to be deploying Phantom Auto’s remotely operated forklift solution. Kenco will be the first North American 3PL to roll-out Phantom Auto’s remotely operated forklifts as a service to its customers. Kenco will first deploy the technology in a pilot program within the Kenco Innovation Labs, enabling Kenco’s supply chain solutions experts to identify how its customers can increase labor accessibility, hel
TechCrunch
JULY 7, 2021
Mikal Khoso. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Mikal is an early-stage investor at Wavemaker Partners investing in startups across North America, MENA and Asia and author of the newsletter Emergent , analyzing one fast-growing startup in an emerging market every week. Pakistan, the world’s fifth most populous country, has been slow to adapt to the internet economy.
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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.
StartupNation
JULY 7, 2021
On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses the fear of missing out, or FOMO, and how it can be the powerful driver that gets you more sales. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about FOMO and how it can help you expand your customer base: . “The cost to get a consumer to your website or to get them into your store is significant.
TechCrunch
JULY 7, 2021
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For this week’s deep dive, Alex and Natasha and Danny decided that it was time to talk about drugs. No, not like drugs for fun, but instead drugs that you might have considered fun, but are now being redirected to help bolster your health.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JULY 7, 2021
Careers that are actually traps of your happiness. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
JULY 7, 2021
When Daniel Simon sold Bread , a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights on building another startup. During the pandemic, Simon says he observed how much strain was placed on what he described as ‘real-world’ businesses and their employees — such as truck drivers, plumbers, HVAC installers and last-mile delivery people — “and how little the last decade of innovation in fi
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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
JULY 7, 2021
Financial advice website SmartAsset recently looked at Texas colleges and universities and ranked which ones have the best average starting salaries post graduation. While a few flagship universities made their list, some of the smaller school may surprise you. Read more here. The post [SmartAsset in iHeart Radio] Graduates From These Texas Colleges Have The Best Starting Salaries appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
JULY 7, 2021
Lacuna Technologies, a startup that helps cities create and enforce transportation policies by building and managing open-source digital tools, has raised $16 million in a Series A round, bringing the company’s total investment to $33.5 million. Since the startup was founded in 2018, Lacuna has invested in helping cities like Los Angeles, Seattle and Miami build digital twins, or software models of real world cities – including all forms of mobility from delivery to rideshare to drones to regula
Feedough
JULY 7, 2021
One cannot transport eggs from a poultry farm to the. Read more.
TechCrunch
JULY 7, 2021
Amsterdam-based challenger bank Bunq has been self-funded by its founder and CEO Ali Niknam for several years. But the company has decided to raise some external capital, leading to the largest Series A round for a European fintech company. The startup is raising $228 million (€193 million) in a round led by Pollen Street Capital. Bunq founder Ali Niknam is also participating in the round — he’s investing $29.5 million (€25 million) while Pollen Street Capital is financing the rest of the round.
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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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