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Newsletter: Israel’s most active investor

OurCrowd

Startup of the Week: AutoBrains, new AI for automotive. IntellAct helps boats, planes and trains run on time. Pitchbook: OurCrowd Israel’s most active investor. Scopio Labs brings groundbreaking blood analysis test to market. The Bouqs joins David’s Bridal for wedding offerings. CytoReason enters Japanese market with new partnership. Edgybees taps Craig Bower to lead US Government operations.

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Mobile gaming startup Homa Games raises $50 million

TechCrunch

Just days after Voodoo acquired Beach Bum , another French mobile gaming company has news to share. Homa Games is raising a $50 million Series A round led by Northzone. The company partners with indie game studios and acts as a publisher. Other investors in today’s funding round include Singular, King, the founders of FuboTV and Daniel Ek’s family office.

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The Two Cap Tables of Crypto Companies: What They Are and How They Relate to Each Other

Tomasz Tunguz

Crypto companies that launch a token maintain two capitalization tables: equity and token cap tables. They are distinct but related. Let’s look at a hypothetical crypto company’s cap tables. On the left, the cap table shows a company that has raised a Seed, A, B, and C rounds. In addition, there are allocations for the founders & employees, plus the Employee Stock Option Pool (ESOP) for new employee grants and retention grants.

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Can a Trade Secret Protect Small Business Ideas?

StartupNation

What are the best ways to protect a business idea? You can protect intellectual property (IP) using one of four methods. The three most common protections are filing for a trademark, copyright or a patent. The fourth form of protection is a trade secret, and a trade secret can, indeed, protect small business ideas. What is a trade secret and what kind of information does it help protect?

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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The science to brewing beer highlighted by OKBio BrewFest

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. There is a real science to brewing beer, and there is real chemistry in the annual OKBio BrewFest returning to Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark October 21 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. BrewFest showcases Oklahoma breweries, wineries and distilleries while boosting awareness of Oklahoma’s diverse bioscience industry represented by the Oklahoma Bioscience Association, the voice of Oklahoma’s dynamic and diverse bioscience and life science community.

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[Klook In The Straits Time] Lunch with Sumiko: How Klook rode out the Covid-19 crisis

OurCrowd

When the pandemic struck in 2020, it felt like the end of the world for the folks at travel tech start-up Klook. Co-founder Eric Gnock Fah on how it has managed to ride the crisis. Read more here. The post [Klook In The Straits Time] Lunch with Sumiko: How Klook rode out the Covid-19 crisis appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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BaaS served three ways: A closer look at a rapidly evolving market

TechCrunch

The BaaS market is evolving rapidly and so are the options for companies who wish to quickly spin up new financial services by leveraging these bank-in-a-box APIs. We recently took a look at who the ideal customers and partners are for banking-as-a-service startups … And today we’re going to dig deeper into the different flavors of BaaS offerings and how they stack up.

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[Beyond Meat in Daily Mail] So how tasty (and how healthy) is the first vegan burger from McDonald’s? BARNEY CALMAN and EVE SIMMONS get a sneak preview of the McPlant

OurCrowd

On Wednesday, McDonald’s will begin the nationwide rollout of its first vegan burger. The McPlant will be available in 18 cities and 250 restaurants, becoming a permanent part of McDonald’s menus everywhere from January. Read more here. The post [Beyond Meat in Daily Mail] So how tasty (and how healthy) is the first vegan burger from McDonald’s?