StartupNation

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In 2000, e-commerce primarily took place on individual websites. Today, it happens in marketplaces. In early 2020, Bank of America analyst Justin Post released an update on the latest e-commerce market share trends , and it indicates Amazon alone dominates the e-commerce market with 44% market share and growing. Tomorrow, however, companies want to drive sales from where users spend more of their time—on Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Splice , the New York-based, AI-infused, beat-making software service for music producers created by the founder of GroupMe, has managed to sample another $55 million in financing from investors for its wildly popular service. The GitHub for music producers ranging from Hook N Sling , Mr Hudson SLY, and Steve Solomon to TechCrunch’s own Megan Rose Dickey , Splice gained a following for its ability to help electronic dance music creators save, share, collaborate and remix music.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Economics tend to favor the bold and the innovative. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This morning Creatio , a Boston-based software company, announced that it has raised $68 million. Volition Capital , a growth-equity fund, led the round. The deal was a minority investment in the startup. The deal is notable not merely thanks to its sheer size, but because up until today Creatio had bootstrapped. That’s according to founder and CEO Katherine Kostereva , with whom TechCrunch caught up with last week regarding the investment.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Sponsored content. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, stress was already costing Australian businesses upwards of $10 billion every year. Anxiety levels have worsened, with COVID-19 proving to be hugely disruptive to corporate wellness. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to workplace stress and other related health problems. However, it could potentially be beneficial to implement a workplace wellness program with the goal of improving health and wellness, as well as productivity, at your company

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Taking on a market leader isn’t easy for entrepreneurs, but, with the right strategy, there’s a way to win Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Kathy Hannun. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kathy Hannun is president and co-founder of Dandelion Energy. Prior to Dandelion, Kathy worked at X, Google Alphabet’s innovation lab. In May 2017, Kathy launched Dandelion as an independent startup. She graduated from Stanford with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science. I closed two major rounds of funding for my geothermal energy startup, Dandelion Energy, while pregnant.

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Feedough

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Several internal and external factors directly or indirectly influence business operations. While some of these are within the business’s control, most of these are not; and the business has to adapt itself to avoid being affected by changes in such factors. Both of them combined forms the business environment. Today’s fast-paced business world witnesses a trend of a rather dynamic business environment – that is, it’s never stable.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

After online dating’s tremendous 2020 growth that culminated in last week’s epic Bumble IPO, a new entrant has tossed its hat into the dating app ring. Snack , founded by Kimberly Kaplan, looks to merge the popularity and format of TikTok with the dating world. Kaplan hails from Plenty of Fish, where she was one of the earliest employees at the dating site.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

From a female founder who’s worked with thousands of aspiring women in business…and hundreds of male entrepreneurs, too. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Gophr , a U.K.-based last-mile delivery provider, has raised £4 million in funding, as it looks to invest in its product off the back of 300% revenue growth during the last 12 months. Leading the round is pan-European B2B investor Nauta Capital. The company had previously raised £1 million in two rounds, including £500,000 from publicly-listed Auctus Alternative Investments.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd has entered into a rarefied club of self-made female billionaires after the company enjoyed an IPO that… Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Despite the market impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, retail investing is increasing in Indonesia , especially among people aged 18 to 30. Today, investment platform FUNDtastic announced it has raised a $7.7 million Series A to tap into that demand, with plans to launch new products for retail investors, reports DealStreetAsia. The round was led by Singapore-based Ascend Capital Group, with participation from other investors including tech holding company Indivara Group.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We’ve reported previously on the Business Beat that the last quarter of 2020 was a really robust one when it comes to business startups in the U.S. In a new report by the Visual Capitalist, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in the United States, and the upward trend continues. In fact, there were 492,133 new business applications filed in January 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Oren Yunger. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Oren Yunger is an investor at GGV Capital , where he leads the cybersecurity vertical and drives investments in enterprise IT, data infrastructure, and developer tools. He was previously chief information security officer at a SaaS company and a public financial institution. More posts by this contributor. 6 CISOs share their game plans for a post-pandemic world.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In my Jan 1st post talking about what I expected to happen this year , I wrote: I think we will see the end of the Covid Pandemic in the US sometime in the second quarter. I believe the US will work out the challenges we are having getting out of the gate and will be vaccinating at least 40mm people a month in the US in the first quarter. When you add that to the 90mm people in the US that the CDC believes have already been infected , we will have well over 200mm people in the US who have some

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Zomato has raised $250 million, two months after closing a $660 million Series J financing round , as the Indian food delivery startup builds a war-chest ahead of its IPO later this year. Kora (which contributed $115 million), Fidelity ($55 million), Tiger Global ($50 million), Bow Wave ($20 million) and Dragoneer ($10 million) pumped the new capital into the 12-year-old Gurgaon-headquartered startup, Info Edge, a publicly listed investor in Zomato, disclosed in a filing (PDF) to a local stock

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Ramon Ray, the founder of Smart Hustle Media, wears multiple hats. He started four companies (sold two of them), wrote best-selling books, and interviewed the past United States president. Ramon is an authority on small business growth. Through his speeches, he inspires audiences around the globe. In addition to the above things, Ramon Ray is also known for conducting stellar podcast interviews.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Nanit’s nursery camera pairs computer vision with specially patterned clothing to help answer the question that most new parents ask themselves roughly every 90 seconds: “Is my baby still breathing?” This morning the company is announcing that it has raised an additional $25 million in a Series C round led by GV. As part of the deal, GV’s Frederique Dame will join Nanit’s board of directors.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Welcome to an all-new episode of “Everything Borrowed,” a podcast hosted by Andrew Blake! On this episode, Andrew welcomes Burton Heiss, CEO of Buddy’s Pizza. Burton joined Buddy’s Pizza as CEO in July 2019, with over 20 years of experience in the restaurant industry. During the show, Blake and Burton talk about how he is focused on taking the Detroit-based brand outside of Michigan during the pandemic, as well as how he balances his life and business!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A “revolutionary robot” is scheduled to be launched at the Future Days event, according to organizers. The robot is called MAiRA – acronym for Multi-sensing Intelligent Robotic Assistant – and can perceive the environment as humans do. The robot’s creator, Neura Robotics, says MAiRA “can hear, see and feel.”. Read more here. The post [Neura Robotics in Robotics & Automation] Neura Robotics to launch ‘revolutionary robot’ at Future Days event appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Vertical marketplaces continue to be a key lynchpin in the digital economy, a centralized place where people providing certain goods or services can connect with those specifically looking to buy them, a position that has, it seems, become even more prominent and in-demand in our pandemic economy. In line with that trend, today a startup out of Denmark called Ageras Group , which has built a dual-purpose platform, providing both accountancy software and a marketplace for small and medium busines

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Hub Security, a crypto-focused Israeli cybersecurity firm, informed Finance Magnates that it has developed a custody solution that will allow a secure connection between Metamask and Ethereum. The solution is targeted towards mass decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. Read more here. The post [Hub Security in Finance Magnates] Exclusive: Hub Security Enhances Protection of Assets in MetaMask appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Not everyone has Type 2 diabetes, the disease that causes chronically high blood sugar levels, but many do. Around 9% of Americans are afflicted, and another 30% are at risk of developing it. Enter software by January AI , a four-year-old, subscription-based startup that in November began providing personalized nutritional and activity-related suggestions to its customers based on a combination of food-related data the company has quietly amassed over three years, and each person’s unique

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