TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Playbook, a startup that describes itself as a “creative file manager for designers” where “Pinterest meets Dropbox ,” has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. CEO Jessica Ko was inspired to start the company after her experiences as a designer at Google and Opendoor. She realized that her teams were spending about 90% of their time digging around Dropbox looking for assets.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 19, 2022

Tim Brady and I go back a long way. Tim was already at Yahoo! when my company was acquired in 1997. Of course, Tim was there. In fact, he was Yahoo!’s first employee and ran a group called “production” until he eventually became Chief Product Officer. Tim was, in many ways, the conscience of Yahoo! He kept us focused on the customer experience in an era when it was too easy to toss that aside in a search for revenue.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to this 109th day of 2022 – April 19 – which celebrates, among other things, National Garlic Day (nice try, Big Allium) and Bicycle Day , the anniversary of the discovery of LSD. Speaking of blasting off into space, check out Aria ’s awesome Max Q newsletter, which collects all things space exploration on TechCrunch!

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 19, 2022

4 key reasons my sustainability VC fund hit a dead end Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Farmers don’t get embarrassed when the price of corn drops; similarly, there’s no reason for startup founders to lose their joy because publicly traded tech stocks are undercutting their valuations. If making as much money as you can is your primary goal, however, prepare to be disappointed. Accepting a down round or a smaller seed check isn’t a sign of failure — as it says in the Bible: the rain falls on the just, and the unjust.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

In a bid to position its brand as more tech-forward — and, in the process, foster new culinary innovations — Chipotle today announced the launch of Cultivate Next, a venture fund run by Curt Garner, the restaurant chain’s chief technology officer. Chipotle says that Cultivate Next, which will be financed solely by Chipotle to start, will offer a tranche of $50 million and focus on tech companies in the “seed to Series B” stages. “We are looking to make investm

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 19, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register 2C2P , a global payments platform and Ant Group announced a strategic partnership to accelerate digital payment adoption and innovation. The partnership, upon completion, will see Ant Group becoming the majority shareholder of 2C2P. Through the strategic partnership, 2C2P’s extensive pool of merchants inclusive of global and regional brands will be connected with Alipay+, extending its

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

One of the biggest challenges enterprises face is processing all the data that they gather, and — by extension — deriving insights from that data. According to a 2018 Gartner report, 87% of organizations have low business intelligence and analytics maturity. The situation hasn’t changed much in recent years, even as companies invest greater amounts of capital in data initiatives.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 19, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indonesian-based food tech startup OFF FOODS announced raising $1.7 million in a seed funding round led by Alpha JWC Ventures and participated by Global Founders Capital (GFC) and other strategic investors, including Creative Gorilla Capital, Lemonilo, and United Family Capital (UFC).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Only 21% of the 12 million registered vehicles on Nigerian roads have genuine motor insurance, as the rest either have fake certificates (owners are mostly unaware) or are not covered at all. This report also states that a number of car owners holding genuine insurance policies also fail to renew them when they expire, a contravention of the law in Nigeria, which demands that every vehicle must be covered by insurance.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 19, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Thunes , a Singapore-based global payments company , announced that it has taken a majority stake in the anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance technology firm, Tookitaki Holding Pte Ltd (Tookitaki) by making an investment of over $20 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Jeremy Abelson. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jeremy Abelson is the founder and lead portfolio manager of Irving Investors. Combining his experience as an operator and institutional investor, Abelson runs Irving as a multi-strategy platform making long-term durable investments in both the public and private markets. More posts by this contributor. For the first time in 4 years, profitability beats growth.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 19, 2022

Welcome to the first edition of our new newsletter! You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week! We’ve got a lot of exciting changes coming at Entrepreneur’s Handbook. You’ll see some huge names dropping by to share articles with us soon. Special announcement coming next week. Here’s a sneak peek ??. How to launch on Product Hunt and be #1 Product of the Day Corey Haines is a serial entrepreneur and has hit the coveted leaderboard on Product Hunt several ti

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

It’s a story as old as time: Pull CO 2 out of the air, wave your magic chemistry stick at it and bottle it as vodka and perfume. The planet wins carbon sequestration points, and you can stumble home at the end of a night reeking of self-congratulatory smugness and anyone who kisses you that night can taste how much you care about the environment.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 19, 2022

We need to have our eyes on our client’s business objectives in the short-term and long-term Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola has, for the first time, addressed financial and personal misconduct claims leveled against him and the company this month, according to an email to employees obtained by TechCrunch. “I’m writing today because I want you to know how concerned I am about the impact that reading the false allegations against our company has had on you all,” he wrote.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 19, 2022

Listening for Understanding is the foundation to optimal outcomes Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

I’ve got to admit, the respective pedigrees of Glacier’s founders are a bit unexpected for a recycling robotics company. Areeb Malik used to be a software engineer at Facebook, and Rebecca Hu worked at Bain and Company. “While working at Bain, I found myself developing dual interests in industrials and consumer goods,” Hu tells TechCrunch. “Recycling automation is uniquely positioned at the intersection of those two industries — we’re building infrastructure to hand

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OurCrowd

APRIL 19, 2022

NEW YORK, April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Kemtai, the interactive exercise platform that utilizes proprietary computer vision and artificial intelligence technology to provide users with real-time feedback and corrective guidance as they move, has partnered with RecoveryOne, a leading digital health innovator dedicated to improving health outcomes for recovery from musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries of all types and reducing costs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The autonomous vehicle industry is dominated by talk of robotaxis, self-driving trucks, sidewalk delivery robots and passenger vehicles like Teslas with automated driving functions. You know, the sexy side of autonomy. Not much attention has been paid to the type of autonomy Steer Tech, a Maryland-based AV startup, has been pursuing — something the company’s founder and CEO Anuja Sonalker calls “endpoint autonomy.” Since it was founded in 2016, Steer has focused on providing hi

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OurCrowd

APRIL 19, 2022

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, Superpedestrian, the MIT-spinoff engineering firm behind the world’s safest and smartest e-scooters, in partnership with the Cities Today Institute, a peer-to-peer network for urban mobility and innovation leaders, released a report on how e-scooters can better integrate with public transportation systems all over the world.

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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

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Digital mortgage company Better.com has conducted its third mass layoff in less than five months , citing a declining mortgage market, according to an email to employees seen by TechCrunch. TechCrunch recently reported that the move was coming. It is unclear at the time of writing how many people were affected by the layoffs, but sources familiar with internal happenings at the company estimate that it ranges from 1,200 to 1,500, meaning that the company has effectively reduced its headcount fro

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OurCrowd

APRIL 19, 2022

US-based online grocer Farmstead has launched a new feature that aims to reduce food waste by reminding customers what’s in their refrigerator. Read more here. The post [Farmstead in Retail Technology Innovation Hub] Farmstead tackles food waste with Eat This First launch appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The idea of digital twins — digital representations of humans built with computer models — for medical research is gaining traction in both the private and academic sectors. With predictive simulation technology, some experts say that digital twins have the potential to improve healthcare by assessing health risks before a disease becomes symptomatic, helping clinicians determine, for example, when (and whether) to intervene.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 19, 2022

Defi lending protocols, distributed exchange protocols, cross-chain messaging protocols, communication protocols. All of them are in the process of being invented, debated, and adopted. In a roundabout way, this post is about the emergence of web3 protocols. But it’s about how we got here. For 20 years, from 1970 to 1990s, the first Protocol Wars raged over clacking IBM Model M mechanical keyboards.

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