StartupNation
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
During my 20 years in the window industry, I’ve dealt with countless and constant complaints from my customers about the inherent problems with traditional window screens. I was beginning to feel more like a screen replacement man than a salesman, and I decided that there must be a better way. In 2013, I set up shop in my garage and started experimenting with different frame materials and designs.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Arrikto , a startup that wants to speed up the machine learning development lifecycle by allowing engineers and data scientists to treat data like code, is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $10 million Series A round. The round was led by Unusual Ventures, with Unusual’s John Vrionis joining the board. “Our technology at Arrikto helps companies overcome the complexities of implementing and managing machine learning applications,” Arrikto CEO and co-founder Constantin
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
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TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Over the past decade, many startups have tried (and many have failed) to rethink the way we schedule our meetings and calls. But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. Undock , an Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator-backed startup , is looking to enter the space.
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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Their annual revenue ranged from £1m-£100m+ Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
Startup Catalyst Brief brings together the best content for the entrepreneurial ecosystem from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
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TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). Though both focus on the building industry (specifically, the codes architects and builders need to follow), the lawsuit deals with an issue that has wider ramifications: is it possible to copyright the law, or text that carries the weight of the law?
Tomasz Tunguz
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
On Thursday, December 3rd at 11 AM PT, Redpoint Office Hours will welcome Linda Tong. Linda has lived an incredible path through startupland from Google, to startups, to the NFL, to AppDynamics. In some of our recent conversations, Linda has taught me about the differences in managing companies at radically different scales. Let me tell you a bit more about Linda’s history.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
For years, founders and investors in China had little interest in open source software because it did not seem like the most viable business model. Zilliz ‘s latest financing round shows that attitude is changing. The three-year-old Chinese startup, which builds open source software for processing unstructured data, recently closed a Series B round of $43 million.
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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.
Common Reasons Why Startups Fail
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
The rise of food delivery has become a major trend in 2020. As more and more countries are going under lockdown in the… The post How to Build a Food Delivery Application appeared first on.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Deep Vision , a new AI startup that is building an AI inferencing chip for edge computing solutions, is coming out of stealth today. The six-year-old company’s new ARA-1 processors promise to strike the right balance between low latency, energy efficiency and compute power for use in anything from sensors to cameras and full-fledged edge servers.
OurCrowd
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
The week’s top investment deals from OurCrowd. Joining the AI healthcare revolution. Better choices to fight cancer. Green light for cleantech investment. Wall Street Journal: OurCrowd chases the ‘trillion-dollar opportunity’. SALT Talks: Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation. Virgin Hyperloop gathers speed. Sight Diagnostics to partner with Shaare Zedek on coronavirus research.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Chooch.ai , a startup that hopes to bring computer vision more broadly to companies to help them identify and tag elements at high speed, announced a $20 million Series A today. Vickers Venture Partners led the round with participation from 212, Streamlined Ventures, Alumni Ventures Group, Waterman Ventures and several other unnamed investors. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $25.8 million, according to the company. “Basically we set out to copy human visual intelligence
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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
The first crypto asset most people purchase is Bitcoin. It has the highest market capitalization. It has way more search interest. But Bitcoin is not all there is to the crypto sector. There is about $160bn of market value in the crypto sector outside of Bitcoin. The “non-Bitcoin” portion of the crypto sector has risen over $100bn in 2020 and is up 2.7x this year.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Organizations today are sitting on mountains of data that they amass and use in their own businesses, but many are also looking to share those troves with other parties to expand their prospects — a model that comes with challenges (privacy and data protection being two key ones); and, these days (due to COVID-19 and the push to more digital transformation), with urgency; but also big rewards if you can pull it off well.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Henrik Torstensson. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Henrik Torstensson is CEO and co-founder of Lifesum. Previously, he was Head of Premium Sales at Spotify and SVP, Strategy at Stardoll. Many consumers might think Noom or Weight Watchers are industry leaders with their nonstop commercials, but neither is the fastest-growing weight management program.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
The last thing I recall thinking about C3.ai (C3) was seeing its billboards outside San Francisco and asking myself what the hell the company actually did and how much it was spending on huge outdoor advertisements. So much for what I know. The company filed to go public on Friday , and instead of being a cash-burning, buzzwordy mess, C3 is actually in pretty good financial shape, generating both growing recurring software revenues and cash in some quarters.
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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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
PingCAP , the open-source software developer best known for NewSQL database TiDB, has raised a $270 million Series D. TiDB handles hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP), and is aimed at high-growth companies, including payment and e-commerce services, that need to handle increasingly large amounts of data. The round’s lead investors were GGV Capital, Access Technology Ventures, Anatole Investment, Jeneration Capital and 5Y Capital (formerly known as Morningside Venture Capital).
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Activity and fitness tracking platform Strava has raised $110 million in new funding, in a Series F round led by TCV and Sequoia, and including participation by Dragoneer group, Madrone Capital Partners, Jackson Square Ventures and Go4it Capital. The funding will be used to propel the development of new features, and expand the company’s reach to cover even more users.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Squarespace is adding a new monetization option for websites built on the platform: Member Areas, where businesses can charge for access to exclusive content. Chief Product Officer Paul Gubbay said that particularly in the midst of the pandemic, businesses on Squarespace “want to experiment with different ways to make money.” They can already use the platform to sell products and services, and even to schedule appointments , but with Member Areas, “We allow you to sell your exp
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
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 big news, chats about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here — and don’t forget to check out last Friday’s episode that we wound up titling “ Th O’s r ptinal,
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TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Federal regulators have approved Mastercard’s acquisition of Salt Lake City-based startup Finicity, which provides open-banking APIs. The deal is expected to go for $825 million. “We were notified that the Department of Justice completed its review of our planned acquisition of Finicity and has cleared it to move forward,” Mastercard wrote in a statement.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Today we have an Equity Shot for you about Airbnb’s S-1 filing, as it looks to go public before the year is out. First we get into Airbnb’s macro performance, which shows a stable-picture historical revenue growth.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Travis VanderZanden. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Travis VanderZanden is the founder and CEO of Bird. Four years ago, shared e-scooters didn’t exist. Today, they’re on track to surpass half a billion rides globally by 2021, far outpacing early growth in the carbon-heavy ride-hailing industry founded by Uber in 2009. That’s a dramatic shift in urban transportation by any measure, and it prompts a simple but important question: How did we get here?
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
As the online world slowly moves to a more privacy-focused environment free of cookies , startups building alternative ways to help businesses manage customer identity and build marketing around that are getting attention. Zeotap , a customer identity platform built around a company’s own (first-party) data that combines this with other data sources to create more complete pictures of users and what they do, is today announcing that it has raised a further $18.5 million.
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