TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

For nearly all fintech startups, lending has long been the end game. A notice from India’s central bank this week has thrown a wrench into the ecosystem, scrutinizing just who all can lend. The Reserve Bank of India has informed dozens of fintech startups that it is barring the practice of loading non-bank prepaid payment instruments (PPIs) — prepaid cards, for instance — using credit lines, in a move that has prompted panic among — and existential threat to — many fintech startups and caused so

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 23, 2022

Learn from experts with Nearly 10 million subscribers Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today’s guests are Mark Tilbury and Curtis Tilbury who run multiple businesses and make millions of dollars per year. They built the Mark Tilbury brand which has 7 million TikTok subscribers, over 1 million on YouTube, and hundreds of thousands elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Steve Sloane. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Steve Sloane is a partner at Menlo Ventures where he invests in inflection-stage companies. More posts by this contributor. Software’s meteoric rise: Have VCs gone too far? The shift to collaborative robots means the rise of robotics as a service. Derek Xiao. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Derek Xiao is an investor at Menlo Ventures focused on soon-to-be breakout companies at the inflection stage.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 23, 2022

After an acquisition allowed me to spend luxuriously to expedite growth, I’m now relearning how to be scrappy with my next venture We arrived at the trade show without a booth. In fact, my co-founder and I hadn’t even purchased a badge for the event. We simply showed up, attended social events, and lined up meetings at a coffee shop within the convention center.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Paris-originated VC Breega wasn’t enormously well known in the VC world (it only closed its first fund in 2015) until, perhaps, it started attracting attention with its second €110 million seed fund, just under a year go. It’s portfolio now includes a number of scaleups including Moneybox, Cuvva, Coverflex and Libeo. Perhaps part of its “secret sauce” is how it has managed to put together an in house-team of experts in growth, talent and comms, of which more later.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Mobile well-being apps topped 1.2 billion downloads last year, while leading meditation app Calm alone pulled in $118.2 million in revenue, data from Sensor Tower indicates. That may leave some to believe the digital well-being market is essentially solved, but a new startup, Lumi Interactive, believes the opposite is true. The Melbourne-based, women-led company has identified a under-explored niche in the mobile market which involves translating offline, self-care activities into games as a mea

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 23, 2022

Reading the news and the posts of many people, one would believe that people are afraid to engage in the crypto market. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

The space industry is evolving, as are the tools it uses; Epsilon3 is a startup trying to make launches, satellite design, rocket manufacturing, and other complex processes easier and more collaborative. The company has found its tools have uses beyond space, and growing traction across the board has led to a $15 million in new investment. It wasn’t long ago that Epsilon3 raised its $2.8 million seed round , having been founded in early 2021 by SpaceX veteran Laura Crabtree and Max Mednik

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OkDork

JUNE 23, 2022

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify. In today’s episode, I talk to The Financial Samurai Sam Dogen. Like many people, Sam got hit hard by the 2009 market crash. Even though he worked at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse for 10 years, got an MBA from UC Berkeley, saved aggressively, and diversified his investments… He STILL got financially kicked in the butt!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Starburst , the well-funded data warehouse analytics service and data query engine based on the open-source Trino project, today announced that it has acquired Varada , a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on data lake analytics. Using Varada’s proprietary indexing technology, enterprises can easily operationalize their data lakes, a capability that neatly extends Starburst’s query engine.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 23, 2022

Mogul, Inc., a disruptor in the HR Tech and executive recruiting industry, announced that it has signed a deal with DailyPay, an award-winning financial technology company. Mogul offers a talent acquisition platform, diversity recruiting services, inclusive networking events, educational events, a job board, and online social communities. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hey, folks! Me again. As I’m sure it had you on the edge of your seat, I’m pleased to report that the team wasn’t completely dissatisfied with my inaugural work (it’s here in case you missed it), and so they’ve agreed to let me have another go.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 23, 2022

TEL AVIV, Israel and FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Memic Innovative Surgery Ltd. (Memic), a medical device company dedicated to transforming surgery with its proprietary surgical robotic technology, today announced that multiple abstracts detailing clinical data related to the Hominis® Surgical System for robotic-assisted transvaginal hysterectomy were accepted for presentation at the Society of Robotic and Digital Surgery (SRS) 2022 Annual Meeting, taking place June

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

The past several months haven’t been entirely kind to the NFT market — while transaction volume hasn’t stuttered too significantly, the dollar amount invested in the space has been in free fall as cryptocurrency prices have taken a historic dive. With that as background, it might not seem like the best time to launch an NFT platform, let alone one geared toward children.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 23, 2022

You install that new Parkour game that everyone’s talking about, and instantly your avatar gains a new set of skills. After a few minutes in the tutorial level, running up walls and vaulting over obstacles, you’re ready for a bigger challenge. You teleport yourself into one of your favorite games, Grand Theft Auto: Metaverse, following. Read More. The post Unlocking the Metaverse: New Opportunities in Games Infrastructure appeared first on Future.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Evinced is on a mission to make as many web properties accessible as possible, and to do that means getting that work done as early as possible — which means integrating with the development process from the beginning. The company is continuing this “shift left” mentality with $38 million in new funding that it plans to put to work making it elementary to design for accessibility. “For years, the accessibility business has been what you might call a consulting business,”

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

My wife has been selling her wreaths on Etsy for several months now. As I peak at what she’s doing in our shared office, I thought, that maybe I could help the Smart Hustle community with their Etsy stores. Etsy has some great information on how to use its platform and there are a “zillion” blogs and YouTube videos on it as well. I worked with the Smart Hustle editorial team to give you a bit of extra guidance!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

For Allison Wolff, the 2018 wildfire season in California marked a turning point. During that record-breaking year , she started asking a lot of questions. “We were in the middle of the 2018 wildfire season, with the Carr Fire, and what I thought at the time was the worst season ever,” Wolff said. “I started asking lots and lots of people — climate scientists I’d worked with, land managers, utility leaders, insurance leaders — why is this happening so catastrophically?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 23, 2022

First, the challenge. Let’s say you have been told by your board, by your chairman, CEO, or direct leader to solve three problems you identify and report back within a month showing progress – or that you have solved these three. But wait. You have questions! First, you’d worry that this is an artificial way to focus management. Why three? Why now?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

The relatively controlled environments of university campuses have long served as ideal testing grounds for autonomous technology, and they’re proving particularly effective for sidewalk delivery robots. In the latest move to introduce autonomous delivery to college campuses, early last week, food delivery platform Grubhub and sidewalk delivery robot startup Cartken shared plans to bring 50 food delivery robots to Ohio State University this fall.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 23, 2022

Grindr is partnering with Spectrum Labs, tapping the startup’s AI-based system to help filter postings on the LGBTQ dating service. Read more here. The post [Spectrum Labs in Axios] Exclusive: Grindr partners with Spectrum Labs on AI moderation appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Cynthia Price. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Cynthia Price is the SVP of marketing at Litmus. Her team grows and supports the Litmus and email community through content marketing, demand generation and events. She has been in the email marketing industry for over 10 years and was previously VP of Marketing at Emma, an email service provider. Early 2020 saw commerce transform as people transitioned to online shopping by necessity.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 23, 2022

The Vehicle Damage-Finder Stationary Modeling System captures a car’s image to provide a comprehensive damage report by cross-referencing the vehicle with its computerized model. Read more here. The post [Ravin in the Jerusalem Post] Ravin AI granted patent for vehicle ‘damage-finder’ system appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Europe has no shortage of buy now, pay later startups and a quick search is revealing. Berlin-based fintech startup Mondu has taken in €39.9 million to expand its B2B BNPL solution. Madrid’s RITMO scored over €184 million. Tranch in the U.K. is launching BNPL to a B2B market with €4 million. Berlin-based Billie raised about €86.2 million. The list goes on!

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OurCrowd

JUNE 23, 2022

Perhaps it’s just in our nature, but finance people like rules. That’s why they usually have a very well-thought-out expense policy. The problem is that, according to a report by Ardent Partners, roughly 37% of spend is not under control. Read more here. The post [Teampay in Forbes] The future of finance is human-centered appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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