TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

EduFi, a fintech startup that enables financially strapped students to secure loans for their education, has raised $6.1 million in a pre-seed round led by Zayn VC with participation from Palm Drive Capital, Deem Ventures, Q Business and angel investors. The Singapore-based startup has launched an artificial intelligence-powered study now, pay later (SNPL) lending platform […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings is set to unveil a $663 million fund dedicated to supporting startups engaged in Web3, AI, and the Metaverse. The fund’s operations are scheduled to commence by the close of the current year, with investments reaching 150-200 companies within its portfolio.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

11 Startup Content Marketing Strategies That Actually Work To help startups navigate the complex world of content marketing, we’ve gathered eleven successful strategies from industry professionals, including CEOs and Content Marketing Managers. From using listicle blogs for high-value traffic to maximizing content accessibility and reach, these experts share their most effective tactics to achieve marketing goals.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Susan Newman, SVP of Conferences at the National Retail Foundation, and Rob Grimes, Founder and CEO of the International Food & Beverage Federation Technology Association discuss the latest innovations impacting the retail industry and how they will be showcased at the upcoming Retail Big Show in January. They share the excitement of the Food Service Innovation Zone, a dedicated area for 50 exhibitors, that will provide attendees with immersive experiences of the coolest technologies now bei

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Lots of entrepreneurs are still building startups like it’s the 20th century.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It’s been an eventful year in the world of generative music. In April, the first viral AI cover dropped: ghostwriter’s “Heart on My Sleeve,” which woke up the music world to the fact that AI content could not only exist, but could be good. Soon after, Google unveiled MusicLM, a text-to-music tool that generates songs from a basic prompt; Paul McCartney used AI to extract John Lennon’s voice for a new Beatles track; and Grimes offered creators 50% of the royalties for streams of songs that used

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A few hours after this morning’s big unveil, Humane opened its doors to a handful of press. Located in a nondescript building in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood, the office is home to the startup’s hardware design teams. An office next door houses Humane’s product engineers, while the electrical engineering team operates out of a third […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Vendr’s quarterly report on SaaS purchasing trends summarize the sentiment of the software market. Q2 was tough but Q3 is looking up. The average sales cycle has lengthened from 32 to 44 days for net new software, a 37% increase. Slower cycles & fewer new purchases : 19% of software purchases are net new in 2023 ; just 17% in Q3. Still about 1-in-5, but down from 30% last year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Meta may have abandoned its efforts around live shopping on Facebook and Instagram, but the social networking company still believes in its apps’ potential as a shopping platform. That leads to today’s news that the company is now working with Amazon to allow customers to link their Facebook and Instagram accounts to their Amazon account […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Aside from visionary management, this is your most important job. Many of us go through the motions of hiring to fill a position, trying to use our intuition and skills to find the best candidate for the job. Sometimes we use consultants or recruiters; often we use internal talent to fill most positions. A science to hiring? And over the years, we students of business success have learned that there is a science to the hiring process that continues through the life of an employee’s tenure with

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The government of Maine has confirmed over a million state residents had personal information stolen in a data breach earlier this year by a Russia-linked ransomware gang. In a statement published Thursday, the Maine government said hackers exploited a vulnerability in its MOVEit file-transfer system, which stored sensitive data on state residents. The hackers used […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The post [Airobotics in AccessWire] Ondas Holdings expands into North African market through a strategic partnership with Morocco-Based Maghrebnet appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Rocket Lab is waiting until Neutron is more technically mature before signing launch contracts with customers, CEO Peter Beck told investors on Wednesday. The statements provided an inside look on how the space company is thinking about bringing the Neutron next-gen launch vehicle to market – and the lessons learned from selling its first rocket, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The post [Colossal in BusinessWire] Colossal Biosciences and Save the Elephants debut first-of-its-kind project to utilize drones and machine learning for elephant conservation appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It’s not hyperbolic to say that the self-driving car industry is facing a reckoning. Just this week, Cruise recalled its entire fleet of autonomous cars after a grisly accident involving a pedestrian that led the California DMV to suspend the company from operating driverless robotaxis in the state. Meanwhile, activists in San Francisco have taken […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Haifa, Israel; Boston, MA – March 7, 2022 – MeMed today announced that it has been named by Fierce Medtech as one of its ‘Fierce 15’ medical technology companies of 2021, designating it as one of the most promising private medtech companies in the industry.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It’s an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed. Image corpora tends to be U.S.- and Western-centric, partly because Western images dominated the internet when the data sets were compiled. And as most recently highlighted by a study out of the Allen Institute for AI, the data used […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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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.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

HoneyBook, the leading platform for small business management, is excited to share a groundbreaking solution to simplify the invoicing process for small businesses. With a 100% free invoice template, a business can effortlessly create professional invoices, customize them with specific branding, download them as PDFs, and streamline the financial operation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Archer Aviation, the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle startup, has partnered with India’s travel and hospitality conglomerate InterGlobe Enterprises to launch an all-electric air taxi service in the country in 2026. If successful, it would make the South Asian nation its second international market outside the U.S. to experience its ambitious air taxi […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The post [IQM in PRNewswire] IQM Quantum Computers launches IQM Radiance – a 150 qubit system paving the way to quantum advantage appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

When Pico launched its Oculus Quest challenger in China last year, it did so with great optimism. Light (295 grams) and affordable ($420), the virtual reality headset released by the ByteDance-owned manufacturer was expected to drive adoption in a market inaccessible to Meta. The odds were against Pico. Its sales have been sluggish, and this […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The post [BioLumic in Seed World] A biotech company is using light treatment to boost the growth and quality of rice crops appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

California regulators have issued an order to halt the implementation of Cruise’s permit to charge for robotaxi rides across San Francisco 24/7 as they consider the city’s request for a redo of the hearing that granted the permit. The action by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is in addition to the agency’s October 24 […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The post [OurCrowd in The Jerusalem Post] Medved: Despite all odds, ‘the tech community is fully mobilized’ appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

According to a leaked memo, Tumblr’s longterm financial woes have reached a breaking point. Aside from a skeleton crew of essential workers in departments like trust and safety, the majority of Tumblr’s 139 workers will be reassigned to other products at parent company Automattic, which employs around 1,900 people. CEO Matt Mullenweg acknowledged the memo […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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