Thu.Mar 10, 2022

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100ms secures $20M to power next generation of live video apps

TechCrunch

100ms , the live video conferencing infrastructure startup based in India, has raised $20 million in Series A funding to power the next generation of live video apps, coming barely five months after they closed the seed round. This latest round was led by Falcon Edge’s Alpha Wave Incubation, with participation from Matrix Partners India and LocalGlobe, and existing investors Accel and Strive.vc.

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Fired Up To Invest In East Fork, A Company With A Mission

Hunter Walk

Their Pottery Caught Our Eyes, Their Philosophy Grabbed Our Hearts & Their Growth Intrigued Our Brains. Coffee is very important to me. I mean, my Twitter screen name is “ ” so we’re talking identity-level important and by extension, any coffee-accessory must be up to snuff. I’m not a snob, just deliberate. And that intentionality has caused an exploration of drinking vessels.

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Topsort, an auction-based advertising startup, now valued at $110M after seed round

TechCrunch

When Regina Ye was in college, she was a Shopify seller and recalls being so fed up with advertising solutions that she spent finals week staying up late to figure out how ads worked on Facebook and Amazon. “It was super complicated,” she told TechCrunch. “I was an early adopter of B2B marketplaces, but advertising was this black box. I didn’t realize how much I would have to do this as a seller.”.

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Indonesian agritech startup ARIA scores pre-Seed funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register ARIA , an Indonesian agritech startup , has raised a pre-Seed funding from GK Plug and Play Indonesia, with participation of East Ventures and agriculture and logistics market leaders Triputra Group, WareSix, and Sahabat Group. ARIA is an agritech firm with a purpose to increase efficiency, productivity, and crop output via drones and IoT solutions, while providing preventive and predi

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

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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Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen back $30M fund exclusively investing in NFT art

TechCrunch

The world of NFTs is never dull — as long as the money never stops. While investors continue to pour billions into the sector, albeit at a slowing pace, more crypto buyers are spinning up funds to back NFT platforms, projects and the non-fungible tokens themselves. While dedicated funds solely devoted to NFTs as an asset class are starting to pop up, it’s still a risky space for the bigger institutional firms.

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Slingshot Aerospace raises $25M to help satellite operators navigate space traffic

TechCrunch

It’s getting a little crowded in low Earth orbit. Between the proliferation of small-scale satellites, massive constellations à la SpaceX’s Starlink, and an ever-growing collection of space junk, launching and operating an orbiting body can feel a bit like playing Frogger. Even the International Space Station has to perform “avoidance maneuvers” on a regular basis.

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10 Years of GCUC Magic

GCUC

BY: Liz Elam It certainly doesn’t feel like 10 years. It feels like yesterday when I was driving to the UT campus to open. The post 10 Years of GCUC Magic appeared first on GCUC Community.

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Nordic neobank Lunar raises $77M at $2B valuation, launches crypto trading platform and B2B payments

TechCrunch

Challenger banks have become, collectively, a force to be reckoned with in the world of financial services for consumers, and today one of the big players out of the Nordics — Lunar — is announcing growth funding along with two new services to continue filling out its ambition of providing a one-stop super app for its users. The startup has raised €70 million ($77 million at today’s rates), at what I understand from a person close to the company to be a $2 billion post-money va

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Guess the Startup

Tomasz Tunguz

I’m going to tell you a bit about two startups and I’d like you to guess the name of each company. Both of these businesses are publicly traded. Both startups provide database software to developers to build applications. Both have grown very fast. In fact, their revenue trajectories through 2020 are nearly identical. Both companies employ a usage-based pricing model: pay for what you use.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance

TechCrunch

Curacel , the YC-backed startup that is developing insurance infrastructure for the African market, has launched a new interface that allows digital businesses like those in retail, fintech, e-commerce and logistics to add insurance to their core products. The API-based tool, dubbed Grow, has so far been integrated with 22 tech entities across Africa including Topship, Barter by Flutterwave, Float, Fingo and Payhippo, enabling them to either bundle their main products with insurance packages or

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The Top 5 Benefits of Combining Email Marketing with SMS

Campaign Monitor

Combining email marketing with SMS packs a pretty potent punch. Here are the top five benefits of mixing both of these channels into your marketing strategy. Each new generation has increased interest in receiving brand communications via SMS. Companies need to keep up with the times if they’re going to effectively engage their audience and get the results they need.

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With founders hailing from Colombian unicorn Rappi, payments startup Yuno raises $10M from a16z and LatAm VCs

TechCrunch

As the Latin American startup scene has matured, founders and executives of multi-billion dollar companies in the region have started to move on to new ventures. On Wednesday, TechCrunch reported on Mara, a São Paulo-based startup that aims to “reinvent” the grocery shopping experience for the underserved in Latin America, and its $6 million raise. One of its co-founders is Ariel Lambrecht, who also helped start mobility startup 99, Brazil’s first unicorn.

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Customer empowerment? Blame the Internet.

Berkonomics

Customer empowerment is moving so fast nowadays that many of us are running to just catch up. Yet if we don’t or can’t, it is a sure thing that someone else will. Yes, we can blame the Internet for this. But don’t close your eyes to the fact that your customers have grown to expect your products or services in the form of…. ‘WHAT I want, WHEN I want, and WHERE I want.’.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

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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SafeBase bags $18M Series A to speed up vendor security auditing process

TechCrunch

Every company has to check the security credentials of its software vendors before signing on the dotted line to make a purchase. It usually involves a clunky non-digital process of signing NDAs and then requesting documents like pen test reports and SOC-2 compliance certification. This process can slow down sales while potential customers check the security posture of the vendor.

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[Autobrains in Calcalist] Autobrains closes $120 million Series C as it continues pursuit of Mobileye

OurCrowd

Autobrains, which has developed a self-learning artificial intelligence technology for assisted and autonomous driving, announced on Thursday that it has closed its Series C at $120 million, raising an additional $19 million since initially announcing the funding round last November. Read more here. The post [Autobrains in Calcalist] Autobrains closes $120 million Series C as it continues pursuit of Mobileye appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Are we entering an NFT downturn?

TechCrunch

The market for non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, may be slowing after NFT activity grew sharply in 2021 and into the new year. The health of the NFT market is itself a fascinating data project. The historical volatility of the price of crypto tokens and other blockchain-based assets is high, which means that you might be fooled into calling a trend early, only for the markets to reverse and make you look silly.

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[DailyPay in PR Newswire] Island Hospitality Management partners with DailyPay to provide on-demand pay benefits to its employees

OurCrowd

NEW YORK, March 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Island Hospitality Management, the premier third-party management company for select service and upscale extended stay hotels in the United States, today announced its partnership with DailyPay, the leading provider in on-demand pay. Read more here. The post [DailyPay in PR Newswire] Island Hospitality Management partners with DailyPay to provide on-demand pay benefits to its employees appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

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.

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We’re breaking down usage-based pricing and growth strategies at TechCrunch Early Stage

TechCrunch

Software as a service (SaaS) — both a revelation and a revolution — completely disrupted the decades-old software selling paradigm. It turned buying software from an infrequent, high-cost and, for many companies, time-consuming process into a hosted, monthly and predictable cost-per-seat subscription service. SaaS has essentially become the de facto business model for early-stage startups right on up to global conglomerates.

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[Cybersixgill in VentureBeat] Dark web threat intelligence firm Cybersixgill lands $35M

OurCrowd

Threat intelligence vendor Cybersixgill aims to bring enhanced data collection capabilities this year to its products, which leverage machine learning (ML) and automation to pinpoint “early signals” of cyber threats via sources such as the dark web, CEO Sharon Wagner told VentureBeat. Read more here. . The post [Cybersixgill in VentureBeat] Dark web threat intelligence firm Cybersixgill lands $35M appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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New Stack Ventures raises second fund focused on Silicon Valley outsiders

TechCrunch

Early-stage venture fund New Stack Ventures just raised $42.6 million for its second fund aimed at injecting capital into founders that don’t come from the educational pedigree or location that we typically see with entrepreneurs. Touting itself as one of the “largest single-partner U.S. funds ever raised between the coasts,” the Chicago-based firm prides itself on being unique from other venture capital firms, and that stems from the founder and general partner Nick Moran, who previously worked

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[Perception Point in PR Newswire] Perception Point wins Globee® Award in the 2022 Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards®

OurCrowd

TEL AVIV, Israel, March 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Perception Point, a leading email and cloud collaboration channel security company offering fast interception of content-borne attacks, announced today that The Globee® Awards, organizers of the world’s premier business award programs and business ranking lists, has recognized Perception Point as a Gold Winner for the Hot Security Company of the Year in the Cloud/SaaS category as part of the 18th Annual 2022 Cyber Security Global Excell

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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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DataRails raises $50M to boost financial analytics and other tools for Excel spreadsheet acolytes

TechCrunch

It’s estimated that there are more than 1 billion people using Microsoft’s Excel in the world today, and a significant part of those are smaller-business people, and of those, 80% lean on the spreadsheet software to keep track of their finances. Now, a startup called DataRails , which has built a set of financial planning and analytics tools for those users, so that they can get more out of their numbers on Excel (or whatever spreadsheet app is being used, for that matter), is announ

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#19. How To Build The Business of Your Dreams Despite The Hard Days w/ Kartik Hosanagar | Jumpcut…

Entrepreneur's Handbook

#19. How To Build The Business of Your Dreams Despite The Hard Days w/ Kartik Hosanagar | Jumpcut Media Founder Image courtesy of Kartik Hosanagar Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Listen on A pple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube. Today’s guest is Kartik Hosanagar, the founder and CEO of Jumpcut Media. After studying for his Ph.D., he became a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Daily Crunch: 2 months after launching, São Paulo-based payments startup Yuno raises $10M

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, March 10, 2022! Am writing to you after coming off a live taping of Equity, which means I am still full of adrenaline. Doing stuff live is really good fun, which is why I am pleased to bring you a raft of news about our upcoming live events!

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Autobrains nabs $19M, bringing its Series C to $120M, to take on Mobileye in autonomous driving tech

TechCrunch

AI has been the backbone of many a technological breakthrough over the years, but one challenge it has yet to solve is that of self-driving: try as they may, engineers have yet to build a platform that can manage all the practicalities and unexpected eventualities of conducting a vehicle as well as or better than a human can do, and which has also convinced regulators and the general population of its reliability.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.