TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

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. We’ve made it to Friday! If you are looking for a good podcast episode, I highly recommend today’s Equity where Natasha M , Mary Ann and Becca talk about CES, NYE, SBF and FTX — oh my! Also, shout-out to you Daily Crunchers out there for reading yesterday’s newsletter and helping it be one of today’s top-read stories.

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Deskmag

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been going on for more than 300 days. During this time Ukraine defended against numerous missile attacks, genocide and the destruction of the country's culture. How has the coworking industry changed since the beginning of the war? .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

David Magerman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Magerman is managing partner at Differential Ventures. The global economic and political turmoil of the past year has had a meaningful impact on corporate innovation in the technology industry and beyond. The worldwide battle with COVID, the Ukraine-Russia conflict and the economic fallout of the COVID lockdowns and supply chain disruptions have together created a painful combination of a global recession, global inflation and unpredictable in

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

Did you know that you can start a ‘friendship’ with your favorite brand? That’s just what Owen Sakawa , Founder and CEO of Elloe , is all about. In an age that has seen the fall of the stony-faced corporate brand, and the rise of ever more personalized customer engagement, it makes sense that the future of company-customer relationships is moving closer to something that looks more like a ‘friendship’.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Indian fintech KreditBee has raised an additional $100 million in a funding round, it said, as the lender looks to scale its business in the South Asian market. The new cash infusion is part of the larger Series D funding , which KreditBee said has now closed at $200 million. The new funding, led by Advent International, values the Bengaluru-headquartered startup at about $680 million, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Market headwinds continue to dog startups chasing venture backing. That’s the top-level finding of a new PitchBook report that looked at VC trends toward the end of 2022, specifically Q4, including investments made at the seed, late-stage and nearing-the-exit levels. First, the good news: “On an annual basis, angel- and seed-stage deal activity remained relatively resilient in 2022, with $21.0 billion invested across an estimated 7,261 deals,” the report said.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

echPetHub’s Clemens is Leading Innovation in the Pet Tech Industry I had the pleasure of interviewing Lorien Clemens, co-founder and CEO at PetHub , Inc., the first networked database in the U.S. for pets and pet parents. She joined PetHub in June of 2011 as the modern pet ID tag startup was in its beginning stages. Lorien has guided PetHub to its wins of multiple pet industry awards, as well as PetHub being named one of Business Insider Magazine’s 50 Coolest New Businesses in America.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Raphael Mukomilow. Contributor. Raphael Mukomilow is partner and head of growth at Picus Capital. His focus is later-stage and growth investments. . Pierre Bourdon. Contributor. Pierre Bourdon is an investor at Picus Capital. After the challenging year that was 2022, one might think that the coming months are not looking great for VCs or founders. But, “dry powder” — money raised by VCs that hasn’t yet been deployed — has risen to record levels.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 6, 2023

Too Many Existing Companies Merely Delayed ‘Cash Out’ Dates Without Yet Changing Their Fates. woman standing at the beginning of a very long suspension bridge, digital art [DALL-E]. If 2022 was the year of the startup layoff, 2023 is going to be the year of the wind down. It will suck — for team members, for founders, for customers of these companies, and for their investors — but by the end of the year we’ll have gotten through the toughest part of the correction.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. To start off the year, we are welcoming on Rebecca Szkutak as a returning host who will be joining us while Alex is out on paternity leave. We’re lucky to have her for a few months, so give her a warm welcome!

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

Autocase’ Williams is Automating Business Case Analysis for Investments in Buildings and Infrastructure I had the pleasure of interviewing John Williams, CEO at Autocase. John is a serial entrepreneur. His two most successful examples include growing his prior company to nearly $1.6 Billion in annual revenues and Autocase into a leading SaaS company that automates business case analysis for investments in buildings and infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

It’s impossible to plan for everything that can go wrong while building a startup. A definitive founder’s guide would have to include chapters like, “So you’ve hired the wrong person,” or, “Five ways to tell if an investor is lying to you.” A definitive guide would have to include chapters like, “So you’ve hired the wrong person,” or, “Five ways to tell if an investor is lying to you.” Mentors and advisers come in handy, but

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Dillon McDermott, VP of Sales at Thankful.ai has spent the last 12 years working in tech sales. He’s spent time at early-stage startups as well as publicly traded software companies, and has experience as an individual contributor, sales manager and VP. Thank you so much for joining us! Awesome to be with you guys — thanks for having me!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Talia Rafaeli. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Talia Rafaeli is a partner with Kompas , an early-stage European venture capital fund investing in digital transformation technologies within the built environment and industry 4.0 domains. Investors and entrepreneurs began 2022 bright-eyed and optimistic as startups raised nearly $13 billion in the first quarter, making it the fifth-highest quarter for funding on record.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 6, 2023

Learn from the CEO of Fnality International Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Today we have with us Rhomaios Ram who is the CEO of Fnality International. Fnality International has been founded to create a network of decentralised Financial Market Infrastructures (dFMIs) to deliver the means of payment-on-chain in tomorrow’s wholesale banking markets.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 6, 2023

ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Greenlight® Financial Technology, Inc. (“Greenlight”), the fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially-smart, independent kids, today announced the launch of Greenlight Level Up™, an interactive, curriculum-based financial literacy game. Level Up goes beyond the National Standards for K-12 Personal Financial Education developed by the Jump$tart Coalition and Council for Economic Education to empower young people with money

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 6, 2023

And why I hid in an alley when a business partner walked by. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Some. Good. News. The latest Crunchbase data shows that Black startup founders in the United States raised around $264 million out of the total $33.6 billion in venture capital allocated in Q4 2022. That’s an uptick from the $178 million — or 0.43% — the group raised in Q3. In total, U.S. Black founders raised an estimated $2.254 billion out of the $215.9 billion in U.S. venture capital allocated last year.

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Gust

JANUARY 6, 2023

So, you’ve got a great idea for a startup. But there’s just one catch; Your startup requires machine learning (ML), and to you, that feels a bit, well, overwhelming. We’ve got some great news for you! ML doesn’t have to be either complicated or time-consuming. In fact, there are a number of ML SaaS platforms on the market today that are intentionally designed to do the heavy lifting for you.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

AR tech sounds pretty cool, but nobody wants to be a glasshole. Today at CES, we checked out Lumus ‘ bid to make AR glasses a little bit less cringe. The company creates a series of glasses that look, well, more or less like glasses, and are compatible with prescription lenses, too. The new glasses are the second generation of its ‘Z-Lens 2D waveguide’ tech, halving the size and weight of the tech needed to make AR bloom to life. “In order for AR glasses to penetrate the

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OkDork

JANUARY 6, 2023

I love discovering new products. These are the BEST ones I tried out this year. Check ‘em out for yourself or take note for future birthday and holiday gifts. Plus, I included some of your recommendations AND a free one! My Favorite Products of 2022. LMNT : Keeps me hydrated with no sugar, no artificial ingredients, and no fillers. Love the flavor options.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

HealthAtom is aiming to be the go-to cloud-based operations system for small and midsize healthcare companies across Latin America (LatAm). Although the company has been around since 2012, this is the first time it has announced fresh capital, in the amount of $10 million. HealthAtom’s medilink and dentalink software suites let clinics create schedules, manage electronic health records, handle inventory, administer payroll and provide budgeting breakdowns and regulatory filings.

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 6, 2023

Creator economy is the future, so you will want good video editing software for sure. So if your building out youtube , tiktok or instagram we have put a selection of our favourites for online cutting and editing needs. Get on it creators and keep creating! Veed A great all round software for editing video software which just raise a lot of capital.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Benedetto Biondi, CEO of Folks Finance. Over the past two years, Benedetto has guided Folks Finance to a dominant position in Algorand DeFi, and now sets his sights on the next phase of expansion: community, capital, and decentralization. With the Folks V2 launching in December, we thought it would be the perfect time to pick Benedetto’s brain about his reflections on the past and plans for the future.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Doorstead, a property management startup which offers “guaranteed” rental payments to homeowners, has raised $21.5 million in a Series B round of funding. Ryan Waliany and Jennifer Bronzo started Doorstead in 2019, initially testing out its model for setting prices for rental properties on Craigslist. Over time, the company built out a pricing model through data science and machine learning that the pair says gives it the ability to better predict how much rent a given property can command.

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