StartupNation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Throughout life, mentors provide support and valuable lessons. Nowhere is this truer than in the business world. . Having someone to guide you through your career — or part of it, at least — can be the key to success. A mentor can be anyone from a senior colleague to a boss to a highly regarded professional in your field. But if you’ve not had a mentor before, finding the right one can feel daunting, not to mention it might feel formal or strange approaching someone and asking them

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Products developed to manage artificial intelligence data are still largely fragmented, solving one problem at a time for developers, but not the entire life cycle. Enter Sama , a company providing high-quality training data that powers AI technology applications. CEO Wendy Gonzalez said the company is developing the first end-to-end AI tool for training data through machine learning.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This is the third blog in a three-part series on strengths-awareness from Purpose Jobs. Check out the first post on bringing your best self to work in an age of uncertainty and the second post on optimizing strengths for better work/life fulfillment. It’s everywhere these days: the message that we are undergoing “ The Great Resignation.” Hiring today poses even more challenges as the future of work gets written and rewritten every week. “Of the roughly 50% of employed

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Data streams with continual, real-time updates of information are a critical building block of how apps and sites function today, and now a startup that has built a platform to power those data streams is announcing a growth round of funding on the back of strong growth in its business into a wider set of use cases. PubNub , which provides APIs to power messaging and data updates for apps and other digital businesses, has picked up $65 million, a Series E that the San Francisco-based startup wil

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One of the most important elements of a business plan is a financing request, or the amount of funding your business is requesting of potential investors. Many entrepreneurs may worry they are asking for too much money, while others may not feel totally certain about the future of their company, especially nowadays. This leaves the business in a sticky situation, as many investors require a form of equity (such as shares) in the business in exchange for capital.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

And 3 you most definitely should. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

WhyLabs , a machine learning startup that was spun out of the Allen Institute last year, helps data teams monitor the health of their AI models and the data pipelines that fuel them. Last year, the startup raised a $4 million seed round and today, the team announced that it has raised a $10 million Series A round co-led by Defy Partners and Andrew Ng’s AI Fund.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Fire, Aim, Ready Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Has usage-based pricing (UBP) gone mainstream? That’s the case OpenView, a Boston-based VC firm, makes in its annual Financial and Operating Benchmarks survey. Out of the nearly 600 SaaS companies which responded, 45% say they are using this flexible pricing model, up from 34% in 2020. The report, though, isn’t just about measuring how many companies adopt a trend that OpenView has been cheering for.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

On Tuesday night the Gotham Gal and I boarded an overnight flight at JFK and arrived in Paris on Wednesday morning. That sounds like a normal thing to do and it is something we have been doing together since we met forty years ago. But we have not done any international travel since November of 2019 due to the Covid pandemic. So for us, it is quite a thrill to be traveling again.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Of all the startup markets in the world, fintech in Latin America is one of the hottest. Capital is flowing into the region’s financial technology companies at a slicing pace, leading to a wave of startups that are building private-market value at a simply astounding rate. The sheer volume of capital flowing into LatAm fintech startups may appear overheated, but several reasons explain why the flood makes sense.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Israeli AI accelerator company NeuReality has become the first semiconductor startup to license IBM Research’s low-precision high-performance digital AI cores. As part of the partnership, NeuReality will become a member of the IBM Research AI Hardware Center. Read more here. The post [NeuReality in Electronic Engineering Times] NeuReality licenses IBM’s low-precision AI cores appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Much of our days are built around digital experiences, and companies are increasingly looking for ways to unlock conversion and optimize fraud screening. Today, a startup that has built a real-time behavioral analytics tool is announcing funding as it sees demand for its services increase. Neuro-ID , an analytics platform capturing real-time customer behavior at scale for digital organizations so that they can see and understand the intent of their digital customer and identify the root cause of

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Sweetch, a digital therapeutics innovator and creator of the hyper-personalized engagement platform for chronic conditions, recently announced the completion of a $20 million Series A round of funding. Read more here. The post [Sweetch in DocWire News] Yoni Nevo, CEO, Sweetch, On hyper-personalized engagement platform for chronic conditions appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

iRocket, a reusable rocket startup based in New York, has landed its first commercial customer. The company said Thursday it had signed a multi-launch agreement with Turion Space , a recent Y Combinator grad that’s developing spacecraft for orbital debris removal and satellite servicing. According to the terms of the agreement, iRocket will send twenty of Turion’s forthcoming Droid satellites to orbit across ten launches. iRocket is developing fully reusable rockets, starting with its Shoc

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Massive stress across the global supply chain has created an urgent need for innovation within the mobility industry. Online retail sales surged from $598 billion in 2019 to over $791 billion in 2020, creating revolving shortages, delivery delays, and a spike in transportation costs. Each contributing to rising consumer prices and consequences for the global economy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The number of DevOps tools has increased exponentially over the last few years and, with that, the amount of data these tools can produce to help businesses improve their software development processes. But most of the time, this data simply ends up in a dashboard for some scattershot analysis. Propelo (previously known as LevelOps ) wants to bring order to this chaos and aims to build an “AI-driven engineering excellence platform” that brings together a set of machine learning-power

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday to keep shoppers busy, it makes perfect sense to start running holiday ads as early as now. Why might that be, you ask? Well, think of it this way: Most holiday shopping actually happens before the holiday itself. People rush to buy Christmas presents for their loved ones, while others are eager to take advantage of holiday sales.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Earlier this year I wrote about Gwoop , a team out of Minnesota building a collection of browser-based games meant to help you get better at video games overall. Their games measure things like how quickly you react, how accurately you move the mouse or how quickly you can aim at a randomly placed target, then provides all those stats in a dashboard to show how you’re improving (hopefully) over time.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses a new survey on the most female-friendly companies in the world. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn how companies are helping women inside and outside the workplace: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Tiffany Chu, SVP of Via and co-founder and former CEO of Remix, had been working in user experience design at ZipCar when, in 2014, she decided to take a year off for a fellowship at Code for America. With her background in architecture and urban planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chu had always been fascinated by the way transportation acts the lifeblood for built environments as a whole.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It is all about execution. Waiting over a year to see results is too long, since your chance of mid-course correction is greatly reduced. To make the point, Harvard’s Robert Kaplan believes that less than 10% of corporate strategies are effectively executed. Ouch! If that is true, we are tolerant bunch. We carefully plan in long, dedicated sessions each year or so, then draw up a series of goals, strategies, tactics, objectives, targets, or whatever we want to name them.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Hybe , the South Korean agency behind K-pop megastars BTS, announced today that it plans to set up a joint venture with Korean crypto exchange Upbit to enter to non-fungible token (NFT) business. Hybe will buy a 2.5% stake in Dunamu , a blockchain-based fintech startup that runs cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, for $423.1 million (500 billion won). At the same time, Dunamu will acquire newly issued Hybe shares, a 5.6% stake, in a Seoul-headquartered music agency for $592.4 million, according to t

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In February of 2019, IBM launched its IBM Research AI Hardware Center in Albany, N.Y., to create a global research hub to develop next-generation AI hardware with various technology partners and expand the company’s joint research efforts in nanotechnology. Now, almost three years later, Israeli AI vendor NeuReality has joined the research center as its first start-up semiconductor partner, with the aim of helping IBM develop the next generation of high-performance AI inference platforms that ca

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Rivian, the electric automaker that recently filed for an IPO , has been sued by a former sales and marketing vice president for alleged gender discrimination. The lawsuit alleges that Laura Schwab, a former sales and marketing executive who had a long employment history with Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin before joining Rivian in November 2020, was fired after reporting gender discrimination to the company’s human resources department.

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