The Seraf Compass
JANUARY 11, 2023
In Part I of this article we discussed several key concepts of fund investment strategy and how funds are categorized, whether it be by industry, geography, stage, specialty (e.g. social impact, corporate, etc.) or some other criteria. Now let's take a closer look at capital allocation strategy and the life cycle of a venture fund.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2023
Abby Miller Levy. Contributor. Abby Miller Levy is the managing partner and co-founder of Primetime Partners. She formerly served as the SVP of strategy and growth at SoulCycle and founded Thrive Global with Arianna Huffington. Last year was when we all got the wake-up call about longevity. From major reports published on the impact of longevity by the National Academy of Medicine and McKinsey to every leading newspaper, public discourse highlighted how our global healthcare, financial and housi
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StartupNation
JANUARY 11, 2023
The following is an excerpt from “Rhythm: How to Achieve Breakthrough Execution and Accelerate Growth” by Patrick Thean.… The post Rhythm: How to Achieve Breakthrough Execution and Accelerate Growth appeared first on StartupNation.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2023
Artificial intelligence startups, and (thanks to GPT and OpenAI) specifically those helping humans communicate with each other, are commanding a lot of interest from investors, and today the latest of these is announcing a big round of funding. DeepL , a startup that provides instant translation-as-a-service both to businesses and to individuals — competing with Google, Bing and other online tools — has confirmed a fundraise at a €1 billion valuation (just over $1 billion at today
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
JANUARY 11, 2023
Just because it worked for that VC-backed startup doesn’t mean it’s safe for bootstrapped founders. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
JANUARY 11, 2023
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2023
Carta , an equity management platform that was last privately valued at $7.4 billion, has cut 10% of its staff, confirming earlier rumors that a workforce reduction was in the works. Using LinkedIn data, the layoff could have impacted around 200 employees. Today’s layoff is around the same size as its 2020 workforce reduction, an event that CEO Henry Ward then partially attributed to a decline in new customers given the coronavirus’ impact on business.
OurCrowd
JANUARY 11, 2023
NEW HAVEN, Conn. & TEL AVIV, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DreaMed Diabetes, a developer of AI-based diabetes care solutions, partnered with Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) Center for Health Care Innovation and successfully deployed DreaMed’s endo.digital clinical decision support system as a fully integrated component of Northeast Medical Group’s (NEMG) EMR workflow.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2023
There are lots of people out there with their finger on the pulse of the business, who have ideas on how to build useful apps, but lack basic coding skills and the ability to put their ideas to work. What if those people could describe an app they wanted to build, then add connectors to common data sources, or even build a complex workflow — all without writing a single line of code?
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OurCrowd
JANUARY 11, 2023
BINYAMINA, Israel , Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — OncoHost, a global leader in next-generation precision oncology for improved personalized cancer therapy, today announced that its PROphet® platform has been named a winner in the healthcare category of the 2023 BIG Innovation Awards presented by the Business Intelligence Group. Read more here.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2023
Brian Casey. Contributor. Brian Casey is CEO of ECM PCB Stator Technology. For the foreseeable future, global markets will require billions of highly specialized electric machines that perform much better than the inefficient relics of the past. Initially, we approached this as a hardware challenge until we determined that the key to meeting next-generation electric motor demand actually lies in software.
Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 11, 2023
Annealing: A process that changes the properties of a material to make it more workable. It is a best practice to anneal metals before they are joined together. That way the pieces will stay aligned during the soldering process without. … The post Market Annealing: Getting to $10M ARR in Very Early Markets appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2023
Project Eaden , a Berlin-based food technology company, believes it has cracked the code for producing whole cuts of plant-based meat alternatives using a proprietary fiber spinning technology. Investors think so too, adding €2.1 million (about $2.3 million) of additional funding to a previous seed round so that Project Eaden can continue development and accelerate the launch of its first product, a plant-based steak, this year.
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StartupNation
JANUARY 11, 2023
What makes people want stuff? This is a critical component of any launch, but it’s often forgotten by… The post 3 Essential Strategies Entrepreneurs Must Use to Make Potential Customers Want Their Product appeared first on StartupNation.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2023
In the heat of 2021’s record-setting venture market, you couldn’t avoid the growing noise from the burgeoning web3 sector. Trust me, I tried. But while some of that momentum carried into 2022 (Yuga Labs closed a $450 million seed round in March), the rest of the year was relatively quiet. Yes, venture as a whole had a quieter year overall in 2022, but the lack of web3 deals stood out particularly because the sector entered the year with so much momentum.
Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 11, 2023
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2023
There’s long existed a divide in the world of computer hacking between those who are taking a malicious approach to crack a system, and those who are using the same techniques to understand the system’s vulnerabilities, help fix them and at the same time fight against the malicious actors. Today, Hack The Box , one of the startups that’s built a platform to help cultivate more of the latter group with a gamified approach, is announcing $55 million in funding to expand its busin
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Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 11, 2023
In this episode, Vijay Pande speaks with Jakob Uszkoreit, the cofounder and CEO of Inceptive. Together, they discuss all things AI. We’re publishing the transcript in full … The post Bio Eats World: Using AI to Take Bio Farther appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2023
In 2011, Jordi Torras, a former Oracle VP, had a realization: Companies weren’t optimizing their search technologies as well as they could be. He founded Inbenta to solve this, providing professional consulting services while simultaneously developing an internal AI toolkit for search optimization. Over the years, Inbenta transitioned from consulting to providing conversational AI as a service — inclusive of AI-powered chatbots, knowledge management and search engine tools.
Feedough
JANUARY 11, 2023
The actual product the end consumer receives is a mixture. Read more. The post What Is A Core Product? (Importance & Examples) appeared first on Feedough.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2023
Frederik Mijnhardt. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Frederik Mijnhardt is the CEO of Secfi , an equity planning, stock option financing and wealth management platform for startup executives and employees. More posts by this contributor. How investors can still get strong returns from late-stage tech startups. Late-stage tech companies must do right by their employees: Reassess your 409A valuations.
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Feedough
JANUARY 11, 2023
Starbucks is best known for its exceptional coffee and roastery. Read more. The post What Is Augmented Product? (Importance & Examples) appeared first on Feedough.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2023
Remote payroll startup Deel has acquired fintech Capbase for an undisclosed amount in a cash and stock deal, the companies have told TechCrunch exclusively. As its name suggests, San Francisco-based Capbase claims it can update a company’s cap table in real time as it issues shares, signs contracts and raise money from investors. It then uses that data to build API integrations that can be used to set up bank accounts, payroll and business insurance.
Founders Coop
JANUARY 11, 2023
Founders’ Co-op turns fifteen this year. We started the firm in 2008, on the cusp of the Global Financial Crisis, and it’s somehow fitting to be entering our 15th year as the laws of financial gravity reassert themselves once again. Our firm’s original premise was – and remains – dead simple: Seattle is a global gravity well for engineering talent, thanks to the sustained excellence and corresponding human capital needs of Amazon and Microsoft.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2023
Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question and unpack the rest. This week, Natasha chatted with Haje Kamps and Brian Heater about CES which took place last week over in the ever-exciting Las Vegas area.
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