TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
CRED plans to invest about $10 million in its lending partner LiquiLoans as the Indian fintech startup broadens its ownership in financial services, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s investment in Mumbai-headquartered LiquiLoans increases the lender’s valuation to close to $200 million, the firms said in a statement.
Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
As we enter the third school year of the Covid era, a disturbing new normal is settling over the country. Students continue to be chronically absent ; nearly 50,000 Los Angeles public school students failed to show up on the … The post The New Learning Economy: It’s Time To Build in Education appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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Founders Coop
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
We all need a kick in the ass once in a while. I got one Wednesday when I read the New York Times article on Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard’s decision to put his family’s entire $3B ownership stake into a perpetual trust , with 100% of future company profits dedicated to protecting the environment. I worked for Yvon and Malinda in the mid-’90s, first heading up the “technical” products group (all the sport-specific products requiring specialized fabrics and construction), and then leading the
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
There’s no shortage of startups trying to make sense of the explosive growth of data generated from blockchain applications. Nansen has the support from a16z to provide on-chain data analysis for crypto investors. The Graph offers an API for developers to query blockchain data. The latest to get VC recognition is KNN3, a Singapore-based startup working to help developers make sense of relational data across blockchains.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Learn from the founder of Maven Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Welcome to the Entrepreneur’s Handbook Podcast, where we share inspiring startup stories and practical takeaways for you, the listener. Today’s guest is Wes Kao, the Co-Founder of Maven. It’s a platform that hosts cohort-based courses from some of the world’s greatest business experts including Anthony Pompliano, Shaan Puri, and Li Jin.
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Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
As we write in our piece It’s All About The Money (Movement), moving money internationally is an opaque, fee-intensive process that requires two things: actually “moving” the money and leveraging onboarding and compliance workflow software. What’s often misunderstood about this … The post Investing in Payall appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Put validation, profit and traction first. Forget about raising any funds. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Stop trying to make Polywork happen. It’s already happening. You may even be polyworking as you read this. Polywork is a venture-backed startup that is building a professional network to help people express their multihyphenated work lives. In other words, if you’re a reporter, who also podcasts, wants to write a book and would love to one day help teach at a university, Polywork wants to give you, well me in this case , a place to express that.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
When financial institutions want to offer a debit card or credit card, they hire an issuing processor to help them with those services. When they want to offer merchants the ability to accept cards, they sign up with an acquiring processor. But when it comes to cross border payments and international fund transfers generally, banks have had far fewer choices, and to industry veteran Gary Palmer, that spelled opportunity.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Branding lessons learned from the Boohoo x Kardashian faux pas Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Will Ross and William Steenbergen were AI researchers at Stanford working on climate and atmospheric modeling and reinforcement learning, respectively, when they began to collaborate on wildfire modeling and hurricane modeling initiatives for the insurance industry. They were surprised to learn how big of a difference there was between what the data told insurers to do and what carriers were actually doing, according to Ross.
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Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
While Elon Musk is working on taking humans to Mars, the way people and businesses move money internationally has not changed in decades. Whereas we can now tap our credit cards to pay for domestic goods and services, making a … The post It’s All About the Money (Movement): Simplifying Cross-Border Payments appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
You know what’s a huge pain where the =sum() don’t shine? Financial reporting, planning and analysis. I often go on and on ( and on and on ) about startups not getting their financials and operating plans right in their startup pitch decks, so … not gonna lie, I picked Austrian startup Helu.io , which completed a €9.8 million round in July, in the hope that a company that focuses exclusively on FP&A (that’s “financial planning and analysis,” for those who aren&
Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Denim, the fintech platform for freight and logistics formerly known as Axle Payments, today announced that it raised $126 million in a Series B funding round led by Pelion Venture Partners with participation from Crosslink Capital, Anthemis, Trucks VC, FJ Labs, Tribeca Early Stage Partners and Refashiond Ventures at a “nine-figure” valuation.
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Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Autonomous and electric truck maker Einride is rolling into Germany, representing its first new market in Europe outside its native Sweden. Founded out of Stockholm in 2016, Einride has raised some $150 million in funding to commercialize a cab-less autonomous cargo truck, one that can be controlled remotely, if required, by human operators. It’s a notable departure from the slew of rival autonomous trucking companies out there, which are essentially retrofitting existing trucks for an aut
Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Diaa El All, co-founder and CEO of Soundful, talks to Entrepreneur about creating a business with passion.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Graph databases, which store information in nodes and relationships instead of tables like Excel sheets, have grown in popularity amid an explosion of data across industries. While TigerGraph and Neo4j have dominated the Western market, China is seeing its own homegrown pioneers in the space. NebulaGraph is one of China’s fastest-growing startups offering graph databases with open source and enterprise subscription options.
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Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
It happens all the time when you’re a CEO or manager. . Somebody important leaves or is let go, and you worry over the impact upon remaining employees and customers. You worry that the person leaving will begin to unload all the pent–up garbage from the past, perhaps damaging the company and causing customer defections and even employee unrest. Your worry is real. .
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex , Natasha and Mary Ann jumped on the mic, with Theresa on backup, to talk through the biggest headlines. We started with a look at the Figma-Adobe deal, worth some $20 billion. TechCrunch’s news coverage is here , and Alex has more notes here.
A Smart Bear: Longform
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
A simple but effective system, used to vet what is now a Unicorn, for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they'll buy.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
In a shot across the bow to the buy now, pay later (BNPL) industry, the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today issued a report suggesting that companies like Klarna and Afterpay, which allow customers to pay for products and services in installments, must be subjected to stricter oversight. The CFPB — in a step toward regulation — plans to issue guidance to oversee BNPL vendors and have them complete “supervisory” exams in line with credit card company rep
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