A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Early in the pandemic, we were all deluged with stories of tech workers, companies, and founders leaving Silicon Valley for Miami and Austin. And that was true. But from my personal experience, they also left for many other places too, including Los Angeles and New York City. I met with a founder last week who has left the bay area for good and now splits his time between homes in LA and NYC.
StartupNation
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Human talent will determine whether the growth of technology and digital transformation in business succeeds. According to the Economist , one of the most significant outcomes of the pandemic will be “the infusion of data-enabled services into ever more aspects of life.” We were already expecting a transition to digital transformation thanks to technological advancement, dubbed the “fourth industrial revolution.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Oyo is ready to explore the public markets. The eight-year-old Indian budget hotel giant has filed the paperwork (PDF) with the local market regulator for an initial public offering, in which it is seeking to raise about $1.16 billion. The Gurgaon-headquartered startup — which offers an operating system of sorts to help hoteliers accept digital bookings, payments and determine the best pricing for a room, and integrates with third-party booking services — is seeking to raise about $
Smart Hustle Magazine
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
By Megan Wintersteen, Vice President of Marketing at Zenreach. It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic took a heavy toll on small businesses (SMBs) throughout 2020. Moving through 2021, however, we’ve seen increasing signs of optimism. Consumer foot traffic to restaurants and retailers has increased more than 52% since January. Vaccination rates are also climbing.
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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Blockchain cybersecurity startup OpenZeppelin this morning announced a $23 million investment in Forta , a security service aimed at smart contracts. Andreessen Horowitz led the round, which OpenZeppelin CEO and co-founder Demian Brener described as 3x oversubscribed. The investment also attracted capital from Coinbase Ventures, True Ventures and Blockchain Capital, among others.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Found, a startup focused on weight care management, is emerging from stealth today with $32 million in total funding and the news that it has appointed former Bumble COO Sarah Jones Simmer as its new chief executive. Austin-based Found was incubated at Atomic , a San Francisco-based venture studio in the spring of 2020. Earlier this year, it raised $24 million in a Series A round led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Atomic, with participation from Define Ventures.
The Startup Blog Market Brief
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Cognitive ToyBox conducted an experiment to find out which forms of advertising via social media are most effective in reaching educators. The post 3 Strategies for Ed. Companies to Reach Teachers Through Social Media appeared first on Market Brief.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Loop Health aims to be the “Oscar Health of India” and targets the country’s health insurance gap with its approach to primary care and insurance. The Pune-based company is also the latest startup to raise funding in this area, bringing in $12 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by Elevation Capital and General Catalyst. Joining the two firms is Vinod Khosla, through Khosla Ventures, YC Continuity Fund, Tribe Capital and a group of angel investors, including NoBroker founder and CEO Am
StartupNation
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
On today’s Business Beat, Jeff talks about engaging customers in an era of new online marketing laws with the granddaddy of all online marketing tactics: email. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about the advantages of newsletters: 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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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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
VertoFX , a global B2B payments platform that allows small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to make payments to their suppliers, today announced that it has closed $10 million in Series A funding. Quona Capital , an emerging fintech-focused venture capital firm, led the round. Other firms also participated, including The Treasury , founded by Betterment’s Eli Broverman and Acorns’ Jeff Cruttenden; Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP); U.K.
Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Here’s a question to help you decide if you’re guilty. How many times have you heard someone say, “Let’s do it now and ask permission later?” Have you done it in front of your cohort? That’s a common practice in companies where there is a barrier between levels in the chain of command, or lack of communication between people who work together or even for you as a leader.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Brian Walsh. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Brian Walsh is the head of WIND Ventures , the venture capital arm of COPEC, a leading energy company in Central and South America and the U.S. WIND Ventures provides mobility, energy and retail startups and scaleups with access to Latin America. More posts by this contributor. SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech.
Impact Hub
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Greenhouse gas concentrations are at their highest levels in 2 million years , the UN reveals , and emissions continue to rise. 2011-2020 was the warmest decade of all. As a consequence of climate change, we are also seeing the collapse of biodiversity and the growing acidification of oceans – and it does not stop there. This phenomenon is directly affecting people’s health, safety, housing and ability to grow food – and it is even more concerning when we observe it through intersec
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Ola Electric said on Thursday it has raised over $200 million in a new financing round at a valuation of $3 billion, up from $1 billion two years ago , as it looks to scale its electric vehicle manufacturing business in the South Asian market. Falcon Edge Capital led the financing round, the Bangalore-based startup said. SoftBank also participated in the new round, which hasn’t closed.
Impact Hub
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
The UN indicates that greenhouse gas concentrations are at their highest levels in 2 million years and emissions continue to rise. 2011-2020 was the warmest decade of all. As a consequence of climate change, we are also seeing the collapse of biodiversity and the growing acidification of oceans – and it does not stop there. This phenomenon is directly affecting people’s health, safety, housing and ability to grow food – and it is even more concerning when we observe it through inters
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Activ Surgical , a Boston-based digital surgery company, announced a $45 million Series B round on Thursday. The round comes during a critical year for Activ Surgical. It’s in the process of developing new tools that give surgeons the ability to see otherwise invisible structures, and has plans to roll out those tools in the coming months. . The first of those tools is the company’s hardware component, called ActivSight, which allows surgeons to see things that would otherwise be invisible, like
Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Bring your virtual enterprise to new heights Photo by Burst on Unsplash I launched my remote business, the Live Lingua online language school, out of complete necessity in 2009 due to the Mexican swine flu pandemic. Before the swine flu outbreak, my wife and I managed a brick-and-mortar language immersion school in Mexico. However, we digitally transformed our business to survive the crisis and started offering online lessons via video chat.
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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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Arthur Nobel. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Arthur Nobel is an entrepreneur turned investor, now working as principal at Knight Capital in Amsterdam, specializing in scaling companies. He started his career at Rocket Internet before holding various growth roles across Europe. Co-author of the book "Leaders of Growth," he also hosts its related podcast.
OurCrowd
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
ROSEVILLE, Cali.; VERONA, Wis.; MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio; OREM, Utah; SYRACUSE, New York — October 1, 2021 —Naviant, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent automation solutions by Hyland, Kryon Systems, and ABBYY, announced today that it signed an agreement to acquire NEKO Industries. NEKO is a business process automation provider based in Roseville, CA, and a licensed reseller of OnBase by Hyland.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Spudsy , a brand that upcycles imperfect sweet potatoes and turns them into plant-based snacks, announced Thursday that it raised $3.3 million in Series A funding in a round led by KarpReilly and Stage 1 Fund. With the new funding, the company has raised a total of $6.5 million since the company was founded three years ago, Ashley Rogers, Spudsy founder and CEO told TechCrunch.
OurCrowd
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Earlier this month, a partnership to spearhead a transformation in Europe’s seafood industry emerged. On one side of the partnership is Nomad Foods: Europe’s largest frozen food company, owner of brands such as Birds Eye, Findus and Iglo, and maker of tremendously popular fish fingers. One the other, BlueNalu: a fresh player in the sustainable food business from San Diego, California, that aims to be the global leader in cell-cultured seafood technology.
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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
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
OfBusiness, a commerce startup that sells industrial goods and provides small businesses with credit, has doubled its valuation in less than two months to $3 billion, a top executive told TechCrunch. Tiger Global led the six-year-old startup’s $207 million Series F round, and SoftBank and Alpha Wave participated, OfBusiness co-founder and chief executive Asish Mohapatra told us.
OurCrowd
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Today in B2B payments, Alibaba introduces a new B2B services for Pakistani merchants, and Teampay makes history with its Microsoft Teams integration. Plus, Melio adds a western U.S. headquarters in Denver, and bant.io will accept cryptocurrency for lead-generation services. Read more here. The post [Teampay in PYMNTS.com] Today in B2B: Teampay Integrates with Microsoft Teams; Alibaba Helping Pakistani Merchants appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Ola Electric announced this morning that it closed a $200 million round at a $3 billion valuation. The EV company’s parent, Ola, is best known as an Indian ride-hailing platform. Ola itself has raised more than $4.5 billion to date, per Crunchbase data , while Ola Electric is now over the $500 million fundraising mark, if we’re doing our morning sums correctly.
OurCrowd
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Due to a deep finding out set of rules referred to as Are living Portrait, the corporate D-ID shocked this 12 months with the well known synthetic intelligence (AI) app ‘Deep Nostalgia’, which it allowed us to animate outdated pictures and make considered one of your ancestors or already deceased relations smile or shake your head in an overly herbal approach.
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