Entrepreneurs' Organization
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Contributed by Verne Harnish, founder of EO and founder and CEO of Gazelles, a global executive education and coaching company with over 150 coaching partners on six continents. Together with Daniel Marcos (EO Austin), Verne is co-founder of Growth Institute , which provides online executive education based on the Scaling Up methodology. Want more Verne?
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Calvin Broadus, a.k.a. Snoop Dogg, rocked the stage at Sunday’s Super Bowl, and now his Casa Verde Capital team is pumping new funds into Frankfurt-based Cansativa Group , touted as the “largest medical cannabis distributor” in Germany. Cansativa Group came onto the scene in 2017 with business-to-business tools for customers to manage every stage of the cannabis value chain — from importing goods to distributing them — and all associated logistics required to get product to thousands of pharmaci
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OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Underneath the hype, a synthesis of trends has been brewing that could create opportunities. By Josh Liggett. Principal, Investments Team, OurCrowd. Even in late 2021, most people had no idea what the Metaverse was. Then Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook’s rebrand to Meta and interest in the Metaverse exploded. . Goldman Sachs estimates the Metaverse to be an $8 trillion market opportunity.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. More posts by this contributor. What are the ‘jobs to be done’ of an investment manager? The macro trends forcing change on the investment management industry. Akshat Dixit. Contributor. Akshat Dixit is a senior at North Carolina State University, an intern at Versatile VC , and a past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Qua
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AsiaTechDaily
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Funding Societies popularly known as Modalku in Indonesia an online lending platform for MSMEs has raised a total of US$294 million to fuel its expansion plans in Southeast Asia. According to the company, it has raised US$144 million in an oversubscribed Series C+ equity round led by Japanese venture capital fund SoftBank Vision Fund 2 along with participation from new investors Rapyd
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Think long-term. Cover short-term. Survive first. Profit later. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Earnings season is usually a snoozer if you aren’t obsessed with the stock market. So I understand if the last thing you want to read about this morning is a meta-analysis of cross-sector earnings. But hear me out. TechCrunch has tracked a select handful of earnings reports from major technology companies in the current Q4 2021 reporting cycle.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Instrumental was launched by two former Apple mechanical engineers in 2015. Having worked on products like the iPod and Apple Watch for the previous six years, they were intimately familiar with the process for checking on manufacturing quality: You got on a plane to Asia and took a look for yourself. CEO and co-founder Anna-Katrina Shedletsky said that after logging thousands of air miles, she and co-founder Samuel Weiss left Apple in 2015 with an idea for replacing on-site inspections with a s
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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.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Clinch , the company that provides AI-driven omnichannel personalization across CTV, OTT, Programmatic, Social, Native, DOOH, and Audio, announced it has partnered with LG Ads Solutions, the exclusive provider of LG smart TV native ads and audience targeting data, to enable dynamic creative optimization (DCO) across its global connected TV media ecosystem.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Genesis, which has built a low-code/no-code application platform specifically for the financial markets, announced today it has landed a $200 million investment led by Tiger Global Management. The financing comes 11 months after the company announced it had raised $45 million , as our own Ingrid Lunden reported last March. Interestingly, Genesis had raised less than $5 million prior to last year, mostly bootstrapping its business.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
You can connect it to other applications to do all sorts of useful things, from investing to transferring money to friends to budgeting and more. Once you connect your credit reports to a personal finance app, for instance, the app can provide suggestions on how to pay down debt, improve your credit, and even new credit cards or loans you might wish to consider given your credit history.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
African fintech Flutterwave has raised $250 million in a Series D round that tripled the company’s valuation to over $3 billion in just twelve months. In March 2021, the San Francisco-headquartered and Lagos-based startup raised $170 million in a Series C round from Tiger Global and Avenir at a valuation of $1 billion. The latest financing, which confirms a Bloomberg scoop from October, brings Flutterwave’s total raise since its inception six years ago to $475 million (it raised a $35 million Se
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CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.
Smart Hustle Magazine
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Joseph Gillingham is a tree surgery, tree planting and tree removal, specialist. He’s the owner of Heritage Tree Care in Toronto, Canada, and won a $20,000 grant from Jobber. Jobber is software that helps service businesses with estimating, quoting, invoice and getting paid. In this discussion with Ramon Ray, small business expert and founder of SmartHustle.com, they unpack what it takes to start and grow a business.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
As countries ease up on COVID restrictions, activities are going back in person. But the virtual event space continues to attract investors, at least in Asia. Hong Kong-based events management platform EventX said today it has raised another $8 million for its Series B, lifting the total amount secured for this round to $18 million. The new injection was led by GL Ventures, the early-stage investment arm of Hillhouse Capital.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
. Today, Medisafe, a leading digital therapeutics and patient engagement company launches its new Digital Document Exchange module to streamline the medication approval process. Read more here. The post [Medisafe in HIT Consultant] Medisafe launches digital document exchange to speed up medication approvals appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Human resources platform Employment Hero announced today it has raised $181 million AUD (or about $129 million USD), putting it at unicorn valuation in Australian dollars of $1.25 billion (or about $890 million USD). The round was led by returning investors Seek Investments with participation from OneVentures, AirTree Ventures and other shareholders.
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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.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
While the development of all kinds of next-generation aviation and UAV activity merits the attention it attracts, the reality is a lot of what’s afoot is still in early-phase operation or testing. That work-in-progress status makes seeing quantified metrics in advanced applications like those released today by drone delivery specialist Flytrex particularly useful in measuring rates of progress.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Payments infrastructure company Stronghold has launched a venture capital arm to deploy $100 million of its balance sheet capital in startups and funds in three core strategies — underrepresented founders, fintech, and web3, CEO Tammy Camp told TechCrunch in an interview. Stronghold offers a suite of fintech and blockchain APIs and services, including embedded payments, clearing and settlement, according to its website.
Jason Malki
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
I had the pleasure of interviewing Alex Reynolds, Co-founder and CEO at Vendelux. Alex is a 3rd generation entrepreneur and started his career in management consulting at Bain. From there he joined Peek, a series A travel start-up, where he wore all kinds of hats and fell in love with start-ups. Alex spent the last four years building a start-up within a public company, scaling a 75-person, 8 figure revenue business.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Nigeria has an average of 4.8 bank branches and 19 ATMs per 100,000 adults, compared to the world average of 13 bank branches and 40 ATMs. Reports also say that less than one-third of Nigerian adults have access to a bank branch or ATM within one kilometer of where they live. This challenge in accessing financial services, especially for the unbanked and underbanked, has given rise to agency banking.
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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
Impact Hub
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
At Impact Hub, we believe in collaboration. In building strategic alliances with like-minded organizations to support social entrepreneurs. We believe in taking action for a better future, together. That’s why we have launched our Community Partnership : A new way for organizations to collaborate with our network and further support impact entrepreneurs around the world to achieve impact at scale.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Finding product-market fit, that elusive holy grail of startup success, can be one of the biggest challenges early-stage founders face. This crucial milestone assures you — and potential investors — that your customer base is actively buying, using and talking about your product. In short, it determines the future growth and profitability of your startup.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
TEL AVIV, Israel and EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Feb. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — UP Bridge the Gap, a brand of AAEON – a leading manufacturer of AI Edge hardware solutions – is pleased to announce a partnership with Hailo, a leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) chipmaker, to meet skyrocketing demands for next-generation AI applications at the edge. The latest UP Bridge the Gap platforms are compatible with Hailo’s Hailo-8 M.2 AI Acceleration Module, offering unprecedented AI performance wit
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
The cleaning products you use in your house are 99% water. Yes, the same stuff that comes out of the spigot at your house. With the radical idea that the municipal water system is probably a better way to transport water around, Blueland just raised $20 million to expand its successful line of cleaning-products-in-tablet-form, in a bid to reduce single-use plastics and put a stop to the silliness of shipping water around from factory to retail store, and from retail store to your house.
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
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