TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Location-based services may have had their day as a salient category for hot apps or innovative tech leveraging the arrival of smartphones, but that’s largely because they are now part of the unspoken fabric of how we interact with digital services every day: We rely on location-specific information when we are on search engines, when we are using maps or weather apps, when we are taking and posting photos and more.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 15, 2021

When you have a global team of 9,000 and two successful businesses, people are bound to ask about your secret sauce. Two big factors in this female entrepreneur’s story: incredible leadership and a heart of service. We sat down with Jen Griswold, an Air Force veteran and founder of Team G.i.V.e. and Mission Entrepreneur. She shared with us her success story and how she has always been about empowering women business owners.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Social calendar app IRL has been busy building a messaging-based social network, or what founder and CEO Abraham Shafi calls a “WeChat of the West.” Following its pandemic-fueled growth and further push into the social networking space with group chat and other features, IRL is today announcing a sizable $170 million Series C growth round, led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2.

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StartupNation

JUNE 15, 2021

The following is adapted from “ Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams” by Matt Blumberg. In April 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning to wreak havoc on markets, commerce, communities and the general public, I started a business along with a group of friends. That’s not as crazy as it sounds because entrepreneurs started businesses in record numbers in 2020: there were over 4 million businesses formed last year in the U.S. acco

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Mental health startup Ksana Health has received $2 million in seed funding led by re:Mind Capital, the mental health VC arm of Christian Angermayer and Apeiron Investment Group. It’s a move informed by two trends: passive data collection, and a burgeoning mental health crisis in teens and young adults. . Ksana Health is an Oregon-based company founded two years ago by University of Oregon Professor Nicholas Allen , a clinical psychologist and director of the Center for Digital Mental Health.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Waterloo-based SkyWatch was among the first startups to recognize that the key to unlocking the real benefits of the space economy lay in making Earth observation data accessible and portable, and now the company has raised a $17.2 million Series B to help it further that goal. Fresh on the heals of a partnership with Poland-based satellite operator SatRevolution, SkyWatch is now set to bridge the gulf between satellite startups and customers in a bigger way as it lowers the barriers to entry fo

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 15, 2021

Suppose you’ve started a company that’s creating a category. Most buyers in your target market haven’t heard of your business or the kind of software you sell. There’s no budget line item, no Magic Quadrant, no G2 High Performer Award, no conference. You have an idea, a vast blue ocean in front of you, and a pile of greenbacks stashed in a bank account from your last financing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

EV battery swapping startup Ample has locked in two partnerships this month that will help fuel an expansion into Japan and New York City after years of working on the technology. The startup, which was founded in 2014 and came out of stealth in March, said Tuesday it has partnered with Japanese petroleum and energy company Eneos to jointly deploy and operate battery swapping infrastructure in Japan.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 15, 2021

A 30-minute chat with Marc Randolph was a business masterclass Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

A group of 200 startup founders, investors, associations and government members are backing a manifesto and a set of recommendations in order to create the next wave of tech giants in Europe. Today, French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting an event in Paris with some of the members of this group called Scale-Up Europe. Companies, investors and associations that signed the manifesto include Alan, Axel Springer, Bpifrance, Darktrace, Deutsche Startups, Doctolib, Eurazeo, Flixbus, France Digital

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 15, 2021

How a symbolic lawsuit took on a false narrative that lives on to this day. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Despite the pandemic’s economic impact, Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem has proven to be very resilient. In fact, a new report from investment firm Golden Gate Ventures predicts a record number of exits will happen in the region over the next couple of years, thanks to factors like a maturing ecosystem, more secondary buyers and the emergence of SPACs.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 15, 2021

Using a comedian’s communication techniques to seal the deal Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Elisity , a self-styled innovator that provides behavior-based enterprise cybersecurity, has raised $26 million in Series A funding. The funding round was co-led by Two Bear Capital and AllegisCyber Capital, the latter of which has invested in a number of cybersecurity startups, including Panaseer , with previous seed investor Atlantic Bridge also participating.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 15, 2021

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Armory, the open source continuous delivery software company, announced significant growth of its easy-to-use Spinnaker deployments, as the overall user community grew, evidenced in part by the 100% increase in attendees at the upcoming Spinnaker Summit. Spinnaker is the open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery (CD) platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Indian cities are home to hundreds of millions of low-skilled workers who hail from villages in search of work. Many of them have lost their jobs amid the coronavirus pandemic that has slowed several economic activities in the world’s second-largest internet market. Apna , a startup by an Apple alum, is helping millions of such blue and gray-collar workers upskill themselves, find communities and land jobs.

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Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category

JUNE 15, 2021

A chat with Ryan Blaser, CEO and co-founder of Test My Home, about what drives a great business.

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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

JUNE 15, 2021

Ever toured an apartment and fell in love with the model unit? You’re not alone. Harvard Business School grad Cameron Johnson is a former institutional real estate investor and Greystar exec turned startup founder who realized that very often, “renters would try to rent the model apartment.”. This got him thinking. People would love to rent a model apartment in a building, and no one likes to move.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 15, 2021

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

How big is the market in India for a neobank aimed at teenagers? Scores of high-profile investors are backing a startup to find out. Bangalore-based FamPay said on Wednesday it has raised $38 million in its Series A round led by Elevation Capital. General Catalyst, Rocketship VC, Greenoaks Capital and existing investors Sequoia Capital India, Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital and Venture Highway also participated in the new round, which brings FamPay’s to-date raise to $42.7 million.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 15, 2021

Kal Patel, MD, is CEO and Co-Founder of BrightInsight. He has over 20 years of experience in pharma, medtech and regulated digital health. Read more here. The post [BrightInsight in Forbes] How To Maintain Corporate Culture As Remote Work Continues appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

It certainly follows then that some leading construction robotics companies are able to strike while the iron is hot with some healthy raises. Today, Bay Area-based Dusty Robotics announced a $16.5 million Series A. Led by Canaan Partners and featuring NextGen Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures, Root Ventures and Cantos Ventures, the round brings the startup’s full funding up to $23.7 million.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 15, 2021

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DPAA, the leading global trade marketing association connecting out-of-home (OOH) media with the advertising community while moving OOH to digital, today announced speakers and agenda for its first ever Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) Event held with strategic member Ubimo, A Quotient Brand.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Art Zeile. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Art Zeile is the CEO of DHI Group , which operates Dice , the leading tech career marketplace connecting employers with skilled technology professionals. We are amidst a sprawling renegotiation between employers and employees as to the very nature of work, and no one has more leverage than skilled technologists — many of whom feel unmoored from their current jobs.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 15, 2021

Morphisec’s inaugural Manufacturing Cybersecurity Threat Index finds infostealers made up the highest percentage of attempted attacks against manufacturers’ endpoints in the past year. Read more here. The post [Morphisec in PR Newswire] 1-in-5 Manufacturers Were Victims of a Cyberattack in Last 12 Months as Cybercriminals Increasingly Target Valuable IP appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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