Venture Well
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
In the last 10 years, the National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps Program has spearheaded transformational program innovation. The post ten years of I-Corps: the program that changed innovation appeared first on VentureWell.
HPA
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Stagetime announced raising a $1.5M Series Seed round , which was led by HPA. M25 and IU Angel Network also participated in the round. Stagetime is a networking platform for the performing arts industry. Stagetime empowers creatives to create a comprehensive professional story about their past performances and skill sets. Stagetime is an online network where artists, agents, and artistic administrators can grow as professionals and maintain relationships by engaging with industry connections, sh
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StartupNation
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
SEO can be a revenue goldmine, but as fruitful as it can be, it is not an easy undertaking. SEO requires consistency and a multidirectional approach. While most companies are investing the time and effort to get their SEO game right, most of them are not yielding the desired results. As per an Ahrefs study, just 5.7% of all studied pages ranked in the Top 10 search results within one year.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
No-code continues to permeate the many layers of enterprise IT, where traditionally non-technical workers have had to rely on technical experts to get things done, and startups building these tools are raising a lot of money as they see a surge of business. In the latest development, EasySend — a Tel Aviv startup that has built a platform for people to build customer interactions using drag-and-drop interfaces that do not require knowing any coding languages — has raised $55.5 millio
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StartupNation
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
One of the many consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is the enormous strain it is putting on an organization’s ability to hire talent. Many businesses are now implementing a return-to-office mandate, which is causing a large reshuffle of talent in multiple industries. To avoid the costly endeavor of continuously hiring new employees, it’s key to focus on retaining and developing talent internally rather than relying solely on talent acquisition to fill holes.
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Tomasz Tunguz
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Words like Loaded Pistols. What an arresting title for a book. I decided to read it just based on its cover. In the first few pages, I learned that it’s a book about rhetoric. What is rhetoric? I met a few people in college who studied it, and I thought it had to do with logic or philosophy. I was wrong. It’s the art of convincing others with words.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Tom Brandl. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Tom Brandl is chief risk officer at Prime Trust. Two of the country’s biggest retailers, Walmart and Walgreens, recently announced they are launching their own financial services. This makes sense. The pandemic has resulted in a shift in consumer behavior that now favors contactless and digital banking options, and with one in four U.S. adults considered unbanked or underbanked, this presents an opportunity to offer services to a deep and loyal cu
Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
The act of creation rewires your thinking. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Fintech company Upgrade has raised a Series F round just four months after raising its previous round. Today, the company is announcing $280 million in new funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation. In August, the company announced its Series E round — $105 million at a $3.325 billion valuation. In other words, the company is both well capitalized and has increased its valuation by a few billion dollars in very little time.
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StartupNation
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
On the Business Beat, Jeff discusses how the pandemic has accelerated the growth — and funding — of delivery drones and other autonomous systems. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, for details: 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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Consolidation to have better economies of scale is one of the biggest themes in the world of e-commerce, and today a player in the world of online retail is announcing a large round of funding to double down on its approach to the concept. San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding
Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
The scariest decision is to leave a salary and join our startup full-time Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
PlanetScale , the serverless database company founded by the co-creators of the Vitess opensource project that powers YouTube, today announced that it has raised a $50 million Series C funding round led by Kleiner Perkins. Existing investors a16z, SignalFire and Insight Partners also participated in this round, together with GitHub CEO and co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, Lattice CEO and founder Jack Altman and Instacart co-founder Max Mullen.
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OurCrowd
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Kontron’s 2.5″ SBC pITX-iMX8M-AI-H8 and KBox A-150-WKL-AI-H8 offer compact, high performance and power-efficient AI solutions combined with best-in-class Hailo-8™AI accelerator. Read more here. The post [Hailo in PR Newswire] Kontron partners with leading AI chipmaker Hailo to launch high-performance edge AI inference solutions appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Venture investors are betting that AI-focused startups are ready for the public markets, making more, larger, earlier bets on such companies. It’s a great time to raise capital if your startup is building with — or on top of — artificial intelligence, regardless of how far along you are toward an exit. While many startup niches have seen their funding tallies rise in 2021, AI startups appear to be enjoying strong gains across younger and older cohorts, implying a broad base of custom
Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Failing is learning Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
New macaroni and cheese brand Goodles launched Tuesday after its parent company, Gooder Foods, raised $6.4 million to carve out a niche in the $4.4 billion dry noodles category. The food is high on the list of comfort foods, but has been advertised specifically to children for decades, despite the fact that 59% of adults eat at least one noodle dish each week , Gooder Foods co-founder and CEO Jennifer Zeszut told TechCrunch.
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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
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
The integration between data.world, DataOps.live and Snowflake delivers continuous cataloging of your Snowflake data platform to customers underpinned by Snowflake’s best in class governance and security. Read more here. The post [data.world in PR Newswire] DataOps.live and data.world build integrated governance solutions with Snowflake’s Governance Accelerated Program and announce 1-click data cataloging for Snowflake appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Luxury Presence, a startup selling marketing software to real estate brokerages, announced today it has raised $25.9 million for its Series B round. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round alongside fellow existing investors Toba Capital and Switch Ventures. Dallas Mavericks basketball player Dirk Nowitzki also participated in the round along with other angel investors, making his first-ever institutional investment. .
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Many digital marketers, bloggers and webmasters often ask themselves: What is quality content and how do you make it? To answer such questions, you can’t just talk about content marketing. You need to go deeper than that. You need to understand what quality content means in the eyes of Google. Why’s that? Well, Google loves high-quality content. Content they find valuable, engaging and helpful to users is rewarded with a high ranking.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Pistil Data, a cannabis market intelligence platform , has closed a $6.5 million seed round led by Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde. The funding round included participation from JW Partners and other entrepreneurs. Pistil Data makes market intelligence accessible to cannabis brands and organizes billions of data points to provide customized sales opportunities for cannabis brands.
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Derek Sivers
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
I thought panic attacks were for fragile hysterical people that can’t deal with life. I had never had one. I was visiting Iceland when I looked into a lake and saw how incredibly clear the water was. I thought, “Oooooh. I want to scuba dive in there!”. I had never been scuba diving, so I found a place where I could take a week of lessons, get certified, then dive in that spot.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Rahul Vohra. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Rahul Vohra is the founder and CEO of email app Superhuman. In the first half of 2021, global venture funding shattered the previous six-month record — set in the second half of 2020 — by more than $100 billion. The market was flooded with new startups , and one after another made headlines for deals that were previously unheard of: a $70 million seed round , a $1.5 billion Series A , a unicorn valuation after just two years.
OurCrowd
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Klik is the Israeli company’s fourth acquisition in six months, an addition complementing its previous acquisitions x.ai, Whalebone, and TeeVid. Read more here. The post [Bizzabo in Calcalist] Bizzabo’s Rollercoaster Ride Is One For The Ages appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Candice Bristow. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Candice Bristow is director of EID and recruiting at Expel Inc. Businesses have struggled to establish diverse, equitable and inclusive (DEI) work environments for some time now, but the events of 2020 put a spotlight on just how bad most organizations are at building impactful DEI efforts. After COVID-19 resulted in staggering unemployment trends across the U.S., the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reported in October that Black and Latinx
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