The Seraf Compass

MAY 18, 2022

This profile is the sixth in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting fund investors. Nicolas Biet is a partner in The Faktory Fund, a private early-stage investment fund, which invests in startups developing disruptive technology that enables new products to take worldwide leadership in B2B markets primarily in the Internet of Things and Software as a Service (SaaS) startups located in BeNeLux and France.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 18, 2022

Top 3 DIY tactics, according to a former BBC journalist turned media relations troubleshooter Image by author I sifted at least 100,000 story pitches when I worked on the main planning desks for BBC News (radio, tv, and online) and its investigative show Panorama. Since 2010, I’ve worked as a media relations troubleshooter for some of the world’s leading organizations (NHS, HERE Technologies, Virgin).

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Construction as an industry has evolved with civilization through the ages. But today, it’s one of the few industries that has one foot firmly planted in the past, even as the other tries to step into the future. Construction’s digital transformation journey is only just beginning, and the sector offers a ton of space for innovation. To get a clear picture of where construction tech stands today, we spoke with five active investors in the space.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register South Korea’s leading accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , considered ‘a gateway’ to do business in Asia, invites global startups to participate. The program’s 2022 edition started accepting applications on April 15, and the last date for the application stage is May 31, 2022.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Masterschool , which describes itself as a “network of tech career-training schools,” today announced that it has raised a $100 million seed funding round (yes, that’s correct — a $100 million seed round). The round was led by Group 11 , with participation from Target Global, Pitango Ventures, Dynamic Loop Capital, Sir Ronald Cohen, and a number of additional strategic investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Attention mobility enthusiasts! It’s been three long years since our last in-person mobility event, but the day has finally come. Welcome to Day One of TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 ! Get ready for two days of programming dedicated to taking a deeper dive into the future of transportation and to meet the people who are shaping it. Mobility’s a rapidly evolving revolution, and we’re thrilled to have the community’s best founders, investors and technologists standing by ready to help you build

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Pitik , Indonesia’s largest poultry tech startup , announced raising $14 million in a Series A funding anchored by Alpha JWC Ventures and participated by existing investors MDI Ventures and Wavemaker Partners. Launched by Arief Witjaksono and Rymax Joehana in mid-202, Pitik seeks to expand its ecosystem to empower more chicken farmers in Indonesia using the latest funds.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Blockchain and other web3 projects are racing to reach developers, hosting hackathons, bandying out grants and offering other perks to lure those who can build. But they currently don’t have the bandwidth to review the voluminous number of applications they receive, which pushes away some of the same builders who can bring immense value to those projects.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Asia Pacific-focused alternative investment firm PAG announced that funds managed by its Real Assets group have entered into an agreement with First Solar to acquire First Solar’s project development and operations platforms in Japan. The project development platform being acquired is one of Japan’s largest solar pipelines and includes 293 MWDC of projects under construction and expect

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

CipherMode Labs CEO and co-founder Sadegh Riazi has been working with encryption his entire career. He studied it as part of his PhD. He was part of the Microsoft SEAL team that worked on improving homomorphic encryption and making it more efficient. What he found was that while homomorphic encryption allows you to work with encrypted data, it does so at an extremely high resource cost, one that’s so high, it is bad for the environment.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Coins.ph , a Philippine-based fiat and crypto wallet services provider and Joffre Capital portfolio company, announced it has raised $30 million in its Series C funding round anchored by Ribbit Capital and participated by other strategic investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

At enterprises of a certain size, keeping track of data including apps, employees, and projects becomes increasingly challenging. According to McKinsey, employees spend 1.8 hours every day — 9.3 hours per week, on average — searching for and gathering information. The veracity of metrics like these has been challenged over the years. But it’s reasonable to say that knowledge workers in particular devote a sizeable chunk of their workdays to sifting through data, whether to find

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 18, 2022

Welcome to another edition of our new newsletter! You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we talk about creating landing pages that print money (not literally, of course), going from YouTuber to founder, and overcoming the problems associated with being a solo founder. We also launched a Call for Submissions for our Crypto Handbook, which you can read here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

How many people have stuck with the same auto insurance provider because the process of finding a new one feels overwhelming and painful? A lot. It’s no surprise then that a number of startups have emerged over the years to help consumers tackle this challenge in one way or another, including The Zebra and Jerry. The latest company to gain traction in the space, and raise venture dollars, is Trellis.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 18, 2022

Entrepreneurs are increasingly launching new products via their own websites and well-known online marketplaces. While it can be challenging to navigate the nuances of selling online, sellers must learn the requirements of e-commerce platforms before listing their products. One critical step is uniquely identifying items in the global marketplace—which can be done by acquiring authentic UPC barcodes for each of your products.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Payments and software startup SpotOn has closed on $300 million in a Series F financing that values the company at $3.6 billion. Dragoneer Investment Group led the latest round, which included participation from existing backers Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), DST Global, Franklin Templeton and Mubadala Investment Company, as well as new investor, G Squared.

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OurCrowd

MAY 18, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The pandemic may have greatly disrupted the lives of students and the higher education institutions that serve them, but it also quickly taught higher ed leaders lessons that they’ll leverage to guide their institutions far into the future. EduNav, the California-based provider of course-to-career academic planning technology, announced today that it is sponsoring a student success symposia series to facilitate the sharing of these learnings

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

With global e-commerce sales poised to be a $5.5 billion industry this year, startups in the e-commerce enablement software space are looking to carve out a niche in this huge market. One of those is Because , a startup developing no-code software connecting disparate data sources to automate high volumes of website updates. Founder and CEO Ashland Stansbury explained that e-commerce companies are spending a collective $1.3 trillion to drive traffic to their websites, but only 3% of that leads t

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OurCrowd

MAY 18, 2022

AI-powered crop intelligence company Taranis has extended its partnership with DroneNerds and DJI in the United States. The collaboration is to leverage the latest drones technology, together with cutting edge AI-technology to drive more insightful data-driven decisions. Read more here. The post [Taranis in Future Farming] Taranis deploys fleet of DJI drones for AI-powered crop scouting appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Aurora Innovation, an autonomous vehicle technology company, has expanded its self-driving freight pilot with FedEx to include a new lane from Fort Worth to El Paso, Texas. The startup has been hauling freight for FedEx between Dallas and Houston since September 2021, which has involved making the 240-mile trip every night. The new lane challenges Aurora’s trucks to a much longer journey of about 600 miles, on which they will operate on a weekly basis, according to the company.

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OurCrowd

MAY 18, 2022

There’s no doubt that the pandemic has been particularly challenging for female founders. In 2021, female founders secured only 2% of venture capital dollars, according to PitchBook, the second year in a row that the percentage of funding secured by female founders declined, and the smallest share since 2016. But on the CNBC Disruptor 50 list, female founders continue to make gains.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Heartex, a startup that bills itself as an “open source” platform for data labeling, today announced that it landed $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. Unusual Ventures, Bow Capital, and Swift Ventures also participated, bringing Heartex’s total capital raised to $30 million. Co-founder and CEO Michael Malyuk said that the new money will be put toward improving Heartex’s product and expanding the size of the company’s workforce from 28

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OurCrowd

MAY 18, 2022

The location data and technology platform HERE Technologies, in collaboration with Zoomcar, has revealed a city-based map of India that depicts the percentage of good, average and bad drivers in 22 cities across the country. Read more here. The post [Zoomcar in Mobility Outlook] HERE Technologies Joins Zoomcar To Reveal Good, Average, Bad Drivers On Indian Roads appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

In 2010, Bastian Gotter invested up to $200,000 into IROKOtv, an African video-on-demand company Jason Njoku, his friend and co-founder, launched in Lagos, Nigeria. For the next couple of years, Gotter, as CFO, was instrumental in turning IROKO — after raising over $30 million from VCs, including Tiger Global — into a household name in Nigeria’s entertainment and tech scenes.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 18, 2022

?? New fund alert! ??. (Yes, venture capital funds do drops now!). Today, we are proud to announce GAMES FUND ONE , a16z’s inaugural fund dedicated to building the future of the games industry. Having been investors in this space … The post GAMES FUND ONE: Building the Future of Games appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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