A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
MAY 11, 2021
Last week I spent three hours with my six partners in a conference room talking through what we are investing in and why. It was a terrific session and I had more “ahas” in those three hours than I have had in many many months. There really is no substitute for sitting together with your colleagues working things out face to face. This week our team met with a founder in Singapore via Zoom.
Venture Well
MAY 11, 2021
Faculty grantee, Pedro Arce, designed courses that tasked chemical engineering students with developing innovative, nature-inspired solutions to societal challenges. The post reimagining chemical engineering education: q&a with Dr. Pedro Arce of Tennessee Tech University appeared first on VentureWell.
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TechCrunch
MAY 11, 2021
The tabletop gaming industry has exploded over the last few years as millions discovered or rediscovered its joys, but it too is evolving — and The Last Gameboard hopes to be the venue for that evolution. The digital tabletop platform has progressed from crowdfunding to $4 million seed round, and having partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry, plans to ship by the end of the year.
StartupNation
MAY 11, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic was a catalyst that accelerated innovation and change in almost every industry. What used to take some businesses five years to accomplish remarkably took them only five months during the pandemic. From online grocery retailing to working at home remotely and shifting to an online model, businesses had to embrace change in how they delivered services at unprecedented rates.
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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.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
MAY 11, 2021
On April 16, Uganda-based two-wheel ride-hailing platform SafeBoda announced that it had completed 1 million rides in Ibadan, a southwestern city in Nigeria. T his might not seem spectacular from a global perspective because it took the startup a year and two months to achieve but it’s a noteworthy feat in African markets. Ibadan is one of the cities where SafeBoda operates.
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TechCrunch
MAY 11, 2021
London and Berlin usually top the lists of European startup hubs, but Central and Eastern European countries like the Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia and Poland have claimed a growing portion of the startup pie in the past few years. Looking at Poland in particular, Krakow and Warsaw have blossomed into fertile grounds for entrepreneurs to grow and nurture companies, but they’re not alone.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 11, 2021
Going it broke and alone might seem like a bizarre strategy, but it can yield some surprising payoffs. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
MAY 11, 2021
Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion recently announced it had invested an undisclosed sum in Spring Labs, which is building out a blockchain-based data-sharing platform. Now, TechCrunch has exclusive details on the size of that round and the nature of the relationship. First off, the fact that TransUnion , a public company with a $20 billion market cap, chose to back and partner with four-year-old Spring Labs is significant in and of itself.
Red Rocket
MAY 11, 2021
I recently stumbled on this great article below from my good colleague, David Gardner (pictured), the founder and General Partner at Co-Founders Capital , one of the most active early-stage venture capital firms in the Southeast, based in the Raleigh-Durham area. David was kind enough to let me share this article with all of you startup CEO readers.
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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
MAY 11, 2021
Boston-based Apptopia , a company providing competitive intelligence in the mobile app ecosystem, has closed on $20 million in Series C funding aimed at fueling its expansion beyond the world of mobile apps. The new financing was led by ABS Capital Partners, and follows three consecutive years of 50% year-over-year growth for Apptopia’s business, which has been profitable since the beginning of last year, the company says.
StartupNation
MAY 11, 2021
On this morning’s WJR Business Beat, Jeff shares a recent Axois survey indicating that young engineers and recent college graduates are looking to Miami, Houston and Philadelphia as hot spots to start a career, rather than San Fransisco, New York or Seattle. This news comes on the heels of last week’s Business Beat features with Ryan Landau of Purpose Jobs discussing tech workers migrating to the Midwest.
TechCrunch
MAY 11, 2021
CircleCI , the continuous delivery pioneer, announced a $100 million Series F today on a $1.7 billion valuation. At the same time, the company announced it has acquired Vamp , a release orchestration startup that should fit nicely in the CircleCI platform. The companies did not share the purchase price. The funding was led by Greenspring Associates with participation from Eleven Prime, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Baseline Ventures, Threshold, Scale, Owl Rock and Next Equit
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 11, 2021
Dave Snowden’s tips for future leaders and entrepreneurs. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
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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.
TechCrunch
MAY 11, 2021
Long before COVID-19 precipitated “digital transformation” across the world of work, customer services and support was built to run online and virtually. Yet it too is undergoing an evolution supercharged by technology. Today, a startup called SightCall , which has built an augmented reality platform to help field service teams, the companies they work for, and their customers carry out technical and mechanical maintenance or repairs more effectively, is announcing $42 million in fun
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 11, 2021
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TechCrunch
MAY 11, 2021
Munich-based parcelLab , which offers a final-mile fulfillment service for online retailers, has closed a $112 million (GB£80 million) Series C funding round led by the U.S. VC/PE firm Insight Partners. Germany’s Endeit Capital participated as a co-investor, alongside existing investors Capnamic Ventures and coparion. ParcelLab last raised an undisclosed Series B in October 2019.
StartupNation
MAY 11, 2021
The following is excerpted from from “Choose Your Customer: How to Compete Against the Digital Giants and Thrive” by Jonathan L.S. Byrnes and John S. Wass, pp. 141-145 (McGraw Hill, May 2021). You are what you sell. Your customers are the front-wheel drive that pulls you through your marketplace. All too many companies today implicitly assume that their objective is to maximize their sales revenue, and they make the subsidiary assumption that they can minimize their costs through anc
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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
MAY 11, 2021
It’s the golden age of collectibles and legacy institutions are looking to move beyond trading cards, embracing new tech that brings the fandom together online. Sequoia Games , a new game studio launching out of stealth, is aiming for a hit with its tabletop AR game that’s looking to find an audience in a post-Top Shot world. With a game that seems to be trading cards meets Catan meets NFTs meets augmented reality, Flex NBA is aiming to capture some of the magic that Dapper Labs did
Smart Hustle Magazine
MAY 11, 2021
Customers write your paychecks. Assuming your products are priced profitably, the more customers you have, the more revenue and profit you earn. Here are three ways to grow your customer base: Reactivate inactive customers. An inactive customer is a customer who has bought from your company in the past but not in the past 18 months. Go through your customer data base and find all customers who have not done business with your company in the past 18 months.
TechCrunch
MAY 11, 2021
Panaseer , which takes a data science approach to cybersecurity, has raised $26.5 million in a Series B funding led by AllegisCyber Capital. Existing investors, including Evolution Equity Partners, Notion Capital, AlbionVC, Cisco Investments and Paladin Capital Group, as well as new investor National Grid Partners, also participated. Panaseer has now raised $43 million to date.
Smart Hustle Magazine
MAY 11, 2021
Running a successful small business is a tough job. And most often, it is more challenging than doing a full-time job. As a business owner, you have to spread the word for your business, scale it up, outsmart your competitors, and whatnot. Without having the latest tools and growth strategies, it will be an uphill battle to succeed in your business endeavor.
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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
MAY 11, 2021
There has been a flurry of investments in startups focused on acquiring third-party sellers on Amazon and helping them build their businesses. The latest is Acquco , which aims to stand out from the others in that it was formed by a pair of founders — Raunak Nirmal and Wiley Zhang — who actually worked at Amazon, and then built multimillion-dollar businesses on its platform.
OurCrowd
MAY 11, 2021
IT Admins continue to choose JumpCloud’s directory platform as their go-to for managing users’ identities, access, and devices across all IT resources. Read more here. The post [JumpCloud in Security Boulevard] Capterra Names JumpCloud a Top Performer for IT Management appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
MAY 11, 2021
Better.com, a venture-backed digital mortgage lender, announced this morning that it will combine with a SPAC, taking itself public in the second half of 2021. The unicorn’s news comes as the American IPO market is showing signs of fresh life after a modest April. The Better.com deal comes just over a month after it sold $500 million of its existing shares to SoftBank at a valuation of $6 billion.
OurCrowd
MAY 11, 2021
Israeli startup Nimble, a company that developed a machine that offers an automatic manicure for nails based on 3D image processing technologies, has raised $10 million in a seed funding round led by venture capital firms Entrée Capital and LionBird, the company announced this week. Read more here. The post [Cognitiv in NoCamels] Israeli Startup Nimble Raises $10M For Autonomous Manicure Robot appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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