TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

ThreatX , a vendor selling API protection services to mainly enterprise clients, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Harbert Growth Partners with participation from Vistara Growth,406 Ventures, Grotech Ventures and Access Venture Partners. With the new cash, which brings ThreatX’s total raised to $52 million, CEO Gene Fay tells TechCrunch that ThreatX will “accelerate” investments in platform development while scaling sales and marketin

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 17, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) I’m currently reading Alchemy of Finance by George Soros, and it inspired me to write this stream of consciousness piece about my macro thesis regarding the ETH merge.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Before you raise money as a cash-strapped fledgling startup, it can feel like every problem you are experiencing would go away if you just had some money in the bank. At TechCrunch, it often seems as if every other startup story is about yet another fun company raising satchels full of venture capital. Millions — billions — of dollars are flowing toward upstart tech companies of all stripes, and as the de-facto news hub for the startup ecosystem, we are as guilty as anyone of being a

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register FOMO Pay , the Singapore-headquartered major payment institution that enables the digital economy with global virtual banking solutions for financial institutions and enterprises, announced that it has secured a $13 million investment in its Series A round led by Jump Crypto.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Incredible Health, a US-based job-matching platform which made nurses its first focus, has closed an $80 million Series B funding round and announced hitting a $1.65BN unicorn valuation, billing itself as the highest valued “tech-enabled” career marketplace in the healthcare sector — a couple of (pandemic-struck) years after closing a $15M Series A.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Internet usage continues to skyrocket, with 29.3 billion networked devices projected to be in use by 2023 and the growth rate currently at around 10%. Today, an enterprise startup called DriveNets that’s built a more cost-effective way for service providers and other outsized connectivity users to scale to meet that demand by leveraging software and cloud innovations — not relying solely on hardware — is announcing a big round of funding, a mark of the rising demand it’s

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore-based cleantech company SunGreenH2 has raised $2 million in a seed funding round led by SGInnovate , with participation from Vinci VC, Cap Vista, Entrepreneur First, SOSV’s HAX, she1K, T. Chen Fong, and Apsara Investments. This news comes alongside the announcement of a grant award the company recently received as part of the $8 million partnership between the Energy Market A

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Following Amazon’s $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical , Business Insider reported the company would add mental health services to its portfolio. Although there are skeptics who fear Amazon’s privacy track record in the context of healthcare, some say the company’s moves could be positive for the industry. The tech behemoth originally entered the health sector after it acquired PillPack , an online pharmacy, in 2018 and later rebranded as Amazon Pharmacy.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore-based healthtech startup MiyaHealth has announced raising additional funds in its pre-Series A round anchored by healthcare and technology investors including HealthXCapital, Central Capital Ventura, and SEEDS Capital. This comes after MiyaHealth raised $6.5 million pre-Series A in February this year, which was one of the largest pre-Series A rounds by a healthtech start-up i

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Mack Kolarich. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Mack Kolarich is the VP of analytics at Assure and has extensive expertise in private capital and startup investing. Not all angel investors, and not all angel groups, are created equal. Some have built reputations for adding phenomenal value, being staunch allies of founders as startups scale and helping them source expertise or resources through their networks.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 17, 2022

My journey growing a business in the midst of a pandemic Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

In a sign that the market for logistics and transportation tech isn’t cooling (economic downturn be damned), HyperTrack , a startup offering APIs for freight order planning, assignment and tracking, today closed a $25 million Series A funding round. Led by Westbridge Capital with participation from Nexus Venture Partners, the round will be put toward expanding HyperTrack’s engineering team and “doubling down” on broader growth, CEO Kashyap Deorah told TechCrunch in an int

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Red Rocket

AUGUST 17, 2022

The words you use in all of your work related communications can have a major impact on how others perceive you, as a leader. And, as entrepreneurs, it is really easy to put yourself in the middle of it all, on a pedestal, as the person that founded the company. But, as you all should know by now, you are not building your business by yourself, and credit needs to be shared with all, to keep everyone feeling respected and motivated in their day-to-day efforts as part of the company.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Nikhil Sachdev. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nikhil Sachdev is a managing director at Insight Partners, where he focuses on investments in high-growth software, fintech and crypto companies. Apoorva Goyal. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Apoorva Goyal is a vice president at Insight Partners, where he focuses on investments in high-growth fintech, internet and software companies.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register TotallyAwesome , a Singapore-headquartered digital advertising network for kids, teens, and families , has announced raising $10 million seed funding from Partners For Growth and Yefira Group. The funding round, which is a mix of debt and equity, will help the startup double down on expanding its proprietary data-driven managed and programmatic offerings to enable brands to engage with

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Funding Circle cofounder Samir Desai has unveiled a new U.K. fintech startup called Super Payments , a venture he founded back in February but which very little was known about up until now. Reports emerged a few months back that Desai had raised around $30 million for this new company, and today this has been confirmed. Super has raised £22.5 million (roughly $27 million as of today) in a round of funding led by Accel, with participation from Union Square Ventures, LocalGlobe, and a slew of ang

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The Seraf Compass

AUGUST 17, 2022

This profile is the fourth in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting impact investors. Eric Klose is a Boston-based impact investor and the founder of Ground Squirrel Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Sajith Wickramasekara co-founded Benchling to improve laboratory data collection and collaboration. Since its 2012 founding, the company has grown to a valuation of $6.1 billion. Wickramasekara will join TechCrunch Live , along with Benchmark general partner Miles Grimshaw, to discuss its recent acquisition and growth. This TechCrunch Live event opens on August 24 at 11:30 a.m.

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Feedough

AUGUST 17, 2022

Emails existed way before the internet was even a thing. Read more. The post What Is Email Marketing [Detailed Guide] appeared first on Feedough.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

BigPanda , a startup developing AI to audit changes in IT environments and recommend how to fix them, has raised $20 million in an extension of its Series E round. UBS Next and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital contributed to the tranche, bringing BigPanda’s total raised to $340 million. The company’s valuation remains unchanged at $1.2 billion.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 17, 2022

This is an excerpt from Build for Tomorrow by Jason Feifer (Harmony Books, September 2022). Amy Orben wanted to answer a very modern question: How do digital connections compare with other forms of connection? It’s the kind of thing only a wonky, hyperanalytic person would think to ask. Orben is that person. She received a. Read More. The post How to Break the Cycle of Technology Panics appeared first on Future.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Last year, Triller triumphantly announced that it would pay out a total of $14 million in cash and equity to Black creators in 2022. It seemed like a smart move, helping the lesser-known short-form video app to compete with TikTok by uplifting underrepresented talent. But The Washington Post recently reported that most of these creators were never actually paid.

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Revolution

AUGUST 17, 2022

SparkCharge Founder, Josh Aviv, gives opening remarks during the signing ceremony for the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The CHIPS and Science Act ?—?an initiative poised to strengthen American manufacturing, supply chains, and national security by investing in research and development, science and technology, and the workforce of the future?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

When VCs overlook the U.S. Midwest, it’s not just Chicago they are missing out on. Over time, many cities across the Midwest have been building out bona fide startup ecosystems, as M25’s annual ranking of Midwest startup hubs makes clear. Each year, the Chicago-based VC firm puts together a list of the Midwest’s most active tech scenes, using a wide range of criteria.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 17, 2022

In many board rooms, the most important go-to-market number this quarter is pipeline health. For some companies, the pipeline may be less clear than a quarter or two ago. Summer seasonality may play a role. Macroeconomics might also be lurking within the numbers. Pipeline fluctuations are normal. But any meaningful & unexpected surprise warrants introspection.

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