TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2023
Early-stage founders need mentorship and support to build a successful startup, and conventional wisdom says, “Get thee to an incubator or an accelerator!” However, the two programs are not interchangeable — they serve very different purposes — and there are roughly 500 accelerators and 1,400 incubators in the U.S. alone. Which type of startup program do you need, and how do you find the right fit?
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 21, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indian fintech platform PhonePe has raised an additional $200 million in investments from Walmart, bringing the company closer to its $1 billion target fundraise in capital. This latest investment was made at a pre-money valuation of $12 billion, adding to the $650 million funding aid PhonePe has already received from various global investors.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2023
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Tuesday Crunch, you beautiful, strong, and smart people. So glad to have you with us! Let’s get to it! — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Image prompts : Microsoft is enabling Bing users to tap into their most creative selves — through AI, of course, via the use of OpenAI’s DALL-E image creator, Frederic reports.
Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 21, 2023
Years before the first blockchain was created, the sci-fi space MMO EVE Online proved out many of the core principles that define web3 today. This is why we are excited to be partnering with CCP on a new project set … The post Investing in CCP Games appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2023
When you think of life sciences and biotech hubs in the U.S., where do you travel to in your mind? Boston? The Bay Area? Texas? Portal Innovations , a biotech VC firm based in Chicago, is trying to broaden everyone’s horizons and give opportunities to biotech startups growing out of labs in Chicago, Atlanta, and hopefully beyond. “I founded Portal Innovations really to address emerging needs for life sciences companies, particularly in ecosystems, like Chicago, that don’t yet have th
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TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2023
Wingtra ’s drones are used to perform surveying missions by organizations around the world, including NASA and the Army Corps of Engineers. Now the startup is mapping out a new expansion strategy after landing $22 million in Series B funding, which it will use to improve its current tech and add new features. “Our product roadmap is high confidential, but let’s say our high-level vision looking a decade or so forth is to take people out of the loop and have a completely automated data collection
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 21, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Antler , a global venture capital firm with a strong presence in Indonesia , has committed to supporting aspiring founders and early-stage teams in the country by investing in over 30 startups in 2023. The company has already invested in 25 local startups since its launch in 2022.
TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2023
At its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced a set of cloud services designed to help businesses build and run generative AI models trained on custom data and created for “domain-specific tasks,” like writing ad copy. Under the brand Nvidia AI Foundations, each individual cloud service — Nvidia NeMo for language models and Nvidia Picasso for image, video and 3D content generation — includes pretrained models, frameworks for data processing, APIs and support f
Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 21, 2023
Understanding what’s in an image — one of the simplest cognitive tasks for most humans — is a stubbornly difficult problem for artificial intelligence systems to solve. Over the past decade, AI models have gotten better and better at analyzing … The post Investing in Coactive appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2023
For most of the Information Age, companies that wanted to scale invested in server farms and hired teams to keep them running. At one of my first startup jobs, I walked in one day to find two sleeping co-workers who’d spent the night configuring servers at a co-locating facility 60 miles away. Soon after, when I worked at a publicly traded company, our on-prem data center was resilient enough to operate through a moderate earthquake.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
MARCH 21, 2023
Join us for a live discussion on Customer Experience In 2022, Customer Experience passed price and product as the core value driver for businesses. To be successful in today’s experience-driven economy, brands must invest in the interactions – the experiences – customers have with their brand. However, because today’s customers interact with brands across so many channels, many companies struggle to identify where to invest in Customer Experience so that they realize real, tangible benefits.
TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2023
Kakao Mobility , the ride-hailing subsidiary of South Korean messaging and internet giant Kakao, has made its first acquisition as it looks to raise its international profile. It has acquired Splyt , a startup out of London that works with apps in areas like travel, ride-hailing and finance to help them build out “super app” strategies by integrating other services.
GCUC
MARCH 21, 2023
Meet the GCUC NA 2023 Sponsors GCUC would not be possible without the support of our industry sponsors and partners. Check out some of this year’s line up. If you.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2023
A growing number of investors have begun suggesting that certain venture-backed startups that have yet to find so-called product-market fit throw in the towel. Their argument is that some startups simply raised too much, at valuations into which they will never grow, and that clean, well-planned exits are better for everyone than messy ones. After all, the money could be invested in something more impactful.
Founder Bounty
MARCH 21, 2023
So you want to build a startup? Its damn hard and the chances are all against you. I dont recommend it but hey you are here so may as well give you some tips on trying it out! I have been through techstars and know how hard it is. I have also interviewed at YC (check out our other articles on this). FOCUS ON BOOSTRAPPABLE COMPANIES NOT ONES THAT NEED CASH.
TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2023
Upstart tech companies delivering their product or service via an API raised mammoth amounts of capital during the final year of the 2021-era startup boom. Things have slowed in the intervening quarters. New data indicates that while the group of companies raised more capital in 2022 than in 2020, a downward trend in fundraising activity throughout the last calendar year shows that no startup cohort is immune from the venture capital slowdown.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 21, 2023
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TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2023
Organizations dealing with large amounts of data often struggle to ensure that data remains high-quality. According to a survey from Great Expectations, which creates open source tools for data testing, 77% of companies have data quality issues and 91% believe that it’s impacting their performance. In light of that, unsurprisingly, business has been quite healthy for vendors that sell data observability services and software, which help an organization understand the health and state of th
Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 21, 2023
Travel is a trillion-dollar industry stuck in the past. The last major breakthrough came in the 1990s, with the emergence of online Travel is a trillion-dollar industry stuck in the past. The last major breakthrough came in the 1990s, with … The post “Adventure is out there!”: Opportunities in AI x Travel appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2023
Maxwell Lu, formerly a product engineer at Salesforce and the head of revenue operations at a previous startup, found himself frustrated by the task of re-listening to sales calls to write up notes and fill out entries in customer relationship management (CRM) software. Searching for a better way, he decided to build tech that could analyze sales calls automatically — powered by AI — and transfer that information directly into a CRM database.
StartupNation
MARCH 21, 2023
Self-care is a concept that refers to practices that improve our well-being and reduce stress. Exercise, journaling, eating… The post 5 Key Ways to Practice Financial Self-Care appeared first on StartupNation.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2023
When individuals make purchases online, they place items in the digital shopping cart and use a credit or debit card to complete the transaction instantly. Businesses operate differently, typically looking to pay later at some agreed upon time frame between one week and 90 days. Most of these types of net transactions continue to be handled manually via paper invoices.
Gust
MARCH 21, 2023
It is 2023, and the environment for funding has changed drastically in the last few years. What you do before you pitch is even more important than it has been in the past. The post 5 Things To Do Before Pitching Your Business To Investors appeared first on Gust.
TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2023
If you’re a car maintenance do-it-yourselfer in the United States, it’s pretty easy to find auto parts with a simple internet search or of an auto parts store’s database. However, in Brazil, the experience is not the same. Mecanizou is out to change that. The São Paulo–based startup is infusing data intelligence into the auto parts market to create a database connecting mechanic shops and resellers to automotive parts suppliers.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 21, 2023
Launching an MVP is like asking your crush out on a date. But if you don’t try, you’ll never know if there’s a chance for a relationship.
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