TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Ayoken, an NFT marketplace for creatives, has raised $1.4 million pre-seed funding to enable users grow their revenue streams through digital collectibles. The startup’s marketplace, Ayokenlabs , will feature digital collectibles from musicians, sports brands and influencers from all over the world. Ayoken founder and CEO, Joshua King , told TechCrunch that the marketplace is a bridge between fans and artists, and gives supporters a sense of ownership in the success of their idols.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 30, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia Tbk ( GoTo Group ), the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia , posted a strong start to 2022, with year-on-year Q1 gross revenue growth of 53%, outpacing GTV growth of 46%, its filing showed. Gross revenue for Q1 stands at Rp5.2 trillion and GTV at Rp140 trillion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Strong Compute , a Sydney, Australia-based startup that helps developers remove the bottlenecks in their machine learning training pipelines, today announced that it has raised a $7.8 million seed round. The round includes a total of 30 funds and angels, including the likes of Sequoia Capital India, Blackbird, Folklore and Skip Capital, as well as Y Combinator, Starburst Ventures and founders and engineers from companies like Cruise, Waymo, Open AI, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 30, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Asian investment specialist Fullerton has successfully closed its first round of fundraising for a Thai direct private equity strategy at $100 million. The strategy targets small to mid-market companies with exposure to Thailand’s long-term growth, with potential to capitalise on attractive post-Covid valuations, and aims to deliver outsized returns of two times MOIC and 20% IRR over t

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Whether to power translation to document summarization, enterprises are increasing their investments in natural language processing (NLP) technologies. According to a 2021 survey from John Snow Labs and Gradient Flow, 60% of tech leaders indicated that their NLP budgets grew by at least 10% compared to 2020, while a third said that spending climbed by more than 30%.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Egypt-born and Dubai-headquartered mobility startup SWVL is planning to lay off 32% of its workforce it said in a statement today. The company’s LinkedIn profile shows it has over 1,330 employees. Letting go of over 30% of its workforce means that around 400 people will lose their jobs at the mobility company. Tech companies, private and public, have faced a reckoning in the past few months with their valuations taking a beating.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 30, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register India-based edtech startup PrepInsta has announced plans to increase its workforce by 100%, with the aim of recruiting at least 50 employees by the end of July this year. The company currently has a total strength of 50 employees and with this scheduled hiring, the number is expected to double.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

HitPay has almost everything SMEs need to run their businesses. In addition to being an online payment gateway, it also offers tools like point-of-sale software with card readers, plugins, payment links and no-code online stores. The Y Combinator alum announced today that it has raised $15.75 million in Series A funding led by Tiger Global, with participation from returning investors Global Founders Capital and HOF Capital.

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Founder Bounty

MAY 30, 2022

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MAY 30, 2022

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Mintlify , a startup developing software to automate software documentation tasks, today announced that it raised $2.8 million in a seed round led by by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from TwentyTwo Ventures and Quinn Slack, Sourcegraph’s co-founder. CEO Han Wang says that the proceeds will be put toward product development and doubling Mintlify’s core, three-person team by the end of the year.

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The Groove Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Zendesk or Intercom. The debate rages on. Groove has put together an informative review of both brands to highlight the similarities and differences to allow you to make the right choice. The post Zendesk vs Intercom: Help Desk Software Comparison appeared first on Groove Blog.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

About 80% of household retail in sub-Saharan Africa is delivered through informal channels, which perennially face several challenges like stockouts, leading to an instability in earnings, and a lack of attractiveness to financiers. These challenges befall millions of micro-retailers across the continent, and Betastore , a B2B retail marketplace for informal retailers, is working to resolve in Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Senegal.

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MAY 30, 2022

This Friday, June 3rd at 10:30am Pacific/1:30pm Eastern, I’ll be hosting Office Hours to review the 2022 Market Conditions Market Survey results. If you’d like to attend, please register here. The session will review the top 10 learnings from the data across the hundreds of respondents and answer questions including: how does the typical founder feel about the market?

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 30, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register iFarmer , a Bangladesh-based full-stack agriculture platform for farmers , announced the completion of a $2.1 million Series Pre-A round of financing led by IDLC Ventures, the VC arm of IDLC Finance—one of Bangladesh’s largest non-banking financial institutions.

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Continuations

MAY 30, 2022

Given the ongoing decay of our institutions and their utter failure to address the climate crisis it is not far fetched to ask whether we are headed for some kind of societal collapse. A highly relevant book is Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse of Complex Societies , published in 1988. I had two key takeaways from reading it. First, there are way more examples of complex societies collapsing than I was aware of.

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OurCrowd

MAY 30, 2022

Israeli volumetric tech company TetaVi, announced a partnership this week with artist growth engine and monetization platform Anomaly Create, to “hyper-engage” musical artists through virtual music content using TetaVi’s volumetric video capture platform. Read more here. The post [TetaVi in NewXpro] TetaVi Partners With Anomaly To Engage Emerging Music Artists appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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MAY 30, 2022

The secret ingredient in Mermade Seafoods’ secret sauce is out – and it has the potential to revolutionize the commercialization of environmentally friendly lab-grown seafood and meat. Read more here. The post [Mermade in Times of Israel] Israeli company’s secret sauce to enable mass production of cultured seafood appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

MAY 30, 2022

Even before Russian military forces crossed into Ukraine three months ago, private companies were using data from satellites and other technology to closely monitor events on the ground. Newshour Special Correspondent Mike Cerre explores the ongoing efforts to track the war in Ukraine in real time, digitally. Read more here. The post [Orbital Insight on PBS News Hour] Private companies track the war in Ukraine in real time appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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