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Crowd influencer marketing platform Partipost raises $7m for Asian expansion

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Partipost , Asia’s fastest-growing crowd influencer marketing & commerce platform , announced that it has secured an investment of over $7 million. The oversubscribed round is led by iGlobe Partners , with participation from Temasek’s Pavilion Capital , Taiwan Mobile, Cathay Venture, and Quest Ventures.

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What it means to be an entrepreneur and why risking it is worth doing

Founder Bounty

So you want to be an entrepreneur? Just how hard is it to go out and venture on your own? In this article, we go through what it means to start a business from scratch and why the path may not be right for all of us. High paid cushy job - it may not be worth the risk. Listen to those who have done it not those who have not- Ive done it Ive been through top-tier accelerators like techstars (a top tech investor) and talking to investors while keeping a business running and its harder than you thin

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Solar startup Xurya scores additional funding from Mitsui, SSIA

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Xurya Daya Indonesia (Xurya), a solar power rental and installation startup, received additional series A funding from global trading and investment company Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Mitsui) and PT Surya Semesta Internusa Tbk (SSIA). The total funds obtained through series A reached $33 million or equivalent to IDR 510 billion on October 20, 2022.

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Poppin’ bottles: VCs continue to pour millions into independent beverage startups

TechCrunch

After seeing a ton of venture capital investment flow into independent beverage startups recently, it was time to take a step back and see if this kind of company actually made sense as a venture investment. For one, the competition for space on grocery store shelves is fierce, eclipsed only by the fact people are finicky. The U.S. Beverage Manufacturing and Filling Locations Database contains nearly 2,500 alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverage manufacturers making everything from beer and soft dri

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

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.

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Would You Leave the Cloud to Improve Sales Efficiency by 11%?

Tomasz Tunguz

Last week, David Heinemeier Hansson explained why his company, Basecamp, is leaving the cloud. They will manage their own servers to reduce the $3m annual AWS bill by 60%. Setting aside the technical questions around such a migration for a paragraph or two, this move will improve Basecamp’s efficiency materially. For a hypothetical startup, a 60% reduction in infrastructure costs boosts sales efficiency by 11% & net income margin by at least 12%.

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“As a Senator, the first project I’d tackle would be immigration.” Me! in Conversation with Sar Haribhakti

Hunter Walk

I love doing quick Five Question Interviews to learn more about people in my community. Sar Haribhakti took it a bit further?—?I think he does closer to 15 questions ?—?but enjoyed being on the other side of the table for this Q&A (“ Coffee brew, political takes, and shop talk with Hunter Walk of Homebrew ”.

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Kanye agrees to buy Parler, Elon Musk reportedly plans mass layoffs at Twitter, and Netflix gets into cloud gaming

TechCrunch

Hey, friends! Welcome back to Week in Review , where every Saturday we recap a handful of the top TechCrunch stories from the past seven days. Want it in your inbox? Get it here ! This week marked the in-person return of TechCrunch Disrupt, with our team taking the show back into the real world after two years fully virtual. It was one helluva show, with appearances from people like tennis legend (turned investor) Serena Williams , comedian (also turned investor!

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Payroll platform Skuad raises $15m to drive global expansion

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore-based employment and payroll platform Skuad has announced raising $15 million in a Series A funding round led by a Southeast Asian venture capital investor. A US strategic investor specializing in staffing and two leading global payments platforms also participated in the funding round along with existing investors BEENEXT , Anthemis as well other prominent angel investors.

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Could machine learning refresh the cloud debate?

TechCrunch

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Should early-stage founders ignore the never-ending debate on server infrastructure? Up to a point, yes: Investors we talked to are giving entrepreneurs their blessing not to give too much thought to cloud spend in their early days.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Maro’s new app looks to help schools screen kids for depression and anxiety

TechCrunch

Maro has developed a platform that helps families and schools navigate tough conversations about mental health. The company, which exhibited as part of the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, launched its first product, Maro Parents, in 2020. Now, the company is gearing up to launch Maro for Schools next week to help schools screen students for anxiety and depression, with parental consent.

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Overheard at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. As far as weeks go, this one was as disruptive as they come. TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 has officially come to a close after an iconic three days of interviews, startup pitches and “Oh my god I know you from Twitter” moments.