TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Less than seven months after closing on a $57 million Series B , fast-growing fintech Jeeves has raised $180 million in a Series C round that values the company at $2.1 billion. Financial technology companies raising multiple rounds in a short period of time has become more the norm than an exception as of late. Still, the velocity of Jeeves’ growth and increase in valuation is impressive.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 22, 2022

In the middle of our fundraising efforts for our seed round, I got a call from Joshua. He invited us to pitch in front of a coalition of… Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

D-ID , the Israeli company leveraging artificial intelligence to create unique, viral experiences like “Deep Nostalgia ,” which animates the faces of long-lost relatives in your old photos, announced today the raise of a $25 million Series B round of funding led by Macquarie Capital. The additional funds shortly follow D-ID’s recent launch of its Deep Nostalgia follow-up project, LiveStory , which adds audio to the animated photos, allowing the people in the photos to narrate t

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Jason Malki

MARCH 22, 2022

SportsBiz’s Feuerstein is Leveraging AI to Create I ndustry Standards for Sports Marketing & Sponsorships I had the pleasure of interviewing Steve Feuerstein, the Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of SportsBizGroup. Mr. Feuerstein is a thirty-year veteran of the sports marketing industry. Steve began his career in 1990 in Asia with the founding of Sports International, which became the number one sports marketing business in its field for over 12 years in the Republic of China.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

We’ve been hearing the concept of “community” lately in different aspects of startups and venture capital. From Lolita Taub taking a community-first focus in venture capitalism to Archive tapping into community for marketing buying power. In Latin America, where being a part of a community is important, we see startups, like Trela in Brazil and Muni in Colombia, bringing people together under a common need — in Muni’s case, the purchase of everyday essentials.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

As the use of aircraft like drones, electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles and uncrewed aerial vehicles take off, Japanese startup Terra Drone wants to make sure trafficking the skies doesn’t get overlooked. “Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra Drone CEO and founder Toru Tokushige , who is also serving as the CEO of Terra Motors, which develops electric vehicles.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 22, 2022

Memes can be a profitable business Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, March 22, 2022! Excited to announce that we’re bringing in a few other folks to help bring this newsletter for you. Christine Hall helped write the Big Tech and Startups sections today, for example.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 22, 2022

Your weekends turn those skills into money. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Vijay Chattha. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Vijay Chattha is a general partner in VSC Ventures and is the founder and CEO of VSC, a communications and content platform for early-stage technology startups. More posts by this contributor. Establishing ethical guidelines for marketing cryptocurrencies. Jay Kapoor. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jay Kapoor is a general partner at VSC Ventures, where he invests in seed and early-stage companies, helping them break out with value-add support on PR,

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MARCH 22, 2022

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Over the past decade, some of the biggest names in the tech, VC, automotive and aerospace industries have poured millions of dollars into developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. And that investment trend shows no sign of slowing any time soon. Just some of these investors include Google co-founder Larry Page, United Therapeutics founder Martine Rothblatt, UP.Partners co-founder Cyrus Sigari and Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun — along with corporations such as Airbus, A

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 22, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Tonik, the Philippines’ first digital-only neobank , is eyeing to expand its lending portfolio through venturing into buy now, pay later and home loans for up to P2.5 million ($50,000). Further, the neobank reveals that cryptocurrency will soon be integrated in their proprietary app to provide more opportunities for Filipinos to save using digital assets. “Armed with our un

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Hex has been moving briskly along its startup evolutionary path with its data science collaboration platform growing at a rapid pace, so much so the company attracted the attention of fundraising mega-firm Andreessen Horowitz and a pair of key industry strategic investors, Snowflake and Databricks. Company CEO and co-founder Barry McCardel said that it’s because his company isn’t just targeting a specific group of highly trained data scientists like so many products in this space 

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 22, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore -based Climate technology startup Handprint has recently raised US$2.2 million in its seed funding round led by Thunes , a global payments platform along with participation from other undisclosed investors. Handprint that builds sustainability infrastructure for the digital world will be using the fresh infusion of funds to expand its technology and grow its network of impact

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Firefly Aerospace’s roller coaster ride could soon send the rocket startup to the public market via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, a recent filing with the FCC suggests. Aerospace private equity firm AE Industrial Partners (AEI) announced last month that it had reached an agreement to acquire a “significant stake” in Firefly after its largest shareholder, Ukrainian Max Polyakov, was forced to sell his shares over national security concerns.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 22, 2022

Read more here. The post [Plantish in Green Queen] Wanda Fish Nets Exclusive Collaborative Working Agreement With Massachusett’s Tufts University appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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MARCH 22, 2022

A business is only as strong as its workforce. A. Read more. The post What Is Workforce Diversity? – Types, Importance, & Challenges appeared first on Feedough.

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MARCH 22, 2022

D-ID, the Israeli company leveraging artificial intelligence to create unique, viral experiences like “Deep Nostalgia,” which animates the faces of long-lost relatives in your old photos, announced today the raise of a $25 million Series B round of funding led by Macquarie Capital. Read more here. The post [D-ID in Tech Crunch] AI creative platform D-ID, the tech behind those viral videos of animated family photos, raises $25M appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Smartphone cameras have gotten quite good, but it’s getting harder and harder to improve them because we’ve pretty much reached the limit of what’s possible in the space of a cubic centimeter. Glass is a startup looking to fundamentally change how the camera works, using a much bigger sensor and an optical trick from the depths of filmmaking: anamorphic lenses.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 22, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indonesian E-Grocery startup Sayurbox has raised US$120 million in its Series C funding round led by Northstar and Alpha JWC Ventures along with participation from the World’s Bank International Finance Corporation. The financing round was also joined by existing investors Syngenta Group Ventures, Astra, Global Brain along with other angel investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Estate planning startup Wealth is going after a $180 billion U.S. market by eliminating the three-ring binder of papers that become obsolete in months and replacing it with a digital dashboard that updates your holdings in real time. Many technology companies have come with their approaches to solving this problem, from Trust & Will to Quicken’s WillMaker to Everplans.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 22, 2022

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Brian Spanswick. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Brian Spanswick is the chief information security officer (CISO) and head of IT at Cohesity. If there’s one thing that recent earnings reports from Microsoft, Google and Amazon made clear, it’s that their cloud businesses are booming. While the shift to the cloud is well underway, many companies aren’t paying attention to a critical aspect of this growth: the dramatic increase in data generated by SaaS that is not adequately protected.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 22, 2022

The EVERY Company has teamed up with upmarket west-coast patisserie brand Chantal Guillon to road test EVERY EggWhite – billed as “the world’s first animal-free egg white” – in a product heavily reliant on the unique functional properties of egg whites: the French macaron. Read more here. The post [The EVERY Company in FoodNavigator-USA] The EVERY Co unveils ‘world’s first animal-free egg white,’ road-tested in ‘holy grail’ application: the macaron appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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