TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. The Amazon company claims that the three-year initiative will help recipients build successful businesses while “accelerating” growth in their respective markets.
AsiaTechDaily
APRIL 20, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Crown Digital , the Singapore-based, full-stack hardware and software tech start-up behind ELLA the robot barista , has raised S$5 million (about $3.7 million) in a pre-Series A round from Temasek’s Heliconia Capital Management , Momentum Ventures (SMRT), ParticleX, Leave a Nest, Gloca Link, and M4ever.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
Plastic foam like Styrofoam is a ubiquitous, harmful, and nearly immortal single-use material that is long overdue for a good, green replacement — and Cruz Foam is here to supply it. The startup creates a durable yet backyard-compostable packing foam out of shrimp shells produced (and discarded) by the seafood industry. It recently extended its seed round to accommodate the interests of Leonardo DiCaprio and Ashton Kutcher, and is scaling up to meet the demands of its first major customer, Whir
Entrepreneurs' Organization
APRIL 20, 2022
Contributed by Dr. Carrie Santos, CEO of Entrepreneurs’ Organization. In late March, Entrepreneurs’ Organization CEO, Dr. Carrie Santos, traveled to Poland and Romania, along with EO’s Chairman of the Board, David Anderson, to support the selfless volunteer efforts of EO members from Poland, Romania and greater Europe, who are sharing their time and resources with thousands of Ukrainian families displaced from their homes.
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Source Link
APRIL 20, 2022
Spring is a season of growth and new beginnings that often leads to a renewed sense of energy and motivation. If you’re feeling like your entrepreneurial ecosystem engagement has been dormant, you’re not alone. During the pandemic, many ecosystem builders have felt challenged maintaining meaningful engagement with their network. As we enter the second quarter of 2022, in-person events are increasing, significant government-funded recovery efforts are underway, and there is a renewed confidence i
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AsiaTechDaily
APRIL 20, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register POC Pharma, a B2B service SaaS, raised a $10.3-million Series A funding round led by Alven, along with co-investment from seed investors Picus Capital, FEBE Ventures, and FJ Labs who have doubled down their investments. The funds will be used to accelerate the roll-out of its digital go-to-market solutions for the Pharmaceutical Industry in emerging countries, in Southeast Asia, South
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
The e-commerce market in Latin America has been gaining traction over the past two years and is poised to double in size and be valued at more than $100 billion by 2025. And like in the United States and elsewhere, customers in LatAm expect that when they submit an order online, it arrives at their homes accurately and quickly. This means that brands and retailers need enough workers to tend to all of the e-commerce orders.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
APRIL 20, 2022
Join a collaborative effort to design, create, and validate the advancement of the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field of practice. A small, but growing number of people are turning to entrepreneurial ecosystem building as a strategy to build more inclusive and resilient economies. For years, the leading standard bearer in this nascent movement was the Kauffman Foundation.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
Advertising, particularly online advertising, isn’t a surefire way to bolster business. A report from ecommerce analytics platform Glew drives the point home: In 2015, 75% of retailers that spent at least $5,000 on Facebook ads ended up losing money on those ads, with the average return on investment landing around -66.7%. Obviously, that’s just one segment — retail.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
The Seraf Compass
APRIL 20, 2022
Experience is what you get, when you don’t get what you want. When I made my first angel investment in 2000, I wish I knew then what I know today. As a newly minted angel, I assumed that angel investing would be easy to jump into and become successful at. I was partially right… it was easy to jump into. Unfortunately, it wasn’t that easy to become successful.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. PowerPoint has over one billion installs and 500 million users alone, thanks to Microsoft’s longtime bundling of Office with certain Windows editions. But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 20, 2022
I’ve been there myself and here is what I learned. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
Morado, a two-month-old Colombian startup aiming to digitize beauty salons in Latin America, has raised $5 million in a pre-seed round from a bevy of global investors. Tiger Global Management and H20 Capital Innovation co-led the round, which also included participation from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), QEDl, Latitud and Village Global (which is backed by Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates).
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AsiaTechDaily
APRIL 20, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore-based battery recycling technology startup Green Li-ion announced that it has successfully closed its $11.55 million Series A funding round, led by energy-tech venture capital Energy Revolution Ventures Limited. The round was also backed by clean tech co-investors including the CVC arm of world’s fourth-largest renewable energy producer EDP (EDP Ventures), TRIREC, SOSV, Entre
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
PayU , the fintech business controlled by Prosus with operations in 50+ countries — it’s been described as the PayPal of emerging markets — announced a double-deal today to expand its presence in Latin America. The company has acquired Ding , a platform that lets people top up mobile phone credits for others remotely, and it has led a $46 million investment into Treinta , a financial “superapp” aimed at small businesses.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 20, 2022
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TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
A banking app built for online creators, Creative Juice announced its $50 million fund to underwrite creator businesses. YouTubers and other social media stars can apply for upfront cash to grow their businesses in exchange for a cut of their revenue over a certain period of time, usually between six months and three years. It sounds like a loan, but it’s not a loan (at least in the sense that Creative Juice isn’t a bank, so they’re not allowed to say they give loans).
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 20, 2022
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TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
Strike Security, a continuous penetration testing platform that combines automation with ethical hackers , has secured a $5.4 million seed investment to make bug hunting more accessible to small businesses. Santiago Rosenblatt, the 25-year-old founder and CEO of Strike , has already racked up two decades of cybersecurity experience. “I started hacking when I was six-and-a-half,” he tells TechCrunch.
GCUC
APRIL 20, 2022
GCUC Seattle is going to be smaller, and that is a good thing. Why, you ask? For years we’ve been trying to sell as. The post Bigger Isn’t Better at GCUC appeared first on GCUC Community.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
As consumers’ interest in the environment and nutrition rises, food-tech companies join the race to invent meat alternatives. In 2021, alternative seafood companies received $175 million in investment globally, increasing 92% from 2020. A South Korean startup called CellMEAT , which develops cell-based shrimp, has secured $8.1 million (10 billion KRW) Series A funding to compete with 120 companies around the world that produce alternative seafood.
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OurCrowd
APRIL 20, 2022
VirtaMed and Memic Innovative Surgery Ltd. are teaming up to develop a new virtual reality simulator program to support surgeon skills training for the Hominis Surgical System. Read more here. The post [Memic in MPO] VirtaMed, Memic Partner on Robotics VR Training Simulator appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
The comedown from venture capital’s torrid 2021 is sparing few startups. New data from Carta, a provider of shareholder management services to private companies, indicates that the slowdown in venture capital activity is not constrained to a single stage or sector. Instead, aggregated information detailing a host of Q1 2022 data points from Carta’s Head of Insights, Peter Walker, indicates that even less mature startups will not prove immune from a retreat in private market investment.
OurCrowd
APRIL 20, 2022
BRUSSELS and TEL AVIV, Israel, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Aliaxis, a world leader enabling access to water and energy through inventive fluid management solutions, has signed an investment agreement and will be partnering with CropX, a global leader in agtech solutions for full farm management. Read more here. The post [CropX in PR Newswire] Aliaxis to invest in CropX, a leader in digital precision agriculture?
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
In mid-2020, short-term rental startup Lyric Hospitality shuttered most of its locations in what was widely viewed as another pandemic casualty. But the San Francisco company — which was out to help folks who struggled to decide between staying in a hotel or an Airbnb — wasn’t ready to go down without a fight. It is now spinning out the software side of its business, including a pricing tool for accommodation that it had built, and that spinout has raised $16 million in funding.
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