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.
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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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
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.
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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
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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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
Prepare yourself for the triumphant return of TechCrunch Disrupt — live and in person — to San Francisco on October 18-20 at Moscone West! . We can’t wait to welcome you and more than 10,000 other attendees to our flagship event — the epicenter of the startup ecosystem. . Registration is open: Take advantage of our launch special. Purchase a pass (General Admission, Investor or Student/Non-profit) before June 1, and you can save up to $1,500.
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
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.
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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.
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
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.
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
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.
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CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.
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
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.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 20, 2022
What entrepreneurs can learn from the latest Forbes billionaires list Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
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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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 20, 2022
In under three years, I was able to earn more by doing less better 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).
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
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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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 20, 2022
American biotech has traditionally been a highly centralized industry, with most companies clustered in a handful of cities and operating with teams of in-house scientists. Biotech companies are typically small startups focused on developing biologic drugs (or therapeutic platforms). When the industry first gained its footing in the 1980s, there were good reasons for its.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
Bach , a group travel app for planning bachelorette trips, has announced $8 million in seed funding led by Corazon Capital. The app, which is available on both the Google Play Store and the iOS App Store , is designed to help users plan a group trip with their friends from start to finish. Mike Petrakis, the founder and CEO of Bach, told TechCrunch that the idea for Bach came from his personal experiences with travel.
Y Combinator
APRIL 20, 2022
Everyday life has changed drastically over the past couple of years with COVID-19. We see that founders and startup employees are as committed as ever to using technology to solve problems with tangible impact. Healthcare is a space full of complex, interesting problems to be solved – both from a technical and societal perspective. We want to highlight YC startups working on novel solutions in healthtech, ranging from healthcare infrastructure, to addiction treatment, to personalized fitn
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
The last couple of years have seen a boom in carbon calculation startups, and long may it reign. (We need all the help we can get to avoid the disaster of global warming and climate change.) Included among those startups are those like planA and Planetly. But many of these new companies, as welcome as they are, tend to go more generalist in their approaches.
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
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