TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Netflix’s Korean drama “Squid Game” was one of the most-watched dubbed series of all time, proving the massive potential for foreign-language programming to become a hit in overseas markets. Now, a startup called Deepdub is capitalizing on the growing demand for localized content by automating parts of the dubbing process using AI technology.
Founders Coop
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
To celebrate Mystery’s blockbuster Series A fundraise led by Greylock Partners we decided to review and reflect on the April 2019 investment memo that we wrote in support of our first $500k investment into the company. To date, we’ve now invested $2.5m, a full 10% of our fund. Our third “all-in” position, alongside Ally.io and Logixboard.com.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Twine , a company that provides networking tools for virtual events and remote teams, will soon bring its services to Zoom thanks to its just-closed acquisition of the Y Combinator-backed startup, Glimpse, which had developed a “speed matching” platform designed for virtual events. Glimpse’s idea was to offer a way to facilitate the connections that typically took place at real-world events, and bring them online by matching attendees within video chats using A.I. intelligence.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Image provided by Marc Randolph Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube. [link] Today’s guest is Marc Randolph, the Co-Founder of Netflix who has had an entrepreneurship career that spans four decades. He’s been a founder of more than half a dozen other successful start-ups, a mentor to scores of early-stage entrepreneurs, and an investor in numerous successful tech ventures (and an even larger number of uns
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Over $500 million worth of real estate was sold on the top four metaverse platforms in 2021, data shows. Traditional real estate companies are amongst the many investors flocking to stake their claim on plots of land in virtual worlds like Decentraland and Sandbox. Although important questions remain about which platforms and use cases will win the day in the metaverse craze, one thing is clear — capital is flowing fast into the metaverse, and “unreal estate,” so to speak, is n
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
For most people, mention of the word “taxes” conjures up unpleasant things like tedious processes, mountains of paperwork and shelling out a lot of money to the government. But one startup is on a mission to make taxes less…well, dreadful and an actual benefit. Mountain View, California-based Neo.Tax wants to apply machine learning to business taxes, upgrading them “from an ancient pain into a modern advantage.” Or in other words, it wants to make it easier for small businesses
AsiaTechDaily
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register South Korean startup 42Maru Inc.’s Founder and CEO, D.K. Donghwan KIM, wanted to find ‘Answers’ to all the questions in the world. So, he took inspiration from his favorite science fiction book ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy’ and in 2015 founded the deep-semantic QA (Question-Answering) platform, which understands a user’s real intention in a question and derives a single answer fro
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
China’s autonomous vehicle industry first started seeing some traction around 2016, when a bunch of ambitious startups mushroomed following advances in lidar, computing and machine learning. But the nascent sector was still driving in low gear, as the people working on the tech mostly had computer science backgrounds, and there weren’t many with extensive experience in the automobile industry.
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Here’s the problem: Investors sometimes join into investment rounds that have been pre–negotiated by others, receiving the paperwork already created by attorneys from that negotiation. It is not uncommon for a sharp investor to discover a “stinky” clause or two in such agreements when reading them in preparation for signing. Bill Payne came across just such a stinky clause in a deal we both were joining as investors late in the process.
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
French startup Alma is trying to build a new “buy now, pay later” giant in Europe. The company has closed a $130 million Series C round (€115 million). It has also raised $109 million (€95 million) in debt financing. Tencent, GR Capital and Roosh Ventures are investing in the startup for the first time. Some of the startup’s existing investors are investing once again, such as Cathay Innovation, Eurazeo, Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund, Seaya Ventures and Picus Capital.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
6 fatal mistakes from someone who endured a very painful pitch with a very powerful person. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Respira Labs , a medical technology company specializing in respiratory care, which first unveiled its product to the world last year , successfully raised $1 million in funding and an additional $1.8 million in grants to continue building its acoustic resonance technology to assess lung function and changes therein. Tracking both is a critical aspect for patients with COVID-19, COPD, asthma and other lung afflictions.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
3 unconventional pieces of wisdom that led to his success Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Inflation in the United States came in a little over expectations: The consumer price index rose 7.5% last year , the largest figure in some decades. In response, expectations for monetary tightening in America are also running hot. And as interest rates rise, there’s an expectation that safer assets will become more attractive, and more speculative assets less so.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Three years down, many more to go. Following the first stretch of what has so far been a successful partnership between Pfizer and CytoReason, the duo has opted to extend their collaboration and continue their work to apply CytoReason’s artificial intelligence technology to Pfizer’s drug development efforts. Read more here. The post [CytoReason in Fierce Biotech] Pfizer re-ups CytoReason collab applying AI disease models to drug development appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Atommerce , a Korean startup that helps users connect with mental health professionals via a mobile app MiNDCAFE, plans to scale its mental health service with a $16.7 million Series B, which was three times oversubscribed within two months. With the recent funding, Atommerce plans to enhance artificial intelligence and machine learning technology for its platform and invest in digital therapeutics specialized in mental illness.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Learnings from one of the best Chinese emperors in history Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Startups have sought to use technology to digitize processes in Africa’s B2B e-commerce and retail space over the past couple of years. While many focus on moving products and providing credit, issues around cash overdependency haven’t been tackled at scale. . Here’s why this is a critical problem. When traditional distributors move goods from manufacturers and suppliers to retailers, they collect cash through a network of agents.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Orbital Insight, the leader in geospatial intelligence, today announced that it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to deliver a new technology platform for identifying intentional Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) interference and manipulation operations across the world.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. Just over $15 billion went into startups in 2021 , according to LAVCA. That was three times more than the association recorded in fiscal year 2019. Brazil and Mexico continue to lead as regions where many startups are getting funding, but as LAVCA’s statistics show, some of that investor love is being spread around to other countries like Colombia, Argentina and Chile.
Smart Hustle Magazine
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Franchises can be an excellent way to maximize business growth while minimizing the overhead costs involved with opening additional locations. You are basically leasing rights to your model, brand, and business strategy to another entrepreneur in a franchised business. The franchisee receives a proven business model and ongoing support to ensure success in their business venture in exchange for the franchise fees and royalties paid to you.
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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
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
A startup hoping to reinvent regional air travel with an unusual vertical-takeoff aircraft has rebranded and raised a $12.4M funding round. Craft Aerospace will henceforth be known as Odys Aviation, and the money will go towards, among other things, a planned demonstration flight this year with a one-passenger prototype. The interesting “blown wing” approach to VTOL craft is characterized in detail in this post , but in brief it bends the wing in such a way that the thrust from the r
Feedough
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Ads don’t always look like ads. They can be disguised. Read more.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
The term “shared micromobility” often calls to mind that Lime e-bike on the nearest street corner or the Voi e-scooter parked next to the bus stop, either of which could on any given day be standing upright or knocked over onto the pavement. In fact, dockless vehicles have become so normalized that they’re almost synonymous with the idea of scooter and bike shares.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
MilliporeSigma has signed an agreement to demonstrate the utility of its CRISPR genome-editing tools in agricultural uses and to license its foundational CRISPR intellectual property to BetterSeeds, an AgTech company based in Israel that uses genome editing technology including CRISPR to develop new breeds of plants. Read more here. The post [BetterSeeds in Hortidaily] BetterSeeds enters partnership to validate use of CRISPR genome-editing tools appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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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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