Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 16, 2022

Contributed by Kate Holden , an entrepreneur, philanthropist and business leader behind De Luca Fine Wines , a fast-growing retail and e-commerce wine business. Kate is president of the EO Winnipeg chapter and serves on the EO Canada Board as Canada’s Member Products Director. She also serves as president of the board of directors of The Dream Factory , a non-profit for children with life-threatening illnesses.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 16, 2022

STATE COLLEGE, PA – Every year dozens of PA startups get their start with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. The largest early-stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin provides investment capital, business support services, BIG IDEA Contests, and Tech Startup Boot Camps to emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers located in central and northern Pennsylvania.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

You can count on one hand the number of funds bigger than Tiger Global. But in terms of influence, speed and number of investments made since 2021, Tiger has led the pack alongside Sequoia. Last year, the New York-based firm, known for its famous bets on Stripe, JD.com, Meituan and Roblox, raised $6.7 billion for its Private Investment Partners 14 fund.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 16, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Wagely, an Indonesia-based earned wage access (EWA) platform, has announced raising $8.3 million in its pre-Series A funding round l ed by East Ventures (Growth Fund). The funding, which comes in just seven months after the startup secured its seed funding, will be used to scale wagely’s platform to help workers access their earned salaries on demand in Indonesia and Bangladesh.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Liveblocks has raised a $5 million seed round. The startup lets you turn a regular web app into a multiplayer product with high-level hosted APIs. In addition to its live presence state API, the company is launching its live storage API. Boldstart is leading today’s round. Atlassian, Kima Ventures, Seedcamp as well as multiple business angels also participated.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

It’s long known that the legal profession has not embraced technology as quickly as other industries. As a result, there are a number of legal tech startups eager to not only help lawyers, but automate some of the processes bogged down by pen and paper. Here, we take a look at two companies that recently secured funding, Justpoint and New Era ADR, to see their approaches.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 16, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Treehouse Finance, a DeFi (decentralized finance) company, has raised US$18 million funding in its Seed round led by an undisclosed large FinTech investor along with participation from strategic investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners , Mirana Ventures, Binance, Global Founders Capital, MassMutual Ventures, Jump Capital, Wintermute, GSR, Do Kown of Terrafarm Labs, senior execut

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Who would’ve thought that an entire swath of startups would spring up all because Instagram, TikTok and Twitter only let you link to one website in your bio? Apparently, Linktree co-founder and CEO Alex Zaccaria did. “We started back in 2016 with a really clear use case to solve this problem for musicians and artists that needed a better way to link out of socials to all their different revenue streams, and we really needed to unify that experience for them to help drive monetization

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 16, 2022

Children Believe In Unicorns. Investors Believe In Racehorses When investing in startups, you need more than your gut feeling to place a good bet. Photo: Unsplash It seems that facts and data are sometimes left by the wayside when making important investment decisions. Founders weave fantastical stories and visions of the future they want to build, and investors will throw buckets of cash at their companies for a spot on their cap tables.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Alternative seafood startup Plantish believes it is close to initial distribution of its whole-cut salmon filet via restaurants. The Israeli company is only a year old, but has already tackled the structure of the whole cut, which is complex, co-founder and CEO Ofek Ron told TechCrunch. Its first product, Plantish salmon, mimics cooked salmon in taste, texture, appearance and structure, and has similar nutritional value of high protein and Omega-3.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 16, 2022

The firm was out last week rounding up investors for Israeli venture capital firm OurCrowd’s flagship fund OC50’s sixth vehicle, which would make 50-odd venture capital investments with the goal of making 20 per cent annualised return over its 10-year period. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd in Financial Review] Seed Partnerships rattles the tin for OurCrowd?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

The venture capital market is retreating somewhat from its aggressive 2021 pace, new data indicates. According to data collected by Carta , a unicorn startup that provides equity management and other services to private companies, round sizes from the Series A to C stages in the United States are in decline, while valuations attached to those deals are also falling.

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The Seraf Compass

MARCH 16, 2022

This profile is the fifth in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting female investors. Marcia Dawood is the Chair of the Angel Capital Association.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Oversized items, like furniture, have become a common fixture at the curb in weekly trash days, with the Environmental Protection Agency finding 80% ends up being disposed of in landfills. Companies like FloorFound have found success in managing furniture returns, but hot on their heels is Loveseat , which also wants to improve that landfill statistic through its unique approach of an online returned goods marketplace where furniture is auctioned off locally.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 16, 2022

Is charging by consumption (usage-based pricing) a superior model for a business? When we say UBP, we mean charging customers by how much they use, rather than a constant amount of seats per month or API calls per month. On on hand, UBP lubricates the customer conversion funnel. Prospects sign up and grow their accounts seamlessly. Usage data feeds the PLG lead score , and AEs outbound to the most promising users.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Informal retail is king in Africa, with hundreds of billions of dollars of consumer goods sold through its channels yearly. Yet its industry remains highly fragmented as shop owners and kiosks still have issues around access to capital and getting goods regularly and on time from suppliers and distributors. B2B retail and e-commerce platforms have primarily tried to fix these inefficient supply chains over the last couple of years and have received substantial investor backing since the pandemic

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 16, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register India-based FinTech startup RevFin has raised US$13 million in its pre Series A funding round led by Northern Arc , LiquiLoans , and UK charity Shell Foundation among others. RevFin that offers electric vehicle (EV) financing digital platform plans to use the fresh funding to expand into new geographies for financing three-wheelers and make a foray into providing loans for two-wheelers

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Security companies typically start by focusing on one particular problem, but the biggest ones like Palo Alto Networks, FireEye and Symantec have shifted to a horizontal approach, typically gaining functionality over time through acquisition. SentinelOne , which went public last June , appears to be taking a similar tack, and yesterday the company announced it is acquiring Attivo Networks for $616.5 million.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 16, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Chinese artificial intelligence -based startup that specializes in intelligence text recognition and processing services has secured US$92 million (580 million yuan) in its Series C funding round. The funding round was joined by a portfolio of investors including China Merchant Securities , CITIC Securities , Legend Star, GF Securities, Xiang He Capital, Sunshine Insurance, technology-

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

In the early stages of building a startup, founders need every competitive advantage they can bring to bear. You’re not only competing against established players, but also with other pre-launch startups gunning for the same market opportunity. While it’s natural to focus on finding product-market fit, testing and iterating your MVP to launch-worthy status, adding brand building into the mix right out of the gate will help you build a foundation for scalable success.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 16, 2022

Israeli 3D printing seafood start-up Plantish has raised $12.45 million in seed funding to bring its alternative seafood products to restaurants within the next two years. Read more here. The post [Plantish in TechCrunch] Plantish fishes for restaurant partners to try plant-based salmon fillets appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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MARCH 16, 2022

For a company named after a slow reptile, Silicon Valley startup Tortoise has made some quick pivots into new business models over the past year. Co-founded in 2019 by ex-Uber executive Dmitry Shevelenko, the company began with a mission of being the operating system for micromobility vehicles , one that uses remote operators to reposition shared electric scooters to locations where prospective riders are or send them back to the warehouse for a charge.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 16, 2022

MINNETONKA, Minn., March 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Healthy.io, the global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a medical device, and Medica, a mission-driven nonprofit health insurance plan, today announced a pragmatic trial giving at-risk plan members the ability to test their kidney function at home. Members with diabetes and/or hypertension, two conditions that increase kidney disease risk, will receive free albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR) urine tests that can indicate an i

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

With video making up more and more of the media we interact with and create daily, there’s also a growing need to track and index that content. What meeting or seminar was it where I asked that question? Which lecture had the part about tax policies? Twelve Labs has a machine learning solution for summarizing and searching video that could make quicker and easier for both consumers and creators.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 16, 2022

BROOKLYN, N.Y., March 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Medly, a patient-centered digital pharmacy that offers free same-day delivery, today announced further expansion in the New York Tri-State area with a new location in Stamford, Connecticut. This expansion comes on the heels of Medly’s new Jersey City location and highlights the consumer demand for technology-enabled pharmacies that combine the convenience of same-day free delivery with knowledgeable pharmacists and a wide selection of vit

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