TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. One is S3 Ventures , a venture capital firm that’s been around since 2005, which raised $250 million for its Fund VII, touting itself as “the largest venture capital fund focused on Texas-based startups.
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 9, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register India-based banking tech platform Zeta has secured US$30 million funding as a part of strategic investment from Mastercard and other investors, taking the company’s valuation to US$1.5 billion. The funding is in continuation of the US$240 million fundraise that Zeta secured in May 2021 from SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
Savings and investing app Acorns has raised $300 million in a Series F funding round that values the company at nearly $2 billion. The announcement of the raise comes about six weeks after the consumer fintech startup said it was shelving its plans for its $2.2 billion SPAC with Pioneer Merger Corp. in favor of an eventual traditional IPO. New York-based Acorns had last raised more than three years ago — a $105 million Series E round in January of 2019 at an $860 million valuation.
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 9, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indian AgriTech starup Otipy has recently raised US$32 million in Series B funding round led by WestBridge Capital along with participation from existing investors SIG and Omidyar Network India. Otipy that offers a community group buying platform for daily essentials and fresh produce will be using the fresh funding to expand to new regions in the country, strengthen its supply chain,
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TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
Branch , which aims to power faster payments to contract workers with its technology, has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round that has closed just six months after it announced its last financing round. While it declined to reveal hard revenue figures, the Minneapolis-based startup says it has seen over 2,000% growth in the last three years and 700% year-over-year platform growth in 2021.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
Traditionally, electrical engineers have to choose: high-power switches that are unreliable and slow, or high-speed, high-precision switches that can’t handle that much power. Menlo Microsystems’ Ideal Switch shakes up that paradigm with a new type of switch that completely turns generations of electronic design on its head. The company is tooling up to switch things up even further, developing what it describes as the “biggest innovation since the transistor” A bold clai
Smart Hustle Magazine
MARCH 9, 2022
The pandemic has changed customer communication. In this new normal, more and more businesses are trying to adopt digital tools to communicate with their customers for quick, easy communication. And women-owned businesses are scoring higher than their male counterparts when it comes to using digital tools. According to Meta’s ongoing State of Small Business research program, 57% of women business owners employ digital tools to communicate with their customers compared to 50% of male busine
TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
Marjorie Radlo-Zandi. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member, mentor to startups and angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. More posts by this contributor. 5 essential factors for attracting angel investment. 4 key strategies for succeeding at international expansion.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MARCH 9, 2022
Contributed by Cindy Norcott , EO Durban, a motivational speaker, author, entrepreneur, business coach and philanthropist. She is the CEO of Pro Talent and Pro Appointment, as well as the founder and chair of The Robin Hood Foundation. In observance of International Women’s Day week, we’re sharing Cindy’s journey. She’s a woman entrepreneur whose second book, How Does She Do It?
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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.
TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
As organizations continue to build out their digital architecture, a new category of enterprise software has emerged to help them manage that process. Now, Ardoq — which makes enterprise architecture tools that give organizations an accurate picture of their digital networks, including who is working on what and when and where — has closed a round that will help it build out its own business: the startup has raised $125 million in a Series D that sources close to the company tell us
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 9, 2022
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TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
Quantum computing has been something of a holy grail in the world of technology: in theory, it promises an unprecedented amount of processing power that could be used to solve the most complicated problems; in practice, most attempts at building the physical manifestation of the concept produce too many errors as a byproduct to make quantum computers productive at scale.
Y Combinator
MARCH 9, 2022
There’s no better way to learn about startups than joining one yourself! At a startup, you’ll jump into real projects and work with founders to solve mission-critical problems. YC startups are actively looking for summer interns across engineering, marketing, and other disciplines. If you’re an undergraduate or graduate student, apply below to join our summer 2022 cohort.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
The clothing industry is often called out for not being socially responsible, and Ram Radhakrishnan, CEO of Silq , says brands have a hard time finding a factory that meets quality and capability requirements while also being transparent in communication. “The problem is not a lack of technology, but a lack of structured data,” he told TechCrunch. “None of the solutions have solved the problem yet, and the global pandemic exacerbated it.”.
OurCrowd
MARCH 9, 2022
OMAHA, Neb., March 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — 1623 Farnam, a regional leader in network-neutral, edge interconnection and data center services, announces a new point of presence (PoP) with Subspace, an innovative, global, private network enabling users to optimize voice, video, gaming, and other real-time applications through intelligent routing systems.
TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
Colossal, the company known for its mission to resurrect a woolly mammoth (or at least, an elephant with some very mammoth-like traits), is back with $60 million in Series A funding. But despite the fanfare and cash, there’s not a ton of scientific progress to report. Colossal is spun out of the work of George Church , one of the creators of the Human Genome Project and a geneticist at Harvard and MIT.
OurCrowd
MARCH 9, 2022
Geo-registration software leader Edgybees has been named to Fast Company’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2022. . Read more here. The post [Edgybees in DroneLife.com] Edgybees Makes Fast Company List of Most Innovative Companies: AI for the Drone Ecosystem? appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
Blink’s co-founders have been working in security and automation for a number of years, and they observed that there was a strong overlap between developer operations (DevOps) and security operations (SecOps) when it came to managing cloud infrastructure. Initially, the founders believed this was strictly a DevOps problem, but as they did research with potential customers for their burgeoning startup, security management kept coming up, and they realized this was two parts of the same prob
OurCrowd
MARCH 9, 2022
Juganu and Qualcomm have been collaborating for several years in smart city and communication ventures, including in Brazil and the U.S. Read more here. The post [Juganu in Calcalist] Juganu partners with Qualcomm, Nokia, and Abdi to showcase its 5G and smart cities solutions appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
Agency banking is big business in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. It involves agents or merchants, who act as human ATMs, offering financial services such as transfers, savings and payouts to the underbanked and unbanked that rarely visit bank branches. Banks and telcos are heavy players, so are some companies like E-Settlement, a holding company for different financial entities.
The Seraf Compass
MARCH 9, 2022
Ever heard an orchestra, say of fourth graders, who were all playing at different tempos? When you think of the organizations you were part of over the years, how important was teamwork to the group’s ultimate success or failure? Whether playing on a sports team, working at a non-profit, or running a big business, great teamwork is the foundation for success.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
Mara, a São Paulo-based startup that aims to “reinvent” the grocery shopping experience for the underserved in Latin America, has raised $6 million in a funding round co-led by Canary and Caffeinated Capital. This round caught my attention for a few reasons. For one, Mara was founded by Danilo Mansano and Ariel Lambrecht, the latter of whom was one of the co-founders of 99, a mobility startup that became the first unicorn in Brazil after being sold to Didi for $1 billion in 2018. .
Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 9, 2022
A decade ago, Gainsight championed the creation of the customer success category. People curious and passionate about customer success convened at the Pulse conference to debate customer success. In 2013 and 2015, the discipline’s merits dominated the conversation. Soon thereafter, the most common question became how to build and run a CS team, replacing why start a CS team.
TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
Meet Atlantic Money , a foreign exchange startup that plans to be cheaper than other foreign exchange services. If that pitch sounds familiar, that’s because Wise , the company formerly known as TransferWise, originally appeared on the startup scene with the same promise. And yet, Atlantic Money thinks that even Wise and Revolut are too expensive. According to the company, they try to do too many things at once and they end up charging customers for things they don’t need.
Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 9, 2022
As an NFT collector, you should care about on-chain provenance. The most authentic provenance for an NFT is when it is initially minted directly from a creator’s wallet or a smart contract that the creator owns. However, with a few … The post Identifying Authentic NFTs (Especially Against Attackers) appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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