Entrepreneurs' Organization
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Antonio Lennert , a member of EO Canada Bridge, is an entrepreneur, designer and community builder. He is the co-founder and CEO of Surf the Greats , Canada’s largest brand and community for surf education, adventure and lifestyle on the Great Lakes and beyond. Marina Byezhanova interviewed Antonio about his entrepreneurial journey and contribute this post.
AsiaTechDaily
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Ampotech , a Singapore-based energy technology startup , has announced that it raised S$1,775,000 in Pre-Series A to fund its international expansion. The company plans to open its first international office in the coming months in order to bring its solutions to new industry verticals, beyond its base in commercial real estate.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Acceldata , the company behind a data observability platform used by multinational enterprises including Oracle and Verisk, today announced it has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding. Founded in 2018, San Jose-based Acceldata is one of a growing number of companies setting out to help organizations understand the health of their data, and identify any problems with data that may be spread across multiple clouds, applications, and systems.
AsiaTechDaily
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Thailand’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital lending platform , MONIX Co., LTD. , has announced that it successfully secured $20 million in the first close of its pre-initial public offering (IPO) fundraising. With the addition of $20 million, the company now has an aggregate funding of $40 million.
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This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
TechCrunch Early Stage is the place to be for the founder who is just getting started. On April 20, we’re excited to bring our show to Boston, Massachusetts. We’re bringing together experts from the Northeast and Silicon Valley to chat through myriad startup core competencies — from fundraising to operations to marketing — and outline step-by-step guides on how you can set up and grow your business.
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Founder Bounty
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
So your looking to get a business or startup of the ground but dont know where to start. Anter and EF position themselves as pre seed investors. But what if you where looking for an alternative way with real entrepreneurs and mentors to help you get your business of the ground and moving. There are some online alternatives you could use which could give you some real guidance.
AsiaTechDaily
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Villgro Philippines has partnered with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada to spur responsible AI development in South and Southeast Asia. The two companies recently led the launch of Artificial Intelligence for Health in Asia ( AI4Health Asia ), a program that is designed to scout, support, and scale innovations that would spur responsible AI development in
Andreessen Horowitz
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
In recent years, we’ve seen a renaissance in productivity software. To make knowledge work seamless, internal teams have largely moved off of “hard files,” toward real-time workspaces with commenting, collaboration, and notifications. And yet, the way that organizations communicate with … The post Investing in Macro appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
AsiaTechDaily
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Law&Good , a legaltech startup that is based in Korea , is now considered as the fastest to secure more than $10 million after it also raised $6 million in the recently concluded Series A2 funding round. The cash came from a number of investors that included Spring Ventures, Nau IB Capital, Mirae Asset Ventures, HB Investment, and Hanbit Investment.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
When Bret Taylor announced he was stepping down as co-CEO and co-chair at Salesforce in November, it was easy to be cynical about him saying he wanted to go build again. Well, guess what? He wanted to go build again — and today he and long time Google engineering veteran Clay Bavor announced they were teaming up on a new mystery project. Bavor, who spent almost seven years as the VP of AR and VR at Google as part of an 18 year career with the company, was coy in a LinkedIn post about what
American Entrepreneurship
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – (February 7, 2023) Keiretsu Forum, a global network of angel investors, is exploring an expansion into the Texas startup ecosystem. This could bring new investors, funds, and deal flow to the region. Keiretsu Forum boasts 50+ chapters on 4 continents. Its 2,000+ members have invested over $1 billion in 2.400+ companies since its founding in 2000.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Jacob Beckerman, a former investment logic engineer at Bridgewater Associates, grew frustrated using standard document apps like Acrobat and Microsoft Office to print out and mark up documents. He wondered why there wasn’t a way to read and write on a PC that felt as fluid as paper, which led him to experiment with PDF processing software. By 2020, those experiments had grown into a fully-fledged, custom PDF editor that Beckerman helped to build from scratch.
American Entrepreneurship
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – (February 7, 2023) Keiretsu Forum, a global network of angel investors, is exploring an expansion into the Texas startup ecosystem. This could bring new investors, funds, and deal flow to the region. Keiretsu Forum boasts 50+ chapters on 4 continents. Its 2,000+ members have invested over $1 billion in 2.400+ companies since its founding in 2000.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Managing your finances can be difficult, especially if you want to try something new like investing or even taking out a mortgage for the first time. Now meet Fierce , a new company out to change that. It’s developing a finance super app that is bringing together what founder and CEO Robert Cornish calls “the best of fintech for the customer.” “Five years ago, you couldn’t really do this,” Cornish told TechCrunch.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
SAN CARLOS, Calif., Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Zippin, a leading provider of checkout-free technology, today announced the addition of Alan Flohr as SVP of Revenue & Growth. Flohr brings decades of experience in driving rapid innovation and growth for leading-edge technology and service providers. He joins Zippin to deliver the revenue and growth goals of the company by accelerating the acquisition of new customers and continuing to expand Zippin’s checkout-free presence with ex
Andreessen Horowitz
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
We are thrilled to announce that a16z Games has led the Series Seed investment in Snapser , a games backend technology company poised to become the de facto platform for games studios. Twenty years ago, game studios had to develop … The post Investing in Snapser appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
A few weeks ago, a founder told me it took three hours of endless clicking to find an AI-generated portrait of a Black woman. It reminded me, in some ways, of a speech I saw three years ago when Yasmin Green , the then-director of research and development for Jigsaw, spoke about how human bias seeps into the programming of AI. Her talk and this founder, miles away and years apart, are two pieces of the same puzzle.
HPA
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
HPA is excited to announce that NOCD , the world’s leading provider of obsessive compulsive-disorder (OCD) treatment, raised $34M in new funding. The round was co-led by Cigna Ventures and 7wireVentures, with participation from new investor Longitude Capital and other existing investors. HPA first invested in NOCD’s $4M round in 2019 and in the $12M Series A in 2020.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
GraphQL, developed internally at Facebook to help developers with API management before getting rolled out as an open-source query language in 2015, has gained traction as an alternative (or complement) to REST and other tools. Airbnb, Pinterest, PayPal and of course Facebook parent Meta are among the companies using it. Now, to raise its profile with developers adopting it, IBM has acquired a GraphQL startup called StepZen , which provides tools for those working in hybrid cloud environments to
Angel Capital Association
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
February 8, 2023 - Sophistication or Discrimination? How the Accredited Investor Definition Unfairly Limits Investment Access for the Non-wealthy and the Need for Reform * WATCH THE HEARING NOW, BEGINNING AT MIN 10 * Early this morning, the Subcommittee on Capital Markets held a hearing entitled “Sophistication or Discrimination? How the Accredited Investor Definition Unfairly Limits Investment Access for the Non-wealthy and the Need for Reform.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Zypp Electric, an Indian startup that offers an EV-as-a-service platform catering to e-commerce companies and gig workers, has received a $25 million investment led by Taiwan’s battery-swapping giant Gogoro. The cash from Gogoro is an extension of a strategic partnership between the two companies, and a signal of Gogoro’s continued commitment to the Indian market.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
ERLANGEN, Germany, Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Elektrobit today announced the immediate availability of EB tresos 9, the new iteration of its industry-leading basic software enabling carmakers and suppliers to develop next-generation electronic control units (ECUs) based on the latest AUTOSAR standard. The update fully supports AUTOSAR R20-11 and integrates the industry-leading onboard intrusion-detection capabilities in Argus CAN IDPS, developed by CES 2023 Innovation Award-winner Argus C
Andreessen Horowitz
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
When OpenAI released its chatbot ChatGPT last year, proponents were quick to announce the death of various writing-related fields, such as screenwriting, computer programming, and music composition. One particular field stood out as a sector that would feel the power … The post Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
CHARLOTTE, N.C. & NEW YORK & TEL AVIV, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ThetaRay, a leading provider of AI-powered transaction monitoring technology, and Piie, Inc., an insurtech providing an intelligent payment engine, today announced a collaboration to implement an advanced AML solution for insurance claim payments. Read more here. The post [ThetaRay in Business Wire] ThetaRay and Piie collaborate in AI technology for insurance payments appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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