TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Money can make people moody. There are layers of privilege, or lack thereof, that can make even the simplest conversation about bills feel like baggage to deal with. Translate that discomfort to relationships and it can feel like an awkward — and fragmented — dance on who pays which bill when (and how). Ivella , a Santa Monica-based startup, wants to build banking products for couples to take away some of these tensions.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 6, 2022

You’ll become better at fundraising once you’ve learned how to pitch the right investors Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Online education continues to get a lot of attention in the wake of COVID-19 and the shift it brought to how people can learn. And to underscore that fact, Go1 — one of the rising stars in the world of enterprise learning, providing education and training to businesses in turn to offer to its employees or users — is announcing a significant round of $100 million, at over a $2 billion valuation, to fuel its growth.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2022

Georgina Bowman is the Founder of MyShoots app, which is designed to connect shoots, clubs, people who take part in shooting sports and staff of the venues. The concept has come from a former shooting clothes sales agent Georgina Bowman, who is following her vision to bring together all the key elements of a shoot day, from what if offers to location to who is going with you and where to stay.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Last year saw a huge funding boom for Southeast Asian consumer investment apps and if Pintu ’s funding announcement today is anything to go by, that looks set to continue. The cryptocurrency-focused app has raised a $113 million Series B from Intudo Ventures, Lightspeed, Northstar Group and Pantera Capital. Launched in April 2020, Pintu bills itself as “Indonesia’s leading homegrown crypto assets platform.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Insilico Medicine, a Hong Kong-based company that has been using artificial intelligence to discover new drugs since 2014, has completed a fresh round of funding. It’s a sign that certain investors are continuing to bet on emerging biotechnologies — which often take longer to prove profitability compared to other verticals — at a time venture funding is cooling.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2022

Birdzeye’s Norlock is Helping Minority Owned Businesses Gain Equal Access to North American Retail & eCommerce I had the pleasure of interviewing Trevor Norlock, a Global Consumer Revenue Executive who is passionate about developing new business for creative and dynamic start-up companies. He has a proven record managing productive business development teams while acting as a catalyst to bring cutting-edge products to national and global markets.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Unicorn traffic jam meet unicorn glut. Private-market tech companies worth $1 billion or more have long been an indicator of investor enthusiasm. The number of so-called unicorns minted in a particular period was a workable indicator of how hot the venture capital market was at the time. For example, the pace at which new unicorns were born grew sharply in 2020, per CB Insights data , rising from 25 new $1 billion startups in the first quarter of that year to 47 by Q4.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 6, 2022

You can never have too much feedback, but you can’t satisfy everyone either Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Perhaps it’s the end of an era now that Sheryl Sandberg announced she will leave Meta. However, to Kelly Graziadei and Joanna Lee Shevelenko, general partners at f7 Ventures , an early-stage venture firm, they are carrying forward in their new endeavor the influence Sandberg had on them during their time at Facebook. All of f7 Ventures’ initial seven founders are long-time operators who met each other at Facebook and started the firm over three years ago.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 6, 2022

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Stellar Cyber, the innovator of Open XDR – the only Everything Detection and Response platform, today announced that it has won the Editor’s Choice in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) in the 2022 Global InfoSec Awards. Read more here. . The post [Stellar Cyber in Business Wire] Stellar Cyber’s Open XDR platform named Editor’s Choice in 2022 Global InfoSec Awards appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Today is Monday, June 6, 2022, and in case you didn’t know, it is also Apple’s WWDC conference, which is what Haje and our other colleagues are focused on today, so you get me solo. See all the tidbits and trappings by these excellent writers below.

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Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category

JUNE 6, 2022

Irvin Gunawan, founder and CEO of IRVINS, discusses the launch and explosive growth of his family's snack brand.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Vayyar , a company developing radar-imaging sensor technologies, today announced that it raised $108 million in a Series E round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from GLy Capital Management, Atreides Management LP, KDT, Battery Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, More VC, Regal Four and Claltech. The round brings Vayyar’s total raised to over $300 million, which CEO Raviv Melamed said is being put toward expanding across verticals and introducing a “family” of m

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 6, 2022

As much as 82% of internet users come across fake negative business reviews online. Seeing as almost 34% of the total market value of the world’s biggest companies depends on their reputation , you can begin to realize the importance of online reputation damage control. Improving and maintaining your digital prestige boils down to a strategic and proactive approach consisting of these five best practices.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

For years, Africa’s credit infrastructure has lagged behind the rest of the world due to low credit coverage from its bureaus. Per a World Bank report , only 11% of Africa’s population have their credit information recorded by private credit bureaus. And for those who are banked, only 17% have accessed loans. Thus, there’s a real need to record credit transactions.

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Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category

JUNE 6, 2022

Irvin Gunawan, founder and CEO of IRVINS, discusses the launch and explosive growth of his family's snack brand.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

There’s a godawful number of pitch deck templates out there, and there’s one thing that most of them get wrong: They forget to mention that the template is (meant to be) flexible. For some companies, using the template as-is works, but for others, it gives you a story that doesn’t flow, at best, or doesn’t work, at worst. In my teardown for Encore’s pitch deck this week, for example (TechCrunch+ subscription required), the company starts with a team slide — th

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OurCrowd

JUNE 6, 2022

Cybersixgill Wins Cutting-Edge Threat Intelligence Award in the 10th Annual Global Infosec Awards At #RSAC 2022. Read more here. . The post [Cybersixgill in AP News] Cybersixgill named Winner of the Coveted Global InfoSec Awards during RSA Conference 2022 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

It’s the belief of some analysts that the market for robotic process automation, which leverages AI to automate certain software tasks, is headed toward consolidation. A recent Forrester Research report predicts that the segment will start to flatten as soon as 2023 as companies shift to broader automation solutions. There’s evidence to support this.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 6, 2022

The global pandemic has highlighted the incredible importance of medical professionals. Iconic scenes of a grateful population banging pots and pans to thank those on the front lines of a deadly disease are forever etched into our national lore. Read more in here. The post [Apploi in Fortune] How to fix the nursing shortage—and recruit the next generation of frontline heroes appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Sachin Gupta. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sachin Gupta is the CEO and co-founder of HackerEarth. He was formerly a software developer at Google and Microsoft, and now oversees HackerEarth's sales, marketing and general operations. Whatever idea you have for a platform that solves an “unaddressed market need,” it’s almost a given there’s a team somewhere working on something similar.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 6, 2022

With the cost of living rising very sharply in the past year due to an economic downturn, you might be forced to borrow a larger and an instant loan, and Tala Loan app is your friend in need; but the question is, how can you increase your Tala loan limit? Read more here. The post [Tala in Nairobi Wire] 10 ways to increase your Tala loan limit appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

At this point, covering the one-click checkout space feels like an exercise in horse-kicking, but we’d be remiss to skip our usual math on the Bolt situation. Bolt is one of the better-known one-click players in a cohort of startups that offers software to e-commerce retailers that is similar to Amazon’s “buy now” feature. Our own Mary Ann Azevedo dug into the space in May after erstwhile competitor Fast imploded.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 6, 2022

For more than 130 million Americans, living with a chronic illness is a reality that can have harsh impacts on their daily lives. Although many chronic illnesses are treatable, finding appropriate treatment plans that suit complex individual needs can be as complicated and painful as living with the illness itself. This phenomenon of delayed or inadequate treatment measures is known as therapeutic inertia, and it impacts more people than you think.

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