TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Magic, a startup developing a code-generating platform similar to GitHub’s Copilot , today announced that it raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG with participation from Elad Gil, Nat Friedman and Amplify Partners. So what’s its story? Magic’s CEO and co-founder, Eric Steinberger, says that he was inspired by the potential of AI at a young age.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Learning how to tell when investors aren’t interested will save you tons of time and frustration.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Breef , a platform that allows brands to manage and service marketing agency projects, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series A round (an undisclosed portion of which was debt) led by Greycroft with participation from BDMI, UTA.VC, Afterpay’s Touch Ventures and UC Berkeley’s The House Fund. The new capital brings Breef’s total raised to $21 million, which co-founder and CEO George Raptis says will be put toward continuing to develop the company’s product and growing t
StartupNation
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Whether you’re managing an early-stage startup or running a sales department for a larger company, a strong sales… The post 5 Proven Tips for Accelerating Your Sales Process In 2023 (and Beyond) appeared first on StartupNation.
Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage
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 6, 2023
Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
SoftBank Group’s investment vehicles posted a loss of nearly $6 billion in the quarter that ended in December as the Japanese tech investor continues to bleed through the market downturn and significantly pares back new backings. This is the fourth consecutive quarter in which SoftBank Group has lost money, prompting many to challenge the fundamental thesis of the giant, which has deployed more capital in the tech markets globally than anyone else in the past decade.
Jason Malki
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
I had the pleasure of interviewing Kelly Roman, co-founder and CEO of Fisher Wallace Labs , a medical device startup that has raised $8M on StartEngine to date. What motivated you to launch your startup? The depression treatment market is in desperate need of better solutions, and having suffered from depression in the past, I know the challenges that patients face.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
In its quest to offer healthcare that’s high-quality, accessible and affordable, Simple HealthKit is expanding its portfolio of diagnostic testing to include diabetes, sexual health and the “tripledemic,” which is COVID, the flu and RSV. Simple HealthKit is operating in a global diabetes diagnostic market expected to reach $42.4 billion by 2026 and the global STD market forecasted to be valued at $141 billion by 2030.
American Entrepreneurship
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Enthusiasts and Investors Converge to Support Freedom Loving Riders Motorcycle enthusiasts and investors have a unique opportunity to own a piece of the largest motorcycle sharing marketplace. Riders Share based in Austin Texas just announced the launch of a Regulation CF campaign on Republic’s crowdfunding platform. Equity crowdfunding is part of the 2012 JOBS Act that allows companies to raise funds through a wider pool of small investors that has fewer restrictions.
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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
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Throw half a dozen entrepreneurs in a room together with a whiteboard, and they’ll be able to come up with a thousand business ideas in a couple of hours. It’s the nature of entrepreneurship: Our brains are wired to keep an eye on what could be better and how that gap in the market can be turned into an opportunity. In other words: Ideas are cheap, and nothing is so awesome that it couldn’t possibly be improved.
Jason Malki
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
I had the pleasure of interviewing Jon Rydberg. Jon is a 3x VP of Sales and high-growth technology revenue leader, consultant and advisor with 15+ years of experience in GTM execution. As VP of Sales at Valcre , Jon is responsible for all direct and indirect sales efforts, strategic partnerships, and business development strategies to drive adoption of the Valcre platform.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
ShiftMed , a Virginia-based W-2 healthcare workforce management marketplace that focuses on nurses and aides, closed on $200 million in new funding. The company touts itself as “the No. 1 ranked mobile app for professionals searching for flexible nursing jobs.” Nursing shortages were a problem well before the global pandemic, and two years ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics updated its estimate that there would be over 200,000 Registered Nurse openings each year in the U.S. through 2031.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Make room for yet another preventative health play: Spotify founder Daniel Ek officially confirmed rumors of his new “health tech” startup, Neko, Friday by quietly kicking off a body scanning service in Sweden (via Tech EU ) after four years of stealthy development. Ek has long expressed a personal interest in tackling a “screwed up” healthcare system, as he put it to the Financial Times almost a decade ago.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Practice pitching your startup on this week’s TechCrunch Live. I have two amazing guests and they bring along a lot of startup pitching experience. Three guests of this week’s TechCrunch Live event will have two minutes to practice their elevator pitch and they’ll get four minutes of candid feedback from the two guests. This week , we have Rajeev Batra, partner at Mayfield, and Christina Ross, co-founder and CEO of Cube, an FP&A toolkit company.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Colostrum—the literal mother’s milk of the first few days to impart immunomodulatory effects on newborns—has just taken a leap into innovation far afield from immune support. Read more here. The post [MAOLAC in Natural Products Insider] This is not your mother’s colostrum appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Meet Dotfile , a new startup backed by eFounders that just raised a $2.7 million funding round (€2.5 million) to help companies verify users and other companies with a single application programming interface (API). Serena is leading the funding round through its V13 Invest fund (backed by FDJ). Kima Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Super Capital, Upscalers, Polymatter Ventures as well as several business angels are also participating in the round.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
NT-Tao gets $22m investment from Delek US, Next Gear Ventures, Honda, OurCrowd and the Grantham Foundation. Read more here. The post [NT-Tao in Israel21C] Nuclear fusion startup aims to provide clean energy appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Welcome back to Equity , the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. It’s February, and that means two things: you can stop wishing people happy new year, and “Succession” is officially back next month. As always, you can find me on Instagram or Twitter when I’m not on the mic.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Trusona’s Kevin Goldman on Why People Work Around Security Tools That Aren’t Usable Read more here. The post [Trusona in Bank Info Security] Trusona exec Goldman on bringing usability to authentication appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Aline Lerner Contributor Share on Twitter Aline Lerner is founder and CEO of interviewing.io , where engineers go to practice technical interviewing. Technical interviews are a black box — candidates usually are told whether they made it to the next round, but they rarely find out why. Lack of feedback isn’t just frustrating for candidates; it’s also bad for business.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Read the interview with CropX CEO Tomer Tzach here. The post [CropX in Fierce Electronics] CropX continues to harvest farm management technology appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Sashank Purighalla Contributor Share on Twitter Sashank Purighalla is the founder and CEO of BOS Framework , a cloud enablement platform. The promise of lower hardware costs has spurred startups to migrate services to the cloud, but many teams were unsure how to do this efficiently or cost-effectively. Developers at startups thought they could maintain multiple application code bases that work independently with each cloud provider.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
February 7, 2023 – Jerusalem – The OurCrowd Global Investor Summit, the largest investor event in the Middle East, returns to Jerusalem on February 15, 2023, with more than 6,000 in-person participants expected from over 70 countries around the world, including delegations from Asia, Latin America, Australia, Europe, the US, the Middle East and North Africa.
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