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.

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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

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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.

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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

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.

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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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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.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Choose the right product and win the game Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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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.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Grit and marketing can take you far Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Therapists — if you can even find one that takes your insurance or new clients — can add a layer of sadness to your wallet even as you’re trying to rectify your own mental health wobbles. ShareWell believes it has an alternate take, with a far more affordable peer-support model, which lands it somewhere between special interest forums and online communities, coaching and therapy.

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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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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.

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Reforge

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Feb 6, 2023 Table of Contents Breaking Free from Scrum Purists Why do Scrum Masters fail? What are Scrum Masters Trying to Solve for? The year was 1995, and Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction wasn’t the only chaotic thing shaking up the world. Javascript had just hit the scene and everyone in the software development industry was frantically trying to build things as quickly as possible, mostly leaving process to happenstance.

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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.

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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.

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