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Top 10 Fintech Startup Investments Powering Southeast Asia in 2023

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The Southeast Asian fintech startup has been a dynamic landscape, with countries like China, India, Singapore, and Indonesia emerging as fintech hubs, each with unique strengths and focus areas. Besides, governments across Asia actively work on fintech regulations to balance innovation and consumer protection.

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How to pitch me: 7 investors discuss what they’re looking for in September 2023

TechCrunch

If you’d like to know what investors are looking for, how they want to be approached and what they’re most likely to ask, keep reading.

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Singapore’s InterContinental Energy Attracts $115M Funding from GIC and Hy24

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore-based InterContinental Energy has secured $115 million in equity investment to advance its mission of scaling up green hydrogen production. The funding comes from two investors: GIC, a global institutional investor, and Hy24 , recognized as the world’s largest clean hydrogen pureplay investor.

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VC Office Hours: How data can help improve social impact investing

TechCrunch

Erin Harkless Moore talks about Pivotal Ventures’ investment strategy, and its future.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How To Use Automation As A Competitive Advantage

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Ft. Sabrina Castiglione | Pento SUBSCRIBE Each week, we interview real experts about topics you need to know about. Today we have Sabrina Castiglione, COO at Pento and ex-CFO at Tessian. Tessian make UK Payroll Smooth, Compliant and Error-Free. We’re covering How To Use Automation As A Competitive Advantage. Full episode here Next 3 weeks: Ali Tajskander (Founder of Wishpond)  — How To Scale Faster Through Acquisitions.

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If You Want to Be a Great Founder, Stop Thinking Like a Venture Capitalist

Entrepreneur's Handbook

My hot take: Your target market is wrong, your timeline is wrong, and you’re setting yourself up for heartbreak and failure.

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Three Arrows Capital co-founder Zhu arrested in Singapore airport, sentenced four months in prison

TechCrunch

The liquidators behind Three Arrows Capital (3AC), the now-defunct crypto hedge fund, shared that the firm’s co-founder Su Zhu was arrested in Singapore at the Changi Airport while trying to leave the country.

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Customer Feedback Is (Almost) Useless

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Unless you gather it properly Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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X (Twitter) has paid almost $20M to creators, CEO says

TechCrunch

The company formerly known as Twitter has paid out nearly $20 million to creators, according to a post from X CEO Linda Yaccarino. The platform, now called X, began paying creators in July for a share of the ad revenue they earned from ads served in the replies to their posts to other verified users.

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Statement of Cash Flows vs. Cash Flow Statement

Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l

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‘Backstory’ introduces you to YC’s Group Partners, starting with the unbeatable Surbhi Sarna

Y Combinator

When Surbhi Sarna was just thirteen, a sudden and excruciating pain in her side changed her life. The pain led to weeks of testing and flimsy diagnoses that would ultimately boil down to “Ovarian cancer, maybe ?” At this already pivotal time in her life, Surbhi and her family had to make an impossible decision: undergo a risky and potentially harmful surgery, or… wait and see.

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Elon Musk’s X headed for ‘rule of law’ clash with EU, warns Twitter’s former head of trust & safety

TechCrunch

The former head of trust and safety at Twitter has warned the platform now known as X is charting a collision course with the European Union’s rebooted digital rulebook, the Digital Services Act (DSA) — which carries penalties of up to 6% of global annual turnover for confirmed breaches of the online governance regime.

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AI Revolution: Top Lessons from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, & More

Andreessen Horowitz

The AI Revolution is here. In this episode, you’ll learn what the most important themes that some of the world’s most prominent AI builders – from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, Roblox, and more – are paying attention to. You’ll hear about the economics of AI, broad vs specialized models, the importance of UX, and whether we can expect scaling laws to continue.

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VW bails on its plan for a $2.1B EV plant in Germany

TechCrunch

Volkswagen’s $2.1 billion plan to launch a dedicated electric-vehicle factory in Wolfsburg, Germany is kaput. The automaker instead reportedly plans to modify its existing plants in Zwickau and Wolfsburg to handle production of a new flagship EV — the postponed Project Trinity — and an all-electric Golf hatchback.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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AI Revolution: Disruption, Alignment, and Opportunity

Andreessen Horowitz

The AI Revolution is here. In this episode, you’ll learn what the most important themes that some of the world’s most prominent AI builders – from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, Roblox, and more – are paying attention to. You’ll hear discussion around the real-world impact of this revolution, on industries ranging from gaming to design, and the considerations around alignment along the way.

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BeReal pushes back at report that it’s losing steam, says it now has 25M daily users

TechCrunch

Just under a year ago, the buzzy new social app BeReal looked to be on the rise, with reportedly 20 million users launching the app every day to snap their candid photos.

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Salary Transparency: Clarity or Chaos?

Andreessen Horowitz

With recent landmark legislation being passed around salary transparency, many companies are playing catch up as they interpret and implement changes. In this episode, members of the a16z People Practices Team, Shannon Schiltz and Brandon Cherry explore how companies can best prepare themselves to not just survive, but thrive in this new environment.

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Pudgy Penguins’ approach may be the answer to fixing NFTs’ revenue problems

TechCrunch

The company's toy-focused expansion is its bet that NFTs should have a broader presence, one that’s not limited to the digital world.

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How to Avoid the Pain and Cost of PCI Compliance While Optimizing Payments

Speaker: P. Andrew Sjogren, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Very Good Security, Matt Doka, Co-Founder and CTO of Fivestars, and Steve Andrews, President & CEO of the Western Bankers Association 

PCI compliance can feel challenging and sometimes the result feels like you are optimizing more for security and compliance than you are for business outcomes. The key is to take the right strategy to PCI compliance that gets you both. In this webinar, we have a great set of panelists who will take you through how Zero Data strategies can be used as part of a well-rounded compliance and security approach, and get you to market much sooner by also allowing for payment optimization.

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AD Summit 2024 Registration

Andreessen Horowitz

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When predatory investors damage your chances of success

TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. You know what isn’t a great idea for my energy levels? Enjoying a week of TechCrunch Disrupt and then getting straight on a plane to attend a startup event in Oslo, Norway.

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[DailyPay in PR Newswire] With an unwavering commitment to data security, DailyPay achieves the highest security certification in the industry

OurCrowd

The post [DailyPay in PR Newswire] With an unwavering commitment to data security, DailyPay achieves the highest security certification in the industry appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Two large equity funds launched this week. What gives?

TechCrunch

Two large equity funds came out of the gate this week. So, what gives? Earlier this year we covered how Liquidity Group, a growth-stage debt financier, raised $40 million and launched a $250 million debt fund for tech companies. Backers included Apollo (private equity, and Yahoo! owner) and MUFG (a Japanese bank).

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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[ThetaRay in IBS Intelligence] TangoPay taps ThetaRay AI Solution to monitor global remittances

OurCrowd

TangoPay an Authorized Payment Institution based in the UK has partnered with ThetaRay to protect its global payments platform from financial crimes amid growth. TangoPay enables expats living in the UK to access fast and affordable financial services to transfer money abroad through its app-based service to 70+ countries.

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Startups may have trouble finding their enterprise footing

TechCrunch

According to a survey from Battery Ventures, the percentage of respondents that let their engineers self-select tools fell from 74% in Q3 2023 to 44% last quarter.

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So what happened to Blue Apron?

TechCrunch

How Blue Apron got to where it is today an interesting story, and one that we should trace from the company's IPO through to today.

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Why product equity has become a business imperative for the future of digital products

TechCrunch

The full power of emerging technology cannot be realized without a diverse set of imaginations to fuel it.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in