Venture Well
JANUARY 5, 2022
What's on the horizon for science and tech innovators? VentureWell experts track top trends for 2022. The post Top Trends for 2022: Innovation’s New Normal appeared first on VentureWell.
Revolution
JANUARY 5, 2022
Following three years of record performance, Revolution Growth is thrilled to welcome Fazeela Abdul Rashid to our growing team. Joining us as a Partner, Fazeela formerly served as Managing Director of Consumer and Americas at Temasek International, a global investment firm headquartered in Singapore. At Temasek, Fazeela was instrumental in building the firm’s direct U.S. healthcare investments, starting the European practice, leading the U.S. consumer practice, and launching and overseeing diver
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2022
Fractal has raised $360 million from TPG in a new financing round and entered the unicorn club as the Mumbai and New York-based AI startup, which counts Google and Wells Fargo among its customers, scales its offerings and begins preparation for an IPO. The new financing round valued the 21-year-old startup “at well north of $1 billion,” said Srikanth Velamakanni, co-founder and group chief executive at Fractal, in an interview with TechCrunch.
StartupNation
JANUARY 5, 2022
2022 will be a unique and promising time for businesses as we regain a sense of normalcy in a post-pandemic society. See what new business ownership trends are emerging and how your small business can leverage them in the upcoming year. A public health crisis and government-mandated lockdowns forced many small businesses to shut down operations during the COVID-19 pandemic — while some were short term, others closed forever.
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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2022
Anand Rao. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Anand Rao is global head of AI at PwC. The rocket ship trajectory of a startup is well known: Get an idea, build a team and slap together a minimum viable product (MVP) that you can get in front of users. However, today’s startups need to reconsider the MVP model as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) become ubiquitous in tech products and the market grows increasingly conscious of the ethical implications of AI augmenting or replacing
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2022
Miro is indeed still in the right place at the right time. With remote work continuing to rise, or a hybrid of that and in-person, the online workspace company finds itself with 30 million users and counts nearly all of the Fortune 100 companies as clients. And now today, the company announced its largest round to date, $400 million in a Series C that propels its valuation to $17.5 billion.
StartupNation
JANUARY 5, 2022
Can you believe that the Year 2022 is here? Right now, you are probably thinking of all the ways you want to improve your enterprise’s operations and grow your overall business success in the New Year. Yes, it is a great time to reevaluate your project management initiatives, customer retention strategy, and HR processes. However, there are so many other ways to take your business to new heights in 2022 and beyond.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2022
Meez , a company creating professional recipe software and a culinary operating system, brought in its first-ever funding round of $6.5 million to continue developing its tools to help chefs manage their recipes. Josh Sharkey, CEO of Meez. Image Credits: Evan Sung. CEO Josh Sharkey, a chef himself for most of his career, incorporated the New York-based technology company back in 2015.
Continuations
JANUARY 5, 2022
Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on 4 counts of fraud related to her role as founder & CEO of Theranos. Was she treated differently than male entrepreneurs? It is certainly true that there hasn’t been a high profile criminal case against a male entrepreneur in quite a while, at least not one that I can recall (although I am old enough to remember Bernard Ebbers’ s conviction in the Worldcom case and Jeffrey Skilling ’s conviction in the Enron case).
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2022
Alternative investments are having a moment. Their popularity has surged over the last decade, with the asset class growing from just over $3 trillion in 2008 to more than $10 trillion in 2019, according to data provider Preqin. . Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate.
StartupNation
JANUARY 5, 2022
On today’s episode of the Business Beat, Jeff highlights Lineage Logistics, based in Novi, which just announced that it raised $1.7 billion in new capital to expand its footprint and develop automation and supply chain technology as part of its vision to become the major force in food distribution. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2022
As companies unveil their new smart home devices at the 2022 CES tech show, underway now in Las Vegas, much of the hype involves Matter , an open-source connectivity standard built around a shared belief that smart home devices should seamlessly integrate with other systems and be secure and reliable. If you like devices, you are probably among the 66% of households that have smart home devices , according to Deloitte.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JANUARY 5, 2022
“For builders and those dreaming of building.” Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
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CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2022
In recent years, there has been a growing number of startups trying to make credit more accessible to consumers. . One such startup, Petal , announced today that it has raised a $140 million Series D round of funding. . The company’s new valuation is $800 million — more than triple what Petal was valued at when it announced a $55 million Series C round in September of 2020, according to a source familiar with the transaction.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JANUARY 5, 2022
Business is not meant to be performative; it’s meant to be impactful Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2022
Ghanaian health tech startup mPharma is building a network of community pharmacies across Africa as it plans to be the go-to primary healthcare service provider for millions of people residing in the region. mPharma plans to grow its community ( Mutti ) pharmacies across eight markets in Africa to be the first point of care for patients. The startup’s Mutti pharmacies are essentially mini-hospitals offering a wide-range of services including medical consultation, diagnostic and telehealth servic
OurCrowd
JANUARY 5, 2022
The agriculture technology company Taranis is developing innovative technology that is helping farmers optimize their production and reduce carbon emissions in response to climate change. Read more here. The post [Taranis in The Jerusalem Post] How can AgTech reduce carbon emissions around the globe? appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2022
Doosan Robotics this week announced $33.7 million in funding, led Praxis Capital Partners and Korea Investment Partners. The fundraising news arrives as the Seoul-based company shows off its wares at CES in Las Vegas. The company says the funding will be used to increase research and development and attract new partners as it looks to expand its global footprint.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JANUARY 5, 2022
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2022
Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Will the H-1B lottery be based on the highest wages?
OurCrowd
JANUARY 5, 2022
Polaris Quantum Biotech (POLARISqb), a NC-based quantum computing drug design company, and PhoreMost Limited, a UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing drugs against intractable disease targets, today announced a collaboration to study oncology targets currently considered undruggable. . Read more here. The post [Polarisqb in PR Newswire] POLARISqb and PhoreMost announce a multi-target collaboration to investigate next-generation cancer therapies appeared first on OurCrowd Bl
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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
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2022
There’s always fun tech for pet owners at CES , and 2022 is no different. But a handful of gadgets this year are taking care to treat dogs and cats not just as beloved furry friends but as intelligent animals with their own processes, emotions, and even a desire to express themselves. At the most basic level — which is to say, pretty advanced compared with a few years ago — we have Catlog , a smart cat collar and weight-sensing platform that helps owners keep track of their feline’s
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JANUARY 5, 2022
Looking for an innovative way to breathe new life into your existing content? Video is the way of the future. And here’s the best part: You probably already have all the content you need to create a robust set of marketing videos for all your social media channels. All you have to do is repurpose that content into videos that work well within your existing marketing strategy; no brain-racking required.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2022
If you’re building a SaaS company or a web app, you’re not going to roll your own analytics solution — it’s specialized work with lots of edge cases, rabbit holes and, for most companies, it’s so far removed from the core platform, that it just doesn’t make sense. Formant is doing kinda-sorta the same thing for robotics, helping automation companies with a number of shortcuts that speed up their time to market.
OurCrowd
JANUARY 5, 2022
Xage (pronounced Zage) is a startup working to keep critical infrastructure like oil and gas pipelines, water supplies and electrical grids up and running securely. Today, the company announced a $30 million Series B. Read more here. The post [Xage Security in TechCrunch] Xage snags $30M Series B to help secure critical infrastructure appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
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