TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In order to support a buildout of renewable energy, which tends to over-generate electricity at certain times of day and under-generate at others, the grid is going to need a lot of batteries. While lithium-ion works fine for consumer electronics and even electric vehicles, battery startup EnerVenue says it developed a breakthrough technology to revolutionize stationary energy storage.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Doomsday mythology is still holding us back. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

CoderSchool, a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based online coding school startup, announced today $2.6 million in pre-Series A funding to scale up its online coding school platform. This round was led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, with participation from returning seed investors Iterative, XA Network and iSeed Ventures. CoderSchool raised a seed round led by TRIVE Ventures in 2018.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Job postings are an important part of the recruiting process. They are what attracts potential talent to your company. It’s important for your job posting to stand out when candidates are searching for new opportunities. We’ve broken down the key elements of a job posting and how you can make your postings more impactful. Elements of job postings. Every job posting contains the following elements: an introduction to the company and a job overview, benefits and pay range, job duties and responsib

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Building credit history can be difficult if you are a consumer that is having trouble getting access to credit in the first place. Enter TomoCredit , which has developed a credit card focused on building credit history for first-time borrowers. The San Francisco-based startup is announcing today that it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Kapor Capital and KB Investment Inc.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

E-commerce has undoubtedly seen a huge boost in growth in the last year and a half of COVID-19 living, with people turning to the web and apps to shop for essentials and not-so-essentials to keep their social distance, and using delivery services to receive their goods rather than picking things up in person. Today, a Dutch startup called Sendcloud that has built a service to help retailers with the latter of these — providing a cloud-based platform to easily organize and carry out shippin

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Don’t be a fool and mess it up with incessant credential flashing Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A 22-month-old startup that is helping millions of blue- and gray-collar workers in India learn new skills and find jobs has become the youngest firm to join the coveted unicorn status in the world’s second-largest internet market. Apna announced on Thursday that it has raised $100 million in a round led by Tiger Global. The new round — a Series C — valued Apna at $1.1 billion.

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The Seraf Compass

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

How can a small group of people, who get together 4 to 12 times a year, have such a big impact on the future success of an early stage company? We will consider this series of articles a great success if we answer this question in a way that helps you build great boards for the companies you are involved with. We believe we can convince you of the incredible value a board delivers for a startup company.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Bryan Dsouza. Contributor. Bryan Dsouza leads product marketing at Grammarly, and previously led various product management and product marketing roles across B2C and B2B at Microsoft. A startup is a beautiful thing. It’s the tangible outcome of an idea birthed in a garage or on the back of a napkin. But ask any founder what really proves their startup has taken off, and they will almost instantly say it’s when they win their first customer.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

According to the World Food Programme (WFP), hunger has been on the rise since 2015 and, by 2020, 768 million people are chronically suffering from the problem. In the same year, 155 million people in 55 countries experienced acute hunger requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance. . If these numbers were not alarming enough, the WFP affirms that 1 billion people do not have sufficient food consumption in low and lower-middle income countries today.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Ash Fontana. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ash Fontana, a managing director at Zetta Ventures , is the author of “The AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence.”. More posts by this contributor. Growing up in the intelligence era. Investors in AI-first technology companies serving the defense industry, such as Palantir, Primer and Anduril, are doing well.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The post QuantLR’s ‘Iron Dome for data’ appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Jonathan Martinez. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor. Early-stage brands should also unlock the power of influencers. In growth marketing, creative is the critical X factor. Unlike a weak phone signal solely causing a grainy sound, in growth marketing, it can mean the difference between a successful program or a massive cas

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

SmartAsset, the largest independent marketplace connecting consumers to financial advisors, and Brookstone Capital Management (BCM), a leading SEC-Registered Investment Advisory (RIA) firm providing fee-based asset management services, today announced a strategic partnership to bolster the marketing solutions that BCM Independent Advisor Representatives have access to.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

French startup Skello has raised a $47.3 million funding round (€40 million). The company has been working on a software-as-a-service tool that lets you manage the work schedule of your company. What makes it special is that Skello automatically takes into account local labor laws and collective agreements. Partech is leading today’s funding round. Existing investors XAnge and Aglaé Ventures are also participating.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Otosight Middle Ear Scope from PhotoniCare. Editor’s note: i2E portfolio company PhotoniCare and its OtoSight Middle Ear Scope were recently featured in an article in Contemporary Pediatrics magazine. Here is what the magazine wrote about the OtoSight Scope, along with a link to the entire article. Another device that can be helpful in diagnosing and monitoring AOM and OME is the OtoSight Middle Ear Scope from PhotoniCare.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Delegate Connect founders Jordan Walsh and Jacob Thomas. Delegate Connect is the latest virtual/hybrid events platform to land funding. The Melbourne-based startup announced today it has raised $10 million AUD (about $7.3 million USD) in seed funding led by AirTree Ventures, which wrote Delegate Connect the biggest seed check in the fund’s history so far.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Any founder will tell you that starting a new business while working another job (or two for that matter) is lousy. Figuring out what that side hustle , or main hustle, will be to support launching this new endeavor is going to suck up two things in your life: your time and attention. But it’s important to manage both. If you’re in the dream scenario where you have some kind of a side job that pays six figures for eight to 10 hours of work a week, then you can probably skip this article.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Doccla , a health tech startup with a platform that can monitor patients on hospital wards and in the home, has secured a $3.3 million seed funding round, led by Giant Ventures and Speedinvest. The company allows hospitals to predict when beds will be freed up by monitoring patients remotely via wearable medical devices, thus helping to alleviate bottlenecks in the system.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Any founder will tell you that starting a new business while working another job (or two for that matter) is lousy. Figuring out what that side hustle , or main hustle, will be to support launching this new endeavor is going to suck up two things in your life: your time and attention. But it’s important to manage both. If you’re in the dream scenario where you have some kind of a side job that pays six-figures for eight to 10 hours of work a week, then you can probably skip this article.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Nagaraj Nadendla. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nagaraj Nadendla is SVP of development at Oracle Cloud HCM , where he leads the development of cloud recruitment solutions including Oracle Recruiting and Taleo. Social media has served as a launchpad to success almost as long as it has been around. The stories of going viral from a self-produced YouTube video and then securing a record deal established the mythology of social media platforms.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I just hosted a presentation and discussion last night for GoingVC on “How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds” I’ve embedded below the video and slide deck. You can see an essay summarizing my advice here. Further reading: The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online , David Teten and Scott Allen.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Travel startups continue to rake in venture capital dollars as more people become comfortable traveling amid the global pandemic. The latest is SmarterTravel, which brought in $9.5 million in Series B funding co-led by Link Ventures and Second Alpha, with existing investors also participating. In addition to the fundraise, the company, a provider of personalized travel recommendations and targeted travel content, announced its name change from HopJump, which reflects the company’s renewed vision

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Edgybees, the leading visual intelligence technology company, announced today the appointment of Lieut. Gen. H. R. McMaster (US Army, ret.) as the newest member of its U.S. advisory board. McMaster joins shortly after the appointments of Brett B. Lambert and Aki Yamaura. McMaster, Lambert, and Yamaura will utilize their comprehensive backgrounds in defense, national security and intelligence, and remote sensing and geospatial data, respectively, to steer Edgybees through a pivotal stage of growt

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