A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
As we all prepare for the fall back to school/back to work season, I thought I’d touch on a topic that has been top of mind for me for the last six months. The covid pandemic taught many of us that we can be productive and our companies can succeed in a fully remote work environment. But just because you can does not mean you should. In the venture capital business, this has meant making investments in teams we don’t meet face to face.
Paul G. Silva
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
When data is scant, scientists can greatly disagree. This video does a wonderful job of explaining why, and how the situation changes as data comes in. For those of us in innovation & entrepreneurship – this is our life! We are always starting in places of low data and high uncertainty, yet need to move forward. Lots of lessons to borrow from scientists here.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. But turn to the enterprise and there appears to be a very lucrative opportunity that’s well into finding traction. Today, one of the early movers in building solutions for that market is announcing a round of funding to double down on the opportunity.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Welcome to another edition of our newsletter. You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss: Why you shouldn’t always trust billionaire’s advice. The founder lessons found in Uno (yes, the game). Let’s get to it. Should you trust billionaires for startup advice? When seeking advice on an app he was building, Aaron Dinin, PhD met two entrepreneurs.
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AsiaTechDaily
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Morse Micro , a fabless semiconductor company reinventing Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced that it has raised $140 million in a Series B funding round led by MegaChips Corporation , a leading ASIC and SoC services company based in Japan.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Bitwarden , an open source password manager for enterprises and consumers, has raised $100 million in a round of funding led by PSG, with participation from Battery Ventures. Founded initially back in 2015, Santa Barbara, California-based Bitwarden operates in a space that includes well-known incumbents such as 1Password, which recently hit a $6.8 billion valuation off the back of a $620 million fundraise , and LastPass, which was recently spun out as an independent company again two years after
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
MECHANICSBURG, PA – Gig and Take has closed a pre-seed round totaling $1.5 million led by Schematic Ventures with participation by Motivate Ventures and SHRM Labs (the venture capital arm of the Society of Human Resource Management). This capital will help fuel Gig and Take’s commercial expansion for the next two years. Finding and retaining labor is the number one challenge in domestic manufacturing.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Sam DeBrule. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sam DeBrule is co-founder and head of marketing of Heyday , the AI-powered research assistant that helps you retain more of what you learn. Whether you’re building a product at an early-stage startup or fine-tuning an already built-out product at a larger company, there is a straightforward process that can help you improve your onboarding experience.
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Ben Franklin Technology Partners
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Ben Franklin Technology Partner’s BIG IDEA Contest recently offered agriculture and food/beverage entrepreneurs, innovators, and companies in Ben Franklin’s 32-county footprint the chance to pitch to win up to $25,000 in seed funding. This cash prize is designed to support every aspect of turning a business idea into a business reality. “This is our first time focusing our BIG IDEA contest on a specific industry,” said Stephen Brawley, President & CEO of Ben Franklin.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Proposed EU rules could limit the type of research that produces cutting-edge AI tools like GPT-3, experts warn in a new study. The nonpartisan think tank Brookings this week published a piece decrying the bloc’s regulation of open source AI, arguing it would create legal liability for general-purpose AI systems while simultaneously undermining their development.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Lightyear , a Dutch startup developing a long-range hybrid solar-powered car, today announced that it has raised €81 million ($81 million) as it prepares to begin production of its first vehicle in the coming months. While recent history is littered with examples of prototype solar-powered vehicles , the burgeoning electric car movement has so far been mostly limited to automobiles that need to be plugged into the grid to charge, or hybrid electric vehicles ( HEV ) that self-charge while driving
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AsiaTechDaily
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Gokomodo , an Indonesian agriculture supply chain platform , announced raising $26 million in its Series A funding round led by East Ventures. Other investors participating in the oversubscribed round are SMDV, Eight Capital, K3 Ventures, Triputra, Waresix, Indogen Capital, Sahabat Group, and Sampoerna Financial.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Seedstars Africa Ventures , the pan-African early-stage fund for startups, has appointed Bruce Nsereko-Lule as its new general partner, to help it deploy more capital and provide the much-needed technical support for founders across the continent. Seedstars Africa Ventures – which is part of Seedstars Group, an accelerator and VC that is active globally in over 30 emerging markets – provides early-stage capital of up to $2 million in seed and Series A rounds.
AsiaTechDaily
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Evolve , an India-based mental health startup focused on the LGBTQ+ community, has announced raising about $375,000 in pre-Seed funding round. According to the announcement, the funding round was led by Rajesh Ranavat, executive director at Fund Strategic Holdings, and saw participation from prominent angel investors including Ankit Mehrotra and Nikhil Bakshi (founders, Dineout) as wel
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The cost of cybercrime has been growing at an alarming rate of 15% per year, projected to reach $10.5 trillion by 2025. To cope with the challenges that this poses, organizations are turning to a growing range of AI-powered tools to supplement their existing security software and the work of their security teams. Today, a startup called Cymulate — which has built a platform to help those teams automatically and continuously stress test their networks against potential attacks with simulati
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Gust
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Before a technology startup becomes a company, it spends a period of time as simply a project. The founding team is usually one or two individuals building and testing products as they try to validate a demand for them in the market. At some point, founders ask themselves: when is it time to turn this project into a company? The post When Should a Tech Startup Form a Company appeared first on Gust.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Arul Jegadish. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Arul Jegadish , co-founder of OpsVerse , has spent the last decade building OSS DevOps pipelines. The DevOps methodology is becoming mainstream for good reason: 99% of practitioners say it has ??positively affected their organization. While DevOps is foremost a way of collaborating, a lot of it is shaped by tools.
Tomasz Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
By my rough estimation, there are approximately 30m monthly active web3 users (getting closer to that 100m user mark! ) The activity rates of those users mirror web2 finance apps. MixPanel recorded the activity rate of web2 finance apps at 10.7% DAU/MAU. In other words, 11% of users who use the app every month, also use it daily. Dune Analytics provides insight into the DAU / MAU of Ethereum users for August.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We are back on a Tuesday instead of a Monday thanks to an American holiday, which means we are looking at a compressed week. But don’t let the shorter window for news fool you — it’s going to be busy.
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Feedough
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Imagine a scenario where you have to buy a new. Read more. The post Razor And Blades Business Model Explained appeared first on Feedough.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Backed by investors including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and CDC Group, Cropin is set on digitizing the agricultural industry. Today, the company announced the launch of Cropin Cloud, a cloud platform with integrated apps. Founded in 2010, Cropin’s other products are live in 92 countries, it is partnered with over 250 B2B customers and has digitized 26 million acres of farmland.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
In-session marketing, a form of inbound marketing that attempts to analyze and influence web and app users’ purchasing decisions, is often challenging to implement. With so much competing for consumers’ attention these days, rare is the brand that’s able to make a lasting first impression. According to Microsoft Research, people only spend about 10 seconds on a company’s homepage if the page doesn’t immediately connect with a marketing message.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Once upon a time, reaching a $1 billion valuation was a Big Deal. But the shine that a so-called unicorn valuation conferred on a startup eroded as more and more private companies reached the threshold — often with less and less to back it up. TechCrunch, where the term “unicorn” was born , noted the dilution of the denomination by working to collect notes instead on startups that had reached a $100 million revenue run rate, often measured in the form of annual recurring revenu
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