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streamlining sustainability metrics in the oil and gas industry: q&a with James Carnes of Iconic Air

Venture Well

Iconic Air has developed an air quality monitoring device and software platform that gathers and analyzes the vital sustainability metrics that oil and gas companies need to reach their environmental goals. The post streamlining sustainability metrics in the oil and gas industry: q&a with James Carnes of Iconic Air appeared first on VentureWell.

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RevenueCat raises $40M Series B for its in-app subscription platform

TechCrunch

RevenueCat , a startup offering a series of tools for developers of subscription-based apps, has raised $40 million in Series B funding, valuing its business at $300 million, post-money. Founded by developers who understood the difficulties in scaling a subscription app first-hand, RevenueCat’s software development kit (SDK) solution gives companies the tools they need to build a subscription business, including not just adding subscriptions themselves, but maintaining them over time even

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The Odd Numbers Game Every Content Creator Must Play

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Goals and targets are stressful. Let’s fix that. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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CorrActions raises $2.7M to help avoid errors in human-machine interactions

TechCrunch

CorrActions , a noninvasive neuroscience startup that uses sensor data to evaluate a user’s cognitive state due to drowsiness, alcohol, fatigue and other issues, today announced that it has raised a $2.7 million seed round. Early-stage fund VentureIsrael , seed fund Operator Partners and the Israeli Innovation Authority are backing the company, which is based out of OurCrowd’s Labs/02 incubator.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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The 5 Most Common Mistakes People Make When Growing Their Brand (and how to avoid them)

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Sourced from 80+ personal interviews with entrepreneurs Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Seven Hard Lessons Learned from 13 Years in Corporate Life

Entrepreneur's Handbook

How to survive and thrive in a world that grinds up so many. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Greg, an app for plant lovers, grows $5.4 million in seed funding

TechCrunch

Before the pandemic rendered us homebound, the houseplant industry was already in bloom. One year sequestered in our homes later, and our living spaces have flourished into our personal indoor gardens. . An app that uses machine learning to help people care for their plants, Greg announced today that it has received $5.4 million in seed funding. This round is led by Index with participation from First Round Capital.

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Summer Savings with Dell: Shop Exclusive Member Savings Now

StartupNation

Celebrate summer savings with limited time deals on top tech, from powerful business PCs to essential electronics. StartupNation Members save over 40% off on select solutions like our business workhorse laptop, the Latitude 5420. Experience a new era of collaboration and connectivity to work anywhere with this powerful and portable laptop. (Dell Latitude 5420).

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Dismantling the myths around raising your first check

TechCrunch

As startups and venture capital grow in tandem, fundraising has gone from a formal affair on Sand Hill Road to a process that can happen anywhere from Twitter to Zoom. While fundraising may no longer require a trip to California, it might depend on whether you got an invite to a private audio app. And while you may not need to be an insider, second-time founders — largely male and white — still have a competitive advantage.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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10 Things You Get With A GCUC Membership

GCUC

The GCUC Community membership gives coworking & flexspace operators the tools & resources they need to work less & spend more time in their. The post 10 Things You Get With A GCUC Membership appeared first on GCUC Community.

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Augmented reality NFT platform Anima gets backing from Coinbase

TechCrunch

Augmented reality and non-fungible tokens, need I say more? Yes? Oh, well NFTs have certainly had their moment in 2021, but the question of what they do or what can be done with them has certainly been getting voiced more frequently as the speculative gold rush begins to cool off and people start to think more about how digital goods can evolve in the future.

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Do you really need a board of directors?

Berkonomics

First, the short answer. No matter what your size, if you intend to grow your business into more than just a lifestyle workplace, you should create a board of directors. If you take money from knowledgeable investors, you will be required to create a board as a part of the investment process. So, why go through the effort? Boards perform two important types of task.

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Filtered.ai closes $7M in funding to accelerate its technical hiring service

TechCrunch

Boston-based Filtered.ai has raised a $7 million round to accelerate its hiring cadence, and built out the go-to-market model for its its engineering and developer-focused hiring service, it recently announced. TechCrunch caught up with the company to discuss not only why it decided to leave bootstrapping behind, but also to dig into how its service could widen the market for some technical roles.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

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.

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These African Entrepreneurs Are Developing Tech Solutions for Healthcare and Education

Impact Hub

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. These African entrepreneurs are creating their’s, providing solutions to some of Ghana and Nigeria’s most pressing challenges in education and health, and driving innovation through technology to empower young people and women. The ongoing pandemic has reminded us of the importance of building resilient, fair, and equitable societies that ensure no one is left behind and allow all individuals not only to meet their basic needs but to thrive.

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On-demand grocery startup Food Rocket launches in the Bay Area, goes up against delivery giants

TechCrunch

On-demand grocery startups like Gorillas are invading Europe right now, but although on-demand-everything is kinda old-hat in the Bay Area, a new startup thinks it might just be able to do something new. Food Rocket says it has raised a $2 million investment round from AltaIR Capital, Baring Vostok fund and the Angelsdeck group of business angels, including Philipp Bashyan, of Russia’s Yonder, who has joined as an investor and advisor.

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How Ignoring Typical Advice Led to Making 100K+ as a First-Year Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Lesson 1: When they zig, you zag Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Acorns’ SPAC listing depicts a consumer fintech business with a SaaSy revenue mix

TechCrunch

Another day, another unicorn public offering. Today it’s Acorns, a consumer fintech service that blends saving and investing into a freemium product. It’s a company that TechCrunch has covered extensively since its birth , including through the pandemic’s impact on its business, both good and bad. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. .

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Monetizing Analytics Features

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.

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I Launched My Startup With Only $300

Entrepreneur's Handbook

You don’t need huge savings to follow your dream Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Wayflyer raises $76M to provide ‘revenue-based’ financing to e-commerce merchants

TechCrunch

Wayflyer , a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce merchants, has raised $76 million in a Series A funding round led by Left Lane Capital. “Partners” of DST Global, QED Investors, Speedinvest and Zinal Growth — the family office of Guillaume Pousaz (founder of Checkout.com ) — also put money in the round. The raise comes just after Wayflyer raised $100 million in debt funding to support its cash advance product, and 14 months after the Dublin, Ireland-based startup launched

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Top 5 Articles This Week

Entrepreneur's Handbook

From the entrepreneurial trenches wildpixel On Being Publicly Called Out as a Bad Leader in a Recent Viral Article ?—? FRED DUST How Ignoring Typical Advice Led to Making 100K+ as a First-Year Entrepreneur ? —? Rick Martinez 1 Year of Effort to Build a Side Hustle. 5 Years to Make Enough Money so You Never Work a Job Again. ? —? Tim Denning I Asked My Millionaire CEO About His Favorite Productivity Tools ?

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Australian startup Pyn raises $8M seed to bring targeted communication in-house

TechCrunch

Most marketers today know how to send targeted communications to customers, and there are many tools to help, but when it comes to sending personalized in-house messages, there aren’t nearly as many options. Pyn , an early-stage startup based in Australia, wants to change that, and today it announced an $8 million seed round. Andreessen Horowitz led the investment with help from Accel and Ryan Sanders (the co-founder of BambooHR) and Scott Farquhar (co-founder and co-CEO at Atlassian).

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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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[Clinch in Pulse 2.0] Creative Personalization Platform Clinch Raises $10 Million

OurCrowd

Clinch — a company that provides AI-driven omnichannel personalization and unique consumer intelligence to the world’s leading advertisers — announced recently that it raised $10 million in Series A funding led by investment firm D Squared Capital. This funding round will be used to support its accelerated global growth and the upcoming launch of their next generation of data-driven personalization-at-scale solutions, built for new identity environments and emerging digital commerce channels, wi

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Breinify announces $11M seed to bring data science to the marketing team

TechCrunch

Breinify is a startup working to apply data science to personalization, and do it in a way that makes it accessible to nontechnical marketing employees to build more meaningful customer experiences. Today the company announced a funding round totaling $11 million. The investment was led by Gutbrain Ventures and PBJ Capital with participation from Streamlined Ventures, CXO Fund, Amino Capital, Startup Capital Ventures and Sterling Road.

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[OurCrowd in TechCrunch] CorrActions raises $2.7M to help avoid errors in human-machine interactions

OurCrowd

CorrActions, a noninvasive neuroscience startup that uses sensor data to evaluate a user’s cognitive state due to drowsiness, alcohol, fatigue and other issues, today announced that it has raised a $2.7 million seed round. Early-stage fund VentureIsrael, seed fund Operator Partners and the Israeli Innovation Authority are backing the company, which is based out of OurCrowd’s Labs/02 incubator.

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Just 12 hours left to apply to Startup Battlefield at TC Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

We’ve been urging you to apply to Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 for weeks now, and you have just over 12 hours left before the application window slams shut on May 27 at 11:59 p.m. (PT). Don’t procrastinate — the experience alone, whether you win the $100,000 prize or not, can improve the trajectory of your business. Case in point: Mollie Breen started out as a mathematician at the National Security Agency before co-founding an IoT/OT security startup called Perygee.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

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.