TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2022

Assisting you in unlocking the potential available in the creator economy crypto vaults for creative minds Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Greenlight , the Atlanta, GA-based fintech company that pitches parents on kid-friendly bank accounts, is launching a credit card. The Greenlight-branded card, offered through Mastercard, offers up to 3% unlimited cash back on all purchases and gives parents the option to automatically invest those cash rewards in stocks and ETFs to spend on family-related expenses, co-founder and CEO Tim Sheehan told TechCrunch.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 17, 2022

Device Intended to Reduce Risk of IV Catheter Failure and Replacement in Hospitals; Sister Product Orchid SRV-Type D for Drainage to Launch Simultaneously. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – May 17, 2022 – Medical device company Linear Health Sciences has received U.S. FDA clearance and Health Canada approval of its Orchid SRV TM , a tension-activated breakaway safety release valve designed to reduce the risk of IV catheter failure and replacement in hospitals.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The pandemic has majorly affected the global supply chain, with 60% of U.S. adults in an August 2021 Gallup survey saying that they’ve been unable to get a product they wanted in the past two months because of shortages. Bearing the brunt of the impact is the fashion industry, which employs millions of workers at retail stores, suppliers, and manufacturing factories around the world.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

It’s Tuesday, May 17, 2022, and we are currently in the midst of an existential crisis; aren’t we all, when we are being very honest with ourselves, a little bit spambot at heart? . Tomorrow, TC Sessions: Mobility kicks off. Last chance saloon to buy tickets for our in-person event Wednesday and Thursday, or the virtual event on Friday! — Haje and Christine.

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Y Combinator

MAY 17, 2022

Today, we’re opening up registration for Startup School 2022 , a live, online course where YC Group Partners and successful YC founders teach you how to build a billion dollar company. It will be the first Startup School course to feature in-person meetups and talks in over a hundred cities around the world. The 7 week course will begin June 27, 2022.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

While valuations of public software-as-a-service businesses have been taking a hammering of late as investors cool on the sector amid a wider, post-pandemic tech stock sell-off, SaaS startups still need to raise funding to scale their budding businesses — or, well, they hope they’ll be able to do so on reasonable terms despite these wider market bumps.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 17, 2022

… The post Introducing the 2022 State of Crypto Report appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Unit, a banking-as-a-service startup, has closed on a $100 million Series C round of funding led by Insight Partners. Existing backers Accel, Better Tomorrow Ventures and Flourish Ventures also participated in the financing, which values the company at $1.2 billion. The raise follows a $51 million Series B financing that was announced last June, and brings its total equity raised since inception to nearly $170 million.

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Feedough

MAY 17, 2022

Unlike traditional businesses, startups don’t have the benefit of an. Read more. The post What Is Customer Development? Importance & Process appeared first on Feedough.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Vivun was built by Matt Darrow, a guy who cut his teeth in pre-sales at Zuora. He believed that pre-sales teams had a lot to offer to the organization, but there really wasn’t any software to capture that knowledge. That’s why he built Vivun. The company is helping to define a new software category, which tends to get the attention of investors, Darrow says more than that, the company is fundamentally sound and growing fast.

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Feedough

MAY 17, 2022

Today, content is found in almost every aspect of modern. Read more. The post What Is Content Writing? – Types, Importance, & Examples appeared first on Feedough.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

After a difficult first quarter, investing app Robinhood is doubling down on new product launches , particularly in its crypto unit, in hopes they will help buoy the business. CEO Vlad Tenev announced the company’s plans to roll out non-custodial crypto wallets at the Permissionless DeFi conference in Florida today, starting with a waitlist that’s already open.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 17, 2022

With all the talk of recession, changing market dynamics, and the importance of efficient growth, many teams will be looking to boost their sales efficiency. How can the company drive more sales with less expense? Let’s start with the formula for sales efficiency. Sales efficiency = New_Bookings x Gross_Margin / Sales_and_Marketing_Cost. Three paths emerge from the equation: Increase bookings : increase pricing without sacrificing sales velocity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Singapore-based venture firm Jungle Ventures is digging deeper into Southeast Asia and India with the close of its fourth fund. Fund IV totals $600 million, with $450 million for new investments and $150 million earmarked for follow-up investments in its portfolio companies. The fund’s close brings Jungle Ventures’ total assets under management to over $1 billion, which it says makes it the first independent, Singapore-headquartered venture firm that invests across Southeast Asia and India to hi

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 17, 2022

… The post A Framework for Navigating Down Markets appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Even as more traditional financial players enter the crypto world, blockchain investor Fortis Digital Ventures is closing a $100 million crypto fund that aims to bridge the gap between the old and new finance worlds. “By building an investment fund focused on blockchain opportunities, we get to spend our time doing due diligence on teams and tech in web3, which gives us insight into what is missing in the market,” Mike Boroughs, co-founder and managing partner of Fortis Digital Ventures, told Te

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2022

Trust is the antidote all cofounders need to build successful companies and relationships with team members. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Meet Claap , a French startup that has been working on a way to collaborate more efficiently as a distributed team. Claap is officially launching its product today. Instead of relying exclusively on a mix of written memos and Zoom calls, Claap lets you share and receive quick videos with other teammates so that everyone can understand more quickly what you’re talking about and provide feedback.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register New York Stock Exchange-listed Sea Limited announced that its revenue grew 64.4% year-on-year in the first quarter of this year to $2.9 billion, beating most analysts forecast. Total gross profit was $1.2 billion, up 81.3% year-on-year while total net loss was $(580.1) million compared to $(422.1) million for the first quarter of 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Crypto-savvy developers are in short supply these days. Blockchain startups and protocols are fighting to onboard and train more engineers — an even tougher undertaking in a world where developing on Ethereum vs. Solana vs. Polkadot vs. another blockchain can require completely different programming skill sets. London, United Kingdom-based startup Encode Club , founded in 2020, trained 15,000 developers last year alone through its programming, CEO and co-founder Anthony Beaumont told TechC

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OurCrowd

MAY 17, 2022

SEATTLE and TEL AVIV, Israel, May 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — mPrest, a leading developer and provider of distributed asset orchestration and optimization software for the energy market, today announced a strategic partnership with BIS Consulting to provide utility companies and grid operators with enhanced historical, real-time and forecasted operational analytics and decision support capabilities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Michael Perez. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Michael Perez is director of growth and data at M13. Direct-to-consumer companies generate a wealth of raw transactional data that needs to be refined into metrics and dimensions that founders and operators can interpret on a dashboard. If you’re the founder of an e-commerce startup, there’s a pretty good chance you’re using a platform like Shopify, BigCommerce or WooCommerce, and one of the dozens of analytics extensions like RetentionX, Sensai metr

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OurCrowd

MAY 17, 2022

HOD HASHARON, Israel , May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — NanoLock Security , a leading device-level Zero Trust cybersecurity provider, today announces their full suite of bespoke cybersecurity solutions for the industrial and manufacturing market. The first company to announce device-level protection solutions specifically for legacy and new industrial machinery and smart factory production lines, NanoLock’s industrial protection solutions has been in trials with customers in Europe

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