TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Kikoff , a personal finance platform aimed at helping consumers build credit, announced today that it has raised $30 million in a Series B round. The capital is in addition to the $12.5 million the startup raised across previously unannounced seed and Series A rounds, which were both led by Lightspeed Venture partners. Portage Ventures led Kickoff’s Series B, which included participation from Lightspeed, GGV, Coatue and Core Innovation Capital.

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StartupNation

JUNE 30, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses Orbion Space Technologies , a Michigan-based company that’s working on developing an aurora plasma thruster. Its system is now being met with widespread market acceptance, and it just secured $20 million in Series B funding. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about Orbion Space Technologies and how it may lead to Michigan becoming the epicenter of the space business sector: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Geoffrey Moore. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Known for his seminal book "Crossing the Chasm," Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker and adviser who splits his consulting time between startup companies in the Wildcat Venture Partners portfolio and established high-tech enterprises — including Salesforce, Microsoft, Autodesk, F5Networks, Gainsight, Google and Splunk.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 30, 2021

We have been fortunate to have Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Price Laureate, social entrepreneur, banker, economist, civil society leader, board member of Impact Hub Dhaka and a great inspiration for our Impact Hub movement, in conversation with Gabriela Gandel, Executive Director of the Impact Hub Network, at LIVE with Impact Hub. During this truly inspiring session, he encourages everyone to seize the historic opportunity the pandemic has given us to “build new roads and reach new dest

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Peanut , the maker of a social networking app for women, is entering into the investing space with today’s launch of a microfund called StartHER. As the name implies, the new fund will focus on investing in women, as well as other historically excluded founders “of all ages, life stages, ethnicities and sexual orientations,” the company says.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

There are so many startups pledging to reinvent the mortgage process that it’s hard to keep up. But for anyone who has had to go through the process of applying for one, it’s clear that there’s plenty of room for improvement. The latest startup to raise venture money with the goal of making the process “smarter and faster” is one that was founded by a pair of executives that spent years at real estate giant Zillow.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 30, 2021

The Internet was developed by the US Defense Department to create a network that was capable of surviving a military attack. They accomplished that with a design where no part of the system was central to its operation. You can take out any part of the Internet and it will still operate. When I read the Bitcoin White Paper for the first time, I was struck by the similarity of its design to the Internet.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Over the past year, there has been a surge of newly formed digital banks aimed at specific demographics. The banks in nearly all cases are trying to meet the needs of certain populations that they believe are feeling left out or underserved by traditional financial institutions. The latest such neobank to emerge is New York-based Daylight , which describes itself as the first LGBTQ+ digital banking platform in the United States.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 30, 2021

LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, June 30, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ — Tetavi a leading technology company that holds the largest AI based volumetric library in the world, today announced its induction into Microsoft for Startups, a global program dedicated to accelerating the trajectory of high-potential startups to enable growth at scale. As a program member, Tetavi will have exclusive access to Microsoft technology, mentorship and business support.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Ably is a Pub/Sub messaging platform that companies can use to develop realtime features in their products. The company just raised a $70 million Series B funding round co-led by Insight Partners and Dawn Capital. Every day, you use various apps that push and fetch data in realtime. When you send a message in your favorite chat app, when you edit a document collaboratively, when you start a video call or when you look at financial data, you expect to send and receive stuff in a fraction of a sec

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 30, 2021

The learning never stops. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Stewart Hillhouse. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Stewart Hillhouse writes actionable growth marketing insights as senior content lead at Demand Curve. By night, he interviews marketers and creatives on his podcast, Top Of Mind. Before getting into marketing, Stewart was a semi-professional lumberjack. He also writes at stewarthillhouse.com. More posts by this contributor.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 30, 2021

Instead, use stair step approach to de-risk your idea Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Mandolin just marked its first birthday earlier this month, and yet the Indianapolis-based startup is already announcing a $12 million Series A. That’s a quick follow up to the $5 million seed it raised in early October of last year. Turns out the global pandemic is a pretty fortuitious time to launch and grow a concert streaming platform. The oversubscribed round was co-led by 645 Ventures and Foundry Group and featured additional funding from existing investors like High Alpha and TIME Venture

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The Seraf Compass

JUNE 30, 2021

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been in this situation: You meet with an entrepreneur, and his pitch is awesome! The team is great, the product is great… everything is great. Except, the team is seriously deficient when it comes to understanding finances. It’s time to roll up your sleeves, pull out the green eyeshade and dig into the financial plan and funding strategy for this awesome new company.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

MKT1 is a strategic marketing firm founded by experienced startup executives that is everything but a marketing agency. It advises startups on marketing approaches, recruiting and mentoring workshops, with some angel syndicate investing as well. It also provides a job board, a newsletter , and workshops for marketers. Founders Kathleen Estreich and Emily Kramer say they are responding to a few big trends in the startup world.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 30, 2021

Contributed by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts. One of an entrepreneur’s go-to tools for business growth and success is the art of negotiation. However, because of the many nuances that affect each stage of negotiation, it can be a tricky skill to master. Negotiators, even professional ones, make a surprising number of wrong decisions that doom negotiations which should have succeeded.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

In the white-hot creator economy space, startups are increasingly looking to build paint-by-numbers platforms to help budding creators more easily execute on what were once seemingly insurmountable business challenges. The ex-Uber team at Pietra is cashing in on this vision with a plan to build a backend for launching and scaling creator product lines.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 30, 2021

A lot of people have furthered their career by “putting themselves out there”—creating blogs, newsletters, participating on Twitter, doing podcasts, etc. It’s a way that many have created connections for themselves and shown off their insights. A lot of these people aren’t the most experienced or knowledgeable people in their field. In fact, most of them aren’t.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

BJ Jenkins. Contributor. Share on Twitter. BJ Jenkins is CEO of Barracuda , a provider of cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions. He is a member of the boards of directors at SumoLogic and Generac Power Systems. It used to be a heavily traveled two-way street in corporate America: CEOs joined other companies’ boards to broaden their experiences, expand their influence, or simply because it felt good.

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Y Combinator

JUNE 30, 2021

The early deadline to apply for the YC Winter 2022 batch is July 19 at 8pm PT. As we wrote last batch , we created an early deadline to give founders access to YC on their timelines. Here are two of the most common questions we got last time: Who is the early deadline for? Based on surveying the early accepted startups last batch, the ones who got the most out of the early deadline were those who were actively fundraising.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Australian rocket launch startup Gilmour Space Technologies is betting that bigger isn’t always better. The company has developed a small launch vehicle it calls Eris, a 25-meter (82 foot) rocket that can deliver a payload of up to 215 kilograms (474 pounds) to sun synchronous orbit. Now, it’s raised a $61 million AUD ($46 million USD) Series C round to take Eris to space next year.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 30, 2021

ORANGE PARK – A recent study revealed Orange Park as one of the Top 10 cities in the country for those looking for a place to retire and call home. Read more here. The post [SmartAsset in Clay Today] SmartAsset lists Orange Park as country’s 8th-best places to retire appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Fresh off the heels of a $650 million Series E funding round, 3D printed rocket startup Relativity Space is now preparing to increase production capacity by a factor of ten, with the opening of a 1 million square-foot factory headquarters in Long Beach, California. Relativity’s current factory, a 150,000 square-foot facility also in Long Beach, will remain in production.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 30, 2021

LONG ISLAND, N.Y., June 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Dandelion Energy, the country’s leading residential geothermal company, has signed a lease and begun hiring to staff a 12,000 square foot facility in Bay Shore that will serve as their first Long Island operations center. The company also announced that it is expanding its Home Geothermal Systems heating and cooling product options for Long Island homeowners.

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