Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Passive venture capital investing is a relatively new idea. But it’s transforming the industry. As later stage investors permeate venture capital, they are amassing index funds of startups. If the public equities market is any indication, passive investing is here to stay. In public equities, passive investment funds constitute 54% of total dollars in the market, according to Bloomberg Reseearch.

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Founders Coop

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Only two-and-a-half years ago we welcomed Vetri and Ally.io into the Founders’ Co-op family. Today, we’re congratulating them on joining the Microsoft family , where their vision to bring purpose and alignment to the employee experience will continue towards global scale, but now on a radically accelerated timetable. While we’ll miss spending time in the trenches with Ally.io’s fantastic leadership team in this next stage of their growth, Microsoft is and always was the perfect long term partner

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Riiid , a South Korea-headquartered AI-powered edtech company, acquired its Japanese distribution partner Langoo to expand its Japan footprint. . The acquisition comes after the company’s latest $175 million Series D round from SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 in May. Riiid has said it will continue to fuel its global expansion with the funding. . Langoo, Riiid’s partner in Japan, offers Riiid Tutor, formerly known as Santa, a test prep app for the English-language proficiency test TOEIC in the re

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 7, 2021

There’s no doubt that the devastating coronavirus pandemic completely altered the business sphere. So many companies had to adopt a fully virtual operational model and allow their employees to work from home for the first time. You, too, probably had to implement an entirely remote company setup and discovered something surprising: it worked out great!

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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Following a record-breaking second quarter, venture capitalists around the world stayed busy in Q3, investing astronomical sums into global startups. Since the back half of 2020 kicked off and the venture capital and startup worlds discovered that COVID and its related economic impacts were largely set to miss the upstart technology market , investors have been busy stuffing ever-larger amounts of cash into new companies around the world.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

BrightHire , a startup that wants to transform the way people are hired inside organizations, announced a $20.5 million Series B investment today led by 01 Advisors, with participation from Index Ventures and Zoom Apps Fund. The fact that Zoom Apps Fund is involved is not a coincidence, as the company is based on taking information from a Zoom-based interview and using the data to drive hiring decision-making.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) raises everything from fears of a takeover by machines to optimism that computers will solve some of humanity’s toughest challenges. Still, it is fast becoming an important consideration for many business processes, and human resources (HR) is no different. HR departments are starting to deploy AI solutions to save costs, influence more accurate data-based decision-making, and perhaps most importantly, improve the employee experience.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

“Most of the technical content published misses the mark with developers. I think we can all do a better job,” author and developer marketing expert Adam DuVander says. That was the very realization that led DuVander to share what he had learned about marketing to developers in two ways: He recently launched a book, “Developer Marketing Does Not Exist,” and also works through his consultancy, EveryDeveloper , which helps its clients, including Algolia, HelloSign and Stopl

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HPA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Tenacity announced raising a $3M Series Seed Round , which was led by HPA. As a cloud infrastructure management platform, Tenacity provides asset management, budget intelligence, and compliance monitoring for public cloud environments. Tenacity provides visibility into every asset and service deployed across all cloud accounts. By prioritizing cloud misconfigurations that need remediation, Tenacity creates focus on what matters.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Avatar startups have come and gone over the past few years, but the future that many of the entrepreneurs behind them originally imagined has proven more or less accurate. Apple is increasingly interested in avatar representations through Memoji, Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be a metaverse company and platforms like Roblox, where users enter a virtual world and buy accessories for their character, have never been more popular.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Whether you’re starting your first business or a serial entrepreneur, managing periods of unscheduled downtime is fast becoming a core skill. What was unthinkable two years ago has now become everyday: working from home with outings only for essential groceries and exercise, and online Zoom school. Some parts of the world have been living with various levels of restriction for more than 18 months.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Ally.io , a software service that helps companies measure their progress against OKRs or objectives and key results, a common way the management measures both individual and company progress. The two firms did not share the purchase price. Microsoft plans to incorporate Ally into its Viva family of employee experience products.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A successful FBA-powered business is the new golden ticket, but only if you know how the negotiation process goes down. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

RoboTire crossed our radar in February of last year , just before much of the world was brought to a complete standstill courtesy of the pandemic. Things were still fairly early stages for the Detroit-based startup, which was founded by former Spark Robotics CEO Victor Darolfi. The company has clearly picked up some good, strategic interest in the intervening year and a half, as more and more industries are looking to embrace the benefits of automation.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Many competent, results-focused entrepreneurs will succumb to this temptation; don’t follow their lead. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Increasingly, conversations about big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence are going hand-in-hand with conversations about privacy and data protection. Now, a startup that is building tools to make it easier for engineers to implement the two simultaneously is announcing a round of growth funding to continue expanding its operations. Gretel AI , which lets engineers create anonymized, synthetic data sets based on their actual data sets to use in their analytics and to train machine

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Reward failure? . That may be a difficult concept for an executive. And there are limits of course. We wouldn’t reward a failure to follow laws, or protect lives, or deliberate endangerment of the company or its people. There are “good” failures. But should we reward a research team that fails for the fourth time to find the solution to a nagging problem – on the way to a new product?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Luxury wholesale marketplace The Main Tab is redesigning its platform following a $1 million pre-seed raise earlier this year from serial entrepreneur Jason Bright, who is now the company’s CTO. The New York-based company is poised to launch the new website and app this fall with about 200 retailers, but has a waiting list of approximately 1,000 retailers, Liseda Shelegu, The Main Tab’s founder, told TechCrunch.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To make recommendations that can support organisations and enterprises worldwide, it is essential to include a wide variety of voices in the conversation and make the most of the diversity that they bring. That is what we have done since we took the challenge to lead a group of impact-focused partners from 11 countries as part of the initiative by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) called Global Action: Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems – crea

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Analysts say the value of e-commerce in Africa is expected to reach $29 billion next year, yet Africans still find it difficult to make international payments for products online. Cards, M-Pesa, bank transfer and mobile money, are the most common methods Africans use to make payments. But while various payment gateways have provided better experiences than how things were, say, a decade ago, there’s more work to be done.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Do you have a marketing mindset? Elijah Bowie , owner of the 6figureday.club knows what it takes. By simultaneous strokes of luck, fate, and talent, Elijah became the social media and brand presence manager for the largest water company in the midwest at the tender age of 16. He says he didn’t even have a car at the time, and his parents would drop him off at the company after school to work and perform his magic.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A number of high-profile investors are chasing to invest in Slice, a fintech startup that is attempting to expand the market for credit cards in India. Tiger Global is in advanced stages of talks to lead a round of over $100 million in the Bangalore-based startup, sources familiar with the matter told me. A number of other firms, including Insight Partners, Ribbit Capital and Greenoaks, are also engaging with the startup, sources said, requesting anonymity as the matter is private.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 7, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff reminds small businesses that the threat of cyberattacks is very real. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn how to protect your business from a cyberattack: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Sequoia is one of the most sought-after VC firms in the world, and predictably, it sees plenty of startups competing for its attention. In a recent episode of TechCrunch Live (formerly Extra Crunch Live) , Sequoia partner Stephanie Zhan and Nick Fajt, founder and CEO of social gaming platform Rec Room , explained what the venture capital firm looks for in consumer-facing startups.

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 7, 2021

DC Finance is one of the oldest and largest family office networks. They are hosting Greg Weyerhaeuser Piasecki , former President of one of America’s largest family systems, for a virtual interview with me. I hope you’ll join us! . RSVP (Accredited Investors only). For confidentiality, this event will NOT be recorded for public viewing. This is a rare opportunity to learn more about the family office world, as well as about Versatile VC.

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