Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 6, 2022

Roger Patterson an EO Vancouver member, is the founder and CEO of visual marketing platform Later and co-founder of accelerator Launch Academy. Roger recently shared his thoughts on how to un-polarize your workplace by creating middle ground. In this post, he explains how he actively works against digital distraction with three smart strategies: Twice a day—three times if I’m lucky—I reach a blissful state of focus.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Financial infrastructure startup Fidel API has raised $65 million in a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. The London-based company provides identity, data and payments products that it says gives developers a way to capture consent permissions and “securely” connect payment cards to a service or application. . “With this infrastructure, developers are able to create highly contextualized and event-driven user experiences at the point of purchase,” it claims.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2022

As I’ve explored web3 I’ve been forming a mental model of the major innovations powering this enormous wave of innovation. At the moment, I see four clusters: A permanent ownership record that exists beyond and outside a company. The photos I take, the movies I buy, the music I rent, the emails I write and receive, the messages I send - all of these are captive.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. As Austin’s skyline expands, the city continues to solidify its standing as a tech hub.

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Campaign Monitor

APRIL 6, 2022

Today, audiences expect a lot from the brands they interact with. They want personalized, relevant communications delivered in a format that’s convenient, at a time that suits them. Email has been an essential medium for this kind of communication for a long time, and at Campaign Monitor, we’ve helped thousands of brands across the world use email to deliver personal, impactful messages to their customers.

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Campaign Monitor

APRIL 6, 2022

Today, audiences expect a lot from the brands they interact with. They want personalized, relevant communications delivered in a format that’s convenient, at a time that suits them. Email has been an essential medium for this kind of communication for a long time, and at Campaign Monitor, we’ve helped thousands of brands across the world use email to deliver personal, impactful messages to their customers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Matias Serebrinsky. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Matias Serebrinsky is a partner at PsyMed Ventures, a venture fund expanding access to psychedelic medicine and mental health tech. He co-hosts Business Trip, a podcast about psychedelic entrepreneurship. Greg Kubin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Greg Kubin is a partner at PsyMed Ventures and co-host of Business Trip.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 6, 2022

Threat intelligence provider Cybersixgill announced on Wednesday a partnership with data cloud company Snowflake. The collaboration, which is set to add comprehensive cyber threat intelligence to the Snowflake Data Marketplace, is being announced a month after Cybersixgill’s completion of a $35 million Series B funding round, bringing the company’s total investment to $56 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

It’s my pleasure to announce FabuLingua won today’s City Spotlight: Austin pitch-off! The company competed against knowRX Health and Vertikal X on today’s TechCrunch Live episode and won free exhibition space at TechCrunch Disrupt this October. Mark Begert pitched his company to three Austin-based investors who found his messaging and pitch to be clear, concise and easy to follow.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 6, 2022

With buy-in comes support and resources, so let’s do it right. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Less than one month after laying off 3,000 employees , digital mortgage lender Better.com is offering its corporate, product, design and engineering employees 60 days paid severance, or voluntary separation plans, and health insurance coverage “to anyone who wants it,” according to several sources familiar with internal happenings at the company. .

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The Seraf Compass

APRIL 6, 2022

We’ve published a fair amount about due diligence and being a deal lead. In those pieces we talk a lot about the importance of having a good diligence template to ensure the final product is useful to the reader. Here for your reference is our Due Diligence Report Template.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Today, TechCrunch is hosting TC Spotlight: Austin — a virtual event highlighting the innovation, investment and entrepreneurship in the region. The first part of the event will feature panels highlighting the successes and challenges facing the massive tech scene. In true TechCrunch fashion, part two is a pitch-off with an amazing group of of founders from the Texas region.

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Forward Cities

APRIL 6, 2022

“I want to celebrate and uplift the women that help shape me and who, in their own rights, are brilliant innovators, writing their own beautiful stories and doing epic things to make their own marks on history.” – Fay Horwitt.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Welcome to the Daily Crunch for Wednesday, April 6, 2022! Today, Pinterest announced it was banning all climate change misinformation on its platform , and can we just say … about time! May all other platforms follow. Also, while we’re on our little soapbox: The earth ain’t flat, and vaccines have little impact on your 5G reception.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 6, 2022

BOSTON , April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Healthy.io, the global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a medical device, and Innovive Health, a data-driven home health care agency serving complex behavioral health patients, today announced a new partnership through which up to 700 Innovive nurses will use Healthy.io’s digital wound management service, Minuteful for Wound to enhance and extend patient care.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

In the latest spark from its fast evolving tech ecosystem, Spain’s scale-ups are banding together to lobby lawmakers and press the economic case for their high-tech, high-growth business model more broadly. The new lobby group, called EsTech (aka ‘Es’ for España), had its official launch last week — when it unveiled nine founding company members spanning a range of industries, including gig platforms, B2B software, energy, entertainment and health tech — namely: Cab

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OurCrowd

APRIL 6, 2022

AUSTIN, Texas, April 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — data.world , the enterprise data catalog for the modern data stack, today announced Eureka™ , a suite of knowledge-graph powered catalog capabilities that activate metadata and speed time to data-driven answers and insights. The suite includes Eureka Automations™, Eureka Action Center™, Eureka Answers™, and Eureka Explorer™ Read more here.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Ascend.io , a company developing data automation products for enterprise customers, has raised $31 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global with participation from Shasta Ventures and existing investor Accel, it announced today. CEO Sean Knapp says that the new capital — which brings Ascend’s total to $50 million — will be used to expand the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams while extending Ascend’s platform to support greater automation.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 6, 2022

COVID has strained our healthcare system, payors are feeling the squeeze of rising costs, and patients are bearing the brunt of the current system’s shortcomings. As a result, healthcare is undergoing a transformation, from care that is predominately fee for … The post Risk-based Contracting for Value-based Care, a Founder’s Playbook appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The first quarter of 2022 was a great period for startups to raise venture capital compared to any time other than the bonkers 2021 private-capital cycle. Although there was still ample capital in the market and deal-making appeared strong at the start of this year, we’re seeing stress cracks appear across the startup sector. What gives? It appears that many startups raised money last year beyond the limit of defensible pricing, leaving them in an effectively zero-margin situation.

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Forward Cities

APRIL 6, 2022

We are delighted to share reflections from ESHIP Long Beach (ESHIP LB) Local Organizer and Founder of Fuller Management Corporation, Kena Fuller! Kena has been leading the ESHIP LB work since the spring of 2021 after serving as a member of the ESHIP LB Council. She brings to her work a vibrant passion for helping small business owners while creating greater equity in her community of Long Beach, California.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Docyt , a startup that offers an AI-powered accounting automation platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced that it has raised an $11.5 million Series A funding round led by Lobby Capital , with participation from First Rays Venture Partners, which led the company’s 2021 $1.5 million seed extension round , and Morado Ventures.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 6, 2022

The Defense Department is building the largest 3D-printed structures in the Western Hemisphere, military officials said. Read more here. The post [ICON in Stars and Stripes] Army barracks in Texas to be biggest 3D-printed buildings in the Americas appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

SpinLaunch aims to change how we get to orbit by shooting payloads skyward from the surface at 5,000 MPH, and now it has a shiny new NASA contract to show off its capability later this year. We’ve been hearing about SpinLaunch for years, but until fairly recently its idea for accelerating mass to orbit by means of a sort of underground centrifuge was, shall we say, only lightly substantiated.

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