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Paris-based accelerator The Family sues co-founder Oussama Ammar

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The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. More specifically, Capital first reported that The Family suspects Ammar of diverting €3 million that was supposed to be invested in several startups through syndicates.

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Investing in Latitud

Andreessen Horowitz

Building and scaling a company is HARD. The mechanics of just getting set up should not be. Imagine this: you have a great idea you have been vetting for months, you finally convince your dream co-founder to take the plunge … The post Investing in Latitud appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Eksab gets $3M to scale its fantasy football platform across MENA and Africa

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Football or soccer, the latter commonly used in the US, is the most popular and watched sport globally with over five billion football fans according to its apex governing body , FIFA. While the World Cup, its pinnacle event of football and arguably the world’s most popular sporting event, shows the popularity of the sport in full colors, it’s the yearly leagues in different countries across Europe, South America, Asia and Africa that puts diehard nature of football fans on display.

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Indonesian content creators’ platform TipTip secures $10m in Seed funding

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register TipTip , a one-stop platform for content creators across Southeast Asia, today announced that it has secured US$ 10 million in the seed funding round, marking one of the biggest seed rounds ever. This funding was led by East Ventures, with the participation from Vertex, EMTEK, SMDV, and prominent family offices.

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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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a16z, NFX back Latitud’s effort to become ‘the operating system for every venture-backed company in LatAm’

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Serial entrepreneur Brian Requarth learned his lesson the hard way. When he sold Brazilian online real estate marketplace VivaReal for $550 million several years ago, he had to pay more than $100 million in capital gains taxes due to incorporation errors made early on. It was an expensive mistake, and one he wants to help Latin American entrepreneurs avoid with his new venture, Latitud.

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Contingent targets broken procurement processes

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Evaluating and keeping an eye on the suppliers to your business is crucial, and fantastically complicated. Contingent leaps to the rescue, armed with a freshly printed $8.2 million check from investors. The SaaS platform helps companies procure more strategically and better manage supply chain risk and compliance. “The typical questionnaire process to onboard suppliers is widely accepted to be fundamentally broken.

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Entrepreneurs Have to Make Difficult Decisions?—?How Do You Know If You’re Making the Right Ones?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Learning to manage the uncertainty of startups is critical to your success and your sanity. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Smart electric panel company Span gets a $90M jolt of cash

TechCrunch

The lowly breaker panel has been around for a century without getting much love, and along comes Span. The company is making a compelling bid for better, smarter electrical panels, and just got a $90 million top-up to continue its evolution. The company is solving the challenges of electrification and micro-grid balancing, ensuring that the smart homes of the future have better visibility in the how, what and why of power consumption.

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13 Signs Your Side Hustle Is Going To Become a 6-Figure Business That Replaces Your…

Entrepreneur's Handbook

#1 — You created a donkey instead of a unicorn. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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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Daily Crunch: Citing ‘global market uncertainties,’ Sea flatlines Shopee India

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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. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, March 28, 2022! Alas, I knew this day was coming, and here it is. Christine and Haje are taking over my bits of Daily Crunch from here on out, though I will be back occasionally to fill in when they are on break.

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Singapore esports startup Ampverse raises $12m in Series A funding

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Ampverse , a Singapore-based esports startup with offices throughout Southeast Asia and India, announced that it raised $12 million in a Series A funding round led by global investment fund Falcon Capital. The startup said the fundraise was the largest to date of any esports organisation in Southeast Asia.

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Kyle Lui, long-time DCM partner, leaving to join Bling Capital as second GP

TechCrunch

Another venture capitalist is leaving their long-time home for something new. This time it is DCM partner Kyle Lui, who left after nearly eight years to become the second general partner at Bling Capital. DCM has a storied history. It is notably one of the first Sand Hill Road venture funds to establish a major presence in Asia, particularly in China.

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[TetaVi in AIThority] GameOn Partners With Tetavi to Launch Innovative NFT Music Discovery Game?

OurCrowd

GameOn Entertainment Technologies Inc., a leading NFT game technology company partnered with the world’s biggest IPs to launch, operate and monetize NFT-based games, has today announced a partnership with immersive content pioneer, Tetavi, for a first-of-its-kind NFT music discovery game. Read more here. The post [TetaVi in AIThority] GameOn Partners With Tetavi to Launch Innovative NFT Music Discovery Game?

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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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Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform

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Shoreline founder and CEO Anurag Gupta was in charge of infrastructure at AWS for eight years prior to launching his company. He was responsible for making sure there were systems in place to respond to incidents that slowed down or brought AWS systems to a halt. It was a big job, and while he helped build internal systems to automate incident response, he saw a dearth of tools in the marketplace to help other companies achieve this.

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[Alpha Tau in PR Newswire] Alpha Tau Medical Announces Full Year 2021 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update

OurCrowd

JERUSALEM , March 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Alpha Tau Medical Ltd. (Nasdaq: DRTS) (Nasdaq: DRTSW), (“Alpha Tau” or the “Company”), the developer of the innovative alpha-radiation cancer therapy Alpha DaRT™, reported full year 2021 financial results and provided a corporate update. Read more here. The post [Alpha Tau in PR Newswire] Alpha Tau Medical Announces Full Year 2021 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Papaya Global to buy Azimo for $150M-$200M to expand its payroll payments to more markets

TechCrunch

Six months after raising $250 million , Papaya Global is making a key acquisition to expand its cloud-based HR and payroll platform globally on the heels of major surge in remote working. The Israeli startup is acquiring Azimo — the London-based money transfer business that Facebook once tried to buy to spearhead its own remittance efforts — a deal that will see Papaya Global moving into more markets, and launching more services such as instant payroll payments.

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What Is Market Penetration? – Importance, Formula, & Examples

Feedough

Any business starts with a goal to maximise its sales. Read more. The post What Is Market Penetration? – Importance, Formula, & Examples appeared first on Feedough.

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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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Sourceful grabs $20M to make more packaging less polluting

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Sourceful , an Index Ventures-backed supply chain transparency startup, has fast-fuelled with a $20 million Series A around half a year after it announced a $12.2 million seed round. The latest raise is once again led by Index, with Coatue and Eka Ventures also participating. The 2020-founded startup works with brands to shrink the environmental damage associated with their product sourcing choices in areas like packing, via offering a marketplace of vetted suppliers.

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Competing To Win Deals

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

So I saw this tweet by Semil Shah yesterday: A friend who works in an industry far from tech startups & VC asked what would be the single article I’d share to read on each topic. Here’s what I sent him: 1/ Startup = Growth by PG: [link] 2/ Competing To Win Deals by Fred Wilson: [link] pic.twitter.com/q7GG2k7UAX — Semil (@semil) March 27, 2022.

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Philippines-based MSME platform GrowSari adds $77.5 million to its Series C

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GrowSari , a Manila-based platform for digitizing small businesses in the Philippines, announced today it has added $77.5 million to its Series C round. Along with prior funding, including $45 million announced in January , this brings the round’s total to about $110 million. Investors included the International Finance Corporation, KKR, Wavemaker Partners and the Temasek Group’s Pavilion Capital.

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How to Make Passive Income in the Creator Economy

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Alfonso Cobo, founder of Unfold, outlines trends and opportunities for digital creators.

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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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Max Q: A landing system for the moon and beyond

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Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Before we dive into this week’s news, a brief note: I’ll be experimenting with the newsletter over the coming weeks, trying out new segments and features, and I want to hear from you : What do you enjoy reading? What do you want more of? What bores you to tears? Shoot me an email with your feedback at aria.techcrunch@gmail.com.

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I Raised My Freelance Rates and This Is What Happened

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Declare your rates and the clients will come Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Networking with CrunchMatch starts today for TechCrunch Early Stage

TechCrunch

The ultimate educational experience for aspiring and newly minted founders — also known as TechCrunch Early Stage — kicks off on April 14 in San Francisco. We can’t wait to see you in person, but you don’t have to wait another minute to tap into the summit’s many opportunities. Starting today, you can get ahead of the networking curve by accessing CrunchMatch.

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[OurCrowd in Jewish Insider] Meet the UAE’s unofficial business ambassador

OurCrowd

Finding synergy between the Israeli entrepreneurial spirit and the thoughtful, strategic thinking of Emiratis could make for the ‘best business partnership in the world,’ says Sabah al-Binali. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd in Jewish Insider] Meet the UAE’s unofficial business ambassador appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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.