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Sportstech is Creating a Player-Centric Future

Revolution

This article originally appeared on Fortune.com [link]. Superstar athletes have always commanded power and prestige through their celebrity status. But today, players want to capitalize on their personal, multi-million-follower brands at the peaks of their careers rather than afterwards. In the digital age, they are among the biggest social media influencers, and that won’t stop any time soon.

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Build a business that sells for more

NZ Entrepreneur

One day you’ll want out! You’ve come a long way and it’s your baby – you have nurtured and put your all into this business. Letting go and selling your business is never easy. But the time will come when other pastures and missions call, when the passion starts to wane, or a life event dictates that it’s time to cash up and exit your business. As an entrepreneur this can go against the grain.

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Klarity lands $18M to read scores of documents so you don’t have to

TechCrunch

Reviewing repetitive documents is, well, repetitive, but Klarity believes people don’t have to do all of that and is building an artificial intelligence tool, targeting finance and accounting departments, that turns documents into structured data. Document automation is not a new concept. There was an original wave of companies working on partial document automation, which still needs a human review, but Ondrej Antos, Klarity’s co-founder and CEO, explained that the full document automation mark

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Dremio - A Foundational Component of the Modern Data Stack

Tomasz Tunguz

In 2015, Dremio started in our offices. Today, the company announced its Series E at $2 billion valuation. The business has cemented itself as a foundational component of the Modern Data Stack. About seven years ago, Dremio’s founder Tomer envisioned a product that would enable customers to manage data and compute separately. Today, we call this idea the data lakehouse and a query engine.

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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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Asia HR tech platform Darwinbox becomes unicorn with TCV-led $72 million funding

TechCrunch

HR tech platform Darwinbox has more than tripled its valuation to become a unicorn in a new $72 million funding round as the Indian startup leads what an investor calls the “SaaSification of Asia” trend. Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) — an investor known for backing firms such as Netflix, Meta, Spotify and Airbnb — led the Hyderabad-headquartered startup’s $72 million Series D funding.

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Intellect, the mental health startup focused on APAC, raises $10M Series A

TechCrunch

Mental health app Intellect’s founder and CEO Theodoric Chew. Intellect , the Singapore-based mental health startup focused primarily on Asia-Pacific markets, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A. The company’s services, including self-directed mental wellness programs in 15 languages and online therapy sessions, are available through two channels: as an employee benefit and through Intellect’s consumer app.

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Entrepreneurs: How to Focus Ruthlessly and Win in 2022

StartupNation

New and aspiring entrepreneurs often fall victim to impatience and imperfection. When something’s not working perfectly to their standards (or worse, fails), they take it personally and don’t know how to move on to better iterations after the setback. But that’s what startup life is all about. To win, you have to learn how to rebound from failures — fast.

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Will the latest selloff finally shake up how investors value startups?

TechCrunch

Well, here we are. The bad things are still happening: The U.S. stock market opened in the red this morning, with broad indices losing ground (the S&P 500 is off 2.3%) and the tech-heavy Nasdaq taking even more punishment (off 2.7%). The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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Three innovative startups connect with i2E venture advisory services

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Our venture advisors work with innovative Oklahoma companies to advance their technologies and position them for funding. Here are three exciting ventures that recently connected with our venture advisory services. BAYESIC TECHNOLOGIES. Bayesic Technologies was founded in 2015 by four partners affiliated with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology.

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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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Telemedicine startups can survive and thrive under renewed regulation

TechCrunch

Nathaniel M. Lacktman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nathaniel M. Lacktman is a partner at Foley & Lardner and chair of the law firm’s national Telemedicine & Digital Health Industry Team. Jacqueline N. Acosta. Contributor. Jacqueline N. Acosta is special counsel at Foley & Lardner and a member of the law firm’s Telemedicine & Digital Health Industry Team.

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I Became a Better Fundraiser When I Stopped Forcing VCs to Ask Me Stupid Questions

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Investors always ask questions during fundraising pitches, but they’re not always good questions Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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For the first time in 4 years, profitability beats growth

TechCrunch

Jeremy Abelson. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jeremy Abelson is the founder and lead portfolio manager of Irving Investors. Combining his experience as an operator and institutional investor, Abelson runs Irving as a multi-strategy platform making long-term durable investments in both the public and private markets. More posts by this contributor. While the IPO market roars back, venture remains leery.

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[OncoHost in Calcalist] Next Israeli astronaut’s 35 experiments revealed

OurCrowd

Needle-free blood tests, cosmic lightning, super-vegetables, and nano-ghosts are just a few of the innovative experiments Eytan Stibbe will test during his February mission to the International Space Station. Read more here. The post [OncoHost in Calcalist] Next Israeli astronaut’s 35 experiments revealed appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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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Mentor Collective shakes off its boots to scale student support services

TechCrunch

Mentorship is a crucial ingredient to a student’s success. The demand for a platform to make the art of advice more accessible is thus easy for entrepreneurs to identify then pitch, but the serendipity — or the chasm between what makes someone an effective mentor versus just a speed dial for questions — is harder for them to scale. Startups that want to scale mentorship across different industries need to build up a supply of mentors diverse, and present, enough to click with the var

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[Stellar Cyber in Business Wire] Stellar Cyber’s open XDR platform wins INTERNET TELEPHONY Cybersecurity Excellence Award

OurCrowd

Stellar Cyber, the leading security operations platform for MSSPs and the innovator of Open XDR, today announced that its Open XDR platform has won an INTERNET TELEPHONY Cybersecurity Excellence Award. Read more here. . The post [Stellar Cyber in Business Wire] Stellar Cyber’s open XDR platform wins INTERNET TELEPHONY Cybersecurity Excellence Award appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Anyplace raises $5.3M to provide a home (office) away from home

TechCrunch

In this era of remote work, people want as much flexibility as possible to live where they want, when they want. It’s no surprise that we’ve seen a flurry of startups emerge to give people more options for long-term stays. Anyplace is one such startup. A self-described “digital nomad,” Satoru Steve Naito says he co-founded San Francisco-based Anyplace in 2017 because he wanted the product for himself.

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Propel Your Business Forward by Avoiding These Entrepreneurial Traps

StartupNation

This excerpt is adapted from “Yes, You Can Take a Day Off: Escape the Nine Traps of Growing Your Small Business” by David A. Hiatt and Susan Hance Sykes. Copyright 2021 Sandler Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Sandler and Sandler Training are registered service marks of Sandler Systems, Inc. The nine entrepreneurial traps. Let’s look at the nine common entrepreneurial traps that drive business owners to the brink of burnout, and then let’s focus on the strategies that will generat

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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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Tekever raises $23M for industrial drone technology optimized for maritime surveillance

TechCrunch

Industrial drones — the enterprise complement to the unmanned aerial vehicles that consumers own for leisurely use — are taking off in the market, fueled by a new wave of software and hardware technology that improves their battery life, reach and performance, and a growing number of organizations investing in these services to raise their data operations games.

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What Is Q-Commerce? – Quick Commerce Business Model Explained

Feedough

Getting products delivered within an hour of ordering was a. Read more.

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Zoi, a preventive care startup co-founded by a former Macron advisor, raises $23 million seed round

TechCrunch

Meet Zoi, a new French startup that wants to combine routine medical checkups with preventive care through a mobile app. The startup has been co-founded by Ismaël Emelien , former special advisor to Emmanuel Macron during the early days of its presidency, and Paul Dupuy, who previously worked on Workwell. Before I tell you more about the product and vision, it’s also worth noting that the company has raised an impressive seed round of $23 million (€20 million) from business angels exclusively.

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5 Ways to Make Your Trade Show Event Booth Stand Out

StartupNation

Creating a winning trade show stand can be the difference between a lackluster event for your business or a year full of potential leads. Before you can build a rapport with potential customers at an exhibition, you need to first attract them to your stand. Getting your booth to pop amid the competition can feel like fighting against a crowd, however, these five fundamental ways from Gazeboshop will ignite curiosity in passersby and turn them into potential customers.

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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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Spectrum Labs raises $32M for AI-based content moderation that monitors billions of conversations daily for toxicity

TechCrunch

Two years into the pandemic, online conversations are for many of us still the primary interactions that we are having every day, and we are collectively having billions of them. But as many of us have discovered, not all of those are squeaky clean, positive experiences. Today, a startup called Spectrum Labs — which provides artificial intelligence technology to platform providers to detect and shut down toxic exchanges in real time (specifically, 20 milliseconds or less) — is announ

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WJR Business Beat: Customer Service is King (Episode 350)

StartupNation

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses survey results on how underwhelmed people are by customer service these days despite it being the greatest opportunity for small businesses to rise to the top. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about the survey: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat.

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Codenotary raises $12.5M Series B to secure software supply chains

TechCrunch

Codenotary , a service that makes it easier for development teams to build transparent software supply chains (and also the company behind the popular open source immudb immutable database), today announced that it has raised a $12.5 million Series B round from new and existing investors like Bluwat, Elaia and others. This new round brings the company’s total funding to $18 million, including last July’s $5.5 million Series A round.

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Teardown: The Secret Behind Shopify’s Unparalleled SEO Growth

Entrepreneur's Handbook

From zero to e-commerce linchpin Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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.