Venture Well
APRIL 21, 2022
We’re spotlighting Danielle Boyer, founder of robotics education startup The STEAM Connection and winner of our 2022 Sustainable Practice Impact Award. The post Celebrating Danielle Boyer, an Eco-Friendly Robotics Trailblazer appeared first on VentureWell.
TechCrunch
APRIL 21, 2022
We’ve heard a lot about foodtech companies introducing new types of food products to fill the gap in what is expected to be a global food shortage in the next 30 years. Much of the focus over the past six years or so was on the technology to create these new foods and not so much on how companies will make enough of it. Now we are seeing companies taking on the scalability of these products.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 21, 2022
Learn from the Founder of Leverage Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today’s guest is Jereshia Hawk, the Founder, and CEO of Leverage which is a premium coaching program. After just a few short years in business, she’s already earning over $1 million per year in profit with a 60–80% profit margin.
TechCrunch
APRIL 21, 2022
Construct Capital co-founders and general partners Dayna Grayson and Rachel Holt continue to dive into innovation that some investors may not think is so sexy, but actually runs behind the scenes so that our food gets to grocery stores every week and our packages arrive when they say they will. And this time, they have an even bigger arsenal of capital to support their efforts.
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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
OurCrowd
APRIL 21, 2022
Amazon launched Thursday a $1 billion fund focused on logistics, the supply chain and customer fulfillment with focus — at least in this first batch of investments — on wearable technology that improves safety in its fulfillment centers and robotics. Read more here. The post [BioncHIVE in TechCrunch] Meet the first 5 startups in Amazon’s new $1B industrial innovation fund appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
Startup Catalyst Brief brings together the best content for the entrepreneurial ecosystem from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 21, 2022
Founding teams reduce conflict through intentional conversations with a cofounder coach. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
APRIL 21, 2022
Jarvis ML , a platform offering an AI-powered personalization engine to brands selling products, services and experiences, today announced that it raised $16 million in a seed round led by Dell Technologies Capital. In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO Rakesh Yadav said that the new capital will be used to grow Jarvis ML’s R&D and sales and marketing teams to “accelerate product development and market penetration.” As the pandemic spurred brands to spruce up — or crea
OurCrowd
APRIL 21, 2022
A £500,000 ($650,000) investment by the National Health Service of England will expand a clinical trial in that country of the Personal KinetiGraph, or PKG smartwatch, a wrist-worn device that can detect abnormal movements in people with Parkinson’s disease. Read more here. The post [Global Kinetics in Parkinson’s News Today] Trial in England of PKG Smartwatch to Monitor Movement Expanding appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
APRIL 21, 2022
TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is expanding. The tech ecosystem has grown exponentially in size and possibility since the early days of Startup Battlefield and it’s time that we grow along with it. That’s why we’re proud to announce TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200, a new era of our exciting startup community competition. Showcasing global founders.
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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.
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
APRIL 21, 2022
The Climate Crisis: Addressing Five Key Areas for Change. Just a moment, loading… The post The Climate Crisis: Addressing Five Key Areas for Change appeared first on Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative.
TechCrunch
APRIL 21, 2022
As the global startup market digests a changing valuation environment and climate for venture investment, not every sector is taking the same amount of damage. One is indeed faring better than the rest. It’s not the flashiest sector in startupland. Instead, it’s the tried-and-true software-as-a-service (SaaS) category that appears to be in the best shape to fend off a slowdown in private-market investment.
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 21, 2022
The best industrial research labs throughout history have played a critical role in pioneering much of modern technology. Two modern examples of successful research labs — both founded in the wake of radical advances in the field of artificial intelligence … The post Announcing a16z crypto research appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
TechCrunch
APRIL 21, 2022
Luke Hutchison didn’t know exactly what he wanted to do as a graduate of West Point — only that he wanted to serve his country, graduating as he did two years after the 9/11 attack in New York. Certainly, he never imagined launching a private event management platform for restaurants and venues, but that’s what he is building, and VCs think enough of it that they just seed funded the company to the tune of $3.6 million.
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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.
Smart Hustle Magazine
APRIL 21, 2022
When Alison Gutterman’s grandfather first launched his company back in the 1940s, he had no idea that decades later, his granddaughter would be leading the family business through a global pandemic. Back then, Manny Gutterman & Associates, Inc., was a national sales representative organization selling a variety of proprietary products to chain drug, variety, hardware, and department stores while also providing a reliable channel for close-out merchandise.
TechCrunch
APRIL 21, 2022
Web3 startups’ cap tables can look quite different from traditional ones. In addition to issuing equity as a form of incentive alignment for employees, as a typical startup would, crypto companies often also issue tokens that represent ownership. Tokens are an entirely separate asset class with their own complexities, rules, and regulations. Cap table management software company Carta commanded a $7.4 billion valuation last August for its suite of tools that help companies navigate equity
Campaign Monitor
APRIL 21, 2022
When it comes to email marketing, you probably spend most of your time thinking about the message you want to get across. You’re likely to focus your energy on crafting the perfect copy , as well as including compelling images. Don’t let your attention to the body of the email come at the expense of important structural elements, like footers, though.
TechCrunch
APRIL 21, 2022
Convoy, a digital freight network that connects shippers with carriers , has raised $260 million in fresh funding to scale up initiatives that will push the trucking tech industry into new ground. The Seattle-based startup’s latest influx of capital is made up of two parts — $160 million in Series E equity led by Baillie Gifford and T. Rowe Price that brings Convoy’s valuation up to $3.8 billion, and a $100 million venture-debt investment from Hercules Capital.
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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.
Y Combinator
APRIL 21, 2022
Brex went through YC in Winter 2017, and now serves over 50,000 companies, and 40% of US startups. Last week they announced the launch of Brex Empower , a software platform that helps scaling companies manage their spend and stay financially disciplined while still moving at startup speed. They built the product to solve the problems Brex itself faced as they started growing – and launched with DoorDash as one of their first customers.
TechCrunch
APRIL 21, 2022
With more people working from home than ever, the desire to take advantage of that newfound flexibility to travel has been greater than ever. But just because you have the ability to travel and work from anywhere, doesn’t mean you can afford to. Opendoor alums Justine Palefsky and Tasneem Amina teamed up in 2021 to start a company, Kindred , with the goal of helping make traveling more accessible through a unique home-swapping model.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 21, 2022
It’s possible to hire superstars across borders, and stay compliant without breaking the bank! Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
APRIL 21, 2022
Cultivated meat, grown in a bioreactor rather than out on the range, might be one of the big food trends of the decade. But it’s relying on tech built around multiplying yeast and bacteria cells, not animal tissue — and Unicorn Biotechnologies wants to change that with new equipment created with mass food production in mind. It’s just raised $3.2 million to turn its prototype bioreactor into a commercial product.
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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
Berkonomics
APRIL 21, 2022
We think of media advertising as either paid or free – placed by paying a fee or by a PR firm or by you at no placement cost, especially when you provide editorial content beneficial to the publisher. But now there’s new media…. But this new era of Internet advertising has given rise to two more forms you should know and use in addition to the two traditional types above.
TechCrunch
APRIL 21, 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. On this fine day of April 21, 2022, we celebrate a shiny new podcast from our crypto team: Chain Reaction. Q: Why is the podcast so loud? A: Because it’s immutable. This is why we don’t get to write the crypto puns on the site.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 21, 2022
And why it all goes back to an OH SH*T! moment Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
APRIL 21, 2022
Brittany Allen. Contributor. As Sift's Trust and Safety Architect, Brittany Allen has more than a decade of experience combating e-commerce marketplace fraud at companies such as Etsy, Airbnb, 1stDibs and letgo. Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is booming in popularity, particularly among the traditional credit-wary millennial and Gen Z consumer populations.
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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.
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