Jason Malki

MARCH 9, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Karen Sheffield, the Founder & Managing Partner of Pachamama Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in US early-stage climate tech companies. She is also a Finance Director at Visa and has previously worked for PepsiCo and American Airlines. A self-described operator turned investor, Karen began angel investing 3 years ago and, ever since then, has dedicated much of her time to uncovering opportunities in unlikely places.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Mythic , an AI chip startup that last November reportedly ran out of capital, rose from the ashes today with an unexpected injection of fresh funds. Mythic this morning announced that it closed a $13 million financing round led by existing investors Atreides Management, DCVC and Lux Capital alongside new investors Catapult Ventures and Hermann Hauser Investment.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 9, 2023

Here is one very personal question. “Have you figured out what you want to have, or to be, when you reach the end of your personal run in this business life?” It is a fair question to ask. Most of us work in our businesses, either as managers or owners, and rarely step outside to think about how this will end in a perfect world. Investors call this discussion “exit planning” and of course they include themselves in the discussion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Keith Putnam-Delaney Contributor Share on Twitter Keith Putnam-Delaney is the founder and CEO of Primer , a platform that offers hyperprecise targeting for B2B marketers. Growing a B2B business is becoming increasingly complex. The market is inundated with products thanks to the explosion of SaaS, it’s getting harder to leverage ad platforms and email, and identity management is Byzantine.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 9, 2023

Career stall-out is a frustration that many individuals in senior and long-term care know deeply and painfully. It can be extremely difficult for people to advance in senior care without additional training or education. Read more here. The post [Apploi in McKnights] The key to retention in long-term care? Create career paths appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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StartupNation

MARCH 9, 2023

The following is an excerpt from “Your Company Is Your Castle: Proven Methods for Building a Resilient Business”… The post Your Company Is Your Castle: Convert Disruptive Ideas to Disruptive Products appeared first on StartupNation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Some of Silicon Valley Bank’s customers are struggling to transfer funds out of their bank accounts, numerous sources tell TechCrunch. The seeming wave of attempted withdrawals comes after SVB announced yesterday that it lost $1.8 billion in the sale of U.S. treasuries and mortgage-backed securities that it had invested in, owing to rising interest rates.

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StartupNation

MARCH 9, 2023

Inbound vs. outbound is one of the biggest questions that may arise when starting up. When you have… The post Inbound vs. Outbound Marketing: Which One is Better for Your Startup? appeared first on StartupNation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Wheel the World wants to open the world up to people with disabilities and has made it its mission since 2018 to provide travel accommodations and experiences that fit their needs, both in the United States and worldwide. Today, the company announced two new booking tool features, including guaranteed accessibility for hotel rooms booked from its website and a price match offer.

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Founder Bounty

MARCH 9, 2023

There are a variety of side hustles that people can pursue while looking for work, depending on their skills, interests, and available time. Times are tough so we have put together a couple of ideas, but remeber starting your own business is very hard and you have to be ready to be able to take a huge risk. Here are a few examples: Freelance writing or graphic design: If you have writing or design skills, you could offer your services as a freelancer on sites like Upwork or Fiverr.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Move over, software. Prompts may well be the new oil. Writing the text strings that instruct AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 to generate essays, articles, images and more has become a veritable profession, commanding salaries well into the six-figure range. Anyone can come up with prompts, of course. But only certain prompts (e.g. “Create a watercolor of a solider standing in the middle of a field, in the style of John Singer Sargent) accomplish very specific, desirable (or undesirabl

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OurCrowd

MARCH 9, 2023

DENVER , March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Ursa Major, America’s leading privately funded company focused solely on rocket propulsion, today announced a milestone in the development of its redesigned “Ripley” rocket engine: successful hotfire tests. Read more here. The post [Ursa Major in PR Newswire] American rocket propulsion leader Ursa Major completes hotfire test campaign of 50,000-pound thrust “Ripley” engine appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Bach, an app for planning bachelorette trips and group travel experiences, has announced $9 million in Series A funding led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital. The app, available on the Google Play Store and the iOS App Store , is designed to help users plan a group trip with their friends from start to finish. Launched in 2020, Bach aims to solve the hassle behind coordinating group travel by allowing groups to discover, plan and book trips all in one place.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 9, 2023

Mountain View, CA | March 09, 2023 09:31 AM Eastern Standard Time HUB Cyber Security Ltd (HUB Cyber Security Ltd (NASDAQ: HUBC), a developer of Confidential Computing cybersecurity solutions and services (“HUB” or the “Company”), today announced a unique cyber risk management solution that seeks to allow insurance carriers and reinsurers to effectively evaluate, price and underwrite cyber insurance policies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Meet Tweed , a startup coming out of stealth today that has been working on a white-label cryptocurrency wallet and payment solution. With Tweed, companies can generate wallets for their users so they can buy, hold, send and spend crytpo assets without any technical knowledge. The startup raised a $4 million seed round last summer with Accel leading the round.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 9, 2023

Read more here. The post [Ravin AI in Auto Remarketing] Gauge taps Ravin AI to streamline vehicle inspections for online auction appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

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OurCrowd

MARCH 9, 2023

Founded by an Israeli who has raised over $5 billion in private investments, NewVest offers easier access to a high-performing asset class Read more here. The post [OC 50 PE Index Fund Powered by NewVest in The Times of Israel] NewVest lowers barrier to private equity investing appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Welcome to our 40th Pitch Deck Teardown! Goodness, time flies. Of those 40, just three were angel rounds, so today, we’ll take apart the angel deck of MiO Marketplace , a platform for media publishers and buyers. The company raised $550,000 at a $3.6 million pre-money valuation. Breakdown of the pitch deck teardowns to date. Image Credits: TechCrunch / Haje Kamps We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do tha

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

It’s not every day that banking news is the big story in the startup world, but here we are. Yesterday the previously crypto-friendly Silvergate Bank announced that it would “wind down operations and voluntarily liquidate” itself. The company’s stock had been under massive pressure in recent months, exacerbated by a note from the bank on March 1 that its earnings data would be delayed due to possible internal controls issues.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Last month, Chicago-based Chalo Ventures surpassed 100 LPs. For founder and general partner Haris Khurshid, it was a notable milestone toward the firm’s goal of hitting 1,000 LPs, a number that would likely make most legacy investors wince. But while there are a number of potential annoyances or issues that come with having a larger LP base — more people means more opinions, after all — it seems that newer funds are raising cash from more LPs than ever before.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Social music streaming startup Stationhead announced today that it’s launching a new live commerce tool that allows select artists and hosts to sell digital tracks to fans during livestreaming parties on their stations. The startup says artists including BlackPink, Niall Horan, TXT and 5 Seconds of Summer have already used the feature during live release parties on the platform.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

For years, Phil George was the executive sponsor of a mentoring program at McMaster-Carr, an industrial hardware supplier, where he spent weeks trying to match program participants with only scant information about them to go on. Employees often requested resources while mentors asked for training, and mentees wanted more guidance on goals. And as the program progressed, there weren’t reliable methods in place to measure success. “The program was highly inefficient, which made it imp

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

It may go down in the history books about Silicon Valley: the time that its most prominent bank, a bank founded nearly 40 years earlier, inflicted such grievous injury on itself that it had to be rescued by another bank or else risk going down in flames in a single day. We don’t yet know who that “white knight” will be, but you can bet a lot of conversations are happening right now about who will step in and acquire Silicon Valley Bank, an institution whose shares are down roughly more than 80%

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Synctera , a banking-as-a-service startup, has raised an additional $15 million as it expands into Canada. NAventures, the corporate venture arm of National Bank of Canada, led the financing, which brings Synctera’s total raised to $60 million since its June 2020 inception. Private equity firm The Banc Funds and sponsor bank partners Veritex Community Bank, Midland States Bank and Emigrant Bank also participated in the round.

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