TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Looking for a new apartment is either a leisurely thing to do or something that has to take place quite quickly. When you don’t reach anyone in the leasing office, you often move on to the next one on the list, even if it was one you would have considered. Zuma wants to ensure that any reach out for information is answered in minutes versus days. Today, the company, which adds artificial intelligence to sales engagement, exited its beta phase with $6.7 million in seed funding led by Andreessen H

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Indiegogo founder Slava Rubin, who recently raised $6 million for alt investment platform Vincent, shares fundraising advice from his… Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The skyline of the city is a mass of brightly lit office buildings, industrial factories and skyscrapers, the endless hash of lights and shadows making the night seem as if it is teeming with life. Within that urban jungle, we find Amit Gupta , our dastardly hero. He smelled of fresh laundry, hair gel and a faint aroma of peppermint. His suit was a silken blend of powerful cologne and a soft, warm scent of leather and musk.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Learn from a partner at Accomplice VC Image courtesy of Sarah Downey Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sarah A. Downey is an operating partner at Accomplice VC, an angel investor, and the founder of an upcoming lifestyle app (currently in stealth). She is also one of Dave’s new favorite human beings.

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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This is a fantastic time to found a startup, but unless you plan to bootstrap it, you will still need to go through the laborious exercise of crafting a pitch deck. With so much riding on the outcome, this can be an extremely stressful process — a convincing deck requires you to come up with data-driven answers for existential questions: Can you lay out your plan for tripling revenue YoY?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In February, parents received a shock when a report from the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform showed that some commercial baby foods were found to contain “dangerous levels” of toxic metals. This caused a flurry of information in the media on the impacts and what parents can do to avoid it, which included checking ingredients. That growing awareness for nutrition also benefited food companies focused on providing more nutritious options for babies and older children.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Learn from a founding member at Hopin Image courtesy of Dave Schools Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Today’s guest is Dave Schools! He’s the founder of Entrepreneur’s Handbook and hosted the previous episodes of this podcast. Interviewed by his editor, Amardeep, Dave talks about his experience as a multi-project entrepreneur and how it led him to become part of the founding team at Hopin.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Helaina , a company producing a first-of-its-kind infant milk, announced $20 million in Series A financing to usher in its next phase of growth that includes beginning the manufacturing and commercialization process for its first product. Food scientist Laura Katz, who also teaches food science at New York University, founded the company in 2019, and touts it as “the first company making functional human proteins for food.”.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses a new grant program designed to provide support for underrepresented small business owners. If you quality, apply now! Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about the $1.65M initiative from American Express and Main Street America: . Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat.

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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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

John Story. Contributor. Share on Twitter. John Story is general counsel and chief data ethics officer at Acoustic. Previously, he served as a senior member of the legal team at Pax Labs and GoPro. Did you know your company’s data privacy practices can be a competitive differentiator? Usually, we think of competitive differentiators around the level of service you provide, the quality of your products or even the price point for your solutions.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Rather than buy technology, the agency’s meeting division has struck a new type of commercial deal with the fast-growing meeting software firm Bizzabo to tap into virtual meetings. A big bet that those meetings will be here to stay. Read more here. The post [Bizzabo in Business Travel News] Amex GBT, Bizzabo Partner appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The decision by Sequoia to become a registered investment adviser (RIA) and move to a “singular, permanent structure,” in its own words, landed with a splash in the U.S. venture capital market. But perhaps it shouldn’t have made quite as many waves as it did. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

MaaS pioneer Moovit, has announced it has added Link and Bird e-scooters to its mulitmodal booking platform, which enables commuters to access multiple public and private transit services in the free Moovit app. Through Moovit’s partnership with Link, Moovit users will now be able to view in real-time where a vehicle is available nearby, how long it will take to walk there, and compare Link e-scooter rides with other modes of local transportation in order to select the option which best suits th

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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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Ranga Bodla. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ranga Bodla is the head of industry marketing for Oracle NetSuite and responsible for driving overall strategy and go-to-market success across all of NetSuite’s industries. Funding for startups is on fire. But sometimes to get that funding, particularly after the seed round, startups need to have their financial house in order.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Top investment opportunities. Startup of the Week: Flytrex drones deliver to your backyard. The chip that stole Christmas. El Al showcases IntellAct at Dubai Airshow. Sniffing out Covid-19. Breaking OurCrowd news at FinTech Abu Dhabi. Life lessons from a venture visionary. OurCrowd Global Investor Summit returns to Jerusalem. Superpedestrian partners with Moovit to improve urban mobility.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Pony.ai, the self-driving startup that operates in both the U.S. and China, has lost at least two executives from its trucking team following the combination of the company’s passenger car and self-driving truck R&D teams. The development, initially detailed by two sources familiar with the internal restructure that happened quietly in September, was later confirmed by Pony.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There are two inescapable truths in content marketing: You need to produce new content consistently to be successful. Consistently coming up with new content ideas is hard. Fortunately, you don’t have to come up with a new idea for every single piece of content you produce. Repurposing your existing content into growth-focused marketing videos helps you maintain consistent content production without spending hours racking your brain for new ideas. .

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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.

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

One of the most noticeable — and noted — effects of climate change has been its impact on how other events in the environment — be they natural or man-made occurrences — play out: forest fires burn more violently and for longer; floods happen more often and are more severe when they do; and so on, with climate change often cited as the main culprit for all of the catastrophes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Earlier this week, Amazon announced that it would stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the U.K. due to high interchange fees on transactions. The company gave a deadline of January 19 and is offering consumers who primarily use Visa cards £20 off a purchase as an incentive to update their preferred payment method. The move followed similar efforts by Amazon to curtail the use of Visa-issued credit cards in Singapore and Australia, markets where the e-commerce giant introduced a 0.5% surcha

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Good news, everyone: Mary Ann is back! Yes, after a short absence we have our third Friday host back where she belongs. Namely right in front of a microphone, talking to us. And it was good to have her back, as we had a small mountain of news to talk through: OpenSea could be worth $10 billion : Right before we recorded, news broke that OpenSea could raise new

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The TechCrunch Experts program had an active week! Joey Noble, community manager for Demand Curve, returned with a teardown of Customer.io’s homepage with insights you can apply to your own company’s website, and Jonathan Martinez shared his essentials for creating an optimal growth marketing tech stack. With the new year almost upon us, I interviewed several of the experts we’ve identified through the Experts program and asked each of them how they’d manage a small Q1 20

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The market for crypto-focused investing is growing rapidly. News that Paradigm put together a $2.5 billion fund the other day is a reminder of the scale of funds now available to startups looking to build on the blockchain. Andreessen Horowitz has a mega-fund in the market as well , while Coinbase Ventures is setting a blistering pace for a corporate venture firm.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Flytrex , the Israeli startup working with Walmart , Chilli’s, and others in North Carolina in pilots for a drone-based delivery service targeting suburban consumers, has picked up $40 million in funding to continue developing its hardware and software, and more business partnerships, as it awaits regulatory nods to expand its service to more markets in the U.S.

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