Wed.Jun 22, 2022

article thumbnail

Impact Investor Profile Series: Peter Adams, Managing Director, Rockies Venture Fund

The Seraf Compass

This profile is the third in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting impact investors. Peter Adams is a Colorado-based author, investor, speaker, educator and community leader.

ventures 179
article thumbnail

Summit of the Americas inspires commitments on migration, green energy and climate?

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Summit of the Americas inspires commitments on migration, green energy and climate. By ShareAmerica. The United States and partner nations across the Western Hemisphere came together at the ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles to forge regional agreements and partnerships on subjects from green jobs to COVID-19 aid and economic growth. “There is no reason why the Western Hemisphere shouldn’t be secure, prosperous, and democratic, from Canada’s northernmost reaches to the southern tips of

energy 130
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Thepeer, an API-based startup that connects African businesses, raises $2.1M, led by Raba Partnership

TechCrunch

Thepeer , an African tech infrastructure startup connecting businesses’ wallets, has raised a $2.1 million seed round led by the Raba Partnership. The news comes a year after the startup raised $220,000 in pre-seed from a handful of angel investors, including Paystack CTO Ezra Olubi and Edenlife CTO Prosper Otemuyiwa. Participating investors in Thepeer’s seed round include RaliCap, Timon Capital, BYLD Ventures, Musha Ventures, Sunu and Uncovered Fund.

startup 108
article thumbnail

The Web3 Marketing Stack: The Next Big Wave in Crypto

Tomasz Tunguz

For web3 startups to thrive, their marketing teams will need to spend marketing dollars to acquire users efficiently. Existing marketing technology won’t work for web3. Web2 marketing employs the cookie as the primary identifier of a person, not a wallet. There’s no bridge between web2 & web3 data, yet. The behavioral patterns in web3 differ driven by anonymity, communication patterns on discord and telegram, and the consequences of using tokens as user acquisition, as governance

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

TechCrunch

Israeli startup Wilco describes itself as “an immersive upskilling platform for software developers,” and snuck out of stealth this week with its first public version, and a stash-box with $7 million worth of fresh seed funding. It’s just weird enough that it’s the kind of thing I completely love. The problem the company is trying to solve, is the bewildering array of options available to a freshly minted, wet behind the ears software developer.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Strapi lands $31M for its ‘headless’ CMS platform

TechCrunch

Strapi , an open source content management system (CMS), today announced that it raised $31 million in Series B funding led by CRV with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures, and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. With the capital, CEO Pierre Burgy tells TechCrunch that the plan is to launch a new product, Strapi Cloud, while bringing in additional tech and solution partners and further developing the Strapi project.

article thumbnail

Le Yen Thanh, CEO of Vietnam’s Phenikaa MaaS, named in 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Le Yen Thanh, the 28-year-old CEO of Vietnam’s smart mobility startup Phenikaa Maas , is among the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia honorees in the Industry, Manufacturing & Energy category. The said category honors individuals who are using technology to improve various industries, including the logistics and supply chain sector, which has been booming during the Covid-19 online-order

article thumbnail

Time-tested tactics for building investor presentations

TechCrunch

Lev Kerzhner. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lev Kerzhner leads Saragus Agency, which provides corporate storytelling services to startups, companies, entrepreneurs and investor groups. Over the past two years, I’ve designed dozens of presentations for a variety of companies at various stages of fundraising — from startup SAFE rounds, to VC rounds and IPOs.

article thumbnail

Cryptocurrency Is in a Death Spiral. What the Hell Is Going On?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Let me explain without all the jargon so you don’t get wrecked. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

It’s time for LPs to take more responsibility in the fight for economic equality

TechCrunch

The past decade has seen Black founders raise a vanishingly small portion of venture capital funding. How to fix the problem? That question is always met with the same answer: Allocate more capital to Black entrepreneurs. But that has yet to happen. In fact, Black founders receive less than 1.5% of all VC funds, whether bull or bear market. So what’s going on?

article thumbnail

Vietnamese digital investment platform Finhay scores $25m funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Finhay , Vietnam’s premier digital investment platform , has secured $25 million in its Series B funding round co-led by Openspace Ventures and VIG. Insignia, TVS, Headline, TNBAura, and IVC also participated in the funding round, according to an announcement.

article thumbnail

Aidaly makes sure family caregivers get financial compensation

TechCrunch

Caring for a family member is not only hard work, but expensive, too. Many family caregivers miss work (or stop working) and pay for medical expenses out of pocket. Aidaly was created to help them find sources for compensation and financial aid. The company, which is coming out of stealth mode, announced that it has raised $8.5 million in funding led by Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Operator Partners, Precursor Ventures, Primetime Partners

health 98
article thumbnail

Korean startup CONTEC’s ground stations behind the successful launch of KARI’s KSLV-II

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The Korean launch vehicle Nuri (KSLV-II) was successfully launched from the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea at 16:00 pm on 21 st June 2022. Private space companies participated in this test launch along with Korea Aerospace Research Institute(KARI), contributing to the achievement of the first Korean launch vehicle developed solely from domestic technology.

startup 52
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Appsmith, a low-code platform for building business apps, lands $41M

TechCrunch

For the last several years, Appsmith has been quietly building an open source platform for internal development teams to build the custom apps they need. These are business applications that companies tend to build themselves to give them access to data in a more streamlined and visual way. While the company frames it as low-code, it’s designed to speed up the development process for experienced developers, rather than helping line of business users build applications, as some low-code applicati

article thumbnail

5 Startup Metrics Every Business Owner Must Know If They Want to Succeed

Entrepreneur's Handbook

How to know if your side hustle is on the correct path. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

startup 64
article thumbnail

Airspace Link’s drone tracking platform gathers government customers before going global

TechCrunch

Detroit-based Airspace Link has positioned itself as a provider of increasingly important infrastructure in the burgeoning drone services space, letting operators get local and federal approval quickly. With $23 million in new backing, the company now plans to take its platform to other countries looking to get their drone industries off the ground.

article thumbnail

7 signs of a weak leadership team

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Gino Wickman, a recent EO 360 podcast guest and the author of Traction and The EOS Life , as well as the creator of EOS (the Entrepreneurial Operating System), which more than 140,000 entrepreneurs use to run their companies. He also created The 10 Disciplines for Managing and Maximizing Your Energy. I recently delivered my 2,000th session with the hard-charging leadership teams of 135 companies.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Dear Sophie: What are my F-1 OPT options if my crypto job is no longer available?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Which visa is best for bootstrapping a startup?

advice 94
article thumbnail

How You Can Join a Startup Without Any Startup Experience

Entrepreneur's Handbook

How do you get experience without any, to begin with? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

startup 52
article thumbnail

9 ways founders can bring automation to healthcare

TechCrunch

Vignesh Chandramouli. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Vignesh Chandramouli , a partner at Oak HC/FT, focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities in healthcare. For years, automation has been a key driver of transformation across industries, changing the way companies and entire sectors operate. However, healthcare, a $4.1 trillion industry, has fallen behind.

article thumbnail

[Shield in ECO News] Israeli Shield installs innovation hub in Lisbon

OurCrowd

Israeli tech company Shield is setting up an innovation hub in Lisbon to develop solutions for all projects and clients worldwide. The technology company, which closed a US$15 million Series A funding deal in January, is starting up with 12 employees. “By the end of the year they want to reach 20 people in the tech sector,” clarifies the official source of the company to ECO.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Fintech infrastructure startup Prime Trust raises $100M to add IRAs, crypto staking

TechCrunch

There’s been a massive proliferation of fintech services in the past few years, during which fintech companies competed to develop new products more quickly than their competitors. Nowadays, the race between fintechs has much more to do with consolidation and which companies can build a holistic, “one-stop-shop” by bringing those different products onto one platform.

startup 89
article thumbnail

[OurCrowd in SoftBank Vision Fund] Efficient marketing that moves the needle

OurCrowd

Four founders discuss their most cost-effective marketing investments. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd in SoftBank Vision Fund] Efficient marketing that moves the needle appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

article thumbnail

Software DevOps platform Gearset raises $55M

TechCrunch

Gearset , a tooling provider for Salesforce software, today announced that it raised $55 million in a funding tranche led by Silversmith Capital Partners. Co-founder and CEO Kevin Boyle said that the new money will be put toward expanding Gearset ’s product offering, growing its sales and marketing functions, and scaling the team across the U.S. and U.K.

article thumbnail

[Alpha Tau in PR Newswire] Alpha Tau announces treatment of first prostate cancer patient with Alpha DaRT™

OurCrowd

JERUSALEM, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Alpha Tau Medical Ltd. (Nasdaq: DRTS) (“Alpha Tau”), the developer of the innovative alpha-radiation cancer therapy Alpha DaRT™, announced today that the first patient was treated in a feasibility study evaluating the Alpha DaRT as a neoadjuvant therapy in patients with prostate cancer at the Rambam Health Care Center in Haifa, Israel.

health 28
article thumbnail

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.