TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Agtech startup Source.ag today announced it harvested a $10 million investment to make greenhouses smarter. The founders have set their eyes on a horizon where, driven by climate change and a rapid increase in global food demand as population continues to increase, more crops are being forced indoors to secure greater crop yields. You wouldn’t believe the amount of restraint it takes to not make a pun about seed funding in a piece about greenhouses.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 1, 2022

STATE COLLEGE, PA –Ben Franklin’s Tech Celerator @StateCollege; a partnership with the Invent Penn State initiative, is again offering local tech entrepreneurs, grad-students, professors, and university researchers a fun, informative 10-Week Business Startup Boot Camp. This program lets you engage with other successful entrepreneurs, discuss your business model with experts, and develop a pitch that could win you up to $10,000!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

A 2019 World Bank report says 85% of Africans live on less than $5.50 per day. A large percentage of these adults are unbanked and underbanked; thus, they don’t have access to credit and can’t afford important purchases outright. M-KOPA’s financing platform has proved helpful to this set of users since launching as an energy provider in 2011. The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarant

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 1, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Dianxiaomi, the parent company of BigSeller, Southeast Asia’s ecommerce enabler, has raised US$100 million in its Series C financing round led by Huaxing Growth Capital and Tiger Global Management along with participation from existing investors CDH Investments, GGV Capital, and Gaorong Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

When we published our last low-code/no-code investor survey in August 2020, the former president had decided to ban TikTok, Epic was filing antitrust cases against Apple and Google, and movie theaters around the U.S. were shuttering to slow the spread of the then-novel coronavirus. Seems like a long time ago. Since then, many of the key trends and themes we surfaced have come to pass: Airtable clinched an $11 billion valuation in December 2021 after raising a $735 million Series F with help from

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

No-code and low-code development suites have so far been used mostly by marketers and analysts. But the winds are shifting, and these suites are increasingly finding a place in DevOps and security. “Initially, no-code/low-code was primarily a way for non-technical builders to create (sometimes gimmicky) applications,” said Navin Chaddha, managing director at VC firm Mayfield.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 1, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Malaysian AI-driven city and property data startup Urbanmetry has announced raising $2 million in its pre-Series A funding led by Monk’s Hill Ventures. The fresh funding will be used by the Kuala Lumpur-based business to develop intelligent data solutions and platforms to serve end-users in the property and mortgage industries.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

U.K.-based music platform Uppbeat has been developing a service that makes it easier for content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos published to platforms like YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and others. Now with over 500,000 users on board, the startup is announcing the close of its £4.6 million GBP ($6.15 million USD) Series A funding round to help further grow its business.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 1, 2022

With the living proof that being a technical founder is not required to make tens of millions of dollars. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Ardy Esmaeili. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ardy Esmaeili, CPA is a startup tax accountant and tax services lead at Burkland. Would it surprise you to learn the government — federal and many states — is on your side when it comes to innovation? Yes, the very government that loves to collect taxes from you may be willing to give some of that money back through a particular credit that encourages innovation.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 1, 2022

OSSM experience helps students ‘get to the better version’ of themselves. By Scott Meacham. Students who attend the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics (OSSM) are inspiring human beings. Their academic rigor alone inspires, as does their record of college admissions. They all — 100 percent — go on to college or university. David Reynaldo Fuentez is an OSSM senior.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Is it community, or is it capitalism? It’s a question atop my mind everytime I see a community-focused startup launch with a parade of party rounds, twitter threads and links to a free Discord you can join with other like-minded fintech lovers. I always wonder if startups boasting about the importance of community publicly are the same ones that are privately poring over how they can turn that interest into future customers or investors of their startups.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 1, 2022

My friend Alex Iskold ran the 1K project during the pandemic to help families that were struggling with lost jobs/income, etc. I blogged about it here and AVC readers were generous with their support. Alex came to the US from Ukraine many years ago, but he has many friends and family members there. So naturally, he has relaunched the 1K project focused on the suffering that is happening in Ukraine.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Digital health came into its own during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing a socially distanced way for people to use apps, smartphone cameras, wearables and web services to connect with physicians and handle many other tasks that previously would have required attending meetings in person. That’s opened the door to a number of other online tools to enter the conversation with the promise of giving users not just a straight replacement but potentially better service than they might have expe

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OurCrowd

MARCH 1, 2022

Circle K and its parent company are pursuing new partnerships with startups to support innovations in the convenience channel. Read more here. The post [Farmstead in Progressive Grocer] Circle K partners with Farmstead on e-commerce and supply chain projects appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Ofek Lavian has spent years helping build and scale payments initiatives at tech giants such as Uber, Sonder and, more recently, Instacart. The highlight of his career, he says unequivocally, was during his time at Instacart when he launched the ability for Americans that are on food stamps, or take part in the nation’s EBT SNAP program, to be able to pay for groceries with those food stamps.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 1, 2022

There are people in the industry who seem to be everywhere you look. Zane Lackey has always been one of those people. He’s perhaps most well known as the cofounder and CSO of Signal Sciences, which was acquired by Fastly … The post Zane Lackey appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

A home in California has different insurance needs than a home in Nebraska, and Kin Insurance believes data and technology can determine the best way to insure homes where insurance is harder to get. It’s been a few years since we caught up with the Chicago-based direct-to-consumer home insurance company after it raised $4 million , but CEO Sean Harper told TechCrunch that among the $110 billion home insurance market, half of the homes are in regions exposed to extreme weather and fires.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 1, 2022

Intuit QuickBooks has long been the leading software helping small business owners manage their cash flow and bank account balances. Over the years it’s extended those services to payroll, accounting help and more. Recently Intuit QuickBooks is moving into directly providing financial services to its customers as well. Ramon Ray, small business expert and founder of SmartHustle.com interviewed with Rob Daniel, Director of Product Management at Intuit QuickBooks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Collaboration has always been at the heart of what Figma does. Founder Dylan Field worked for years before launching Figma with the sole mission of making design a multiplayer game. Since launch, the company has reached a $10 billion valuation and accrued millions of users, all on the back of that same collaboration-based ideology. So it should come as no surprise that Figma’s most collaborative product yet, FigJam , is expanding to the iPad on March 15.

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Feedough

MARCH 1, 2022

With the increasing prices for ingredients and manufacturing, grocery brands. Read more. The post What is Shrinkflation? – Causes, Effects, & Examples appeared first on Feedough.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Tono Mandly doesn’t consider his company, Riogrande , an e-commerce aggregator, but instead as one whose mission is to build local brands, through acquisition and incubation, for the emerging middle class of Latin American consumers. Latin America continues to be one of the fastest growing e-commerce markets in the world, with $100 billion in total addressable market, he pointed out.

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Derek Sivers

MARCH 1, 2022

I write almost everything important in my life: thoughts, plans, notes, diaries, correspondence, code, articles, and entire books. They are my extended memory — my noted self — my organized thoughts. I refer to them often. I search them, update them, and learn from them. I convert them into HTML to make websites, or LaTeX to make books. My written words are my most precious asset.

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MARCH 1, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Akin to how it takes nation-states a little time to get sanctions up and running, tech companies don’t roll out responses to geopolitical changes in a moment.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 1, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register SariSuki , a fast growing social commerce startup based in the Philippines is expanding into quick commerce with a vision to build an end-to-end eGrocery platform in the country. With the launch of this new service, SariSuki is now able to create greater value for producers at source as well as hyper-convenience for consumers.

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