Entrepreneurs' Organization
JANUARY 20, 2023
by Erick Slabaugh, a long-standing EO member in Seattle and former director on the EO Global Board “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams As a member of EO for 25 years, I have had the immense privilege of partaking in countless initiatives that transformed my own experience along the way.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 20, 2023
Thoma Bravo, the private equity and growth capital firm, today announced that it would spend $1.8 billion CAD (~$1.34 billion) to acquire Magnet Forensics, a Waterloo-based company making software used by defense forces and businesses to investigate cybersecurity threats. Magnet Forensics will be purchased by a newly created corporation controlled by Thoma Bravo, Morpheus Purchaser Inc., which will pay Magnet Forensics shareholders a 15% premium over Thursday’s closing price on the Toronto
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Startup Blogpost
JANUARY 20, 2023
From keeping your mental game strong to getting a mentor to help make decisions, here are 18 responses to the question “What is one thing you wish someone told you about starting a business from scratch?” Keep Your Mental Game Strong Be Prepared For a Long Term Commitment Think of the Cash! Research Social Branding Before Purchasing URL The People You Connect With Are What Really Counts Everything Takes Time Have a Good Marketing Plan You Can Not Be Everything for Everybody Your Star
TechCrunch
JANUARY 20, 2023
Though investment in food technology has slowed in line with the rest of the venture capital world, the industry recently achieved some milestones that suggest the sector and the government are moving into alignment. In fact, some investors feel that 2023 will be the year when alternative seafood companies and products make notable strides. More than $178 million was pumped into alternative seafood in the first half of 2022, and the market’s value is poised to reach $1.6 billion over the next 10
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AsiaTechDaily
JANUARY 20, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore-based private equity firms Capital Square Partners (CSP) and Basil Technology Partners (BTP) have publicly announced a partnership that seeks to build a leading regional technology investment platform. In addition to this, CSP also announced that it already closed its recent funding round with a total of $700 million in investments raised.
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AsiaTechDaily
JANUARY 20, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Grazzy, a next-gen employee payments platform, announced that it raised $4.25 million in Seed funding to fuel the rapid expansion and growth of its digital tipping, same-day pay services, and inclusive banking capabilities. Grazzy’s recent funding round was supported by Next Coast Ventures and Tuesday Capital.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 20, 2023
European startups have always suffered from the perennial startup problem: how to exit? However, in Europe the problem has always been particularly acute. How many large European industrial or corporate giants acquire or acqu-hire? Not that many and not nearly enough. It’s part of the reason so many European startups end up heading to the US. The US one of the few markets where you can achieve decent scale, as well has have the potential to exit either trough a sale to one of the global tech pla
AsiaTechDaily
JANUARY 20, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore logistics engine Locad announced that has raised an $11 million Series A funding round to expand its supply chain platform that allows modern consumer brands in Asia-Pacific to automatically store, pack, ship and track their orders in a distributed, end-to-end supply chain as-a-service.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 20, 2023
Many of us would feel better if we ate better. But for patients with chronic diseases, the issue is more pressing: Fixing their diet is often key to keeping their condition under control. According to the CDC , six in 10 adults in the U.S. have a chronic disease such as diabetes or heart conditions. Millions of these could benefit from professional nutrition guidance but don’t always have the time or means to seek care.
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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.
GCUC
JANUARY 20, 2023
GCUC Podcast Recap: Bill Bennett Running 3.8M square feet in 34 cities and 45 locations successfully through a global pandemic has its own unique challenges. Join Bill Bennett, Founder.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 20, 2023
Even as VC funding dries up across the world, development finance institutions (DFIs) are looking to African startups to deploy their dry powder. British International Investment (BII), a DFI from the UK, told TechCrunch recently that it will deploy $500 million into startups by the end of 2026, and half of that amount has been earmarked for African tech companies.
StartupNation
JANUARY 20, 2023
Owning a small business or startup can be exhilarating and fulfilling, but it can also come with stress… The post Beat Burnout: 7 Self-Care Tips for Busy Small Business Owners appeared first on StartupNation.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 20, 2023
People can never land on a word to explain what is happening to women and minorities within venture. Are such founders overlooked or undersought? Underestimated and underrepresented? Marginalized? Discriminated against? Or just ignored? The excuses used to justify these sobriquets are equally scattered. Women received just 1.9% of all venture capital funds last year because they are only building beauty and wellness companies; there is a lack of a proven track record; it’s too early, they are to
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AsiaTechDaily
JANUARY 20, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indian proptech startup Landeed announced raising $8.2 million in its Seed funding round backed by Draper Associates, Y Combinator , and Bayhouse Capital. The company said it plans to grow its existing team and further strengthen its technical infrastructure with the fresh funding.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 20, 2023
Due to a phenomenon called semantic satiation, if you repeat a word or phrase too frequently, it can sometimes lose all meaning. That’s what happened to “unicorn:” We wore it out like a pair of sneakers that leak in the rain but are too comfortable to part with. In fact, most of the startups in CB Insights’ unicorn index are on the bubble and “ are actually hovering right at the $1 billion mark ,” reports Rebecca Szkutak. “How many of these will stay uni
OurCrowd
JANUARY 20, 2023
NEW YORK, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Ro, the leading direct-to-patient healthcare company, announced today the launch of the Ro Body Program, a comprehensive weight loss program that provides access to GLP-1 medications, the most effective prescription obesity treatments available. Ro aims to help millions of Americans living with obesity achieve their weight loss goals through access to prescription treatment supported by personalized provider care, diagnostic testing with at-home sampl
TechCrunch
JANUARY 20, 2023
Area 120 , the Google in-house incubator responsible for products such as Checks , Tables , Stack and ThreadBite , has been significantly affected by broader layoffs at Google parent company Alphabet. A spokesperson tells TechCrunch via email that the majority of the Area 120 team has been “winded down,” and that only three projects from the division will graduate later this year into core Google product areas.
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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
JANUARY 20, 2023
Veronica Torres Contributor Share on Twitter Veronica Torres is the worldwide privacy and regulatory counsel for Jumio , where she provides strategic legal counsel regarding business processes, applications and technologies to ensure compliance with privacy laws. It’s true there has been progress around data protection in the U.S. thanks to the passing of several laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act ( CCPA ), and nonbinding documents, such as the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 20, 2023
Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, Natasha Mascarenhas, Mary Ann Azevedo and Rebecca Szkutak jumped on the mic to talk through a diverse news week. Shoutout to our producer, Theresa Loconsolo, for putting together a script, and TC’s Andrew Mendez for this feedback: “Y’all slayyyed that recording and honestly can’t wait to you all up on social media when this epi
TechCrunch
JANUARY 20, 2023
You know what it’s like — you’ve been on vacation and you’ve taken 28 million photos, and you just want to select the best 12 so you can make a calendar. Ain’t nobody got time for that — and that’s what GoodOnes is here to help you with. The app is in early access mode at the moment, and just closed a $3.5 million round of seed funding to continue its march toward launch.
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