TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Laura Spiekerman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Laura Spiekerman is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Alloy , an identity-decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies. We’ve all seen the headlines: Fintech is struggling. Since last year, valuations are down 70%-80% , deal activity is down 67% and layoffs have plagued many former industry favorites.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Learn from the founder of Springboard [link] Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Welcome to the Entrepreneur’s Handbook Podcast, where we share inspiring startup stories and practical takeaways for you, the listener. Founder and CEO Gautam Tambay reveals how Springboard has created $300 million worth of new job offers and is beating grad school in job success rate.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Falkon , a sales analytics platform that uses AI to attempt to show where successful product sales are occuring in an organization, today announced that it raised $16 million in a funding round led by OMERS Ventures with participation from Greylock Partners, Trilogy Financial, Flying Fish Partners and Madera Partners. CEO Mona Akmal says that the new money — which brings the company’s total raised to $20 million — will be used to build integrations with workflow partners, suppo
AsiaTechDaily
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Charged Indonesia , a direct-to-user scale up electric motorcycle manufacturer and distributor , has announced raising $4.5 million in its inaugural funding round anchored by Singapore-based DeClout Ventures , the corporate venture arm of DeClout.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
I’ve been tracking PsycApps, a startup that came up with a gamified mental health game called eQuoo , since 2016 , and this company — and its founder — is nothing if not persistent in “pivoting into the wind” The last we heard it had been approved by the U.K.’s National Heath Service and was even distributed by Unilever. And, of course, the after-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has only created a greater need for startups addressing mental health.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
The crew here at TechCrunch has done a lot of writing about making amazing pitch decks over the years, and I figured it was time that I put together a collection of all of it in one handy spot. A lot of these articles are part of TechCrunch+ — TechCrunch’s premium subscription product. I’ve marked them below so you know which ones you need a subscription to read.
AsiaTechDaily
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Binance Charity , the philanthropic arm of Binance , the world’s leading cryptocurrency and blockchain infrastructure provider, has partnered with Women in Tech to provide blockchain educational courses to women from vulnerable communities.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Six months after announcing $30 million in equity and debt, Boopos , a Miami-based lending platform for business acquisitions and growth, is back with an even bigger round, a $58 million Series A, again in a mix of equity and debt. The latest round includes $8 million in equity and $50 million in debt, Boopos founder and CEO Juan Ignacio Garcia Braschi told TechCrunch.
AsiaTechDaily
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The GrowHub Innovations Company , Asia Pacific’s only Web3-enabled plug-and-play ecosystem builder for food traceability and carbon credits, and Koufuku Group, a Japanese food company with over 50 years of history, have signed a partnership agreement for a joint project on market penetration using GrowHub’s proprietary Web3 technology.
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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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
In a bid to remain competitive among the growing number of workplace chat apps out there, Slack today announced the launch of new automation features designed to make workflows more shareable and discoverable. An expansion of the Workflow Builder tool Slack launched last year, the new capabilities allow users to send workflows to other Slack users and leverage “if-then” statements to create more sophisticated flows.
AsiaTechDaily
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Trust announced its official launch as the digital bank for Singapore, becoming the first of the nation’s new wave of digital banks and launches with a range of products for its customers, comprising a credit card, savings account and family personal accident insurance.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
The farming industry spends tons of money on artificial means of reinvigorating soil, but an all-natural solution may already exist: beneficial microbes that have evolved to thrive in extreme environments. Puna Bio , which raised a $3.7 million seed round, captures and cultivates these extremophiles, putting them to work in milder climates where their plant-aiding processes work in overdrive — no genetic modification necessary.
Impact Hub
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
The world’s population is constantly on the rise, and every year, more and more raw materials are extracted to make products for consumption. These raw materials are finite, and to exacerbate the situation, the used products are largely dumped in various landfills, missing the opportunity for extra value creation, and adding pressure to the environment.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Venture capital data thus far in the third quarter indicates that investment into blockchain-focused startups is on pace to contract dramatically compared to recent quarters and the heady 2021 period. Data from Crunchbase and PitchBook indicate that after totaling around $10 billion in some recent quarters, the total dollar value of web3 investments could more than halve — with some datasets implying an even sharper fall when we compare Q3 2022 with earlier quarters of the same year.
Impact Hub
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
In June 2022, Impact Hub Barcelona ended on a successful note the first edition of “Raíz”, a programme focused on supporting and incubating startups and new companies that want to integrate circularity principles into their business models and value propositions. . Over a period of 3 months, Impact Hub Barcelona promoted training on relevant topics – circular economy, impact measurement and management, systems thinking, marketing, sales, etc. – and worked side by side with a team of
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Reddit’s acquisition spree is continuing this morning with news that the company is bringing the audience contextualization company Spiketrap’s technology in-house. Deal terms were not disclosed, but Reddit says Spiketrap’s AI-powered contextual analysis and tools will help Reddit to improve in areas like ad quality scoring and will boost prediction models for powering auto-bidding.
Impact Hub
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Circularity has the power to create a more sustainable present and future. At Impact Hub, we are committed to mainstream circular principles across our global network’s business support initiatives, especially incubation and acceleration programs. . As part of that journey, we ran a pilot programme across different Impact Hubs around the globe dedicated to boosting impact ventures and social entrepreneurs’ capacities to implement circular principles in their own operations and mission.
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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
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
In its own words, Front is a customer communication hub that keeps teams focused on what technology can’t replace: ensuring every conversation strengthens the customer relationship. The company recently raised $65 million at a $1.7 billion valuation, which is a hell of a funding round. Uniquely, the company has actually published all of its past funding decks publicly, which means this is a rare opportunity to follow a company’s journey from its first growth funding round all the way throu
Impact Hub
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
How can we better support acceleration and incubation efforts to push for the transition from the linear to the circular economy? Looking to answer that question and with the support of the MAVA Foundation, Accelerate2030 codified Circular Economy (CE) knowledge and best practices from the global Impact Hub network, Switzerland’s CE ecosystem and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and embedded them into Accelerate2030’s 2021 program. .
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Brian Walsh. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Brian Walsh is the head of WIND Ventures , the venture capital arm of Copec. More posts by this contributor. What you should know about working with corporate venture investment committees. SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech. A recent article on Bloomberg asserts that venture capital activity is on the verge of collapse, but I don’t believe this is the case.
The Seraf Compass
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
As noted in Seraf Toolbox: Sample Board Meeting Minutes for Early Stage Companies, board minutes are universal, somewhat mundane, and very important. In a perfect world, they would be written by outside counsel, but not every startup can or does get help with minutes, so sometimes it is up to the investors to speak up about things that should not be in the minutes and make sure the minutes protect them.
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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
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Companies tend to divide their procurement spending into two main buckets. The first is large purchases over $500,000 with some starting $1 million, depending on the size of the organization. Anything below that figure falls under a category known as “tail spend.” Boston-based startup Fairmarkit has been working on a tail spend procurement solution for several years now, and has built a modern platform with a large dose of artificial intelligence to help companies find the best deals when it com
Impact Hub
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
At Impact Hub, we believe in the power of circularity to create a more sustainable present and future. That’s why we are on a mission to mainstream circular principles across our global network. . Following up on our talks with Line Didelot from the Greece-based ANKAA Project and Wenceslaus Soka from the Tanzanian PREYO , for our next story on the Circularity Tales series, which is showcasing great examples from innovators and entrepreneurs taking action around the topic, our invitee is Aritz Ga
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Draftea , which calls itself the first daily fantasy sports company in Spanish-speaking Latin America , is taking fantasy football (not fútbol) to the region in a new partnership with the National Football League (NFL) and the NFL Player’s Association, a labor union representing the league’s athletes. Draftea’s founder, Alán Jaime Misrahi, played soccer in Mexico’s third division before attending Stanford for his MBA and launching Draftea.
Impact Hub
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
At Impact Hub, we believe in the power of circularity to create a more sustainable present and future. That’s why we are on a path to mainstream circular principles across our global network’s business support initiatives. . As part of that commitment, we are running a pilot programme across different Impact Hubs around the globe dedicated to boosting impact venture’s capacities to implement circular principles in their own operations and mission.
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