Source Link
MAY 10, 2022
On Thursday, April 21, SourceLink hosted Building Rural Communities Through Entrepreneurship , a webinar on strategies for growing rural communities through entrepreneurship-led economic development. The session was moderated by SourceLink’s director of strategic partnerships, Dara Macan, and panelists included: Nathan Ohle – President and CEO, International Economic Development Council.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Consumers in every country are getting squeezed on all sides. Globally, sluggish wage growth and rising inflation has encouraged shoppers to defer payments on everything from groceries to durable goods. Affirm, Afterpay and Klarna own 75% of the sector in the U.S., which leaves little room for startups hoping to join the fray. Founders who target emerging markets like Latin America and India may have a slightly easier time, but only if their products and services are clearly differentiated.
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OurCrowd
MAY 10, 2022
NEW TAIPEI, Taiwan and TEL AVIV, Israel, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Lanner Electronics, a global leader in the design and manufacturing of intelligent edge computing appliances, announced its first Hailo-8™AI-powered PCIe accelerator card, the Falcon H8. Lanner collaborated with leading AI (Artificial Intelligence) chipmaker Hailo to design the Falcon H8, enabling scalable and powerful intelligent video analytics applications for multiple industries operating at the edge, including
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has quickly established itself as the go-to method of financing for a variety of purchases, particularly online. This financing model has primarily been available to customers shopping online, but customers outside the U.S. have already dipped their toes into similar alternatives at brick-and-mortar stores. We’re likely to see BNPL offerings become more prevalent at points of sale for a manner of different purchases through 2022.
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Tomasz Tunguz
MAY 10, 2022
The past three days may be the most eventful in web3 ever. Crypto assets have fallen by half or more, following their software counterparts. The attack on an algorithmic stablecoin’s peg harkens back to Druckenmiller breaking the Bank of England. All the tumult in the crypto markets will catalyze change. Here are my five mid-year predictions for the major evolutions that arise in response.
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Red Rocket
MAY 10, 2022
I was recently interviewed by the Atlanta Small Business Network (ASBN), an online "television network" serving the small business community, about what venture capital investors are looking for in the CEOs of the companies they invest in. I thought this video turned out great, and I wanted to share it with all of you, to see if it can be helpful to you in sharpening your own skills to impress prospective investors.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Proving that there’s an appetite for bots, Salesforce today announced that it will acquire Troops.ai, a bot-based service that integrates with Slack to make it easier for sales teams to retrieve and update data across Salesforce’s various systems. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Salesforce said that Troops will become a part of Slack when the acquisition closes in Q2 2023, subject to customary closing conditions. “When we started Troops, we wanted to reimagine how
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 10, 2022
Sometimes the more you know, the less you do Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Mary D'Onofrio. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Mary D'Onofrio is a partner and co-founder of the growth investment practice at Bessemer Venture Partners, where she primarily focuses on cloud software investments. More posts by this contributor. Why we’re doubling down on cloud investments right now. Adam Fisher. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Adam Fisher is a partner in Bessemer Venture Partners' Israel office, where he focuses on investments in Israel and Europe across multiple technology
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AsiaTechDaily
MAY 10, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register South Korean lifestyle home interior platform oHouse , has announced raising $182 million in a Series D funding round backed by SoftBank Ventures Asia. The funding round was also participated by BRV Capital management, Vertex Growth, which is anchored by Temasek-backed Vertex Holdings, BOND, Korea Development Bank, IMM Investment, and Mirae Asset Capital.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Hardware, as the saying goes, is hard; but there remains an opportunity for startups that focus on specific niches to build viable businesses. In the latest example, reMarkable , the Oslo, Norway-based maker of a simple and slick $299 e-paper tablet of the same name, says that it has passed 1 million devices sold since 2017 and recently raised money at a $1 billion valuation after making revenues of $300 million and operating profits of $31 million in 2021.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 10, 2022
In business we must learn to deal with constraints Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
South Korean startup Seadronix wants to reduce the issue of marine accidents, 75% of which are caused by human error, according to a 2019 Allianz safety and shipping report. The company just secured a $5.8 million Series A extension to scale its AI-based ship berthing monitoring and navigation systems to help cargo ships navigate safely and assist port operators anchoring their vehicles at harbor.
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OurCrowd
MAY 10, 2022
REHOVOT, Israel, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Sequentify, a Weizmann Institute of Science spinoff, enables fast and focused DNA sequencing. It combines tools from the synthetic biology and AI software fields to enable rapid targeted DNA sequencing. Sequentify exits stealth mode with $7M in raised funds led by Israel’s most active venture firm, OurCrowd.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
NFT powerhouse Yuga Labs, the startup behind the Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC) monkey JPEGs, launched its native ApeCoin cryptocurrency in March to much fanfare. Through the launch, the startup was able to expand its ecosystem beyond the few thousand individuals who already hold its NFTs, and it eventually plans to expand ApeCoin’s use by, for example, incorporating it as a payment system in video games featuring characters from its universe.
OurCrowd
MAY 10, 2022
Morphisec is the world’s leading provider of breach prevention solutions for midsize enterprises. Its revolutionary Moving Target Defense technology proactively and effectively prevents advanced, polymorphic cyberattacks, in contrast to signature-based, reactive cybersecurity solutions such as next generation antivirus (NGAV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR).
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Databases are in wide use today, powering the apps that people use every day for work and play. But they can be challenging to build, configure, and maintain — particularly as their usage continues to grow. According to a recent Redgate survey , 70% of companies now use more than one database in their stack, including on-premises and cloud databases.
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OurCrowd
MAY 10, 2022
TEL AVIV, Israel, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Oriient ([link] the company behind the world’s most advanced indoor positioning solution, announced an $11 million Series A funding round today, bringing the total investment in the company to $16 million. OurCrowd, a global venture capital equity platform with over $1 billion of assets under management (previous investments include Lemonade and Beyond Meat), participated in this round, as well as Regal Four (a Beren family venture entity
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
WizeHire , a hiring service for small- and medium-sized (SMB) businesses, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global with participation from Amplo and Mercury. The tranche values the company at $250 million post-money, and cofounder and CEO Sid Upadhyay says that it’ll be put toward growing WizeHire’s over-100-person headcount, expanding the company’s hiring resources and “further establish[ing]” relationships with technical partners.
Andreessen Horowitz
MAY 10, 2022
MongoDB CTO Mark Porter has been on all sides of the technology industry. He was most recently CTO of core technology and transport at Grab, a super-app serving Southeast Asia, and prior to that held leadership roles at Amazon Web Services and Oracle, among other places. In this interview, he shares his views on the. Read More. The post MongoDB CTO On Working with Cloud Providers and Working in Southeast Asia appeared first on Future.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Adam Oliner, co-founder and CEO of Graft used to run machine learning at Slack, where he helped build the company’s internal artificial intelligence infrastructure. Slack lacked the resources of a company like Meta or Google, but it still had tons of data to sift through and it was his job to build something on a smaller scale to help put AI to work on the dataset.
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Smart Hustle Magazine
MAY 10, 2022
We are living through a period of high inflation, at levels that haven’t been seen in decades. Small business owners are worried about inflation hurting their businesses; a recent survey of small business owners conducted by Wave found that 36% of small business owners are concerned about the impact of inflation on their businesses in the next year.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
As more individuals join the NFT market, a common complaint exists around the accessibility and user experience for non-crypto natives. But Paper , a crypto-focused payments processing company launched in February, is working to make buying, using and holding NFTs easier for the everyday customer or fan trying to buy a digital collectible, James Sun, co-founder and CEO of the company, told TechCrunch.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 10, 2022
12 Ways to Interpret a Budget Disconnect Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Mylerz , a Cairo-based e-commerce fulfillment startup, plans to enter three new markets in North Africa and expand across Egypt over the next three months against the backdrop of the $9.6 million funding it has just secured. The startup also has its eyes on the growing e-commerce market in East Africa, with the long-term goal of growing into a pan-African shipping logistics provider – by tapping the e-commerce market in Africa, which has experienced 18% annual growth since 2014.
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