TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

As the market swoons, venture capital firms continue to announce new funds. TechCrunch reporters covered five of these more in-depth Tuesday, as you will see below. Meanwhile, I corresponded with three firms about their funds and any concerns that limited partners had brought up during the fundraising stage. Haris Khurshid, general partner at Chalo Ventures , launched a $50 million second fund focused on investing in Pakistani startups and a smaller percentage in Latin American startups.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 12, 2022

Welcome to another edition of our new newsletter! You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss: How to avoid another bad rebrand for your startup, Building a 50,000 subscribers newsletter business, The state of the crypto markets (with Arthur Hayes). Let’s get into it. Don’t rush into branding disaster 2.0 It’s a familiar story.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and happy Tuesday! Today we’re celebrating Jagmeet joining the TechCrunch crew. He goes hard out of the gate with his inaugural story on the site, covering how Wheelocity raises $12 million for its supply chain network for fresh commerce in India.

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Y Combinator

JULY 12, 2022

The YC job board has always been the best way to find early roles at funded and vetted YC startups. This is especially true after a startup graduates from YC, raises an early round and starts to hire their founding team. Below are a few of the most recent YC startups (Winter '22 batch) hiring for founding engineers, with compensation in the $160-180K range and equity around 1.5-2.0%.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

On October 21, 2011 at 10:20 a.m. I joined more than 8.5 million other Californians for the Great Shake Out, an annual earthquake preparedness drill. Four hours later, the Bay Area was jolted by a temblor that measured 3.9 on the Richter scale. Even though we’d just been trained for exactly this scenario, many colleagues didn’t know how to react: a few panicked, others braced themselves in doorways, and a number of people simply ran for the exits.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

What does the future of work look like in a (quasi) post-pandemic world? That’s a question all companies — from startups to major corporations — are asking as they consider how to distribute and manage their workforces in 2022 and beyond. . Airbnb, for example, chose a live anywhere, work anywhere policy, while Twitter has gone hybrid. Distributed work comes with challenges and, as Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal noted , “Anyone who has joined a meeting remotely while others are in a conference room k

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OurCrowd

JULY 12, 2022

Powerline inspection and analysis is currently a highly critical and highly manual process for most utilities, requiring a large number of inspectors who physically inspect the utility’s service area and the condition of the lines. Inspectors would look for things like worn components, hot spots that could indicate trouble, and potential interference from vegetation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Continuum is a venture-backed bet on fractional work, and, better yet, that founders want to show humanity during moments of crisis. The company, launched by CEO Nolan Church in August 2020, started as a play to connect startups to part-time executive help. Now, it has expand to help struggling tech companies cut staff in a more humane, thoughtful way.

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OurCrowd

JULY 12, 2022

DailyPay’s Chief Innovation and Marketing Officer, Jeanniey Walden, an award-winning, entrepreneurial CIMO, author, and podcast host, has been accepted into Forbes Communications Council, an invitation-only community for executives in communications, marketing, and public relations. Read more here. The post [DailyPay in MarketingDive] DailyPay’s Chief Innovation and Marketing Officer, Jeanniey Walden Accepted into Forbes Communications Council appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Machine learning can provide companies with a competitive advantage by using the data they’re collecting — for example, purchasing patterns — to generate predictions that power revenue-generating products (e.g. e-commerce recommendations). But it’s difficult for any one employee to keep up with — much less manage — the massive volumes of data being created.

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OurCrowd

JULY 12, 2022

Founded in 2016, People.ai looks to bridge complex artificial intelligence (AI) and real-world business expertise to help its clients innovate, grow and generate greater revenue. Read more here. The post [People.AI in Technology Magazine] Redefining revenue operations & intelligence with People.ai appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

If you thought turning academic research into robots is challenging, you’d be right. Turning academic AI research into products is brutal. If you want to 10x the challenge, though, it would be to take that research and the fun prototypes that come out of the lab and turn it into a commercially viable company. Robots work in all sorts of wild contexts, ranging from restricted workcells — away from humans and unpredictable obstacles — to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) designed to work alongside h

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OurCrowd

JULY 12, 2022

VANCOUVER, British Columbia & MUMBAI, July 13, 2022–SaNOtize Research & Development Corp., (“SaNOtize”), a Canadian anti-infective-focused therapeutics company, and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited (“Glenmark”), a global, innovation-driven pharmaceutical company, today published results of a Phase 3 clinical trial in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia, illustrating the effectiveness of nitric oxide nasal spray (NONS™) for the treatment of adult patients with COV

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Adam Keesling. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Adam Keesling works for Compound , a company that specializes in helping tech founders and employees manage their financial lives, starting with their illiquid company equity. As of late June, over 22,000 tech employees had been laid off this year, a number expected to increase throughout the year. If you’ve found yourself in this position, you should understand exactly what will happen to your equity, because it’s likely impacted by your termination

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Founder Bounty

JULY 12, 2022

A very important theme for every entrepreneur going through their first or second company or even doing their side hustle is having great entrepreneur mindset or as Sam calls it having had quality "joy Coaching" With his company Train of thought we talk through the main themes and challenges founders of any business will have to go through to start their business. "Building a business is about getting started.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Nolan Church. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nolan Church is the co-founder and CEO of Continuum. He was previously chief people officer at Carta and head of talent at DoorDash. In an economic climate like this, layoffs are a necessary evil. But what most founders don’t realize is that you shouldn’t just optimize for efficiency — you must treat people with respect.

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Feedough

JULY 12, 2022

As the world shrinks with each passing day, the business. Read more. The post What Is Ansoff Matrix? – Strategies & Examples appeared first on Feedough.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

The enterprise is bullish on AI systems that can understand and generate text, known as language models. According to a survey by John Snow Labs, 60% of tech leaders’ budgets for AI language technologies increased by at least 10% in 2020. And one vendor, OpenAI, says that its premiere language model, GPT-3 , is being used by tens of thousands of developers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JULY 12, 2022

Sales enablement —the strategic use of people, processes, and technology to improve sales productivity and increase revenue — is the (usually) missing key for sales organizations that want to evolve beyond a handful of overachievers and into a well-oiled, agile, and high-performing commercial machine. Along with go-to-market — how an organization engages with customers to.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

The fashion industry has come under fire of late for its outsize impact on the environment. From cradle to grave, it accounts for between 4% and 10% of the world’s carbon emissions and around 20% of the world’s wastewater. Only about 15% of the clothes in the U.S. are recycled, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates. Some clothing and shoe companies have begun to wake up to the problem, pledging that their lines will be made of increasing amounts of recycled materials.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 12, 2022

Before the Second World War, King George journaled the end of Neville Chamberlain’s term as prime minister: “I accepted his resignation, & told him how grossly unfairly I thought he had been treated, & that I was terribly sorry that all this controversy had happened. … I sent for Winston & asked him to form a Government. This he accepted & told me he had not thought this was the reason for my having sent for him.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

The recent decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade leaves plenty of unanswered questions about conception and what rights women have over their bodies. One startup, Posterity Health , is focusing on a long-overlooked part of the equation. It’s a digital male fertility platform that offers personalized advice, educational resources, and treatments to help address male fertility needs, and it just raised a $6 million seed funding led by Distributed Ventures.

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OurCrowd

JULY 12, 2022

STOCKHOLM, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Funnel, the no-code marketing data platform that helps marketers be truly data-driven, is pleased to announce the appointment of Anna Ljungdahl, Rebecka Löthman Rydå and Renée Robinson Strömberg as new board members of Funnel. Anna, Rebecka and Renée join with extensive experience from leading positions within tech, strategy, and business development.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

C2 Ventures doesn’t invest in crypto, Web 3 or consumer companies, and it stays away from Silicon Valley startups. Instead, the New York City-based venture firm focuses on disruption in legacy industries. For example, one of its portfolio companies is a robotics startup that cleans commercial bathrooms. The firm announced today it has closed its second-early stage fund totaling $20 million, and a separate $2.5 million Tributary Fund that will make investments in earlier, pre-seed stage old-econo

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OurCrowd

JULY 12, 2022

Almost all construction requires cement, and cement is made using a process that releases carbon. Terra CO2 is replacing a key ingredient to make the process cleaner. Read more here. The post [Terra CO2 in Fast Company] This startup just raised millions to make cement more climate friendly appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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