TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

54gene co-founder and chief executive officer Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong has stepped down from his executive role, the African genomics company confirmed to TechCrunch today. The three-year-old company has appointed General Counsel Teresia L. Bost as interim CEO. She will be supported by Chief Operating Officer Delali Attipoe , the company said. Ene-Obong, on the other hand, will retain his position on 54gene’s board while moving to a new role of senior advisor.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Mutiny ( YC S18 ) uses AI and data to convert website visitors into customers. Today, the fastest growing B2B companies such as Notion and Snowflake use Mutiny to identify ideal customers, determine sections of websites that will increase conversion, and produce copy that converts visitors into customers. YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with Mutiny co-founder and CEO Jaleh Rezaei to talk about their recent acquisition of Intellipse, an AI marketing platform, as well as how AI will impact the

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What’s going on with demand for plant-based meat? If you take a look at Barcelona-based Heura the picture seems rosy — with the alt-protein startup claiming “non-stop” momentum and a near doubling of revenue from sales of its faux chicken, beef and pork products in the first half of 2022. Mid-year, the 2017-founded startup reports that it had reached €14.7 million in turnover, up from €7.6M during the same period last year, after clocking up its most successful first half

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The secret lies in one word — Gen Z. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Sequoia India is in advanced stages of deliberations to invest over $50 million in K12 Techno Services, a startup that offers a range of services to education institutions and also runs its own chain of schools, doubling down on a firm that it first backed over a decade ago, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. K12 Techno Services — which has raised over $75 million in previous rounds, according to Tracxn — also engaged with TPG and Accel in recent weeks but has deci

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Travel is back on the radar for investment, with consumers and business users both on the move again after a long pandemic period of staying in one place. Today, a startup called WeTravel — which builds tech for the specific needs of group travel — has raised $27 million, money that it will be using to expand its business on the heels of strong growth in the last year.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register GXC , a Jeju, South Korea-based global video game solution company , has announced the launch of Round Ventures , a $40-million new venture capital fund that will invest in early-stage gaming firms and startups. Round Ventures will lead investments of $500,000 to $1 million into proven early-stage game startups, then co-invests with renowned partners such as game VCs at pre-Series A or

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

On Friday, TechCrunch reported the latest Crunchbase venture capital data, and the news isn’t very good from a diversity point of view: Black founders raised a paltry $187 million out of the $150.9 billion in venture capital allocated in Q3 this year. To put that into perspective, that’s only 0.12% of the total investment made in the quarter.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Historically, wealth managers offered consumers a choice: either put their money on autopilot (through an offering like Vanguard’s low-fee ETFs) or — if wealthy enough — be actively managed by an advisor at somewhere like Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley … The post Investing in The Coterie appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The third quarter was far from favorable for Chinese startups looking to raise money. Data shows that for upstart tech companies in the country, Q3 2022 was the worst time to raise venture capital since Q1 2020, with far less capital invested than either the rest of 2020 and 2021, or for most of 2018 and 2019. China is hardly alone in seeing its domestic startup scene see slowing capital inflows, but recent news puts the country-specific information into new context: Given today’s Chinese

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Michelle Kung: Hi, I’m Michelle Kung, an editor at a16z. And in our new podcast series, “Time to Build: LA,” we’re taking a deeper look at investing … The post LATW 2022: Building the Future of Games appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 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. Good afternoon, and welcome to the final week of October! We’re confused how that happened. Haje is considering dressing up as “supply chain disruptions” for Halloween, whereas Christine is contemplating dressing up as a down round.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Transcript. Michelle Kung: Hi, I’m Michelle Kung, an editor at a16z. And in our new podcast series, “Time to Build L.A.,” we’re taking a deeper look at … The post LATW 2022: Investing in Los Angeles appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Access to funding and lack of support systems are some of the greatest challenges faced by startup founders in sub-Saharan Africa. And while venture capital and founder support programs within the continent are growing, a lot still remains to be done to meet the financing, technology and social capital needs of the especially marginalized groups like women founders.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register FitHappy , an Indonesia-based healthtech startup , announced that it has secured an undisclosed amount of pre-seed funding from East Ventures , with participation from other investors. “We are glad to receive this investment from East Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Apex Space , a startup that aims to transform satellite bus manufacturing, emerged from stealth Monday with a $7.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The Los Angeles-based company has set its sights on the satellite bus — the part of the spacecraft that hosts the payload — which it says is the “new bottleneck” hitting the space industry.

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Founder Bounty

OCTOBER 24, 2022

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The funding environment may have changed in recent months, but startups with strong fundamentals are still able to raise. Merge , a startup that offers an API integration service with a focus on HR, payroll and accounting systems (among others), today announced that it has raised a $55 million Series B round led by Accel, with participation from existing investors NEA and Addition.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There are many efforts underway to reduce carbon emissions in order to get to “net zero” But most climate scientists believe that reducing emissions won’t be enough and we will also need to engage in removing carbon from the atmosphere. There are natural ways to do this like reforestation, soil carbon, biochar, etc but there are also “engineered” approaches to removing carbon from the atmosphere.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Are you making the same mistake when you meet with VCs? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

To celebrate the LA community and the city’s growth, a16z recently hosted Time to Build: Los Angeles, an event where we invited LA-based investors, founders, and operators … The post LA Tech Week 2022: The Art of the Deal appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Instacart has left us IPO nerds feeling whiplashed. Late last week , Reuters reported that the American grocery delivery and technology company might probably shelve its IPO until next year. The richly valued startup was poised to become the splashiest public offering of the year in the United States, but now it appears we won’t get to see the implications of the IPO’s reception for at least a few more months.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Transcript. Michelle Kung: Hi, I’m Michelle Kung an editor at a16z. And in our new podcast series, “Time to Build LA,” we’re taking a deeper look at … The post LATW 2022: Building Better Factories appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

Devin Abbott. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Devin Abbott was founder of Deco ( acquired by Airbnb ) and specializes in design and development tools, React and web3 applications, most recently with The Graph. It’s too early to predict all the implications of the recent Ethereum blockchain Merge, but it definitely addresses the most frequent (and valid) criticism of web3 regarding excessive energy consumption.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Transcript. Michelle Kung: Hi, I’m Michelle Kung, an editor at A16Z. And in our new podcast series, “Time to Build LA”, we’re taking a deeper look at … The post LATW 2022: Building Community Marketplaces appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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