TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

The success of Roblox and other user-created gaming experiences like Overwolf have democratized the concept of making games and have taken it into the mainstream. Now, a startup founded by veterans from Unity, Microsoft and EA that is building a new platform for creators to build immersive games, and related communities around like-minded people, is gearing up to launch later this year.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer During each year’s transition to the next, we take the chance to reflect on the accomplishments and challenges of the past, but our focus remains on the future. The Angel Capital Association is moving into a confident, secure future, because of the successes we’ve had and the way we’ve navigated the last two years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Y Combinator’s newly announced plan to invest more capital into startups that take part in its accelerator program is more controversial than many first assumed. By raising its so-called “standard deal” to include an additional $375,000 , the U.S. program and investing group with hundreds of companies in each of its accelerator classes may have materially changed the earliest stage of investing.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 13, 2022

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: Largix, 3D printing for large items Maolac: Superfood from waste A winter’s tale: Tu B’Shvat and venture capital PepsiCo hails success with CropX in Mexico BlueTree: Natural juice, less sugar, huge market Career in high tech? Learn more on Monday Xage raises $30M for critical cybersecurity tech Flytrex CEO: Nationwide drone deliveries on the way PolarisQB teams up with PhoreMost for cancer drug development Bird Foundation backs OurCrowd portfolio

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

UBITS, a B2B online learning platform for upskilling employees in Latin America, has raised $25 million in funding led by Riverwood Capital. Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.” They applied to Y Combinator, raised a seed round and went back to Colombia to create a program and courses that launched in January 2019.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

MycoWorks , a company making a fungal-based biomaterial that can replace leather, brought in a fresh round of funding — $125 million in Series C financing — to fund a production plant for scaling the manufacture of its flagship product Reishi. CEO Matt Scullin says what his company is doing in terms of fabrics is different from its competitors, touting the company’s Fine Mycelium process as “a biotechnology platform that engineers mycelium to grow the only made-to-order, made-to-specification lu

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The Startup Blog Market Brief

JANUARY 13, 2022

Organizations focused on corporate social responsibility can provide a source of funding for districts that would not otherwise be able to pay for digital purchases, writes CEO Nikki Navta in an opinion essay. The post Creative Strategies to Help Districts Pay for Ed-Tech Projects appeared first on Market Brief.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

There’s financial technology (fintech) companies out there targeting all sorts of different segments of the population, as well as companies at various stages of growth. A new company recently emerged that is targeting a popular startup niche, wanting to exclusively help early-stage SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies with their financial needs. Coming out of stealth today with $150 million in debt financing and $11 million in seed funding, Arc is building what it describes as “a community of

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 13, 2022

I broke down their answers per job type and industry Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Embedded finance continues to be the engine driving the growth of fintech, with one group of companies building core banking, payments and other financial technology, and a much bigger group tapping that technology through APIs to build customer-facing businesses. Today, one of the bigger players on the core technology side — Global Processing Services — is announcing $100 million in funding, a sign not just of how popular embedded finance remains as a business, but also GPS’s

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

Around 61 million people in America have a disability that affects major life activities. As a small business owner, you must go the extra mile to boost business accessibility to these people. This is because business accessibility offers multiple benefits. If you enable people with disability to understand, navigate, and interact with products and services, you will expand your market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Local Motors, the company that crowdsourced and built the Olli autonomous shuttle as well as the Rally Fighter, will be shutting down operations by Friday, according to several posts from various employees on LinkedIn. The company has yet to release an official statement, but many employees are already openly looking for new work. “I am disheartened to announce that Local Motors will cease to exist as of January 14,” wrote Chris Stoner, former VP of sales and customer success. ̶

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GCUC

JANUARY 13, 2022

It’s time to raise your prices. More income. Sounds good right? You paused and considered the negative feedback you *might get* from your current. The post It’s time to raise your prices appeared first on GCUC Community.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member, mentor to startups and angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. More posts by this contributor. 4 key strategies for succeeding at international expansion. In more than two decades as an angel investor and early-stage company scout, I’ve met with hundreds of entrepreneurs seeking funds and sat through an equal number of slide dec

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 13, 2022

#11 How To Know What to Do Next in Your Marketing to Grow Your Business w/ Erik Huberman | Hawke Media Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube. Today’s guest is Erik Huberman, the founder, and CEO of Hawke Media and author of The Hawke Method. His company is valued at over $150 million and is the fastest growing marketing agency in the United States.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Adam Mossoff. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Adam Mossoff is a patent law expert at George Mason University who has testified before Congress on the STRONGER Patent Act and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled on January 6 that Google infringed Sonos’ patented innovations in wireless speaker technology.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 13, 2022

A collaboration between Qualcomm, Nokia and Juganu aims to standardize 5G spectrum for smart cities and use cases in public internet of things (IoT) services in Brazil. While Nokia brings 5G cellular technology and Juganu offers its smart and integrated street light, Qualcomm comes with 5G technology integration and IoT solutions. Read more here. The post [Juganu in California18] Qualcomm, Nokia and Juganu collaborate for 5G applications appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Fintech Farm , a newly launched fintech startup based in the U.K. that creates digital banks in emerging markets, confirmed to TechCrunch today that it has raised $7.4 million in seed funding. The company said it plans to use the investment to launch neobanks in eight countries over the next 24 months. Flyer One Ventures and Solid led the seed round.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 13, 2022

On this episode of StartupNation TechBytes, learn how Dell Technologies and McAfee are helping small businesses and consumers beef up their cybersecurity. Matt Papendorf, Dell Senior Advisor and OEM Security Brand Manager, and Megan Wright, Dell Small Business Associations Lead, discuss McAfee’s all-in-one approach. Among the recommendations discussed by Papendorf and Wright, customers should review what they actually need before deciding on cybersecurity because “there’s a lo

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Retailers often build their own “orchestration” platforms for payment processing and routing, but these can be complex to maintain. Spreedly plays in this space, and, last year, new startup Gr4vy launched in the U.S. to do this in an even more fleet-of-foot manner, it claimed. It raised an $11.1 million Series A last year to do that, but today it’s unveiled a further $15 million in Series A extension funding, led by March Capital, taking its total Series A stage funding to $27.2 million (includi

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StartupNation

JANUARY 13, 2022

Today on the WJR Business Beat, Jeff Sloan takes a closer look at app downloads as a measure of what the hottest apps are these days. Can you guess? . Tune in to the Business Beat, below, for details on the top apps by category and more: . WJR Business Beat Transcript. Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Financial institutions continue to search for ways to pile into the crypto market, and decentralized finance (DeFi) products are one mechanism that could help them capture share. Investors in DeFi products can earn yield on their capital by lending out their cryptocurrency in exchange for interest. . But DeFi lending is far riskier than traditional lending, in part because of the volatility of the asset class.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 13, 2022

Guest Tom Tovar, CEO and Co-Creator of AppDome, joins Dave and Joe to discuss the results of a recent consumer survey, Dave’s story is based on a tweet where the user’s child’s middle school had some unintended consequences of a phishing scam training, Read more here. The post [Appdome in The CyberWire] The only locks you should pick are your own.Security appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Halsey Minor has lived many lives. One of the founders of CNET, Minor entered tech media at a time when the closest thing most of us had to the web was a spider spinning cobwebs on an old NES. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Minor worked for Merrill Lynch during the rise of the internet in the early 1990s and, in the words of Wayne Gretzky, has been skating to where the puck is going ever since.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 13, 2022

Israel has long been an international leader in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drone technology, whether it’s utilizing its military expertise to develop defense drones and emergency response flying vehicles or employing autonomous drone solutions for the greater good, like eradicating malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more here. The post [Flytrex in NoCamels] Israeli drones deliver emergency response in hurricanes, fires appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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