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Spatial Labs, a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, closes $10M seed round

TechCrunch

Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. Iddris Sandu founded Spatial Labs in 2021, seeking to create products and shopping experiences using augmented reality. “The metaverse to us is not a virtual space that people go to spend time in.

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Investing in Method

Andreessen Horowitz

Debt is daunting—its labyrinth of complex rules, opaque governing bodies, and unique vernacular makes it difficult for the average consumer to understand. Concepts like credit scores, APRs, retroactive interest, and collateral can be overwhelming for financial services experts, let alone … The post Investing in Method appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Mushroom protein company Meati Foods opens ‘mega’ facility; closes $22M in new funding

TechCrunch

Meati Foods is closer to full-scale production of its whole-food protein made from the structural fibers of mushrooms, known as mycelium. The company announced Thursday the opening of its production facility, dubbed “Mega Ranch,” in Colorado. The 100,000-square-foot facility was financed in part by a $150 million Series C round of capital raised last year and a brand new extension round of $22 million.

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Celebrating 2022 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer Looking back over the past few years of uncertainty and effort, The Angel Capital Association has made it through stronger than ever because of the work of our dedicated members, volunteers and professional staff. We are deeply grateful to our dedicated volunteers and professional staff for their leadership, expertise and dedication to our mission.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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.

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Daily Crunch: Berlin-based design platform Kittl raises $11.6M Series A to take on Adobe and Canva

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Did you know you can buy 3D printed key caps to replace, say, your escape key with a cat? Today, that’s our delightful little morsel of whimsy, courtesy of Frederic ’s review of a new keyboard (scroll all the way to the bottom for a photo of the adorable little kitteh). — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery : Mike wri

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NEA now manages over $25 billion in assets — oh, and it’s looking beyond venture

TechCrunch

New Enterprise Associates , known by the acronym NEA, has closed a new pair of early-stage and growth-stage funds, both hovering a little over $3 billion to a total of $6.2 billion. The two-fund structure is a first that begets another first for the 45-year old firm: TechCrunch has learned that NEA has filed to be considered as a registered investment adviser, which, if passed, would give the firm a status similar to the likes of other storied firms including Andreessen Horowitz, SoftBank and Se

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#64. From Multiple Startup Exits To Saving Companies After Cyber Attacks w/ Tal Mozes

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Learn from a founder of Mitiga Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Today we have with us Tal Mozes. Tal is the co-founder of Mitiga, a global leader in cloud incident response. Mitiga helps its customers to recover over 90% faster from breaches in their SaaS and cloud environments. They’ve raised $32m so far and Tal has previously had several other exits including to EY where he led EY UK’s Cyber Threat Management services.

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Method raises $16M to power loan repayment, balance transfers and more across fintech apps

TechCrunch

Method , a startup that aims to make it easier for fintech developers to embed repayment, balance transfers and bill pay automation into their apps, today announced that it closed a $16 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Y Combinator (Method’s a Y Combinator graduate), Abstract Ventures, SV Angel and others.

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Raise Funds When the Time Is Right?—?From a 10-Year Fundraising Consultant

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Private equity managers can’t find good startups. Startups are either too good or too risky.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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Upp wants to add more broccoli to the plant-protein mix using big automation

TechCrunch

What is automation good for? Harvesting more broccoli than human laborers can, according to Upp , a Shropshire, U.K.-based agtech startup that’s using computer vision AI plus farm-sized proprietary machinery to expand crop yields. Its pitch is not only that its specialist, AI-driven harvester will make it more efficient to pick a familiar crop but also that the process will reduce waste — by being able to extract more nutritious protein from a field of broccoli without needing an arm

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[Liquid Instruments in PR Newswire] Liquid Instruments to showcase major enhancements to Moku:Go and Moku:Pro devices at SPIE Photonics West

OurCrowd

SAN FRANCISCO , Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Liquid Instruments, an innovator in precision software-defined instrumentation, today announced that it will release an array of software updates to its Moku:Go and Moku:Pro devices, which the company will exhibit at the 2023 SPIE Photonics West Conference. Read more here. The post [Liquid Instruments in PR Newswire] Liquid Instruments to showcase major enhancements to Moku:Go and Moku:Pro devices at SPIE Photonics West appeared first on OurCrow

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Renaissance Fusion raises $16.4 million to build nuclear fusion technology in Europe

TechCrunch

Meet Renaissance Fusion , a Grenoble-based startup that has been working on nuclear fusion for the past couple of years. The company recently raised $16.4 million (€15 million) in funding in a seed round led by Lowercarbon Capital. Several European investors also participated in the round, such as HCVC, Positron Ventures and Norssken. “We are proud to support Francesco Volpe and his team in the emergence and industrialization in France and in Europe of a disruptive solution in energy production

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Reading the Bible start to finish

Derek Sivers

I like going to the source. Like finding musicians’ influences, and getting to know that music too. Same with film, art, philosophy, and technology. I also like doing what people I admire recommend. And a few people I really admire suggest we read the entire Bible. So to go to the source of western culture, and do what the wise people say, last year I read the Bible , start to finish.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

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.

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Kenya’s growth was strongest in Africa’s VC market; clean tech, e-commerce pulled in most of the funding

TechCrunch

As VC activity slowed down globally last year, Kenya defied odds to record the strongest growth in funding raised in Africa. Reports show that the deal count and value to the country surpassed 2021 figures owing to increased investor interest. Data from market intelligence firm Briter Bridges , and The Big Deal shows Kenya raised $1.1 billion, more than double the funding that East Africa’s biggest economy got in 2021, when the continent raised about $5 billion.

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YC Firesides and a new book by Surbhi Sarna

Y Combinator

For those of you who haven’t met her yet, Surbhi Sarna is one of the newest group partners at YC.  I'm excited to share that her book Without a Doubt drops on March 7 — and to celebrate, she's hosting a series of online founder firesides. Surbhi has an incredibly compelling founder story. If I had to boil it down to one sentence I’d say: she turned a teenage cancer scare into a company that was eventually acquired for $275M by Boston Scientific.

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Stripe eyes an exit over next 12 months

TechCrunch

Fintech startup Stripe has set a 12-month deadline for itself to go public, either through a direct listing, or pursuing a transaction on the private market, such as a fundraising event and a tender offer, according to sources familiar with the matter. The news, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal , comes as a surprise considering the rather dry public market activity in the tech world.

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Startup Automation: How to Revolutionize Your Social Media Strategy

StartupNation

Automation is a popular marketing trend that’s likely to see continued growth as technology continues to advance. Marketing… The post Startup Automation: How to Revolutionize Your Social Media Strategy appeared first on StartupNation.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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

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Whalesync wants to simplify the process of syncing data between SaaS apps

TechCrunch

There’s no doubt that no-code tools are transforming the way apps are made — particularly in the corporate world, where there’s often a premium placed on tech that can cut costs. According to recent Gartner surveys , 70% of new business apps will use low-code/no-code technologies by 2025, and by 2024, 80% of non-IT professionals will develop IT products and services — with over 65% of them using low-code/no-code tools.

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How to Start a Franchise Business

StartupNation

If you’ve been thinking about starting your own business, this question has probably crossed your mind: “should I… The post How to Start a Franchise Business appeared first on StartupNation.

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Mark Cuban’s bidet brand buys shower startup that wooed Tim Cook

TechCrunch

The folks behind Nebia — the techy shower-head startup backed by Apple CEO Tim Cook and a host of other big names — have sold to Mark Cuban’s Brondell , which makes bidets, air purifiers and the like. The Nebia name and water-saving nozzles will live on following the deal, co-founders Philip Winter and Gabriel Parisi-Amon said in a call with TechCrunch.

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Can you get to the right person when you need to?

Berkonomics

Can your contact solve real-world issues? I recently experienced an amazing effort of outreach by a vice president of a large national customer asking for a meeting with the product development team of a critical supplier, one of “my” companies. The goal, the VP stated, was to “see if these guys are battle hardened veterans that have dealt with the real-world product and delivery problems” of a nationally important customer.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Hawk AI, an anti-money laundering and fraud prevention platform for banks, raises $17M

TechCrunch

Hawk AI , a German company developing anti-money laundering (AML) and tangential fraud prevention smarts for financial institutions, has raised $17 million in a Series B round of funding. Prior to now, Hawk AI had raised $10 million , and with a fresh $17 million in the bank, the company said that it plans to bolster its product development and global expansion plans.

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How to Bootstrap a Business to $550K with Only Volunteers (w/ Sam Parr)

OkDork

                                            Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify In today’s episode, I welcome Sam Parr back to the podcast! Sam created the popular newsletter The Hustle, which emails over 1 million people a day! Four years later, he sold it to HubSpot for tens of millions of dollars! Now, he’s the co-host of one of the top business podcasts — My First Million — where he and Shaan Puri talk about business ideas and market trends, and in

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Inscribe bags $25M to fight financial fraud with AI

TechCrunch

Conor Burke spent much of his career in the back office of a big bank in Ireland. His team was tasked with digitizing the onboarding process — particularly document-heavy manual review workflows — that were costing the bank millions of dollars every year and not catching fraud. According to him, the biggest challenge was figuring how to remove the human element without compromising risk and fraud controls.

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[DailyPay in EIN Newswire] SEJ Services partners with DailyPay to provide employees with a critical financial wellness benefit

OurCrowd

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, January 26, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — SEJ Services, the most-trusted choice for janitorial and facility services throughout the Southeastern United States, has partnered with DailyPay–the leading provider of on-demand pay. Through this partnership, SEJ Services adds an essential financial tool to its existing suite of employee benefits allowing employees to access their pay as they earn it.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.