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Wireless charging firm Aira raises $12M

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Founded in 2017, Arizona-based Aira didn’t waste any time proving out its technology. We’ve written about the company’s wireless charging a few times over the years, including the “FreePower” technology it has baked into Nomad’s charging pads, which brings a more streamlined version of the Apple’s abandoned AirPower. The tech allows for users to charge up to three objects at once, without having to futz with their precise placement on the pad.

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It’s *Not* Too Late to Join the Creator Economy

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You can discover your life experiences have a lot of value. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Vietnamese on-demand e-commerce platform Loship raises $12M at a valuation of $100M

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Loship , the Vietnamese on-demand e-commerce platform that started as a reviews app, announced today it has raised $12 million in pre-Series C funding, bringing its valuation to $100 million. The round was co-led by BAce Capital, an Ant Group-backed venture firm, and the direct investment unit of Sun Hung Kai & Co Limited. . Founded in 2017, Loship offered one-hour deliveries for a large range of products and services, including food, ride-hailing, medicine and B2B supplies.

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Lesson #339: OKRs Unite Companies to Achieve Goals

Red Rocket

Goals setting is one of those business processes that is really an art. When it is done really well, it can unlock huge performance increases and propel your business to new heights. I was recently introduced to Matt Roberts , the founder of London UK based ZOKRI , whose software helps fast growth companies use Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) driven goals and agile working practices to provide clarity on how growth will be delivered.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Demand Curve: Tested tactics for growing newsletters

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Stewart Hillhouse. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Stewart Hillhouse writes actionable growth marketing insights as senior content lead at Demand Curve. By night, he interviews marketers and creatives on his podcast, Top Of Mind. Before getting into marketing, Stewart was a semi-professional lumberjack. He also writes at stewarthillhouse.com. More posts by this contributor.

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CELA Innovation holds a master class on Lean Startup Methodology for the Startup Alley+ cohort

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Startup Alley is the place to be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. The sold-out expo area is the virtual home to hundreds of innovative startups ready to demo their tech and talent. While exhibiting offers plenty of opportunity for all, a VIP experience kicked off in July for 50 startup exhibitors the TechCrunch staff chose to form the first Startup Alley+ cohort.

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Community of Cultivators: Edition 53

GCUC

Here at GCUC we are immensely fortunate to cross paths and work with so many amazing people. Through our work, we’ve cultivated a global. The post Community of Cultivators: Edition 53 appeared first on GCUC Community.

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What Square’s acquisition of Afterpay means for startups

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On Sunday Square announced it was gobbling up Afterpay in a deal worth $29 billion at the time of announcement. Alex followed up yesterday with more details on why the deal made sense for Square and Afterpay over here , but we wanted to ask some notable VCs what it means for the startup market. For context, the Square deal follows a ton of money and interest flowing into the BNPL market.

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Crypto and the Infrastructure Bill

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I mentioned the infrastructure bill here last week. I continue to be impressed by the way Senators and the White House are working across the aisle to get a very big piece of legislation across the finish line. It is not done, but it sure looks like it will get done. As I mentioned in the post last week, there is language in the initial draft of the bill requiring crypto “brokers” to report gains and losses to the IRS.

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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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India’s BharatPe valued at $2.85 billion in Tiger Global-led $370 million funding

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Indian fintech startup BharatPe has raised $370 million in a new round of financing as it looks to aggressively scale its business in the next two years. It’s the nineteenth Indian startup to become a unicorn this year (up from 11 last year) as several high-profile global investors double down in the South Asian market. The new round — a Series E — was led by Tiger Global and valued the New Delhi-based startup at $2.85 billion (post-money), it said in a statement Tuesday evenin

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5 Ways Programmatic Advertising Can Benefit Your Brand in 2021

StartupNation

Programmatic advertising is the automated buying and selling of digital ads in real time. It can be used to access virtually any channel, such as desktop platforms, mobile platforms, connected TVs and more. The goal of programmatic advertising is to increase efficiency and transparency both to the advertiser and the ad publisher through real-time auctions in which ads are bought at the same time as a user visits a website. .

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Edtech startup bina raises $1.4M to teach 4- to 12-year-olds, launch School-as-a-Service

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With the pandemic wreaking havoc amongst early years education amid school lockdowns, it’s no wonder edtech startups have piled into the space. But it has also served to highlight the abysmal nature of early years teaching: Some 40 million teachers across the globe are leaving the sector, according to the World Bank. Of the 1.5 billion primary-age children, only a few can access high-quality education, and approximately 58 million primary-age children are out of education, most of whom are girls

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An Alternative To Freemium That Worked For HubSpot [video]

OnStartups

In the early days of HubSpot, I somewhat accidentally ended up discovering a new approach to freemium that wasn't really freemium. Here's a short (1 minute 15 second) video clip on what I found that worked brilliantly for HubSpot and helped us drive spectacular early reach.

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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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Extra Crunch roundup: Square buys Afterpay, paid search basics, career advice for devs

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Square paid around a quarter of its present-day value for Afterpay, Alex Wilhelm notes in The Exchange. That seems like a lot. But was it too much? “Afterpay brings global revenues, global users and a more diverse merchant network to Square,” Alex notes. “It would have had to spend to derive those assets over time. Square is willing to pay up to snag them now.”.

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Founders: How to Avoid Getting Scammed by Fake Investors

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Beware of scammers posing as investors to steal your money Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Marvell nabs Innovium for $1.1B as it delves deeper into cloud ethernet switches

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Marvell announced this morning it has reached an agreement to acquire Innovium for $1.1 billion in an all-stock deal. The startup, which raised over $400 million according to Crunchbase data , makes networking ethernet switches optimized for the cloud. Marvell president and CEO Matt Murphy sees Innovium as a complementary piece to the $10 billion Inphi acquisition last year, giving the company, which makes copper-based chips, more ways to work across modern cloud data centers. “Innovium ha

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Is Self-Employment Better Than a Job? Here’s a Reality Check

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From someone who has been on both sides of the spectrum. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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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Brazilian digital auto marketplace InstaCarro revs up with $23M in funding

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InstaCarro , a digital marketplace that connects used car sellers to dealers in Brazil, has raised $23 million in a Series B round of funding. Notably, U.S.-based firms co-led the investment, including J Ventures, FJ Labs and Rise Capital. Spain’s All Iron Ventures and Big Sur also participated in the financing, among others. With the latest round, São Paulo-based InstaCarro has now raised more than $56 million since its 2015 inception.

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This Serial Entrepreneur Co-Founded a $3 Billion Company. Here's Where He Says Big Ideas Come From.

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Randall Kaplan breaks down how he builds companies and nurtures ideas. .

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India’s Infra.Market valued at $2.5B in Tiger Global-led $125M funding

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Infra.Market, an Indian startup that is helping construction and real estate companies in the world’s second-most populated nation procure materials and handle logistics for their projects, said on Tuesday it has secured its third financing round in the past nine months. Tiger Global, which led the startup’s Series C round in February this year, has led the $125 million Series D financing round in the five-year-old startup.

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[SaNOtize in Business Wire] SaNOtize inks agreement with Indian biotech Glenmark to commercialize Nitric Oxide Nasal Spray for COVID-19 treatment in India and other Asian markets

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia & MUMBAI, India–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SaNOtize Research and Development Corp. and Indian company, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, a research-led, global integrated pharmaceutical company, today announced an exclusive long-term strategic partnership to manufacture, market and distribute SaNOtize’s breakthrough Nitric Oxide Nasal Spray (NONS) for COVID-19 treatment, in India and other Asian markets including Singapore, Malaysia Hong Kong, Taiwan, Nepal, Brunei, Camb

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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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Kenya’s Wapi Pay raises $2.2M pre-seed for cross-border payments between Africa and Asia

TechCrunch

According to the World Bank , it is more expensive to send money to sub-Saharan Africa than to any region in the world. It is also the most expensive region to send money from. In Q1 2020, people spent an average of 8.9% to send money to the region, much higher than the global average of 6.8%. There’s much talk around sending money from Africa to the West, which has led to many startups using traditional (fiat) and nontraditional (crypto) means to facilitate cross-border payments between t

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Why You Need a Business Mentor (and Where You Can Find One)

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Mattie Mae Larson has a growing business in Hawaii turning trash into treasure. Her company, Upcycle Hawaii, creates wallets, zipper pouches, bookmarks, beach totes and a plethora of other products. All of Upcycle Hawaii’s items are made from post-consumer waste diverted from local landfills. While her business has been built with blood, sweat and tears, she also shares another secret to her success: her business mentor.

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Rani Therapeutics’ $73M IPO will fund upcoming clinical trials

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Rani Therapeutics, a San Jose-based company developing a pill to replace medical injections, went public on Friday. . According to S-1 filings , shares were estimated to price between $14 and $16 last week. On Friday, shares debuted slightly lower, around $11. Rani raised about $73 million in its debut. Rani’s debut comes amidst a flurry of IPO activity in therapeutics.

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[SaNOtize in NoCamels] SaNOtize To Launch Anti-COVID Nasal Spray In India, Asian Markets

OurCrowd

SaNOtize, the company behind an antiviral nasal spray for use against COVID-19, announced this week it has signed an agreement with Indian firm Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, to make the company’s breakthrough Nitric Oxide Nasal Spray (NONS) available in India and other Asian markets including Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Nepal, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam.

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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.