Tue.Nov 29, 2022

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Your First Biotech BD Hire

Andreessen Horowitz

Now more than ever, business development is top of mind for biotech founders. Scientific collaborations have always been an essential piece of the drug development ecosystem, enabling small biotech companies to accelerate and maximize the impact of their therapeutic platforms … The post Your First Biotech BD Hire appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Deepgram lands new cash to grow its enterprise voice-recognition business

TechCrunch

Deepgram, a company developing voice-recognition tech for the enterprise, today raised $47 million in new funding led by Madrona Venture Group with participation from Citi Ventures and Alkeon. An extension of Deepgram’s Series B that kicked off in February 2021, led by Tiger Global, it brings the startup’s total raised to $86 million, which CEO Scott Stephenson says is being put toward R&D in areas like emotion detection, intent recognition, summarization, topic detection, transl

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Weekly 24: Adventures in Venture Capital

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Welcome to another edition of our newsletter! You’ll receive practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss How to negotiate your startup’s valuation. How to fundraise in the current landscape of uncertainty. Are you actually ready to pitch? Let’s do this. How do you negotiate the valuation of your startup?

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‘Co-warehouse’ company Saltbox closes $35M Series B

TechCrunch

Coworking and warehouse space company Saltbox announced today the closing of a $35 million Series B led by Cox Enterprises and Pendulum Holdings. The news comes more than a year after Saltbox closed a $10.6 million Series A, bringing its total funding to $56 million. As TechCrunch previously reported , Saltbox — which was founded in 2019 by Tyler Scriven , Maxwell Bonnie and Paul D’Arrigo — is a pioneer of what it calls “co-warehousing.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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4D Imaging Radar developer Smart Radar System gets domestic recognition & global CES 2023 award

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Smart Radar System , a Korean company specializing in developing high-resolution 4D imaging radar with global competitiveness, has been named in the CES 2023 Innovation Award list. . The company’s “Smart Guard Solution” was selected for the CES 2023 Innovation Awards, produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®.

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CloudN enters Thai Energy Management Market with support from Korean Government 

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Korean startup CloudN Co., Ltd., which is working towards a sustainable future with its ‘Building Energy Management System,’ announced that it has entered the Thailand market with support from the Korean government and NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency).

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CRED acquires CreditVidya

TechCrunch

CRED is acquiring CreditVidya, a SaaS startup that helps firms underwrite first-time borrowers, in the latest of a series of investments from the Bengaluru-headquartered fintech as it broadens its infrastructure and offerings. The firms did not disclose the terms of the deal but said it involves both cash and stock. The 10-year-old CreditVidya — headquartered in Hyderabad and backed by Navroz Udwadia, Kalaari Capital and Matrix Partners — had raised $10 million in previous financing

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Lesson #348: Great Resignation? Quiet Quitting? Look in the Mirror for Answers!

Red Rocket

The last year has introduced us to a bunch of new concepts in the post-COVID workforce. The first was the Great Resignation, with an estimated 20% of workers planning to quit their jobs in 2022. And, most recently, Quiet Quitting, where workers don’t actually quit their jobs, but instead, put in the bare minimum of work required to keep their employers happy, without putting in a minute of extra effort.

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Amplio helps companies find components when supply chain breaks down

TechCrunch

When COVID shut down much of the world in 2020, it ended up wreaking havoc on the supply chain. Suddenly companies built for just-in-time production couldn’t find parts they needed to build their products. Even as COVID subsided, the supply chain woes continued. Veterans of supply management like the founder of startup Amplio watched, and figured there had to be a better way to guard against these kinds of disruptions in the future using software to find parts wherever they were.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Cooky raises $4.5m led by Nextrans and Do Ventures

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register E-grocery shopping platform Cooky raised $4.5 million from its recent funding round to accelerate its R&D to create more diverse and healthy meal kits that could be sold at very affordable prices. The company also wants to focus on maximizing customer satisfaction by improving personalized services based on their needs.

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Daily Crunch: Apple announces its 2022 App Store Award winners

TechCrunch

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. Oh hey! While we have you here, grab your calendar — we’ve got some things for you to add. For the stargazers among us, we’ll be in Los Angeles doing TC Sessions: Space on December 6. And on April 20, 2023, we’re heading to Boston for our TC Early Stage festival.

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Japanese tech unicorn Sansan to open global development center in PH

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Sansan , a Japanese provider of cloud-based solutions that promote digital transformation (DX) and reshape how we work, has announced its plan to open a new global development center in Cebu, the Philippines in 2023. The opening of its newest center is aligned with the company’s effort to further strengthen the development of Sansan’s product functions for global markets by es

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Austin-based ICON awarded $57.2 million NASA contract for lunar construction tech

TechCrunch

ICON , a construction tech company that’s raised more than $400 million in funding, has landed a new contract from NASA to develop new systems to build on the moon and Mars. The $57.2 million contract is a continuation of a previous Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) dual-use contract with the U.S. Air Force, which was partly funded by NASA. This award will support the development of what ICON is calling “Project Olympus,” an ambitious plan to build structures on the moon and Mars using i

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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GCUC Podcast Recap: The Coven

GCUC

The Coven is the world’s first female run coworking brand to franchise and their cofounders, Alex West Steinman and Erinn Farrell keep momentum to. The post GCUC Podcast Recap: The Coven appeared first on GCUC Community.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Fundraising under scrutiny, optimizing LTV, visa bulletin update

TechCrunch

Plenty of companies that launched during downturns went on to be phenomenally successful. During the Great Depression, Stanford grads David Packard and William Hewlett famously set up shop in a Palo Alto garage. Microsoft was founded as the U.S. was recovering from a years-long oil embargo that hobbled the economy. Slack, Airbnb, Uber and Square all rose from the ashes of the Great Recession.

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14 Best Small Business Automation Tools To Save Time

Startup Blogpost

From ActiveCampaign to Notion to Python, here are the 14 answers to the question, “What is your favorite small business automation tool that helps save time and increase profits?” Activecampaign Salesforce Sync Google Data Studio Zapier Quickbooks Little Warden Notion Calendly Grammarly Airtable Zoomsphere Keap Hive Python. ActiveCampaign.

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The Biggest Challenge for Venture-Backed Companies

Entrepreneur's Handbook

There is always a fires to put out. This advice will help you tackle the most pressing ones Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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How to Use Lucky to Grow Your Business

Jason Malki

As a business owner, you know that customer satisfaction is key to success. You also know that one of the best ways to guarantee customer satisfaction is by providing excellent customer service. But what if there was a way to take your customer service to the next level? Enter Lucky , a cutting-edge platform that allows brands to convert retail customers in real-time, regardless of location.

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[ThetaRay in Business Wire] ClearBank Selects ThetaRay AI Monitoring Tech to Accelerate Business Growth

OurCrowd

LONDON & NEW YORK & TEL AVIV, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ClearBank, the largest next-generation clearing and embedded banking platform in the UK, and ThetaRay, provider of AI-powered transaction monitoring technology, today announced they will collaborate in cloud-native anti-money laundering (AML) monitoring to protect ClearBank against financial crime with ThetaRay’s robust and industry-leading AI solution.

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Napoleon's Influence on the Modern Data Stack : hyperdimensional Analysis with Malloy

Tomasz Tunguz

Data visualization is a passion of mine. I remember reading Edward Tufte’s book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information & stumbling across Charles Minard’s “ Napoleon’s March.” Most visualizations plot 2 dimensions. Napoleon’s March encodes 6 : the geography of the terrain, the route & the direction of the army, the headcount of the troops, the temperature of the battlefield, & the time of year of Napoleon’s doomed quest to conquer Rus

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YC Happy Hour at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference

Y Combinator

Join us for a happy hour during the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. If you’re a YC alum, an investor, industry leader, or are interested in starting a bio or healthcare company, we’d love to see you there. YC at JPM January 10 from 2:30 - 5 pm in San Francisco, CA Appetizers and drinks will be served. Space is limited, so sign up here by December 29 and we’ll send you a confirmation and location details by December 30.

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

Gearing up for 2025 annual planning? Our latest eBook from the Operators Guild is your ultimate guide. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community. Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.

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Software supply chain security is broader than SolarWinds and Log4J

TechCrunch

Dan Lorenc. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dan Lorenc is CEO and co-founder of Chainguard. Previously he was staff software engineer and lead for Google’s Open Source Security Team (GOSST). He has founded projects like Minikube, Skaffold, TektonCD and Sigstore. SolarWinds and Log4j have made software supply chain security issues a topic of intense interest and scrutiny for businesses and governments alike.

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Rearchitecting the Supply Chain with Flexport’s Ryan Petersen

Andreessen Horowitz

Flexport’s co-CEO and founder, Ryan Petersen, chats with a16z Growth Editor Das Rush, in a fireside chat recorded at the a16z San Francisco office. They start with … The post Rearchitecting the Supply Chain with Flexport’s Ryan Petersen appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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See you in Boston for TechCrunch’s Annual Founder Summit

TechCrunch

TechCrunch Early Stage — our premier event designed for budding entrepreneurs and founders at the very start of their startup journey — returns by popular demand on April 20, 2023. And we’re excited to announce that this year, we’re taking it on the road to Boston, Massachusetts. We’re mixing the East Coast vibe with unparalleled opportunity. This is our only event where you get hands-on training with top industry experts to help you build a successful business.

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Payments infra start-up XanPool raises $41m to fund expansion into emerging markets

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Hong Kong’s XanPool has raised $41M in new capital that it could use to fund its expansion plans across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America. XanPool, which also plans to establish a research and development hub in Thailand , said the recent funding round was led by its existing investor Target Global.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.