TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Most large restaurant chains across Africa have grown accustomed to using legacy systems and point-of-sale providers to manage operations. However, for smaller restaurants — which represent the biggest segment of this $50 billion industry — these systems can be rather expensive and do not adequately cater to their needs; thus, they stick with running operations manually. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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Red Rocket

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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GCUC

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Prismforce, an India-U.S. startup that provides IT and tech services companies with tools to build better talent supply chain, has raised $13.6 million in a Series A round led by Sequoia Capital India. IT providers spend a large part of their variable costs on hiring skilled employees. But finding those employees from the ever-growing talent market and deploying them effectively to get adequate results is one of the most significant pain points for the industry worldwide.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Cloud tech companies are facing a significant cloud skills shortage , making it hard to hire people and difficult to make sure their current workforce’s skills are up to date. Australia- and US-based Saasguru wants to narrow the gap with an edtech platform designed for new graduates and tech workers who want to become better at using cloud platforms like Salesforce or AWS.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Funding Societies | Modalku , Southeast Asia’s largest SME digital financing platform , today announced that its Thai business (Funding Societies Thailand) has reached THB1 billion ($27.8 million) in loan disbursements to small businesses in the country for year-to-date (YTD) 2022.

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