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Swiggy and Zomato, food delivery rivals in India, back UrbanPiper in $24 million funding

TechCrunch

UrbanPiper, a restaurant management platform that processes 18% of all online food orders in India, has raised $24 million in a new financing round from a number of investors including Swiggy and Zomato, the three firms said Monday. The six-year-old startup’s Series B funding was led by existing investors Sequoia Capital India and Tiger Global. Pankaj Chaddah, a founder of Zomato, Ankit Nagori of Curefoods and Khadim Batti and Vara Kumar are among some angels who have also invested in the new ro

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Stamina and creativity carry Monscierge through pandemic

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Stamina and creativity carry Monscierge through pandemic impacts. By Scott Meacham. When we talk about entrepreneurs and startup companies we use words like visionary, determined, energetic, and pivot. All those adjectives and more apply to the unstoppable team at Monscierge. Monscierge is an Oklahoma City-based interactive software company with solutions installed in hotels around the world.

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Sequoia Capital India pledges to take proactive steps amid fraud allegations at some startups

TechCrunch

Sequoia Capital India, one of the most prolific and successful investors in India and Southeast Asia, addressed the fraudulent practices allegations levelled against some of its portfolio startups and pledged to take proactive steps to do more to drive increased compliance. In a blog post published Sunday afternoon , the storied venture fund said it’s still a “work-in-progress” and said that all players collectively have to “drive better accountability, along with improving performan

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BNPL startup BillEase secures $20m to expand growth in Philippines

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register BillEase , a buy now, pay later ( BNPL ) and consumer finance app in the Philippines, announced today that it has closed a $20-million debt facility from Lendable , an emerging market credit provider, to further accelerate the growth of its business in the Philippines.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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5 Common Finance Mistakes Early Stage Startups Make

Smart Hustle Magazine

If you’re getting a new company up and running, your time and energy are often focused on market assessment, fine-tuning your product or service, acquiring funding, and finding the right team to execute all of your topline goals. Founders and early team members are often just focused on starting somewhere, and we get it. But through this bootstrapping process we often find that startups neglect certain foundational elements of their business until it’s a bit too late.

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Keep Your Personal Burn Rate Low To Maximize Your Options

Hunter Walk

Why ‘Living Below Your Means’ Is One Key To Success & Happiness. $0 per year. That’s what my business partner and I decided that we wanted in salary from our newest venture fund. Or at least it was the resulting impact of declining to take additional capital from our investors and commit our own dollars instead. Now, my salary doesn’t go to zero overnight because we’re still drawing down historical management fees but it’s all downhill from here as those income streams taper and end.

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Fintech Roundup: The gloves are off in the spend management space

TechCrunch

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! And if you want to have this hit your inbox directly once it officially turns into a newsletter on May 1, sign up here. If it feels like we’ve been over-indexing on expense/spend management news, it’s because there has just been so darn much of it.

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[CropX in MSN News] MetService partnering with farm management company to provide rural sector with pinpoint weather data

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MetService is partnering with a farm management company to provide the rural sector with pinpoint weather data they can access on a smartphone. Read more here. The post [CropX in MSN News] MetService partnering with farm management company to provide rural sector with pinpoint weather data appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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[Peak in COO Alliance] Peak Chief Commercial Officer, Zoe Hillenmeyer

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Second in Command podcast. Read more here. The post [Peak in COO Alliance] Peak Chief Commercial Officer, Zoe Hillenmeyer appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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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[NeuReality in The Times of Israel] IBM, AMD embrace Israeli artificial intelligence technology

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NeuReality is set to transform AI, slashing costs and energy consumption with a groundbreaking new system. Read more here. The post [NeuReality in The Times of Israel] IBM, AMD embrace Israeli artificial intelligence technology appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.