TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
The Audience Choice results are in, which begs the question, could we BE more excited to share this news? No, we could not. Out of hundreds of applications, we curated 10 breakout sessions and 10 roundtable discussions. Your mission? Vote for the topics you want to see live and in person at TechCrunch Early Stage on April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Y Combinator
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Now is as good a time as any to start a startup – especially if you get into YC. But what about joining a startup in this economy? We’re obviously biased, but we think it’s a great time to join a startup too. Here are three reasons to consider: Impactful job opportunities are available at YC startups. Despite other companies pulling back on hiring in 2022, YC startups added 2.1K jobs on our hiring platform , with 410 added in January 2023 alone.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Supply chain management software startup Slync , which was at one point valued at $240 million, hasn’t had the easiest go of it lately. Slync’s founder, Christopher Kirchner, was charged by the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this month for misappropriating $20 million from the company to fund a lavish lifestyle, including a $16 million private Gulfstream jet, pro golf tournaments, a $495,000 luxury suite at a local sports stadium and failed bids for E
Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Putting on your mask first: knowing when to spend as a first-time founder. “Be scrappy” is great advice for most founders, but for first-generation and minority founders, it’s often the wrong advice — and one of the most challenging things I had to unlearn when I built my first company. Of the many lessons that come with entrepreneurship, learning how to spend as a first-time founder was brutal.
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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
The cloud is growing expensive. According to a recent survey from ESG, more than half of companies say that their spending on public cloud apps will increase in 2023 while 56% expect their public cloud infrastructure services spending will go up this year. A separate report from Gartner forecasts that worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow to total $591.8 billion in 2023, up from $490.3 billion in 2022.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Based in the Netherlands, blossoming agtech startup Source.ag has announced a $23 million Series A funding round to help grow its business, less than a year after its previous, $10 million round. The company assists commercial greenhouse crop growers adjust their growing conditions, optimize their resources and maximize their yields by using state-of-the-art AI models to predict how their plants will grow under different conditions.
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
When do you sell your company? Obviously, we all want to sell at the top. And there is the problem. How do you know when you are at or near that right point to sell for maximum value? Those of us in the business of calculating (guessing) this mythical peak in value often make the same mistake as our entrepreneurs. We hang on just a little bit longer, expecting continued or accelerating growth and value as in previous periods of the same.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
For an ecosystem that covers a majority of the planet, the oceans have basically been ignored by startups and investors alike. Sure, plenty of money is spent on ocean-based industries, but most of today’s marine investments are into either extractive industries like fishing or oil and gas, or activities like shipping, which aren’t extractive but don’t exactly benefit marine ecosystems.
Andreessen Horowitz
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Drafting a will and planning for what happens to your estate once you pass away is well, not exactly fun. Both tasks can also be very pricey endeavors, not to mention just painful to do for many reasons. And so it’s no surprise that many people put off the tasks, perhaps living in denial they are not immortal. In fact, one 2022 survey found that about two-thirds of Americans have no estate plan.
Founder Bounty
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Germany does offer a digital nomad visa known as the "Freelance Visa" or "Freiberufler Visa" for individuals who want to work remotely while living in Germany. To apply for this visa, you will need to meet certain eligibility criteria, including having sufficient funds to support yourself while in Germany, having health insurance coverage, and being able to prove your professional qualifications and work experience.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Founders. Are you ready? TechCrunch Editorial is on the hunt for 200 early-stage founders to feature in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this September. To highlight global innovation across multiple sectors, we expanded the Startup Battlefield program and it was a wild success, last year. With entrepreneurs from over 20 countries, across 25 industries and diverse backgrounds, our inaugural 200 class was showcased the best and brightest!
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Cybersecurity continues to be a major area for investment among businesses, and today a startup building solutions for smaller enterprises is announcing a funding round to meet that demand. Read more here. The post [Oxx in TechCrunch] CyberSmart raises $15M for an all-in-one cybersecurity and insurance solution targeting SMBs appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Dr. Jaishree Naidoo was in charge of pediatric radiology at a South African hospital in 2014, when she had a moment of epiphany after coming across a news story on the usage of AI recognition pattern in distinguishing animals. As a radiologist with 20 years of experience, Naidoo was already familiar with pattern recognition, and she could immediately see how AI could be used in the industry to transform the access to diagnostic imaging.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Appdome, the mobile app economy’s one and only Cyber Defense Automation platform, today affirmed its commitment to protect the global mobile app economy by adding two executives to new leadership roles at the company. Jamie Bertasi joins Appdome as Chief Customer Officer and Chris Roeckl has been appointed Chief Product Officer at Appdome.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Continuous integration and continuous delivery, aka CI/CD, is a modern development concept where code is being constantly updated and delivered to a central repository, rather than waiting for a set of features to be completed and releasing it all at once. It’s a fairly recent construct, but Earthly Technologies , an early stage startup, believes that CI is ripe for updating to make it faster and more efficient.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Amit Jain, CEO and Co-founder, CarDekho Group, as well as new Shark, has invested Rs 5 crore in Medulance, in exchange for a five per cent stake in the company. Read more here. The post [CarDekho in CarDekho] CarDekho Group to provide emergency medical services in partnership with Medulance appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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GCUC
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Meet the speakers of GCUC North America GCUC North America is going to be the Coworking and Flex event of 2023. Mark our words. We have been hard at work curating.
StartupNation
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Excerpted from “Trust Signals: Brand Building in a Post-Truth World” by Scott Baradell. Published by Lioncrest Publishing Copyright… The post Trust Signals: Brand Building in a Post-Truth World appeared first on StartupNation.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
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. Happy Thursday, landlubbers and salty sea dogs! We’ve got some fun updates from the events team — Lauren S announced the TechCrunch Early Stage Audience Choice winners. And if you get all starry-eyed and bushy-tailed at the possibility of being on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage for our annual Battlefield, you’re hella in luck — Neesha just announced that applications
AsiaTechDaily
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Online shopping is now made easier with the recent partnership of BillEase, a buy now, pay later (BNPL) and consumer finance app in the Philippines, and HitPay. The partnership will also allow local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to offer more convenient and card-free installment options to its customers upon checkout.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
There’s a pretty decent chance you’ve heard of a little company called Uber. It was a Crunchies finalist back in 2011 (for Best Location Application, alongside Runkeeper, Foursquare, Airbnb and Grindr), and it’s been doing rather well ever since. As I am writing this, Uber has a $69 billion market cap ( nice ) and it’s a global superstar startup.
Secure Docs
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
M&A activity in 2022 was weaker than in 2021 across the board. Total deal value dropped by about a third from 2021. Read our 2022 outlook to learn more.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Leslie Crowe Contributor Share on Twitter Leslie Crowe is talent partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where she provides strategic counsel to the firm's portfolio companies on scaling successfully. There is no way to sugarcoat it: For many founders, 2022 was a tough year to be a boss, and 2023 is not shaping up to be any easier. The tech industry layoffs may have slowed, but they haven’t abated and there will certainly be more to come.
OkDork
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify In today’s episode, I talk to self-improvement entrepreneur Dan Koe. Dan runs t he Modern Mastery HQ business community that helps creato rs and influencers monetize their following by harnessing digital economics. This year, he’s projected to make $2.5 million dollars!
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