Venture Well
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Pitch competitions offer early-stage startups the opportunity to share their innovations, network with potential mentors and funders, and possibly gain access to funding and expert. The post pitch competitions: tips for success from winning teams appeared first on VentureWell.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Lee Li. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lee Li is a project manager and B2B copywriter with a decade of experience in the Chinese fintech startup space as a PM for TaoBao, MeitTuan and DouYin (now TikTok). More posts by this contributor. With open banking on the horizon, the fintech-SME love story is just beginning. Investment in fintech is surging back following a brief but notable drop during the COVID pandemic.
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StartupNation
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Excerpt from “ On Purpose Leadership: Master the Art of Leading Yourself to Inspire and Impact Others” by Dominick Quartuccio. Copyright © 2021 Dominick Quartuccio. Reproduced by permission of TCK Publishing. As someone who has worked with hundreds of leaders and teams, in both business and personal environments, I see two connected problems in how leaders, like Whitney, are leading today.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Fundbox, a company that offers loans and financial products to small businesses, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series D round at a valuation of $1.1 billion. Or more simply, the company aims to solve SMBs’ working capital needs through its credit and payments offerings. It is particularly focused on B2B-focused small businesses. “We use artificial intelligence to deliver financial products that small business owners use to better run and grow their businesses,” CEO Prashant Ful
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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
For most companies, work-from-home directives came almost overnight, with little time to address critical remote technology issues of scale, management, support, productivity, security and more. For your IT team, this situation is certainly not normal. And it has tested. their ability to support your employees who are working from home in numbers like never before.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Powerful lessons from top creators that can get you there faster. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Abacum , a SaaS maker geared toward upgrading mid-sized companies’ financial planning and analysis tools, has fast-followed the $7 million seed it raised earlier this year ( April ) with a $25M Series A round. The latest funding brings its total raised to date to $32M. The Series A is led by European VC Atomico, with participation from Creandum, FJ Labs, S16VC, and other existing investors.
Smart Hustle Magazine
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
As we near the end of 2021, it’s become clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way businesses run. Remote work has become increasingly popular among workers, particularly in a hybrid model. Although remote work can be a more comfortable way to work for some, it also comes with risks of its own for businesses. Using personal laptops and mobile devices to work from home and using personal internet connections may present a greater risk of loss from cyber-attacks.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Lak Ananth. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lak Ananth is founding CEO and managing partner of the global venture capital firm Next47 and serves on the board of several companies that he has helped to grow beyond $1 billion valuations. More posts by this contributor. Not all money is created equal: A VC’s advice for founders. I recently wrote a piece discussing how all capital is not created equal and we are living in a period of super-abundant funding — in many ways, the best times e
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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.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Scaling your online business sometimes means doing *less*, not more. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Q-CTRL , a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ventures, SquarePeg Capital, Sierra Ventures, DCVC, Sequoia Capital China and InQTel. . The latest funding will support hiring staff and enable new data-as-a-service markets powered by quantum sensing, founder and CEO of Q-CTRL Michael Biercuk said.
OurCrowd
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Cetera Financial Group, one of America’s largest networks of financial professionals, today announced that its investor acquisition program is expanding to all Cetera-affiliated financial professionals and that participants are eligible for reimbursement of their investment into the program. LeadEngine, which is powered by SmartAsset – the largest lead generation platform for financial professionals – is Cetera’s exclusive investor acquisition program that connects financial professi
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
ThreeFlow , which provides software for insurance brokers selling employee benefits, announced today that it raised $45 million in Series B funding. New investor Accel led the round alongside existing investors Emergence Capital , Equal Ventures , and First Trust Capital Partners. The Chicago-based company, formerly known as WatchTower, raised $8 million for its Series A round in January 2021.
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StartupNation
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
As a first-time founder, starting a startup is incredibly difficult. Raising capital, finding product-market fit and acquiring customers isn’t easy. As a second-time founder, it is a bit easier. . After our first company was acquired, I knew that I wanted to start another company. Working for yourself, especially during the earliest days of founding at startup, is incredibly rewarding. .
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
GajiGesa’s earned wage access feature user flow. GajiGesa , a fintech company focused on services for Indonesian workers, announced today that it has raised $6.6 million USD in pre-Series A funding. The round was led by MassMutual Ventures, with participation from January Capital, European earned wage access company Wagestream (EWA is GajiGesa’s flagship feature), Bunda Group, Smile Group, Oliver Jung, Northstar Group partners including Patrick Walujo, Nipun Mehra (the CEO of Ula) and Noah
Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Most leadership workshops won’t teach you this. Photo by Julian Schiemann on Unsplash During the five years I was in the military, I saw way more people actually learn to be leaders than I ever saw in my time in the corporate world, no matter how many trust falls were done at team off-sites. When I tell people that, they’re often surprised because it challenges their assumption that military leadership is about rank and brute force.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Paris-based VC firm Partech has announced the closing of the fundraising of its new growth fund. Partech Growth II is the firm’s second growth fund. And the team managed to raise $750 million. As a reminder, Partech Growth I was a smaller fund with €400 million under management, which represents $460 million at today’s exchange rate. Partech closed Partech Growth I back in 2015.
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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.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses a new report saying 82% of consumers are making their purchases decision this holiday season based on what a brand stands for and how they feel about that brand. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about what brands need to do to capture the allure of purpose: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Startups are often questions: What if we did things in a new way, instead of the way we have been? Massive is a good example of the genre: What if users could pay for apps or services not with money or attention, but with their spare compute power? The general concept of distributed compute power sourced from individuals is not new. Anyone familiar with the SETI screensaver has seen similar work before.
Secure Docs
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
As a company grows and achieves new milestones, it generates, stores, and shares more and more confidential information. Often, there are multiple projects happening simultaneously, where important business documents need to be shared quickly and securely with internal stakeholders or third parties.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
The HashiCorp IPO intends to shoot the narrows between Thanksgiving and Christmas, with its first IPO pricing interval set to give it among the richest valuations of any technology company with a strong open source component to its core business. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.
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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
Derek Sivers
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
All misery comes from dependency. If you weren’t dependent on income, people, or technology, you would be truly free. The only way to be deeply happy is to break all dependencies. Most problems are interpersonal. To be part of society is to lose a part of yourself. Cut ties with society. Don’t engage. Don’t even rebel, because that’s reacting. Instead, do what you’d do if you were the only person on Earth.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Meet Upway , a French startup that is building a marketplace for second-hand electric bikes. The startup just raised a $5.7 million (€5 million) seed round from Sequoia Capital and Global Founders Capital. If you’re familiar with the world of online marketplaces for cars, Upway will sound familiar to you as well. The company buys electric bikes from both customers and companies.
OurCrowd
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Appdome’s No-Code Platform Enabled the Bank to Incorporate Security into its CI/CD Pipeline and Apply Developer Best Practices to the Process of Adding Security Features to their App. Read more here. The post [Appdome in Yahoo!] Banco Galicia, one of the largest banks and financial service providers in Argentina, secures its mobile app via Appdome appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Marjorie Radlo-Zandi. Contributor. Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member, mentor to startups and angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. If you’re an entrepreneur looking to grow your business internationally, expanding into multiple countries can exponentially impact your bottom line business and brand, allowing you to grow efficiently.
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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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