TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia disclosed 15 early-stage startups it has selected for the seventh cohort of its accelerator program Surge, pushing ahead with new investments even as the deal activity has considerably slowed in the region. Since its launch in March 2019 , the accelerator has helped its participating startups collectively raise over $1.7 billion in follow-on funding, the venture firm said, with over 60% of companies from the first five cohorts raising their Series A and b

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 22, 2022

What if we’ve reached the point where founders need investors in order to build successful startups? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Socar , South Korea’s largest car-sharing startup, tumbled in its Seoul stock market debut Monday even after pricing shares below the bottom end of a marketed range. Shares of Socar rose 1.25% from its IPO price of 28,000 won ($21.10) in the initial minutes of the debut, before tumbling to 26,300 won and giving the firm a market cap of $642 million.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 22, 2022

“Revolut? Were they not created a couple of years ago?” Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

For early-stage startups looking to hire new talent, it’s not enough to make one-off decisions about pay as each new employee comes on board. Constructing a coherent philosophy around compensation is crucial for a company to stay consistent in the long term and provide transparency to employees — essentially, coming up with the “why” and “how” behind salary decisions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

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A Smart Bear: Longform

AUGUST 22, 2022

The vaunted "single-threaded, ordered list" confuses "prioritization" with "work-planning," and forces comparisons of the un-comparable. Here's the solution.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Based in Japan, biotech startup Dioseve ’s ambitious goal is to grow human oocytes, or eggs, from other tissue. Its aim is to help people struggling with infertility, and it recently raised $3 million led by ANRI, with participation from Coral Capital. Dioseve’s mission might sound like it comes out of science fiction, but it’s based on a scientific technique called induced pluripotent cells stem (iPS) cells, which was first developed in 2006.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ari Jacoby. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ari Jacoby is the CEO and co-founder of Deduce. Anyone who travels frequently will tell you that one of the greatest innovations of the past decade has been the TSA PreCheck. It’s so simple and effective that it makes you wonder why no one thought of it before. This example can serve as adequate inspiration for businesses, especially as the markets show no signs of recovery: How can companies, hoping to retain revenue during the recession, do something

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Programming involves a lot of monotonous tasks. Based in Gujarat, India, DhiWise wants to makes things less onerous for developers with its programming automation platform. The company, which won Product Hunt’s Golden Kitty award for Developer Tool of the Year last year, announced today it has raised $7 million in Series A funding led by Accel and Together Fund, with participation from India Quotient.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Over the weekend, CNBC reported a set of revenue and profit figures from FTX, a global cryptocurrency exchange that raised a mountain of capital in the last year and is currently expanding its product remit. Its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been a key player in the crypto market in recent months, involved in several deals as the decentralized economy weathers a slowdown amid a barrage of bad news.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ryan Neu. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ryan Neu is the founder and CEO of Vendr, a SaaS purchase platform. Previously, he was a B2B SaaS sales leader at both InVision and HubSpot. Companies are hitting a considerable inflection point when it comes to how they assemble and manage their software tech stack. On one hand, the storm of pandemic-related IT changes is beginning to calm down, but on the other, many are facing an economic downturn that could further impact and strain business.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Maju Kuruvilla. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Maju Kuruvilla is the CEO of Bolt. Prior to Bolt, Maju was the VP and GM for Amazon’s Global Logistics, managing its business unit spanning business, product, engineering and operations. What is the biggest and most obvious problem facing e-commerce retailers? Checkout. By that, I mean customers who find their way to a retailer’s digital home, decide to buy an item, add the item to cart and press checkout — only to quit the last part of the transact

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week Alex was back with Grace and our new producer to kick off the week. Now that we are through earnings season, things are a little quieter on the forecast front, but that didn’t mean that we were short on material: Stocks are down around the world, while crypto prices remain depressed in the last week; NFT volume continues its negative drift.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

More funding for sustainability reporting: Sweden’s Worldfavor , an early mover platform focused on building digital infrastructure to support supply chain transparency and cater to organizations’ ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting needs, has bagged €10.2 million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas. The Series A was led by SEB Private Equity, which is part of Nordic corporate bank SEB, with existing investors Brightly Ventures and Spintop Ventures also partic

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Owners of vintage cars know the deal. The “project” is never done and driving an old vehicle means dealing with mechanical failures, encroaching rust, old wiring shorting out and the continual hit to a bank account. For some, that’s part of the allure: a never-ending labor of love that includes the joy of a weekend spent replacing a starter or rewiring the brake lights. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Imagine building some of the most sophisticated hardware-driven technologies in the world — spacecraft, drones or autonomous vehicles. Then imagine being unable to easily share your data to different teams, having to use clunky user interfaces and relying on a single person manually inputting data in an Excel spreadsheet to bottom-line your project.

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