TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. Just like last year’s batches, about half of the companies in the W22 batch (where YC’s Standard Deal comes to full effect for the first time) are based outside of the United States. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation.
Smart Hustle Magazine
MARCH 29, 2022
Over the past few years, I’ve invested quite a lot of time in building my personal brand. There are three simple and low-cost tools that have helped me. In fact, I think every coach, author, speaker and consultant should invest in them. The Celebrity CEO, which I coined, “building a community of fans and nurturing them to a sale”, is powerful.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Michael Redd. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Michael Redd spent 12 seasons playing in the NBA and on the U.S. Olympic team. He is now co-founder and chairman of 22 Ventures. More posts by this contributor. 3 warning signs that your investor will leave you on the sidelines. Startup accelerators are increasingly putting the brakes on demo days. The often flashy events reserved for founders to connect with investors have long been part of the likes of Y Combinator’s program, seen as the ̶
Y Combinator
MARCH 29, 2022
For the Winter 2022 batch, we received 17,000 applications from founders around the world and funded 414. Even more significant than the number of applications is the caliber of teams that applied. Today, these founders will present their companies to an invite-only audience of investors at Y Combinator’s 34th Demo Day. When funding, we consider startups at any stage and in any field.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
The job market for coders remains very tight on both sides of the table: There remains a major skills and talent shortage when it comes to finding people for specialized, technical jobs; but on the other side, developers still have to jump through many hoops in hopes of connecting with the most selective jobs (and even then there is no guarantee of success).
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TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Wherever we are in the journey of navigating a pandemic, remote work is still hot. Electric , one of the many companies making it easier for organizations to work remotely, has capitalized on this trend so much in the past couple years that it’s now a unicorn. Founder and CEO Ryan Denehy told TechCrunch that the startup has raised $20 million in what it’s calling a Series D-1 from Harmonic Growth Partners, Vintage Investment Partners, Greenspring and Slack Fund.
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 29, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Oxyzo Financial Solutions Pvt Ltd, OfBusiness’ finance arm, has become a unicorn after receiving $200 million in a Series A funding round. The financing round was led by Alpha Wave with Tiger Global Management , Norwest Venture Partners , Matrix Partners , and Creation Investments joining as co-investors.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Furniture is one of the largest waste categories in the U.S., generating more than 12 million tons of waste in landfills every year, according to 2018 data by the Environmental Protection Agency. Kaiyo , an online marketplace for secondhand furniture, says it has helped the impact by keeping nearly three million pounds out of landfills since its launch in 2015. .
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 29, 2022
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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.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Churpy , a fintech startup based in Kenya, is looking to expand across Africa by setting up hubs in Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa for a planned continent-wide growth, driven by the $1 million in seed funding it has just raised. The account receivables automation startup is out to change how businesses manage the debt owed to them by their customers through its SaaS product, which automates the processes of reconciling incoming payments and invoices, a labor-intensive process that is still pred
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 29, 2022
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TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Singapore-headquartered esports startup Ampverse has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Falcon Capital. The company says this is the largest Series A raised by an esports organization in Southeast Asia, based on data from PitchBook and other third-party platforms. The round will be used to expand in Indonesia and the Philippines, acquire more esports teams and scale Ampverse’s play-to-earn unit. .
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 29, 2022
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CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
The adoption of buy now, pay later (BNPL) in Nigeria as a payment option both online and at the point of sale is expected to record a CAGR of 20% from 2021 to 2028, per this report. BNPL’s growth is further highlighted as GMV is predicted to increase from $204 million to over $1 billion by 2028. Key to this growth is the activities of providers whose platforms encourage consumers to make instantaneous purchases and pay over time. .
OurCrowd
MARCH 29, 2022
Babson Diagnostics is expanding its management team as it develops and prepares to commercialize its blood-testing system that leverages innovations in collection, sample handling, and analysis. Read more here. The post [Babson Diagnostics in Medical Product Outsourcing] Babson Diagnostics expands executive management team appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
There’s no textbook-approved technique for building a startup engineering team: in the early days, everyone wears several hats. But when a company enters its growth phase, the recruiting process is systematized, new hires are sorted into discrete units, and a thin layer of management is applied to keep everything on track. When Jean-Denis Greze accepted the CTO role at Plaid in 2017, the fintech company was still financing its Series A had “about 20 engineers who were still trying to
OurCrowd
MARCH 29, 2022
WOLLERAU, Switzerland, March 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Proman, an integrated energy company and one of the world’s top ten nitrogen fertilizer producers, today announced a new strategic partnership with CropX, a global pioneer in digital farm management systems. Read more here. The post [CropX in PR Newswire] Proman partners with CropX to invest in cutting-edge technology to make farming more sustainable appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Day one of Y Combinator’s Demo Day confab for the Winter 2022 batch is over. We shook up our coverage this year, divvying things up by sector and geography. Our goal was to avoid a huge list, the sort that we compiled in years past. TechCrunch has notes on the ever-growing contingent of companies from Africa , Indian startups , international fintech and even a discussion on intra-startup competition at the accelerator.
Feedough
MARCH 29, 2022
Regulatory requirements are a big part of any business’s life. Read more. The post What Is Regtech? – Use Cases, Challenges, & Future appeared first on Feedough.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Web developers have to run hundreds of tasks and they are able to do so on their own machines. But when a developer firm — at a scale — has to perform similar activities, they don’t often have — and in many cases, want to have — the required computing power at their disposal to run such tasks locally. “Can we build a platform that helps these developers and their firms save a ton of time — bringing down what would otherwise take four to five hours to 10 minutes?
Hunter Walk
MARCH 29, 2022
Let Others Call You a “Platform,” “Mentor,” “Low Maintenance,” & “Good in Bed,” Never Claim Them. Tall. I can call myself tall. It’s objectively true because I’m 6′ 3″ Sometimes I just joke that I’m ‘tall for tech’ but either way, I’m higher up than average. But there are some things I feel like I can’t just claim about myself. “Easy to work with?
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TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
It’s the first of Y Combinator’s two-day Demo Day event, which means that TechCrunch will spend most of our working hours watching startup demos and tracking how many companies from the batch are in particular sectors and geographies. The early-stage startup market is active and — as formerly late-stage-focused funds look to invest earlier — still awarding attractive valuations to nascent technology upstarts.
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 29, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Amagi, a Bengaluru-based SaaS platform that allows TV networks and content owners to distribute and monetize content across multiple platforms, became a unicorn in March 2022 after raising $95 million funding. Srividhya Srinivasan, Baskar Subramanian, and Srinivasan KA set out in 2008 to revolutionize global content distribution and monetize the media sector.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, March 29, 2022! Haje and I are now flying solo with the newsletter. It will be all hands on deck today and tomorrow as we listen to startups pitch at the YC Demo Day, so look out for a deluge of stories over the next two days.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 29, 2022
I always believed that what I do in my career would be how I grow my annual income. I could not have been more wrong. Then I tested a… Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
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