TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

Late last week, in a rare sit-down before a small audience , this editor spent an hour with Sam Altman, the former president of Y Combinator and, since 2019, the CEO of OpenAI , the company he famously co-founded with Elon Musk and numerous others in 2015 to develop artificial intelligence for the “benefit of humanity.” The crowd wanted to learn more about his plans for OpenAI, which has taken the world by storm in the last six weeks owing to the public release of its ChatGPT languag

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 16, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sara Johnson, owner and founder of LeadLab Media – a digital media consultancy that specializes in paid search, paid social, programmatic ads, and anything that uses ad dollars to get more revenue and customers for your business. She started the business 8 years ago, after working at some of the largest agencies in Chicago managing the paid search campaigns of some of the top advertisers, such as Allstate and P&G.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

Kwara , a Kenyan fintech digitizing credit unions (saccos), more than doubled its client base last year, and its eyeing enormous growth in the coming years after raising a $3 million seed extension, and signing an exclusive digital solutions distribution agreement with the Kenya Union of Savings & Credit Cooperatives (Kuscco), the national umbrella body representing saccos.

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Feedough

JANUARY 16, 2023

It’s a proven fact that the human brain is more. Read more. The post What Is An infographic? – Types & Examples appeared first on Feedough.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

Mark Boggett. Contributor. Mark Boggett is the CEO and co-founder of the Seraphim Space Manager LLP , the world's first listed fund focused on space tech. Cell phone connectivity from space. Multiple players in the industry have recently set their sights on direct-to-mobile connectivity from space. While it’s still a very early market with limited existing capabilities, companies such as Apple, T-Mobile, Globalstar, SpaceX, AST SpaceMobile and Lynk Global are targeting this area.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

An increasing number of organizations are adopting microservices, the loosely-coupled, independently-deployable services that together make up an app. According to a 2020 O’Reilly survey , 77% of organizations had adopted microservices as of then, with 29% reporting that they were migrating or implementing a majority of their systems using microservices.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 16, 2023

Standard construction can be slow, costly, and inefficient. Machines might do it better. Read more here. The post [ICON in The New Yorker] Can 3-D printing help solve the dousing crisis? appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

This weekend, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo told Le Parisien that Parisians will get to vote whether they want to ban free-floating electric scooters or not. As I explained last week , Dott, Lime and Tier, the three scooter companies currently operating in the city, have operating licenses that are set to expire on March 23rd, 2023. And the fate of those services could have wide implications across the micromobility sector.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 16, 2023

For any platform model to succeed, there should be growth in both supply and demand. Freightos’ most recent update on its bookings and transactions show that its moves to digitize B2B interactions and streamline global trade are gathering momentum. Read more here. The post [Freightos in PYMNTS] Freightos’ freight-as-a-service platform finds success with large suppliers appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

Occasionally, in my role as a consultant, I am approached by companies that have a plan in place for their fundraising that doesn’t involve the CEO or a member of the founding team running point on the fundraising process. From one perspective, I can understand that: VC fundraising does, from the outside, look a lot like sales, and if you have a good salesperson, why not let them do what they do best?

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 16, 2023

Read more here. The post [Phantom Auto in Forbes] Phantom Auto tech helping unlikely workers fill logistics labor shortage appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 16, 2023

The American food giant has begun marketing in supermarkets in the United States cream cheeses based on the protein of the Israeli foodtech startup, which does not contain animal components. Read more here. The post [Remilk in Calcalist] General Mills using Remilk’s tech to produce animal-free cheese appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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