Tue.Dec 05, 2023

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T-Hub Launches Space Tech Incubation Program to Support India’s Spacetech Sector

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register India’s startup incubator, T-Hub , has introduced the Space Tech Incubation Program as part of the AIC T-Hub Foundation initiative. In collaboration with the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), this program aims to support innovation and drive growth in India’s evolving space tech sector.

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Brian Folmer and FirstLook Change the Game on the Future of Consumer Brand Investing

Jason Malki

I had the pleasure of interviewing Brian Folmer, founder of FirstLook , FirstLook Ventures, and Distrobox. Brian is based out of Cleveland where he spends most of his time building FirstLook, a box full of emerging brands for investors, and Distrobox, a box full of emerging brands for DSD Distributors. When he’s not working on his companies, you can find him investing in consumer brands and tech solutions that empower them.

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Transforming Singapore’s Healthcare Landscape: Navigating Demographic Changes and Economic Challenges

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Amid escalating healthcare expenses, Singapore’s dedication to controlling these costs while maintaining high standards of care is increasingly important. Singapore’s healthcare system is renowned worldwide for providing universal access to high-quality health services.

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Leadership Transformation: David Ghodsizadeh’s Journey to Empower Technical Professionals Through…

Jason Malki

Leadership Transformation: David Ghodsizadeh’s Journey to Empower Technical Professionals Through Storytelling I had the pleasure of interviewing David Ghodsizadeh, the founder of Storytelling 4 Success , who is empowering technical professionals to unlock their full potential through leadership storytelling. David is a seasoned marketer with a rich background in the high-tech industry, most notably at Samsung Electronics, and received formal storytelling training from world renowned coaches.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

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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NSW’s MVP Ventures Program and IGP Grants Open for Application

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Applications are now open for the 2023/24 MVP Ventures Program , a state initiative in New South Wales (NSW) designed to provide grants to early-stage startups and small to medium enterprises (SMEs) driving the commercialization of innovative products or processes.

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ByteDance’s TikTok Shop Reinvents Itself: Strategic Investment and Collaboration with GoTo’s Tokopedia

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register ByteDance , the parent company of the popular video service provider TikTok, has agreed to invest in a unit of Indonesia’s GoTo Group and collaborate on an online shopping service with Tokopedia. Despite an informal agreement already in place, the final intricacies of the alliance are subject to ongoing discussions and may undergo adjustments before an official announcement.

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Empowering Startups and Navigating Tech Investment: An Interview with Olga Duka of Improve Ventures

Jason Malki

I had the pleasure of interviewing Olga Duka, GP at Improve Ventures How did you break into tech investing? To be honest, I don’t think there ever was a “breaking into” moment. I started working with startups as founder or operator or advisor almost 15 years ago and I was an institutional investor prior to that. I went to work in the tech sector, because I’ve always been obsessed with talent and wanted to learn how early-stage ideas originate and develop.

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Rightbot, which is developing robots to unload freight, lands investment from Amazon

TechCrunch

Rightbot, a startup developing suction-based robots that can unload truck-transported freight in a range of sizes, has raised $6.25 million in a funding round led by Amazon’s Industrial Innovation Fund (IIF) with participation from SOSV and Entrepreneur First. Amazon launched IIF last April to bolster startups addressing challenges across customer fulfillment, logistics and the supply […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Zone of Impossibility: Why Entrepreneurs Should Look For Impossible Challenges

Entrepreneur's Handbook

There is a world of difference between almost impossible and impossible. If you took physics in high school, you learned that it was impossible to see anything smaller than half the wavelength of light, no matter how powerful the microscope. This limitation is a hard, fixed law of physics, not a matter of how good the microscope is. It’s just a law of nature, proven mathematically by Ernst Abbe in 1873.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

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.

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Meet Qaiser?—?Founder of BAE INTERNET & GO ONLINE who is Pioneering Change in Tech

Jason Malki

Meet Qaiser — Founder of BAE INTERNET & GO ONLINE who is Pioneering Change in Tech In the dynamic world of technology and startups, few entrepreneurs stand out with their innovative approaches and compelling vision. One such individual is Mohd Qaiser Malik, a trailblazer in the tech industry whose journey from the bustling streets of India to the prestigious halls of Babson College in Boston reflects a story of ambition, innovation, and success.

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Omniful, a supply chain and e-commerce enablement startup, emerges from stealth with $5.85M

TechCrunch

Supply chain and e-commerce enablement startup, Omniful, has today emerged from stealth with $5.85 million seed funding led by VentureSouq, with participation from 500 Global, DASH Ventures, Jahez Group, SEEDRA Ventures, Bunat Ventures, Hala Ventures, RZM Investments and several family offices including Al Rasheed, Siraj Holding, Al Bawardi, Al Nafea.

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This Company Is on a Mission to Tackle the Concussion Crisis in Football. They're Now in 14 NFL Locker Rooms and Growing.

Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category

LIGHT Helmets CEO Nick Esayian discusses the launch and growth of the company and its game plan for expanding its innovative tech from the football field to hockey rinks, construction sites and beyond.

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Today’s AI funding rush reminds me of the fintech investing hype of 2021

TechCrunch

We're seeing a lot of folks push their capital into just a few squares on the betting table. One way or another, the result is going to be notable. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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How to Get Investors Excited About Your Market Opportunity

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Market size is crucial. Most pitches get wrong.

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EnCharge raises $22.6M to commercialize its AI-accerating chips

TechCrunch

Around a year ago, TechCrunch wrote about a little-known company developing AI-accelerating chips to face off against hardware from titans of industry — e.g. Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft, Meta, AWS and Intel. Its mission at the time sounded a little ambitious — and still does. But to its credit, the startup, EnCharge AI, is alive and […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[Appdome in PRNewswire] Appdome Wins Winter 2023 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx

OurCrowd

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Appdome, the one-stop shop for mobile app defense, announced today that Intellyx, the first and only analyst firm dedicated to digital transformation, has awarded Appdome with the Winter 2023 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award.

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Git platform AllSpice now curries favor with enterprises

TechCrunch

AllSpice shifted its strategy to bring enterprise engineers together to more easily collaborate on projects. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Lion

Tomasz Tunguz

Mongo announcing earnings yesterday concludes this quarter’s index of software buyers. As the chart above shows, the software market is plateauing & some companies are rebounding. Why is a flat growth rate something to cheer? First, 30% growth is now top quartile. Second, each of these businesses has scaled, doubling or more in the last three years.

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Meta and IBM form an AI Alliance, but to what end?

TechCrunch

Meta, on an open source tear, wants to spread its influence further and wider in the ongoing battle for AI mindshare. This morning, the social network announced that it’s teaming up with IBM, whose audience is decidedly more corporate and enterprise, to launch the AI Alliance, a industry body to support “open innovation” and “open […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Gate Unveiling with Jordi Mata-Fink

Andreessen Horowitz

Jordi Mata-Fink, PhD, cofounder of Gate Bioscience, joins Vineeta Agarwala and Ben Portney of a16z Bio + Health. In this episode, Jordi discusses how he and his cofounders are working to commercialize a novel class of therapeutics, termed “molecular gates.” His company, Gate, is working to exploit a previously uncharted avenue in cell biology—the secretory translocon—for therapeutic intervention.

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Veteran life sciences firm RA Capital spins up ‘planetary health’ team to ride climate tech wave

TechCrunch

Partners at RA Capital realized that if they didn't try to address climate change and its health effects, their life science investments wouldn't be as impactful. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

Gearing up for 2025 annual planning? Our latest eBook from the Operators Guild is your ultimate guide. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community. Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.

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My First 16: Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid’s Zach Perret

Andreessen Horowitz

ABOUT MY FIRST 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. Subscribe to the a16z channel on YouTube and follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode. In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Zach Perret, the co-founder and CEO of Plaid, about how Plaid built a community in the early days to acquir

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Metrics that matter: 3 practical observations on valuation

TechCrunch

Paris Heymann Contributor Share on X Paris Heymann is a partner at Index Ventures, where he invests primarily in B2B SaaS and data. More posts by this contributor Vertical AI: The next logical iteration of vertical SaaS Acquisition, retention, expansion: Why SaaS founders must understand GDR and NDR As part of the Metrics That Matter […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Revolutionizing Professional Connections: Unveiling Rolotech with Ankit Sanghvi, the Next-Gen AI…

Jason Malki

Revolutionizing Professional Connections: Unveiling Rolotech with Ankit Sanghvi, the Next-Gen AI Networking App That Remembers for You I had the pleasure of interviewing Ankit Sanghvi, a dynamic Product Engineer from Mountain View, California. Ankit, with his impressive background from Carnegie Mellon University and IIT Madras, is a force to be reckoned with in the tech industry.

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Elon Musk is looking to raise $1 billion for xAI

TechCrunch

Elon Musk is looking to raise 1/44 of a Twitter for his AI company, xAI. In other words, the man behind Tesla, SpaceX and X is seeking $1 billion in funding for his next venture.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.