TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Israeli startup SimilarWeb has made a name for itself with an AI-based platform that lets sites and apps track and understand traffic not just on their own sites, but those of its competitors. Now, it’s taking the next step in its growth. The startup has raised $120 million, funding it will use to continue expanding its platform both through acquisitions and investing in its own R&D, with a focus on providing more analytics services to larger enterprises alongside its current base of i

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 27, 2020

You can outsource almost everything — except the things that matter Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The David Prize is a philanthropic effort to find NYers who are doing amazing things and support them financially. They recently announced five winners, you can see them here. They have an open call for new applicants and you can apply here. The deadline is December 4th. They are eager to support entrepreneurs of all kinds who are working to make a better NYC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

InVideo, a Mumbai-based startup that has built a video creation and editing platform, has raised $15 million as it looks to court more users and customers worldwide. The startup offers a freemium web-based editing tool that allows users to create videos that are fit to be published on popular social media platforms (such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube).

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The following is excerpted from “Undaunted” by Kara Goldin Copyright© 2020 by Kara Goldin. Used by permission of HarperCollins Leadership. www.harpercollinsleadership.com. I wasn’t thinking about founding a company or building a business. Nor did I picture myself as a national advocate for health or dream of being recognized as a leading entrepreneur.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Ramon Ray shares with Rylee Meeks an inspired talk about the biggest challenge in selling, how to succeed in it, and how personal branding can open doors others don’t even see. Personal branding is near and dear to Ramon Ray’s heart. After all, he says it opens a lot of doors for his business. But Ramon tells Rylee Meek on The Sales Conversion Podcast that he doesn’t have a client that he coaches about personal branding.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

“We’re building a decentralized ghost kitchen,” is a sentence that could launch a thousand investor calls, and Alex Canter, the chief executive officer behind Ordermark , knows it. The 29 year-old CEO has, indeed, built a decentralized ghost kitchen — and managed to convince Softbank’s latest Vision Fund to invest in a $120 million round for that the company announced today. “We have uncovered an opportunity to help drive more orders into restaurants through t

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Feedough

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Startup funding during the initial stages of the startup is crucial for the company’s survival in the long run. However, in most cases, startups during such early stages don’t generate revenue and often operate in a very risky business environment. This makes it hard for the investors to value such startups at the time of the investment. But this doesn’t stop them from investing in potentially profitable startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Seasonality is critical for the media. End-of-year wrap-ups, best books for the summer, things to do this weekend — they’re all methods to note not only the passage of time, but also to begin to set the tone for what is about to come. Everyone covered the end of the 2010s with aplomb, a decade that, at least in tech, was filled with huge milestones, including some of the largest startup IPOs of all time and also some of the worst lows we’ve ever seen — frauds and product snafus that were larger

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 27, 2020

StartupNation is excited to formally announce a strategic partnership with SCORE of Southeast Michigan , an organization of expert business mentors that provides aspiring small business owners with the free tools they need to succeed. As part of this partnership, SCORE of Southeast Michigan will regularly share content through an “Ask the Expert” segment on StartupNation Radio that allows members of the local small business community to call in with questions or concerns regarding their busines

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Salto , a Tel Aviv-based open-source startup that allows you to configure SaaS platforms like Salesforce, NetSuite and HubSpot with code, is coming out of stealth today and announced that it has raised a $27 million Series A round. This round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. The general idea here — which is similar to the “infrastructure-as-code” movement — is to allow business operations teams to automate the labo

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 27, 2020

JERUSALEM/NEW YORK – October 26, 2020 – OurCrowd, Israel’s most active venture investor, and SALT, a global thought leadership forum and networking platform encompassing finance, technology and geopolitics, will broadcast the SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series online starting October 29. Read more here. The post [PRESS RELEASE] OURCROWD AND SALT TO PRESENT SALT TALKS: PANDEMIC VENTURE INVESTMENT SERIES appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Theta Lake , a provider of compliance and security tools for conferencing software like Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral, Zoom and others, said it has raised $12.7 million in a new round of funding. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round with commitments from Cisco Investments, angel investors from the collaboration and security space, and previous investors Neotribe Ventures, Firebolt Ventures and WestWave Capital, the company said.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Inside secrets that made him the “big maverick” at entrepreneurship. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Rockset , a cloud-native analytics company, announced a $40 million Series B investment today led by Sequoia with help from Greylock, the same two firms that financed its Series A. The startup has now raised a total of $61.5 million, according to the company. As co-founder and CEO Venkat Venkataramani told me at the time of the Series A in 2018, there is a lot of manual work involved in getting data ready to use and it acts as a roadblock to getting to real insight.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The biggest entrepreneurial opportunities never begin how you’d expect Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In the first real test of the potentially transformative power of its food-preserving technology, Santa Barbara, California-based Apeel Sciences is bringing its innovative food treatment and supply chain management services to distribution centers in select markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The goal is to alleviate food insecurity among farmers, who comprise one of the most susceptible populations to issues of malnutrition, according to Apeel’s chief executive, James Rogers. ̶

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Bucking the billionaire trend can give you unexpected joy. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Lightyear , a New York City startup that wants to make it easier for large companies to procure networking infrastructure like internet and SD-WAN, announced a $3.7 million seed round today. Amplo led the round with help from Susa Ventures, Ludlow Ventures, Mark Cuban, David Adelman and Operator Partners. While it was at it, the company announced that it was emerging from stealth and offering its solution in public beta.

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Forward Cities

OCTOBER 27, 2020

POSITION SUMMARY. Forward Cities is seeking applications for a temporary (six-month) full-time Research Assistant to join our team. Forward Cities is a national leader in developing and applying research tools that support communities to better understand the inner workings of their entrepreneurial ecosystems. We’ve created a suite of assessment and evaluation tools that have been applied in communities around the country.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Amid a pandemic that has closed down fitness centers worldwide, a spate of companies has muscled their way into the booming at-home fitness market. In just the last two weeks , three-year-old Future, which promises at-home customers access to elite training, closed on $24 million in Series B funding; and Playbook, a nearly five-year-old fitness platform that helps personal trainers stream their content (and charge a monthly fee for it), raised $9.3 million in Series A funding.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 27, 2020

TechSee, which describes itself as an “intelligent visual assistance” company, today closed a $30 million investment round led by OurCrowd, Salesforce Ventures, and Telus Ventures. A spokesperson for the startup says the capital injection will be used to enter new markets and verticals while expanding TechSee’s product offerings and capabilities. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

TC Sessions: Space 2020 , our first space technology event, launches December 16-17, and you won’t want to miss our virtual conference focused on this fast-emerging startup category. You’ll hear from the space industry’s top movers, shakers and decision makers, including Space Command’s General John W. Raymond, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and Tess Hatch of Bessemer Venture Partners — with plenty more to come.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The series will seek to highlight breakthrough technologies related to issues influenced by the pandemic such as social distancing, food supply and coronavirus cures and prevention methods. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd CEO in The Jerusalem Post] OurCrowd and SALT present coronavirus venture investment series appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Months after its $80 million Series B fundraise , Course Hero has acquired Symbolab , an artificial intelligence-powered calculator that helps students answer and understand complex math questions. The price of the deal was undisclosed. The 9-person Symbolab team, based in Tel Aviv, will join Course Hero. The platforms will live under independent branding for the near future, according to Andrew Grauer, CEO of Course Hero.

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