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Novoloop says it’s worked out how to upcycle plastic waste, raises $11M Series A

TechCrunch

Upcycling polyethylene (the normal ubiquitous plastic we are all familiar with) into high-value plastics that can compete with “virgin” plastic (meaning plastics made directly from petro-chemicals) is a fiendish problem to solve. The fact that it’s been extremely hard to do so means billions of tonnes of plastic is never recycled, and it’s out there polluting the planet and our oceans.

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The One Growth Hack That Always Works for Getting Your Startup’s First Customers

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Getting your first customers is hard enough. You shouldn’t have to also worry about inventing a new marketing strategy. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Singapore-based Reebelo raises $20M to save pre-owned devices from landfills

TechCrunch

Based in Singapore with offices throughout Asia and Australia, Reebelo wants to make buying pre-owned tech as desirable as a brand new device. “What we have seen is that many younger generations are very much open to the idea of sustainable consumption,” co-founder Philip Franta told TechCrunch. “We see a lot of growth and momentum in the space globally, but also here in this region, because I think we are finally at the stage as a society where we’ve realized that the way we’ve consumed in the

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How to Use LinkedIn to Get Clients

Entrepreneur's Handbook

A non-sleazy and totally ethical LinkedIn marketing strategy to grow your business. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Joby Aviation partners with Japanese airline to launch air taxi service

TechCrunch

Joby Aviation is partnering with Japanese airline ANA to bring aerial ridesharing services to Japan. Toyota Motor Corporation will be partnering with the two companies, as well, in order to explore ways to connect the air taxis to ground-based transportation. Joby’s intent to start up operations in Japan comes to light a week after the company announced plans to launch an air taxi service in South Korea in partnership with SK Telecom.

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Databook provides insights so sales reps become customer experts

TechCrunch

After securing $16 million in Series A funding last April, Databook , an AI-powered consultative sales intelligence company, is back, this time with $50 million in Series B funding. With people still working remotely in the third year of the pandemic, Salesforce reported that 88% of salespeople feel that the “current economic conditions make it important to anticipate customers’ needs.

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6 things operators need to prepare for the surge in demand

GCUC

Post by: Liz Elam In Austin last week I went to a great coworking space and it was positively buzzing. I loved it. What. The post 6 things operators need to prepare for the surge in demand appeared first on GCUC Community.

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Opera partners with Yat to enable emoji-based web addresses

TechCrunch

Web browser Opera is enabling emoji-only web addresses, the company announced on Monday. Opera says the new collaboration brings a new level of creativity to the internet. The new feature is possible through a partnership with Yat , a startup that sells URLs with emojis in them and owns the Y.at domain. Through Yat, you can make a one-time purchase and the company will provide you with your own Y.at link.

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Stop Tweaking Your Startup’s Product

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Take a long, hard look at your target market instead Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Schoolytics is a dashboard that keeps teachers, students and parents on the same page

TechCrunch

When I was in school — which, judging by how my spine feels most mornings, was fourteen thousand years ago — keeping track of how you were doing on your homework felt, itself, like homework. Parents, meanwhile, were generally in the dark about your overall progress until report cards came at the end of the quarter. If something happened that caused a student (or many students!

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[Kryon in Nintex] Nintex acquires process discovery innovator and RPA leader Kryon

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BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Nintex, the global standard for process intelligence and automation, announced the company has acquired Kryon, a process discovery innovator and robotic process automation (RPA) leader, to further extend the intelligent process automation (IPA) capabilities of the Nintex Process Platform. Read more here.

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Here’s what you’ll learn at TechCrunch Early Stage in San Francisco this April

TechCrunch

TechCrunch Early Stage is the ultimate educational resource for a founder who is just getting started. We’ve tapped experts across myriad startup core competencies, from fundraising to operations to marketing, to outline step-by-step guides on how you can set up and grow your business. Wondering how to recruit talent in this landscape? We’ve got a session for it.

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Will Your Startup Borrow More in 2022?

Tomasz Tunguz

In 1968, Milton Friedman argued “ In the Price of Money, ” that higher interest rates don’t mean less borrowing. He would echo this sentiment in an article Reviving Japan. “After the U.S. experience during the Great Depression, and after inflation and rising interest rates in the 1970s and disinflation and falling interest rates in the 1980s, I thought the fallacy of identifying tight money with high-interest rates and easy money with low-interest rates was dead.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

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.

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Jio Platforms invests $200 million in Google-backed Glance

TechCrunch

Jio Platforms is investing $200 million in Glance, which serves media content, news and casual games on Android handsets’ lockscreen, the two said Monday, the latest in a series of bets from Mukesh Ambani’s empire as it looks to expand its offering to more than 420 million telecom subscribers it reaches in the South Asian market. Reliance Industries, the parent firm of Jio Platforms and run by Asia’s richest man, Ambani, said its investment is part of the InMobi Group subsidiary’s Se

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SaaS platform BiteSpeed secures $1.9M in seed funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register BiteSpeed , a SaaS platform , has raised $1.9 million in seed fundraising led by Sequoia India’s Surge, with participation from First Cheque, Whiteboard Capital, and Angel investors including CRED founder Kunal Shah and Teachable creator Ankur Nagpal.

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Exploring the many faces of sidewalk delivery robots with Cartken’s Anjali Jindal Naik

TechCrunch

Like many startup founders, Anjali Jindal Naik, co-founder and COO of autonomous sidewalk robot maker Cartken, was raised by entrepreneurs. Her parents owned a furniture store in North Carolina, and Naik spent much of middle school and high school helping out with managing warehouse deliveries, an experience that would later inform her current pursuits.

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Vietnamese Blockchain Gaming Startup Summoners Arena Raises US$3 million in Seed Funding

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Vietnamese blockchain-based fantasy game Summoners Arena has raised US$3 million in Seed funding from a round led by Pantera Capital , along with participation from Coinbase Ventures GuildFi, Onechain Technology, Cosmic Guild, Merit Circle, Coin98 Ventures, Impossible Finance, Spartan Group, Istari Ventures, Kyros Ventures and kyber Ventures as well as several angel investors in the cr

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Are lifelike digital humans the future of customer experience?

TechCrunch

Soul Machines , a New Zealand-based company that uses CGI, AI and natural language processing to create lifelike digital people who can interact with humans in real time, has raised $70 million in a Series B1 round, bringing its total funding to $135 million. The startup will put the funds toward enhancing its Digital Brain technology, which uses a technique called “cognitive modeling” to recreate things like the human brain’s emotional response system in order to construct aut

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[Nexa3D in 3D Printing Industry] The state of resin 3D printing: Izhar Medalsy, CTO, & Kevin Mcalea, COO, Nexa3D

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VENTURA, Calif. & CARRIERE, Miss.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nexa3D, maker of ultrafast resin 3D printers, today announced that it has entered into a reseller partnership with Nowak Dental Supplies, Inc., a family-owned and -operated provider of dental devices and equipment. Nowak Dental Supplies will offer Nexa3D’s entire dental portfolio, including the NXD 200 dental 3D printer; NexaX software; the post-processing xWASH and xCURE systems; and the full range of Keystone validated dental 3D

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MindFi gets $2M seed to create localized mental wellness programs for APAC markets

TechCrunch

Mental wellness startup MindFi operates throughout APAC, but wants to deliver “culturally competent” care in each of its markets. To do that, it develops programs for its app, available as an employee benefit, with local providers that take into account religion, gender stereotypes, racial representation, communication style and values, co-founder and CEO Bjorn Lee told TechCrunch.

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[RO in TechCrunch] Existing investors double down on Ro at boosted $7 billion valuation

OurCrowd

Tech healthcare unicorn Ro announced today that it has raised $150 million exclusively from existing investors, led by ShawSpring Partners, with participation from FirstMark Capital, General Catalyst, Seven Seven Six, BoxGroup, Altimeter Capital, Baupost Group, Initialized, TQ Ventures and TCG. Sources close to the company, as well as Bloomberg, confirm that the money was raised at a $7 billion valuation.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Gaia, a platform to finance IVF treatments, closes $20M Series A led by Atomico

TechCrunch

Gaia is a startup that is effectively out to “de-risk” the whole process of IVF fertility treatment, using products like personalized insurance and payment plans. It’s almost BNPL for babies — but not quite. It’s now closed a $20 million Series A funding round led by London’s Atomico. Previous investors were Kindred Capital, Seedcamp, and U.S.

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[Freightos in FreightWaves] GSCW chat: Freightos’ digital platform connects supply chain through data, pricing

OurCrowd

Goal is to provide users a ‘seamless online, transparent experience,’ Schreiber says. Read more here. The post [Freightos in FreightWaves] GSCW chat: Freightos’ digital platform connects supply chain through data, pricing appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Korean internet giant Naver backs e-commerce aggregator New Vessel in seed round 

TechCrunch

According to eMarketer , Japan and Korea’s e-commerce markets were estimated at $144 billion and $121 billion, respectively, in 2021. Despite the large e-commerce market size, both countries have fewer e-commerce aggregators than other countries with smaller markets, South Korean e-commerce aggregator New Vessel said. The startup announced today it has raised an undisclosed seed round co-led by South Korean internet giant Naver, CKD Venture Capital and Wooshin Venture Investment, with particip

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[InsideTracker in PR Newswire] InsideTracker grows genomics, bioinformatics expertise on scientific advisory board with appointment of Ali Torkamani, PhD

OurCrowd

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — InsideTracker, the leading truly personalized performance and nutrition system, today announced the addition of Dr. Ali Torkamani, who currently serves as director of genome informatics for Scripps Research Translational Institute’s Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, to its scientific advisory board.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.