Mon.Apr 17, 2023

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A Non-Linear Sales Career: An Interview with a VP of Sales at an AI Startup

Jason Malki

I had the pleasure of interviewing Elisa Phillips, an experienced business leader in digital media, advertising, and emerging technology platforms. She spent much of her career at Google in the US and Europe, and built businesses with early-stage products and ad platforms including Search, Video, App Ads using new Machine Learning technologies, and Immersive Ad experiences, to name a few.

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3 ways to step up your short-form video and TikTok growth strategy

TechCrunch

Jonathan Martinez Contributor Share on Twitter Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor 5 growth lessons I learned while scaling from $0 to $1M ARR When it comes to early-stage growth marketing, it’s often better to imitate than innovate Video content is king.

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The Special Sauce of Austin’s Bio + Health Startup Scene: A Conversation with Investor Jason Scharf

Jason Malki

I had the pleasure of interviewing Jason Scharf, a Bio + Health strategy leader and active early-stage investor in the life science and digital health sectors. Within the corporate world, Jason has built and led teams in strategic planning, market intelligence, and innovation at large genomics, biopharma, and medtech companies such as Illumina, Amgen, and Becton Dickinson.

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Buckle up before we sell out — here comes TechCrunch Early Stage 2023

TechCrunch

The doors to TechCrunch Early Stage (Boston Edition) open in just three days, and we cannot wait to meet and greet you! If you haven’t booked your pass yet, hurry! We’re running low on tickets. Seriously, this is a genuine ah-oooh-ga situation. Buy a $449 Founder pass now , while you still can. Student passes cost just $99. Are you ready to spend the day with hundreds of like-minded early-stage founders and investors?

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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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7 Shameful Truths Few Founders Will Admit

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Some entrepreneurial truths aren’t great for a startup’s optics, hence why we founders keep some secrets buried deep.

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Here’s How Much Traction Your Startup Needs in Order to Fundraise

Entrepreneur's Handbook

One of the most common questions startup founders ask is also one of the easiest to answer.

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Daily Crunch: Sideloaded apps coming soon to an iPhone near you in iOS 17

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Monday Crunch! Haje is wrapping up this newsletter before heading to TechCrunch Early Stage 2023 in Boston on April 20. It’s not too late to get your ticket! Meanwhile, on the Equity podcast today, the pod crew wonders, What’s an Angry Bird worth?

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6 ChatGPT prompts that will generate great sales emails

The Zapier Blog

Writing authentic sales emails is tough, even for the sharpest salespeople. It's hard to continuously come up with fresh and creative ways to talk to prospects in a way that won't get you sent straight to the trash. So I thought I'd run a little experiment. I fed ChatGPT a whole load of different prompts to see if it could craft some decent sales emails for me.

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Innovamat tallies up $21M to reinvent math education

TechCrunch

When it comes to education, mathematics has long been considered one of the most challenging of subjects both to learn and to teach. A startup out of Barcelona called Innovamat believes it’s come up with an approach that can help on both of those fronts — designing guides for teachers and learning materials and a textbook replacement for students around a new kind of curriculum from kindergarten and up — and today it’s announcing funding of $21 million to build that out.

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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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Flodesk vs. Mailchimp: Which app should you use? [2023]

The Zapier Blog

Mention email marketing, and no doubt Mailchimp springs to mind. Since its debut in 2001, it's remained a household name in the email marketing arena. And over the years, it's evolved into an all-in-one marketing platform. But if you're looking for an alternative, Flodesk is a strong option. It's a relatively new email marketing service provider (launched in 2019) built for creators, by creators.

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Tech investors’ obsession over profit is already waning

TechCrunch

When it became clear that the public market had forever descended from the peaks of 2021 , venture investors decided to break camp and head downhill as well, advising their portfolio companies to focus on lowering their burn because capital had suddenly become expensive. Why the focus on cost-cutting? Because conserving cash is an easy way for startups to postpone fundraising, giving them more time to both increase their revenue and potentially wait for tech valuations to recover.

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The Product-Market Fit Shortcut: Save 12 Months With These 8 Tips

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Switching into “insane mode” is crucial to accelerate the process Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Germany’s XaaS platform Equipme secures $3.8M Seed led by La Famiglia VC

TechCrunch

As the economy has gotten tougher, plenty of companies have switched from buying in assets to renting them. There’s a tortuous acronym for this which is XaaS or “Everything-as-a-Service”, also referred to as “ Servitization ”. An example of this would be ServiceNow which automates services for enterprise operations. A new-ish player in this space is Equipme , out of Germany, which bills itself in this XaaS manner.

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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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[H2Pro in Bloomberg] 12 climate tech innovators building a net zero world

OurCrowd

These startups are the winners of BloombergNEF’s annual award for potentially game-changing innovation in climate solutions. Read more here. The post [H2Pro in Bloomberg] 12 climate tech innovators building a net zero world appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Late-stage startups are getting the hang of spending less

TechCrunch

Back when Silicon Valley Bank was still pitching a package of financial moves to its customers, it noted in a presentation to its own investors that “elevated client cash burn” was “pressuring [its] balance of fund flows.” The previously central bank to Silicon Valley told the stock market that while it had anticipated a “modest, progressive” decline in startup cash consumption as venture dollars slowed, burn had “not moderated” in the first quarte

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[Axiom Space in Newswise] Mission Ax-2 set to launch stem cells to space

OurCrowd

Newswise — LOS ANGELES (April 17, 2023) — Cedars-Sinai investigators, in collaboration with Axiom Space of Houston, are sending stem cells to space in early May to explore whether microgravity can make it easier and more efficient to produce large batches of stem cells. Read more here. The post [Axiom Space in Newswise] Mission Ax-2 set to launch stem cells to space appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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What Is A Protocol And Why Does It Matter?

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

USV’s current thesis is: Enabling trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols. [link] That last word is powerful but unfortunately less understood than the other words in that sentence. Protocols have been around forever and are well-understood codes of conduct between people.

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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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Call for content applications close Friday

TechCrunch

Heads-up, early-stage startup experts. Your chance to apply to lead a session at TechCrunch Disrupt on September 19–21 in San Francisco ends on Friday April 21 at 11:59pm PT. That’s this Friday! Apply to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 You’ve worked hard to hone your skills, and Disrupt is the perfect place to share and show what you know. It’s your opportunity to help startup founders, builders and entrepreneurs up their game and drive their business forward — and pump up your street cred as a

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SG healthtech startup Mito Health scores $1.3m in fresh funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Mito Health , a Singapore-based healthtech startup , announced raising S$1.7 million (about $1.3 million) in an oversubscribed pre-Seed funding round. The funding round was led by Forge Ventures , and several notable angel investors, including founders and executives from PatSnap, Carousell, Glints, OhMyHome, Rainforest, ShopBack, and SingLife, also participated.

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The crackdown on pixel tracking in telehealth is a warning for every startup

TechCrunch

Healthcare startups are scrambling to reassess how their websites and apps are built, and how third parties may, inadvertently or not, be putting patients’ protected health information at risk. In March, U.S. mental health startup Cerebral admitted it shared the private health information of more than 3 million users with Facebook, Google, TikTok and other ad giants via so-called tracking pixels.

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What is a personal CRM—and should you use one?

The Zapier Blog

My mom used to keep track of her contacts in an address book. She carried it in her purse and was diligent about adding new names, addresses, and phone numbers as she met people. Of course, this was back when an address book combined with a giant phone book got you pretty much everything you need. Boost your team's productivity Automate your CRM Now your contacts live all over the place, and it can be a chore to manage.

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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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Noya pivots to embrace modular direct air capture, lands $11M Series A

TechCrunch

Noya’s pitch a few years ago was pretty straightforward: lower the cost of capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by using existing industrial cooling towers , which are pretty much everywhere. Noya would inject its special carbon capture compounds into the tower’s water supply and after the water had done its cooling work, remove the carbon dioxide on the other end.

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[D-ID in D-ID] THE heroes speak: Marking 80 years for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

OurCrowd

Using AI technology from D-ID that animates still images, the men and women who fought on the frontlines against the Germans and are no longer with us will be “brought back to life.” Read more here. The post [D-ID in D-ID] THE heroes speak: Marking 80 years for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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LLMs come to workplace morale monitoring, as Loopin raises $1.9M for its platform

TechCrunch

There have been several startup attempts to measure staff morale, some more halting that others. We reported on Plasticity Labs back in 2014, though their web site seems no longer functioning. Officevibe appeared around the same kind’ve era. More recently out of the UK, WorkBuzz has raised £2.3M. And Spill ($3.5M) is a startup that offers a message-based therapy app to help improve workplace well-being.

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[ICON in 3DPRINT] ICON’s 3D Printed habitat on Earth is NASA’s stronghold for Mars survival

OurCrowd

Settling on Mars in the future means withstanding radiation levels, lack of oxygen, frozen water buried under polar ice caps, and cold weather plunging as far as -220 degrees Fahrenheit, to name a few challenges. Read more here. The post [ICON in 3DPRINT] ICON’s 3D Printed habitat on Earth is NASA’s stronghold for Mars survival appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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.