TechCrunch
APRIL 17, 2023
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Jason Malki
APRIL 17, 2023
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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TechCrunch
APRIL 17, 2023
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.
Jason Malki
APRIL 17, 2023
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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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
TechCrunch
APRIL 17, 2023
Cure , a functional hydration brand, is entering a new phase of its growth that includes nearly quadrupling its retail presence from 2021, rounding out its leadership team and closing on $5.6 million in Series A funding. It’s been a hot minute since TechCrunch checked in on the brand — almost three years, actually — which is carving out a unique niche in the $10 billion functional drink mix market that founder and CEO Lauren Picasso told TechCrunch has “exploded” in the past 12 months.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 17, 2023
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.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 17, 2023
One of the most common questions startup founders ask is also one of the easiest to answer.
TechCrunch
APRIL 17, 2023
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
The Zapier Blog
APRIL 17, 2023
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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TechCrunch
APRIL 17, 2023
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.
The Zapier Blog
APRIL 17, 2023
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.
TechCrunch
APRIL 17, 2023
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.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 17, 2023
Switching into “insane mode” is crucial to accelerate the process Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
APRIL 17, 2023
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.
OurCrowd
APRIL 17, 2023
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.
TechCrunch
APRIL 17, 2023
A UK credit card rewards startup aimed at millennials and Gen Z consumers has stumbled upon a combined business model that has now secured it £12.5 million ($15.4m) in an equity round from investors. Yonder is a credit card closest in operation to AMEX or Chase Sapphire in the US, however, it combines that credit card shopping model with a points-based rewards scheme to use at London venues such as cinemas, wine merchants, and eateries.
OurCrowd
APRIL 17, 2023
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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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.
TechCrunch
APRIL 17, 2023
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
AsiaTechDaily
APRIL 17, 2023
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.
TechCrunch
APRIL 17, 2023
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.
The Zapier Blog
APRIL 17, 2023
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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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
TechCrunch
APRIL 17, 2023
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.
OurCrowd
APRIL 17, 2023
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.
TechCrunch
APRIL 17, 2023
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.
OurCrowd
APRIL 17, 2023
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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