TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

There are more than 54 million family caregivers in the United States. Working family caregivers spend an average of 25 hours a week caring for their loved ones on top of their full-time jobs, and ultimately, the current lack of support and resources drives 32% of them to leave their job to care full time. . Jessica Kim , chief executive officer of ianacare , understands these statistics deeply as she made the difficult choice to leave her job in 2016 to care for her mom full time, as do ne

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 4, 2022

STATE COLLEGE, PA – Every year, dozens of PA startups get their start with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. The largest early-stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin provides investment capital, business support services, BIG IDEA Contests, and Startup Boot Camps to emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers located in central and northern Pennsylvania.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The year 2021 saw more and bigger deals closed in Africa, as tech startups across the continent raised close to $5 billion. This amount was double the previous year’s investment, and nine times what was raised five years ago, an indication of how much the startup scene has transformed over the last few years. Fintechs dominated the fundraising, accounting for nearly $3 billion, or two thirds of all the investment realized by startups across the continent last year, a report by markets insights f

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

On today’s episode of the Business Beat, Jeff highlights a few companies mentioned by Cronicle Tech News as hot tech companies to watch in 2022 in the Great Lakes region. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, for details on three of these promising startups: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Ben Parr. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ben Parr is president and co-founder of Octane AI. More posts by this contributor. Collect and leverage zero-party data to personalize marketing and drive growth. The Three Qualities Twitter’s Next CEO Must Have. If 2020 was the year of the e-commerce boom, 2021 was the year the industry hit major challenges: Data privacy changes deeply impacted merchants’ social media ads, and supply chain issues forced merchants to get creative with their inventor

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Kicking off 2022 may feel like we’re stuck the third round of 2020, but things have actually changed quite a lot in Technology Land, even if the pandemic is still with us. Crypto has become far more established in the intervening period, for example, with more investors, startups and fundraising to be found in the space. Another change from the pre-pandemic days is the value of software revenues.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

You’ve built the product, perfected the service, tweaked the website, and refined the funnel. But no one is buying; these successful entrepreneurs and members of The Oracles explain why and how to fix it. From L to R: Lewis Howes, Simon Grabowski, Chris Harder, Barbara Corcoran, Sweta Patel, Vinicius Aschidamini, Roy McDonald, Jason Hall, Jonathan Gilinski.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

For the past few years, Mojo Vision has had a small presence at CES, offering up glimpses into the potential of its augmented reality contact lenses. Every year, the picture seems a little closer, if still far away. For reasons having to do with the pandemic, we won’t be meeting with the California firm this year, though it is offering up some more insight into what a future of smart contacts could look like.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2022

My career changed when I finally discovered the three most important things to be focus on Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Chris Jacob. Contributor. Chris Jacob serves as global vice president, Threat Intelligence Engineers at ThreatQuotient and previously held leadership roles at SourceFire, Fidelis Cybersecurity and Webroot. Threat intelligence has been a part of cyber defense processes in the private sector for nearly a decade now. Many threat intelligence teams were initially composed of classically trained intel operators from the public sector, where they focused on gathering data to thwart national security t

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Feedough

JANUARY 4, 2022

A startup incubator is a very common and essential term. Read more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Exotel said on Tuesday it has raised $40 million in a financing round, just three months after securing $35 million in funding, as the Bangalore-based startup demonstrates growth for its full-stack customer engagement platform in emerging markets. Steadview Capital led the startup’s Series D round. Exotel, which counts Blume Ventures and IIFL Asset Management among its backers, has raised about $100 million in a mix of debt and equity rounds in the last 12 months.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2022

Understanding how angel groups operate is key to successful funding Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Back at CES 2020, Labrador Systems co-founder/CEO Mike Dooley told me, “I think there are fewer fake robots [at the show] this year.” Over the past several years, we’ve seen the show begin to treat robotics less as novelty and more as serious home devices. At the time, the company had rented a suite where it was showing off an early version of the system it would come to call, fittingly, Retriever.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2022

All innovators might not be disruptors, but all disruptors certainly are innovators. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Refinery Ventures , a Cincinnati-based venture firm, announced the close of its second fund with $36 million, which was more than two times its first fund. Fund II is backed by a group of LPs, including Cintrifuse, Great American Insurance, Western and Southern Insurance and The Cleveland Foundation. The firm invests in enterprise and SaaS “early scale” companies, a term managing partner Tim Schigel likes to use to describe companies that secured a seed, but need that “oomph” to get to Series A.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 4, 2022

Simulation accelerates high-performing LiDAR development resulting in an optimized design, satisfying strict industry requirements. Read more here. The post [Innoviz in PR Newswire] Ansys and Innoviz technologies enable autonomous driving revolution with next-gen LiDAR design appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2022

With the summer of Defi behind us and a new year for web3, I wondered which categories of web3 startups generate the most revenue. L1s or blockchains, the public databases that record transactions, dominate the revenue share across the top projects producing 78% of revenue. Exchanges place second. Right behind, NFT exchanges rank third. Defi Protocols, which include lending, perps, farming, and swaps, slot in fourth.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 4, 2022

Binah.ai, the leading provider of general health and wellness video-based monitoring tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI), announced today that its recently released, video-based blood pressure monitoring, was named a CES® 2022 Innovation Awards Honoree. Read more here. The post [Binah.ai in Cision PRWeb] Binah.ai’s newest video-based blood pressure monitoring capability named CES® 2022 Innovation Awards Honoree appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Seoul Robotics, an AI-based perception software company, wants to turn first- and last-mile logistics hubs for automotive and trucking into mind hives, wherein one sensor tower controls the movements of a fleet, like a conductor of an orchestra, guiding hundreds of vehicles into place. After two years of piloting its tech with BMW, the startup announced at CES its first commercial deployment with the German car manufacturer to automate fleet logistics at its manufacturing facility in Munich, dep

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Feedough

JANUARY 4, 2022

Tim Berners-Lee launched the world wide web back in 1989, Read more.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

James Avery. Contributor. Share on Twitter. James Avery is the founder and CEO of Kevel and has over a decade of experience in the ad tech industry. He is also an expert on software engineering and API technology. In January 2020, Google announced plans to eliminate third-party cookies, heralding a massive shake-up for digital advertising and the internet itself.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

On this week’s episode of StartupNation Radio, we’ve got a story Jeff really loves. He talks to Lowey Bundy Sichol, whose Kids Idea Tank competition lets young entrepreneurs pitch their products, just like on “Shark Tank,” and 2021 runner-up Carter Koenigsknecht of Troy. During the interview, they discuss: How Lowey was inspired by the kids he talked with during school assemblies.

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Feedough

JANUARY 4, 2022

To be successful in the business world, one needs more. Read more.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

On this week’s episode of StartupNation Radio, Jeff talks to Alexis Bowen and Craig Zapatka of Elsewhere Travel, a new kind of travel company. During the interview, they discuss: How COVID created an opportunity for their business. How they craft personalized travel agendas for clients. Ways their business model is similar to AirBnb’s. Tune in to the StartupNation Radio show with Alexis Bowen and Craig Zapatka here: For the full episode of StartupNation Radio including the creator o

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