TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Years ago, Americans spent most of their disposable income on food but consistent investment in retail infrastructure has changed that. Now, they only spend 6% of their household income on food and beverages. Africa still battles with this and it is not hard to see why. The continent’s retail markets are highly fragmented and mostly made up of small and informal retailers and intermediaries, which is why a ton of tomatoes that costs around $100 in the U.S., for instance, costs about $400 in Ken

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Alpha traits are key to leadership success. Business leaders can learn from these top predators how to outsmart the competition and never cede ground. In recent years, coyotes have made themselves at home across the United States, Canada and Central America. In the community and neighborhoods near Boston where I live, people see them almost daily. Unlike the classic cartoon character Wile E.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Chipper Cash , an African cross-border payments company, has raised $150 million in a Series C extension round led by Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX. The investment comes barely six months after Chipper Cash closed its first Series C round of $100 million, led by SVB Capital , the corporate venture capital arm of SVB Financial Group.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

People who know how to invest money aren’t always the people who know how to raise it Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Apollo.io , which is developing sales intelligence and engagement software for business-to-business companies, brought in $32 million in Series B funding to continue with its go-to-market acceleration approach. Tribe Capital led the round and was joined by NewView Capital and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners. The latest funding gives the San Francisco-based company $40 million in total funding since it was founded in 2015, co-founder and CEO Tim Zheng told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Switzerland-based Mictic has created a pair of wearables that turns thin air into your concert hall. Imagine a theremin without the theremin, hooked up to a clever loop station, and you’ve got the right idea. Just from the demos and descriptions, it’s the kind of startup you’d scratch your head over and talk about in the bar after a long day of CES, for it to never be heard of again.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Why most founders can only choose one of the above Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

OctoML , a Seattle-based startup that helps enterprises optimize and deploy their machine learning models, today announced that it has raised an $85 million Series C round led by Tiger Global Management. Previous investors Addition, Madrona Venture Group and Amplify Partners also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $132 million, including a $28 million Series B round it announced earlier this year.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

And the 4 fatal errors that killed the $20,000 deal on the spot. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Indian logistics startup Delhivery seeks to raise about $998 million in its initial public offering, the startup said in a filing with the local regulator, joining a number of other tech startups in the world’s second-largest internet market to explore the public markets. The 10-year-old startup plans to issue new shares worth $669 million, while the rest of the capital will be utilized to buy existing shares, it said in a filing (PDF).

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

I’ve been hearing the term Metaverse for at least twenty years and I have always struggled with it. As I told my colleagues last week “I like the real world, I don’t want to live in a video game.” My colleagues explained to me that I am thinking about it incorrectly. They said that as digitally mediated experiences have become a more important part of our everyday lives, we are already living in the metaverse.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Max Q. It feels odd to be living in a time when companies are announcing their plans to develop commercial space stations and yet, here we are! Read on for news from Sierra Space, Blue Origin, Boeing and others on their plans for a station, called Orbital Reef. Plus this week, another space SPAC and more. Tips, opinions, criticism, thoughts?

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Autobrains, previously called Cartica AI, a developer of self learning artificial intelligence for assisted and autonomous driving, said it had raised US$101m in series C financing managed by Temasek, a global investment company based in Singapore. Read more here. The post [Autobrains in Today UK News] Autobrains announces $101M series C funding – Just Auto appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The traditional way to design for the mobile environment involves a lot of back-and-forth as developers design in one program, prototype in another and collaborate in yet a third tool. A new startup, Play, is touting itself as “the only native iOS product design tool that makes it possible to create, iterate and collaborate directly from your phone.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Stellar Cyber, the leading security operations platform for MSSPs and innovator of Open XDR, announced today that True Digital Security, an MSSP with offices in Oklahoma, Florida, and New York, serving energy, healthcare, technology and finance clients, has adopted the Stellar Cyber platform to bring new levels of security visibility to its clients.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Considerable momentum is shaping the 2021 holiday shopping season. The National Retail Federation predicts holiday spending in 2021, excluding automobile dealers, gas stations and restaurants, will shatter previous records. Holiday sales are forecast to grow between 8.5% and 10.5% in November and December 2021. The previous spending high was 8.2% in 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

While studying engineering at Stanford, Alex Kolchinski, Alex Gruebele and Max Perham met and bonded around the lack of food options on campus and the cost of the options that were there. “Even on a subsidized meal plan, it would cost $10 for lunch and more for dinner,” Kolchinski told TechCrunch. “I would sit and do my work in the dining hall just to be able to eat two lunches.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The following is excerpted from “ Jump: Dare to Do What Scares You in Business and Life ” by Kim Perell, pp. 3-7 (HarperCollins Leadership, November 2021). It’s scary looking down. Especially when there’s a lot at stake. You know those decisions that make your heart race and your palms sweat? The ones that are so overwhelming you start asking yourself, how in the world did I even get into this position in the first place?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

ShopBack , the Rakuten-backed e-commerce loyalty platform, announced today it will acquire buy now, pay later startup Hoolah. Both companies are based in Singapore and operate in Southeast Asian markets. The deal was done in stock and cash, and terms were undisclosed. After the merger closes, ShopBack will own all of Hoolah, but the BNPL service’s brand, app and website will continue to operate as before, ShopBack founder and chief executive officer Henry Chan told TechCrunch.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Modern businesses are diverse and bring together people from various. Read more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As the neobanking boom has matured into a collection of large digital banks, we’re slowly getting a better picture of the economics of such business efforts. Chime was early in telling the market that it was EBTIDA positive , for example, unlike less profitable European neobanks. The upcoming Nubank IPO — technically the public offering of Nu, but we’ll just say Nubank for simplicity — provides us with far more information and detail regarding the operations of a neobank at scale, th

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The Series C round was led by Temasek and will help the company disrupt the advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle marketplace with its alternative approach to AI for automation. Read more here. The post [AutoBrains in CTech] AI Mobility Startup Autobrains Raises $101 Million for Self-Learning Platform appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Tovala Smart Oven, a local meal kit company and its auto-cooking smart oven earned a shoutout from famous former Chicagoan Oprah Winfrey via her popular Oprah’s Favorite Things 2021 holiday gift list. Read more here. The post [Tovala in Eater Chicago] Oprah names a Chicago meal kit and food tech company to her 2021 favorite things list appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

More of the world’s economy is moving online, and that is underscored by the long list of recent fundings and acquisitions in the digital ID authentication and anti-money laundering (AML) space, including Okta’s $6.5 billion acquisition of Auth0. Today, another startup announced it has raised capital: end-to-end due diligence platform First AML. Blackbird Ventures (which is also one of First AML’s users) and Headline led a $21 million (about $29.2 million NZD) Series B in the New Zealand-based c

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