OurCrowd

MARCH 31, 2022

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: Sufresca, natural, edible coating keeps produce fresh Rewire: Banking services for millions of migrants Nobel laureate and MedTech CEOs talk precision medicine The EVERY Company produces animal-free macaron Plantish fishes for restaurant partners OurCrowd hosts dinner for US Ambassador to Israel Sabah al-Binali, OurCrowd’s man in Abu Dhabi OurCrowd staff mark Good Deeds Day, Jerusalem Marathon Paralyzed man climbs to world record with ReWalk exos

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 31, 2022

Baer Tierkel. The world lost Baer Tierkel last week at the age of 61. About 20 years ago I was a kid running my first startup and Baer was one of the early people to join our Board of Advisors. He came to every board meeting with deep insights and deeper belly laughs. I learned a great deal from that man that proved pivotal. The company eventually failed, but not before helping thousands of blind people around the world reconnect with friends and family in ways many had not thought possible.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 31, 2022

Image of Ev Williams Courtesy of Jason Henry Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube. Today’s guest is Ev Williams, the founder and CEO of Medium. He’s been a titan of silicon valley for more than two decades and was one of the first innovators of the internet. His first major company was Blogger (acquired by Google in 2003) which was where the term “blog” was first popularized.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Zach DeWitt. Contributor. Share on Twitter. As a partner at Wing Venture Capital, Zach Dewitt focuses on early-stage investments in transformative enterprise technologies. After winning the 2013 TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off , I decided to drop out of business school to pursue my startup full time. Two years and two award-winning iPhone apps later, we ultimately decided it was time to sell our technology to Snapchat.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 31, 2022

One theory of American innovation over the last fifty years is that it’s largely a battle between atoms and bits, with bits winning the war and monopolizing progress. This framing is too simple though, because cooperation between atoms and bits … The post Investing in Hadrian appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 31, 2022

We wrote about the CFO in crisis mode and the need for better software to be built for the finance suite. If the average CFO is in a crisis, the emerging markets CFO serve are in an even bigger crisis! … The post Investing in Datanomik appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

If there’s one thing you’ll get out of attending TC Early Stage in San Francisco on April 14, it’s an accelerated education in the essentials of building a successful startup. . Seasoned founders and industry experts cover a range of topics — find your product-market fit, develop your target customer personas, get feedback on your pitch deck, learn how to tell your story in a way that makes investors take notice and so much more. .

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Berkonomics

MARCH 31, 2022

“Broadcast the message and they will come!” “Segment my broadcast and I will have better response.” Both of these time–honored methods of reaching our customers have worked for as long as there was print and radio–TV to get the message out. The obsolete marketing message. And both have become increasingly obsolete as new channels of reach have evolved, allowing direct and personal contact with our potential customers, and better yet, free and near–free forms of marketing just for the asking.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

In the pandemic era, when digital storefronts have become a matter of course for retailers, data analytics is proving its worth. Tools that analyze customer data can help better maintain stock, build a supply chain, detect fraud and predict which products might appeal to particular customer segments. Those advantages — as well as their ability to forecast inventory and measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns — have driven predictive analytics software revenues to record heig

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Carzuno , a Singapore-based all-inclusive subscription platform for cars , announced that it has launched its operations across Thailand. The company hired Wisate Kirin (ex-Carro, Toyota, Michelin) and Cathrin Samijtiwong (ex-Servcorp, HappyFresh) to spearhead the car subscription operations and enhance Carzuno’s service offering by creating local partnerships, expanding the loca

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

It wasn’t that long ago that Docker looked like it was on the ropes. In 2019, it sold its enterprise business and decided to focus strictly on a developer audience with a set of commercial and open source tools. It was a pretty big bet for a six-year-old company to sell off the part of itself that was most lucrative at the time and completely shift its focus.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Norwest Venture Partners led a $75 million Series C round of fundraising for Indian social commerce startup, CityMall. The group-buying platform intends to upgrade people living in Tier-II and beyond to online buying. This is CityMall’s third fundraise in the last 1.5 years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Tushop , a social-commerce platform in Kenya that enables the group-buying of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs), is set for expansion across Nairobi after raising $3 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by 4DX Ventures. Founded last year by Cathy Chepkemboi , also the CEO, Tushop uses community-leaders, who collect orders from their neighbors and also support last-mile deliveries.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indian FinTech unicorn Pine Labs has received $50 million in funding from a London-based private equity giant Virtruvian Partners. Pine Labs provides payment services for retailers’ in-store and internet channels. It also offers analytics and consumer interaction services such as loyalty, incentives, and cashback.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Steve Bartel. Contributor. Steve Bartel is the CEO of Gem , a talent engagement platform backed by Greylock, Accel and ICONIQ. Over the last several years, an increasing number of companies have pledged to hire a more diverse workforce and begun releasing their diversity numbers annually. The results have been a mixed bag at best. With so many organizations saying that diversity hiring is among their top goals and making good-faith efforts to revamp their recruiting practices accordingly, our

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OurCrowd

MARCH 31, 2022

Anodot, the autonomous business monitoring company, announced that Altice Portugal, the largest telecommunications service provider in Portugal, has selected the company to help alleviate critical issues such as availability and reliability of service while positively impacting operational costs, brand reputation and overall customer experience. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Startups are once again considering layoffs as a way to control cash consumption and attract new capital. News that Fast, a one-click checkout software provider targeting the e-commerce market, is offering sharp staff cuts to investors in hopes of securing new capital is notable, but a single data point. A public database tracking startup layoffs, however, indicates that the company is not alone in looking to reduce its headcount.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 31, 2022

On March 30 at Industry Night at Modex, MHI announced the winners of the 2022 MHI Innovation Awards for Best New Innovation, Best IT Innovation, and Best Innovation of an Existing Product. Read more here. The post [Phantom Auto in Logistics Management] MHI announces winners of annual Innovation Awards appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Mass transit and shared mobility provider Swvl went public today in a landmark moment for Egyptian and Middle Eastern tech ecosystems. It’s also a test for the company going public despite a market that’s been unfriendly toward combinations with special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, of late. . The Egypt-born and Dubai-based company has listed its shares at $10 on the Nasdaq through a merger with U.S. women-led blank check company Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital.

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The Seraf Compass

MARCH 31, 2022

This profile is the second in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting family offices. Frank Foster is the Managing General Partner of the Gideon Hixon Fund.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

French startup Deepki has raised a $166 million Series C funding round (€150 million). The company is building a software-as-a-service platform for the real estate industry. It’s a monitoring and analytics product that helps you take better decisions. Companies using Deepki can track and analyze ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) criteria, starting with carbon emissions generated by their real estate portfolio.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 31, 2022

There are roughly 27m software developers in the world. Only about 18k of them , or 0.07%, work on crypto or web3 every month. Those 18,000 active engineers have created $2 trillion in market cap across the top 100 projects - $112m of value per person. With such massive potential impact, why are there so few engineers working on web3? Crypto is young.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

More Americans than ever want to escape the rut of a low-paying job, but quitting to pursue a new profession is a risky proposition. Pursuit has raised $10 million in funding for a promising and potentially self-sustaining new model for training up new tech workers in which learners only pay when they land a real position. The job market is a strange one right now: Tons of open positions, but workers are holding out, demanding fair compensation and good working conditions — and many jobs with th

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 31, 2022

NFTs offer creators a new way to earn a living online. The technology, which has several applications, allows creators to appeal directly to fans for patronage — without having to rely only on extractive, ad-based, centralized platforms as intermediaries. But … The post The NFT Mint ‘Sweet Spot’: Data on Early Decisions appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, March 31, 2022! It’s a beautiful day in our neck of the woods, and we have a great lineup of news for you today, so let’s goooooo. Grab your calendar and add these two: We’re doing a Data and Culture Transformation event on April 26 for the big data aficionados, and now is your last chance to buy discounted tickets for

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