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AHG Lab Secures $4M in Funding to Boost Philippine Startups

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register AHG Lab , an independent venture builder based in the Philippines, has successfully raised $4 million in a pre-Series A funding round to expand its portfolio of ventures and programs. The funding round was invested by Seaborne Capital, Filipino family offices, Imagine If Partners and US family office– the Rufino Family and David Leechiu.

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The civil rights movement comes to venture capital

TechCrunch

For the last year and a half, there is only one point I’ve sought to make with my venture coverage: that the industry is not separate from sociopolitical context. That the tech industry and its backers are not separate from the economic fabric of this nation and the mores of our society. This became evident when the American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER) announced last week that it was suing Fearless Fund.

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AI-Powered Safety Systems: Exclusive Interview with Hwang Yeong-kyu, CEO of Alchera

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed exponentially since the monumental showdown between Alpha Go and Lee Se-dol in 2016. Today, AI’s applications span diverse sectors, from counterfeit detection and disease diagnostics to advanced security protocols.

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How we scaled our App Store performance by approximately 200% in 1 year

TechCrunch

Olga Bakirova Contributor Olga Bakirova is an ASO/ASA Specialist at Keiki , an edtech startup that creates enjoyable developmental apps for kids to keep them interested in learning. App Store optimization (ASO) and Apple Search Ads (ASA) are potent tools for promoting apps that can significantly boost conversion rates. Every prospective user encounters an app’s page in the App Store, influencing their decision to download or purchase.

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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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The Race to Capture Value: Cloud Lessons for the AI Era

Andreessen Horowitz

When a platform shift reshapes the technology landscape, who wins? From mainframes to PCs, desktop to mobile, unnetworked to internet, and on-prem to cloud and SaaS, technical progress in software tends to follow Schumpeter’s creative destruction : new winners emerge … The post The Race to Capture Value: Cloud Lessons for the AI Era appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Unlocking Success: Tactical Marketing Strategies for Coworking Space Owners

GCUC

Unlocking Success: Tactical Marketing Strategies for Coworking Space Owners As the coworking industry continues to evolve and become increasingly competitive, it is mission critical for operators to have effective marketing strategies in place.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter ( now X ), where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. “This is just my strong, intuitive sense that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization,” Musk said at a TED conference on the day he made his offer.

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8 Effective Strategies for Managing Cash Flow in Early-Stage Startups

Startup Blogpost

8 Effective Strategies for Managing Cash Flow in Early-Stage Startups To help startups navigate the tricky waters of cash flow management, we’ve gathered eight insightful strategies from CEOs, Founders, and other business leaders. From considering prepaid annual contracts to diversifying revenue and fast-tracking payments, these tips offer a comprehensive guide to ensuring your business has enough cash on hand to operate smoothly.

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Fintech is a mess. Is BaaS the outlier?

TechCrunch

It’s been a roller-coaster ride for the banking-as-a-service sector over the last year, with a host of mergers and acquisitions and layoffs. On the other hand, large companies are eagerly adopting the concept to get competitive advantages and to drive value for customers. BaaS can refer to three different parts of the industry: One is the classic of offering bank-like services to other players in the industry, a second is providing the charter and bank services but not doing the underwriting, an

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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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[ReWalk in GlobeNewsWire] ReWalk Robotics announces closing of acquisition of AlterG

OurCrowd

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. and BERLIN and YOKNEAM ILLIT, Israel, Aug. 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ReWalk Robotics Ltd. (Nasdaq: RWLK) (“ReWalk” or “the Company”), a leading provider of innovative technologies that enable mobility and wellness in rehabilitation and daily life for individuals with neurological conditions, today announced closing of the previously announced acquisition of AlterG, Inc.

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Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail revoked ahead of October trial

TechCrunch

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, had his bail revoked ahead of his October trial, US District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan said on Friday. The decision came after allegations that Bankman-Fried leaked the diary of Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of FTX’s investment-arm Alameda Research, to the New York Times. Kaplan announced the decision in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday afternoon.

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How This Wife and Husband Team Turned Their Boating Hobby Into a Thriving Business

Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category

Brynn and Antoine McLeod discuss the development, launch and growth of STREX Fasteners.

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Startup founders should care more about Serve Robotics’ listing

TechCrunch

We love mergers and acquisitions here at TechCrunch. We even kind of like reverse mergers. But this latest development in the robotics industry sure has us excited! Delivery robots maker Serve Robotics is going public via a reverse merger with a blank-check company , and it raised $30 million just before the deal. That could be great for the company, but we’re more interested in the visibility this deal grants us into the economics of building, deploying and running a fleet of delivery rob

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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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Getting Real GROWTH In Your Business (w/ Brian Balfour of Reforge)

OkDork

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify In today’s episode, I talk to Brian Balfour of Reforge. Brian Balfour was the Head of Growth at HubSpot, started multiple VC-backed companies, and has grown brands to MILLIONS of daily active users. Today, he’s the founder of Reforge — a REALLY cool tool that gives you access to things like onboarding docs, presentation decks, brand positioning, org charts, roadmaps, etc. from top-performing business leaders like: Andrew Chen of Andreessen Horowitz Lauryn Isford

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Okay, fine, I want Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to fight

TechCrunch

Elon Musk has disappointed me many times. He bought my favorite social network and made it bad. He has mistreated workers across his companies, and he has permanently ruined the enduring comedy of 420 and 69 jokes. And today, he got my hopes up that he was actually going to cage fight Mark Zuckerberg. I know better than to take anything Elon says at face value.

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Getting Real GROWTH In Your Business (w/ Brian Balfour of Reforge)

OkDork

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify In today’s episode, I talk to Brian Balfour of Reforge. Brian Balfour was the Head of Growth at HubSpot, started multiple VC-backed companies, and has grown brands to MILLIONS of daily active users. Today, he’s the founder of Reforge — a REALLY cool tool that gives you access to things like onboarding docs, presentation decks, brand positioning, org charts, roadmaps, etc. from top-performing business leaders like: Andrew Chen of Andreessen Horowitz Lauryn Isford

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ByteDance again looks to TikTok to promote its other social app, Lemon8

TechCrunch

TikTok appears to be working on an integration with Lemon8 , another social app owned by TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, according to new findings from product intelligence firm Watchful.ai. The apparent new partnership sees TikTok developing a feature that would allow users to sync their Lemon8 posts to TikTok, then add sounds and music to the posts using TikTok’s editor.

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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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[NT-Tao in AGBI] Israeli startup hopes to take nuclear fusion mainstream

OurCrowd

This week US scientists announced they had achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the second time since December.

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The MOVEit mass hacks hold a valuable lesson for the software industry

TechCrunch

The MOVEit mass hacks will likely go down in history as one of the largest and most successful cyberattacks of all time. By exploiting a vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit managed file transfer service, used by thousands of organizations to securely transfer large amounts of often-sensitive files, hackers were able to inject SQL commands and access customers’ sensitive data.

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[yulife in Jewish News] Entrepreneurial rabbi is behind one of the UK’s most successful start-ups

OurCrowd

Being a rabbi and an entrepreneur are more similar than you might think. Sam Fromson can explain. The part-time community rabbi at Golders Green Synagogue, Fromson is also the co-founder and COO of YuLife, the revolutionary insurtech company (where insurance meets technology). Read more here.

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Ladies and gentlemen: The dregs of the SPAC boom

TechCrunch

 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Friday show, and we’re talking about the week’s biggest startup and tech news, and have a little fun. This week Mary Ann and Alex recorded as a duo. That meant a mix of growth stories, and some less-than-winsome on the startups that are not having the best 2023: How Lula went frugal and set itself

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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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[Perception Point in Dark Reading] As phishing gets even sneakier, browser security needs to step up

OurCrowd

BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Friday, Aug. 11 – Phishing attacks are moving beyond conventional efforts and require more sophisticated detection capabilities.

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Google pushes Match for more money in antitrust battle, court filing states

TechCrunch

Google has filed a new motion to the court in its antitrust battle with Epic Games and Match Group, where it claims that the dating app maker owes additional fees beyond the $40 million that had been previously set aside in escrow. Those funds are Google’s cut of Match’s in-app payments on Google Play that Match argues are “illegal under federal and state law” — something the court case will decide.

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[One AI in Forbes] With generative AI, businesses should listen more and generate less

OurCrowd

With the rise of advanced language generation models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude and Inflection’s Pi, we are witnessing a new era in language AI. Read more here.

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Gary Marcus will discuss AI regulation at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023

TechCrunch

The unchecked rise of AI has captured headlines, causing extreme enthusiasm for its promise and considerable concern over its potential dangers. The mood swings between hype and fearmongering call for a rational voice of reason. Enter Gary Marcus. We’re thrilled that Marcus — author, founder and neuroscientist — will join us for a session called “Between Hype and a Hard Place: Gary Marcus on AI’s Next Steps,” September 20 on the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023.

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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.