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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

A conversation with the CEO of a company that makes disinfection tech for the classroom.

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Venture Well

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Noe Vargas Hernandez is devoted to teaching sustainability, entrepreneurship, and design practices to underrepresented engineering students. . The post empowering underrepresented engineering students: q&a with Noe Vargas Hernandez of University of Texas Rio Grande Valley appeared first on VentureWell.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Samantha Dong is the Founder and CEO of Ally Shoes , an innovative, fashion brand designed for women by women. Ally is a niche business renowned for designing pain-free heels for power women. Samantha is passionate about empowering women through fashion and making luxury footwear more accessible for women on the move. After a foot injury, Samantha couldn’t find shoes that fit.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We’re excited to announce that we’ll be hosting our first series of virtual talks at 6 IITs this fall. At the events, you’ll meet YC partners and alumni from each of the schools. They’ll talk about how they started their companies, the challenges they faced early on, and they’ll share advice for students who want to start and scale a company one day.

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Common Reasons Why Startups Fail

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The 40s are the period of life where they feel a strong urge for opening up their own business. The post Profitable Business Ideas for Men Over 40 appeared first on.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

“Varo was founded with a clear vision to deploy a more efficient business model and cutting-edge technology in order to create a new kind of bank – one that is wholly designed around the financial health and wellbeing of the everyday American consumer. From the start, we knew this vision needed to be supported by having a national bank charter and an innovative technology partner like Temenos.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

When I turned 30—four long years ago—two things happened: First, I was told I should join the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), to which I promptly answered, what the heck is EO? (Don’t worry, I did join— thankfully so.). Second, I decided I hadn’t achieved enough in my life. But, in fact, that’s an understatement. The truth is, I beat myself up about not having achieved enough in my life, and right then and there I created new goals for myself.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Traction is one of the most important elements to nail when pitching investors. The problem is, most startups do a poor job talking about it. In this Dreamit Dose, Managing Partner Steve Barsh highlights pro tips and traction insights across all early stages of the startup lifecycle. From pre-revenue early traction to post-revenue momentum, this Dose will teach you the ins and outs of presenting traction to investors.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our portfolio company Pilot Fiber , which provides the best fiber internet to businesses in NYC, has teamed up with a national telecom provider to offer residential fiber internet in Manhattan. Here’s the way they describe it on their landing page : Pilot has teamed up with a no-BS, national telecom company (trust us, you know them) to bring gigabit fiber to apartments, condos, and brownstones across Manhattan.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Tyto Care, the healthcare industry’s first all-in-one telehealth platform and modular device for AI-powered, on-demand remote medical exams, today announced the approval of its telehealth solution by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). Tyto Care can now distribute its solution to health organizations and consumers across the country.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Deepak Jhalani joined Ravti (S14) as their CTO after finding them on YC’s Work at a Startup. He’s previously managed a team of over 40 people, and was looking for his next challenge building a team and the technology from the ground up. Check out Y Combinator’s Work at a Startup , where there are thousands of jobs at well-funded and vetted YC companies, ranging from seed-stage to later-stage, including Brex, Segment and Instacart.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Contactless shopping and the elimination of free samples. Less browsing and “product discovery” and more focus on the expediency of repurchasing. These are ways the novel coronavirus has changed how Americans buy groceries. The pandemic has altered what products people purchase, when and where, who is buying them, and how much time is devoted to the endeavor.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Mobile-gaming company Skillz Inc. is set to go public through a merger with a blank-check firm run by veteran Hollywood executives, becoming the latest pairing to take the trendy path to public markets. Read more here. The post [Skillz in The Wall Street Journal] Mobile-Gaming Company Skillz to Go Public by Merging With Blank-Check Firm appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Mobile-gaming company Skillz announced Wednesday that it will go public through a merger with Flying Eagle Acquisition Corporation, led by executives of the same blank-check company that brought DraftKings to the public market earlier this year. Read more here. The post [Skillz in CNBC] Mobile gaming company Skillz is the next market deal from SPAC team that took DraftKings public appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Skillz is set to go public through a merger with a blank-check firm run by veteran Hollywood executives, a deal valuing the San Francisco mobile-gaming company at $3.5 billion. Read more here. The post [Skillz in The Street] Skillz Mobile Gaming Company to Go Public Via SPAC appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

On the program today, we modernize my definition of out-of-home based on what Ubimo is doing with its location-based intelligence offering and bringing audience understanding, location, and traffic monitoring to an old medium. The updated view Chait shares on what out-of-home should look like today can expand what’s possible for marketers. Watch it here.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Sixgill, LLC, a leading AI IoT platform provider for unified end-to-end machine learning lifecycle management, announced a partnership with Colorado-based CleanConnect.ai to deliver a suite of AI solutions to the oil and gas industry. Sixgill’s Sense AI platform enables CleanConnect.ai to rapidly and easily train, deploy and manage computer vision models for their oil and gas customers, expanding their solutions portfolio and unlocking the value of AI-powered automation and insights.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Ocean demand out of China to the U.S. continued to outstrip capacity. The pandemic (and trade war) have not reduced U.S. SMB interest in imports from China. Freightos.com marketplace search data show that China’s share of importer freight searches trended down through 2019 to a low of 88 percent in January. But since the rebound in U.S. imports in June, shippers are focusing on Chinese suppliers again, as China captured 91 percent of searches in August.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Zoomcar and PASCOS partnership will help distribute the Zoomcar Mobility Services tech stack which focuses on reducing operating costs, enhancing safety, increasing vehicle monetization and improving customer engagement. Read more here. The post [Zoomcar in Express Drives] Zoomcar partners with Pascos for pan-India distribution of Zoomcar Mobility Services appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Israel based INSIGHTEC®, a global medical technology innovator of incisionless surgery, recently announced that it has received national reimbursement from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) for treating Parkinson’s disease. Read more here. The post [Insightec in BioSpectrum] INSIGHTEC receives reimbursement from Japan for treatment of parkinson’s disease appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Israel–UAE normalisation deal will bring “a flood of activity” in business dealings, Australia-based OurCrowd managing partner Dan Bennett says. . Bennett told The AJN a figure being talked about – more than half a billion US dollars of trade in the first 12 months – is “probably reasonably conservative”. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd in The AJN] Israel-UAE ties to bring ‘gold rush’ appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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