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Can Your Portfolio Company Cut Your Bad Cholesterol by More Than Half? It Can When It's Culina Health.

This is going to be BIG.

The pandemic and parenthood hasn’t been great for either my eating habits or my activity level—not to mention the two month grandparent visit when we brought Mirren home. Here’s my approach to my snacks: “I finished off this candy too fast. I can’t ever buy it again.” Here’s my father-in-law’s approach to my snacks: “I saw that you finished off the candy so I ran out and bought you some more.

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Gotham Gives

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Gotham Gives is a public charity that the Gotham Gal and I started one year ago to complement the family foundation that we have been using to make philanthropic gifts for over two decades. A public charity allows us to raise capital from others in addition to our family’s philanthropic gifts. We use this public charity to put together syndicates of donors and raise more capital for our projects than would be possible on our own.

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Onramp Funds accelerates e-commerce financing platform with $42M in equity, credit

TechCrunch

Onramp Funds , an Austin-based company providing financing to e-commerce sellers, secured $42 million in equity and credit to expand its working capital offering. CEO Eric Youngstrom founded the company in 2020 after a career at multicarrier shipping software company ShippingEasy. One of the problems with shipping at that time, back in 2012, was that you would have to log into each individual marketplace.

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Finding Your Professional Community – 3 Things To Look For

Smart Hustle Magazine

As small business owners navigate the challenges of inflation , the importance of peer support is paramount. Given that online communities have grown 3X in the last seven years, reaching revenues of $1.2 billion in 2021, it’s clear there’s a demonstrated need for such digital kinship. Especially in specific fields like B2B marketing and sales, it can be incredibly valuable to connect with peers in similar positions, swap advice and even vent about frustrations.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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8 IT spending trends for the post-pandemic enterprise in 2022

TechCrunch

Erik Bradley. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Erik Bradley brings more than two decades of experience in creating research platforms to his role as chief strategist at ETR, a market research firm specializing in enterprise technology data. Over the past three years, the chaos of the pandemic has been felt everywhere. IT managers suddenly found themselves supporting legions of work-from-home employees; planned system expansions and upgrades had to be put on hold; organizations needed new technolog

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Bonfire Ventures secures $230M for two new funds targeting B2B software startups

TechCrunch

Bonfire Ventures , a Los Angeles venture capital firm, invests in seed-stage business-to-business software companies and aims to change the odds so that more than the average 33% of companies in this sector make it to Series A. The firm seems to have some good traction so far. It says over 85% of its portfolio companies raise follow-on funding — a collective $1.15 billion — and its first fund is “ranked as one of the top 5% of VC funds globally,” while the second fund is in “the top 10% of their

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Weekly #7: Gaining the clients you want

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Welcome to another edition of our new newsletter! You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss: What it takes to make $100K from freelance work (hint: it’s no get-rich-quick scheme) Building MVPs to avoid creating stuff that doesn’t sell Recovering from failure to gain massive clients Using empathy as a competitive advantage How to make $100K from freelancing Carter Kilmann has been freelancing for nearly 3 years, and last

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Railway snags $20M to streamline the process of deploying apps and services

TechCrunch

Railway , a startup building a software deployment platform tailored for engineers, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Redpoint Ventures and angel investors including Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch and GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner. The capital brings Railway’s total raised to $24 million, which founder and CEO Jake Cooper said is being put toward continuing to expand Railway’s product with a focus on enterprise customers.

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Last day to join K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Today, May 31, 2022, Tuesday, is the last day for startups to apply for the biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government – K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) 2022. The program, which is also supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), is organised by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA).

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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TechCrunch Live is going to Columbus, OH — June 1st!

TechCrunch

On June 1, 2022, the TechCrunch Live crew is hosting an extended TechCrunch Live episode with Columbus investors, founders and business leaders. There’s even a pitch-off with Columbus-area startups. Register for the virtual event here for free! Why Columbus? Because it’s quickly becoming a major startup scene in the Midwest, especially in the areas of healthcare and insurance.

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Valor Equity Partners leads $20m Series B funding in alt data insights startup Synaptic

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Synaptic , a leading alternative data insights start-up, announced the successful closure of $20 million in Series B funding round led by Valor Equity Partners. Synaptic combines the best of technology, machine learning, and finance to bring sophisticated alternative data insights to decision-makers.

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Temasek in talks to invest in Google-backed DotPe

TechCrunch

Google-backed DotPe, which helps businesses in India go online and sell digitally , is in advanced stages of talks to raise about $50 million in a new financing round, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Temasek, the Singapore state-owned investment firm, is finalizing deliberations to lead the investment in the Gurgaon-headquartered startup, the source said, requesting anonymity as the details are private.

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Singapore food tech startup Oddle raises $5m in pre-Series B funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Oddle , the omnichannel F&B technology company headquartered in Singapore, announced raising $5 million in its pre-Series B funding round led by technology venture capital investor Altara Ventures. As Oddle continues to disrupt and revolutionise the food technology industry in the Asia Pacific, funds from this bridge round will power product development and regional market expansio

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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The Jonas Brothers help launch Scriber, a creator subscription company

TechCrunch

The creator economy is “ burning up ,” and the Jonas Brothers are cashing in. Launching today with the help of these former teen heartthrobs, Scriber is a creator subscription company geared toward more established figures in entertainment (… like the Jonas Brothers). Joe, Kevin and Nick aren’t just Scriber’s first creators — they also have equity in the company.

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Rejecting Capital From Investors (Even Sharks) Can Sometimes Pay Off

Entrepreneur's Handbook

To take funding or not to take funding — that is the question Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Chick-fil-A taps Refraction AI for autonomous delivery pilot

TechCrunch

When Refraction AI was founded in 2019 , its goal was to use robotics to bring down the cost of last-mile delivery. Over the past couple of years, the startup has worked directly with restaurants in its hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan, to offer its bike-lane bound robots as a logistics layer for customers, rather than trying to be another DoorDash or UberEats.

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How To Reframe Selling So You Can Profit Without Sacrificing Your Integrity

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Girlfriend, you’re not afraid of selling Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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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Depressed? This algorithm can tell from the tone of your voice

TechCrunch

Mental health issues have come into a clearer focus amid the pandemic. Depression became endemic , but it still too often goes undetected. Even when it does, healthcare providers struggle to meet demand. Two women engineers — both of whom experienced depression and had trouble finding therapy — thought the answer might be helping medical pros detect depression.

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Fintech startup First Digital scores $20m funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Fintech firm First Digital , the only qualified custodian and trustee helping institutions custody both traditional and digital assets, has announced a $20m fundraising round backed by Nogle and Kenetic Capital. First Digital Trust plays a key role in helping legacy institutions and companies bridge legacy and emerging finance; and it is the only in the Asian region to offer full-servi

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Precursor Ventures’ first hire just spun out to start her own venture firm

TechCrunch

Sydney Thomas , who was the first hire at Precursor Ventures , a seed and early-stage focused fund that backs first-time founders, is starting her own venture firm. The investor is going from principal at the firm she joined 6 years ago to the solo-partner behind a new, unnamed firm. The job move may feel like a leap in this environment — as institutionally backed investors warn that emerging fund managers will struggle to raise debut funds given LP freeze-ups — but Thomas doesn’t quite ag

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[D-ID in PR Newswire] NTT Finance invests in D-ID, world leader in AI-driven creative media

OurCrowd

TOKYO, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — NTT Finance, financial group company of Japanese telecommunications giant NTT, invested in D-ID, the world leader in AI-driven creative media. The funding is part of D-ID’s recent $25 million Series B round. The round was led by investment firm Macquarie Capital, with significant investments from Pitango, AXA Venture Partners, OurCrowd, OIF Ventures, Maverick and Marubeni.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Daily Crunch: Amazon will sunset Cloud Cam service in December, offers customers free Blink Mini

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Oh hey and happy Tuesday, the very last day of May 2022! Tomorrow, for our City Spotlight series, we’re putting the limelight on Columbus, Ohio. We’re also doing a pitch-off with Columbus-area startups. If you want to register for the event, here’s the handy linky-link that will give you all the info you need!

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How Postalytics is Transforming the $41.9 Billion Direct Mail Industry

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Businesses need several marketing channels to win customers Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Student social good startups collect $95K in T-Mobile competition

TechCrunch

A diverse collection of students with big ideas will split about $95,000 in prize money after competing in T-Mobile’s Changemaker Challenge. Now, $5,000-10,000 may not sound like a lot to companies pulling in tens of millions, but for a kid just starting out, it could be the difference between pursuing and abandoning a passion project. The contest is nationwide, asking young folks age 13-18 to submit their project, company, or however they like to define it, and five each in three categori

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My journey toward Repairing the Repair® Process

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Tom Bemiller (EO Philadelphia), founder and CEO of The Aureus Group , which serves as the management company for three auto body shops with the goal of Repairing the Repair® Process. We asked Tom about his entrepreneurial journey. Here’s what he shared: My entrepreneurial journey began when I was eight years old: I started doing yard work for neighbors because I desperately wanted a Nintendo.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.