Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Contributed by Shawn Johal , an EO member and former president of EO Montreal, who is a leadership speaker, bestselling author of The Happy Leader , and founder of Elevation Leaders , a business growth practice helping companies 10X their business valuation. A whopping 77 percent of business owners wished they better understood the numbers within their business, and 82 percent of businesses fail due to cash management problems.

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Venture Well

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Faculty can use biomimicry to teach sustainable design principles to students who are looking to solve the challenges of the climate crisis. The post Inspiring Sustainable Design: Biomimicry—Using Nature’s Blueprints appeared first on VentureWell.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The quest to define what exactly a web3 use case looks like hasn’t always been easy but has allowed plenty of founders to get creative in building out products designed to tap the ethos of decentralization and the business opportunities of the creator economy. Arpeggi Labs , a new crypto startup focused on using blockchains to make music creation more collaborative, has scored $5.1 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm alongside a host of artists including nam

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

An early team member’s story?—?one that’s not over yet. Johnny and me, October 2019 in London at the Tech Expo Event This is my third long-form update on the story of the software company Hopin and the lessons I’ve learned as its first full-time team member. This week I celebrated three years at the company. If you haven’t read the first two posts, you can find the links below.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The global cultured meat market is poised to reach half a billion dollars by 2030; however, this kind of technology is still very much in the R&D phase for a lot of companies that have emerged over the past five years. Cultured meat, also known as cultivated meat, is animal meat, but instead of slaughtering the animal to get it, cells are collected from the animal and cultivated in a lab where they are then assembled into a structure of tissue that resembles the same meat we all eat.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

AC Ventures (ACV) , a venture firm focused on early-stage startups in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia, has reached the first close of its fifth investment fund (Fund V). The fund is targeting $250 million and has raised 65% of that capital so far, mostly from limited partners who invested in ACV’s previous funds. Fund V has already made five investments, including SkorLife , IDEAL and Atma.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The line between healthy self-esteem and deadly overconfidence is razor thin. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Enverus , a company specialized in energy-focused software-as-a-service products, has announced that it has acquired RatedPower , a Spanish startup that helps you plan, design and optimize solar power plants. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed. Enverus works with all sorts of customers in the energy ecosystem focused both on renewables and oil and gas.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Design partners, or the first few users of a company’s software, are often a key part of the early software development process. By providing valuable feedback on everything from product functionality to user experience, to pricing and packaging, the … The post A Framework for Finding A Design Partner appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Fazz , the Southeast Asian digital financial services group created by the merger of PayFazz and Xfers , announced today that it has raised a total of $100 million in Series C funding. This includes $75 million in equity and a $25 million debt facility. The equity investment came from returning investors Tiger Global, DST Investment, B Capital, Insignia Ventures Partners and ACE & Company, with participation from Ilham Ltd, EDBI, InterVest, Y Combinator managing director Michael Seibel and G

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

We’re excited to announce the first YC Health and Bio Summit that will take place in San Francisco on October 21, 2022. The half day conference will feature bio and healthcare founders and investors who will tell their stories and share advice for entrepreneurs who are just getting started. Speakers include: Vineeta Agarwala, General Partner, a16z Ivana Djuretic, Co-founder and CSO, Asher Bio Rachel Rea, Sr.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

David Jegen. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Jegen is managing partner of F-Prime Capital’s Tech Fund. More posts by this contributor. Healthcare is the next wave of data liberation. The restaurant table(t) is getting crowded. Abdul Abdirahman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Abdul Abdirahman is a senior associate at F-Prime Capital, where he focuses on early-stage investments in fintech.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

… The post ‘Proof-of-Merge’ NFT to Commemorate Ethereum appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Kojo , a startup that aims to help construction companies in the U.S. manage their materials supply chains “seamlessly,” has raised $39 million in a Series C round of funding led by Battery Ventures. Founded in 2018 as Agora, the company raised $33 million in a Tiger Global-led Series B round in August of 2021. It’s been busy since. Earlier this year, the startup rebranded to Kojo and expanded from serving just one construction trade — electrical — to eight, including mechanical, con

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indonesia-based crypto exchange and marketplace Reku has announced raising $11 million in a Series A funding round led by AC Ventures. The funding round for the five-year-old startup was also participated by Coinbase Ventures and Skystar Capital, according to the announcement.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The U.S healthcare system is infamously labyrinthine, with a lengthy claims process that results in frequent errors and high administrative costs. Based in Bangalore, CloudSelf is building a cloud-native platform to improve payment integrity (or the process of making sure healthcare claims are paid accurately) by being more transparent and customizable than legacy systems.

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Secure Docs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations are on the rise across industries, fueled by reputational concerns as well as real impact on business results. While M&A experts broadly agree that ESG has become a major factor in deals, companies have been slow to catch up. The data is unequivocal: firms with sustainable practices and a transparent, diverse organization do better.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

We know that long-term leases aren’t the move anymore, but San Francisco–based Codi has a hotter take: neither is co-working. The company, co-founded by Christelle Rohaut and Dave Schuman , began in 2018 to create more flexible office space for companies whose employees want private, flexible workspaces. These days, the startup’s most disruptive belief is one that disagrees with the co-working model popularized by WeWork.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Technological innovation has caused a rise in e-commerce that is crying out for more truck drivers to deliver our smartphones and Pelotons and pineapples. But the trucking industry, the backbone of all our hedonistic spending, has yet to see the same level of tech advancements needed to create a stable and resilient supply chain. The industry is incredibly fragmented, with truckers, a large majority of whom are owner-operators, spending hours of their day searching for brokers and shippers who w

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

NeoCarbon , a Berlin-based climate tech startup that’s taking a retrofitting approach to scaling direct air capture (DAC) devices for uptake of CO2 emissions has nabbed pre-seed funding. Its focus is on developing DAC kit that can be installed (retrofitted) inside working cooling towers in the industrial sector — thereby, its pitch runs, slashing the cost of drawing down carbon emissions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Can I start a company or a side hustle on a TN visa?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In June 2020, taking advantage of a Chicago law requiring ride-hailing apps to disclose their prices, researchers from George Washington University published an analysis of algorithms used by ride-sharing startups like Uber and Lyft to set fares. It spotlighted evidence that the algorithms charged riders living in buildings with older, lower-income and less-educated populations more than those who hailed from affluent areas, an effect the researchers pegged on the high popularity of — and

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Before fintechs became the standouts of the African tech ecosystem, it was startups in the online logistics and transport space in Africa linking on-demand apps to move people and goods around the continent that was all the rave. For the online logistics space, it’s not difficult to see why investors were quite curious about the market. In Africa, more than $180 billion is spent annually on haulage, and logistics account for more than 70% of a product’s price, according to reports.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

EV charging company Monta has been building out EV charging solutions to make it easier to charge electric vehicles everywhere. It started in Europe, but it just raised an additional $30 million from Energize Ventures , at a $155 million valuation, to expand into the U.S. market. The company tackles one of the biggest bottlenecks to mass-market EV adoption: EV infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Power , a fintech infrastructure startup, is now kicking off its full-stack credit card issuance platform after a year in stealth mode and with $16.1 million in seed funding and $300 million in a credit facility. The New York–based company’s seed round was led by Anthemis and Fin Capital and included CRV, Financial Venture Studio, Dash Fund, Plug & Play and a group of angel investors.

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