Fri.Feb 11, 2022

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Agot AI gives restaurants computer vision to see where food orders go wrong

TechCrunch

Artificial intelligence has infiltrated a number of industries, and the restaurant industry was one of the latest to embrace this technology, driven in main part by the global pandemic and the need to shift to online orders. That need continues to grow. In 2021, some 60% of Americans ordered takeout or delivery at least once a week, and 31% used a third-party delivery service.

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Best Business Gifts for Valentines Day

Smart Hustle Magazine

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and making the day special can be done in so many ways. It’s a great time to consider business gifts for that special someone in your life. A favorite dinner cooked for a loved one, family members, or friends, an extra hand lent in a time of need, or a special gift can all mark the day as something notable to be shared.

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RedRoute wants answering customer service calls to be as easy as using ‘Alexa’

TechCrunch

RedRoute , a voice-based customer service experiences and conversational artificial intelligence startup, is going after an emerging $350 billion customer service automation sector. When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating.

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Indonesia’s FinTech API provider Brick raises US$8.5 million in its Seed Funding Round

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indonesia-based FinTech API provider Brick has raised US$8.5 million in its seed round led by Flourish Ventures and Antler. The funding round was also joined by Trihill Capital along with existing investors Rally Cap Ventures and Better Tomorrow Ventures.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Startups are evolving to manage growth alongside profitability

TechCrunch

Amit Anand. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. More posts by this contributor. Predicting the next wave of Southeast Asia tech giants. It was only a matter of time. As more tech companies go public, the necessary disclosure has meant that with access to more information on the financial condition of many startups, mainstream investors have begun questio

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Daily Crunch: At SpaceX’s Starship update event, Musk offers updates on plans, progress

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, February 11, 2022! Today we’re talking big rockets, self-driving cars, tech stocks getting rekt, and more. It’s a fun, and good mix of news. Enjoy! – Alex. The TechCrunch Top 3. Rocketship, or big vapor phallus ? At an event about SpaceX’s huge Starship launch system, more questions were left open than closed off, it appears.

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How PR and social media work together to amplify your message

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Veronique James is an EO Arizona member and CEO of The James Agency , an integrated agency specializing in consumer advertising, public relations and digital marketing that has been honored locally and nationally for its excellence in workplace culture. Members of her team, public relations expert Christina Caldwell and social media guru Jessica Suerth (pictured with Veronique at center) shared how PR and social media can work together in the ever-evolving effort to get business messaging ou

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Why Affirm’s stock is getting hit, and what the selloff means for the BNPL startup market

TechCrunch

The number of startups building buy now, pay later (BNPL) services is long. Just this year we’ve seen French BNPL startup Alma raise a $130 million equity round , BillEase raise $11 million for BNPL in the Philippines , Lipa Later raise $12 million for the same effort in Kenya , and ThankUCash raise $5.3 million for fintech infra in Africa that appears to include BNPL services.

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[CytoReason in The Jerusalem Post] Israeli startup CytoReason collaborates with Pfizer on machine learning

OurCrowd

Israeli start-up CytoReason – a leading developer of computational machine-learning models for drug development – announced the extension of its collaboration agreement with Pfizer, which began in 2019, on Thursday. Read more here. The post [CytoReason in The Jerusalem Post] Israeli startup CytoReason collaborates with Pfizer on machine learning appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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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Chasing Cruise and Waymo, Chinese AV company AutoX plans to begin testing in San Francisco

TechCrunch

AutoX, a Chinese autonomous vehicle company that has made plays in both the U.S. and its home country, is now making a move into San Francisco, an area where its biggest competitors are creeping towards commercialization. The company, which has been testing its vehicles in the greater San Jose area since 2016, shared plans to launch robotaxi operations and build an operations center in the Golden City.

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Startup Consulting Firm xto10x Technologies nets US$25 million in a funding round led by Flipkart Co-founder

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Scaling platform for growth-stage startups xto10x Technologies has raised US$25 million in its Series A financing round led by Flipkart’s co-founder Binny Bansal. The round also saw participation from 28 founders and senior leaders from the startup ecosystem in India and Southeast Asia. xto10x will be using the funding to ramp up its three core activities- software tools, learning prog

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How much is a pitch deck really worth?

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We had the full crew aboard today for our live taping, headed by our killer production team Grace and Chris , and hosting crew Mary Ann , Natasha and Alex. Overall, it was a success? Our streaming tech took us to various Internet platforms, and people came to Hopin and asked questions.

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[Tailor Brands in Digital Journal] Tailor Brands release an exciting new product to expand their suite of business start-up tools

OurCrowd

Feb 11th, 2022 – New York – Tailor Brands, an AI-driven startup for entrepreneurs and aspiring small business owners, has launched an automated LLC formation product that will allow new entrepreneurs to apply to form a limited company without having to jump through complex steps and legal hoops typically associated with forming an LLC. Read more here.

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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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Why are cybersecurity asset management startups so hot right now?

TechCrunch

In the world of cybersecurity, you can’t secure something if you don’t know it’s there. Enter cybersecurity asset management, an admittedly unsexy fragment of the booming industry that investors have shown an ever-increasing appetite for over the past 18 months. The cybersecurity industry experienced what is being hailed by some as a “golden year” — funding for cyber startups climbed by 138% to $29.5 billion in 2021 and M&A activity skyrocketed by more than 294% to $77.5 billion.

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[AEYE Health in Patient Worthy] AI software effective for detecting diabetic retinopathy

OurCrowd

Digital health company AEYE Health was founded on the desire to provide fully automated, artificial intelligence (AI) based diagnostic screening tools for retinal imaging. According to the Ophthalmology Times, the company has more recently finished a clinical trial evaluating one of its AI tools for the detection of mild-to-moderate diabetic retinopathy.

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Lesson #342: Don't Aspire to Be Champion (Windows)

Red Rocket

Normally, in the world of boxing, you would aspire to be world champion, knocking out every opponent you see, pounding them into submission until they finally break. But, the business world, is not the boxing world. And, apparently, Champion Windows didn't get the memo, that you are not supposed to beat up your own customer prospects. I recently survived one of the most brutal sales experiences I have ever lived through, while shopping for new windows for my home.

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[Varo Money in KPVI CNBC] Varo Bank welcomes Jon Alferness as Chief Product Officer

OurCrowd

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Varo Bank, N.A., the first all-digital, nationally chartered bank in the U.S, today announced the appointment of Jon Alferness as its new Chief Product Officer. Jon joins the company at a pivotal time as Varo continues to expand its digital banking offerings with a focus on enabling wealth creation for underserved communities that have been left behind by the traditional banking industry.

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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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TechCrunch+ roundup: Investor warning signs, China’s AV frenzy, 2022 insurtech trends

TechCrunch

February 2014 seems so long ago. Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox shut down after it was hacked, the Nokia X was unveiled at Mobile World Congress, and Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft’s Server & Tools division, was promoted to the CEO spot, replacing Steve Ballmer. To mark the eighth anniversary of Nadella’s ascension, enterprise reporter Ron Miller looked back at the executive’s tenure to grade his performance and identify potential pitfalls that lie ahead.

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[SaNOtize in The Globe and Mail] Canadian company SaNOtize’s COVID-19 treatment wins approval in India

OurCrowd

A treatment for COVID-19 that was developed in British Columbia has been approved for sale in India, where it could be shipped to pharmacies as early as Friday – though the product has so far received limited support in Canada. Read more here. The post [SaNOtize in The Globe and Mail] Canadian company SaNOtize’s COVID-19 treatment wins approval in India appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Newsletter: SaNOtize anti-Covid spray approved in India

OurCrowd

Join Yahoo! Founder Jerry Yang at our FinTech event Startup of the Week: India approves SaNOtize anti-Covid spray Join Rewire ’s $25M raise with Migdal, Jerry Yang Hear from the CEO who says plants make the best fish Snowflake and Cellcom choose Anodot G etting the circular economy straight HIL Medical tech makes superior cancer treatment more accessible BBC: IntellAct looks to reduce airport delays NHS Study: Eko Smart Stethoscope identifies heart failure Logistics giants turn to Phant