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3 ways deep tech founders can climb out of pilot purgatory

TechCrunch

Champ Suthipongchai. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Champ Suthipongchai is a co-founder and general partner at Creative Ventures , a method-driven deep tech VC firm investing in startups that address the impact of increasing labor shortages, rising healthcare costs and the climate crisis. More posts by this contributor. Invest in Earth’s biggest problems to save the planet and turn a profit.

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Screw Ideas: How To Fix the Flaws of Ideation-Focused I&E

Venture Well

Learn how the Screw Ideas manifesto’s radical approach to I&E education can help you redesign your curriculum. The post Screw Ideas: How To Fix the Flaws of Ideation-Focused I&E appeared first on VentureWell.

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Top five reasons students should attend TC Sessions: Mobility

TechCrunch

TC Sessions: Mobility is back and raring to go big — returning live and in-person — for its fourth consecutive year. It’s a two-day deep dive featuring the best, brightest and most intriguing founders, engineers, investors, regulators and technologists dedicated to transforming the way we move people and packages around the globe. Whether you are an undergraduate student with a startup idea or an MBA candidate building your company, TC Mobility offers students the opportunity to connect and coll

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OhYeah!’s Salcedo is Helping Sustainable and Ethical Brands to Align With the Right Influencers

Jason Malki

Daniel is an immigrant New Yorker who defines himself as a rare mix of a producer and a serial entrepreneur with a variety of experience and success within the startup scene, including music, tech and video content. In the last 10 years, Daniel has produced video content for 500 fortune companies, as well as platforms like HBO, Discovery and Netflix.

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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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Lilt raises $55M to bolster its business-focused AI translation platform

TechCrunch

Lilt , a provider of AI-powered business translation software, today announced that it raised $55 million in a Series C round led by Four Rivers, joined by new investors Sorenson Capital, CLEAR Ventures and Wipro Ventures. The company says that it plans to use the capital to expand its R&D efforts as well as its customer footprint and engineering teams. “Lilt [aims to] build a solution that [will] combine the best of human ingenuity with machine efficiency,” CEO Spence Green told

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The Folklore Group secures $1.7 million, launches fashion B2B e-commerce platform

TechCrunch

Fashion e-commerce startup, The Folklore Group , has today announced a shift from direct-to-consumer to B2B wholesale against the backdrop of a $1.7 million pre-seed funding, which the startup plans to use to fuel the growth of its new business. The startup’s new wholesale business dubbed The Folklore Connect , will link luxury fashion brands in emerging markets to bulk retailers in North America, and later, in Europe.

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A Good Investor Can Help You Close Candidates. A Great Investor Will Sometimes Tell You Who Not To Hire.

Hunter Walk

For Early Stage Startups, You Need Employees To Choose The Company. Not The Other Way Around. I love helping startups hire, especially early on. Look, companies don’t exist without founders — often when we write our initial investment checks there aren’t any employees — but nothing amazing happens without a team. I’d go even further and suggest that if I could access just a single predictive signal after we’ve made an investment of whether the company has a chance to be successful it would be so

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Daily Crunch: Tata Group releases ‘super app’ that bundles 11 consumer services

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To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Welcome to the Daily Crunch for Thursday, April 7, 2022! We want to kick us off with a quick congratulations to FabuLinga for winning the pitch-off at the TechCrunch City Spotlight (Austin edition). Check out all of our City Spotlight content for a whirlwind tour of the Austin startup scene.

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Your 9-5 Can Allow You to Survive, But Your Side Hustle Can Get You Passive Income to Thrive

Entrepreneur's Handbook

A simple drug deal can go from good to bad in 60 seconds. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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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Better Origin turns food waste to animal feed, with an insect-assist

TechCrunch

Take a shipping container, add a helping of AI and a boat-load of black soldier flies, fold in a small mountain of food waste, sprinkle in $16 million of investment led by Balderton Capital, and call in the Michelin reviewers, because om nom, you’ve got yourself a delicious dish called Better Origin. The company is using what it calls “mini farms” that turn expiring fruit and veggies into tasty morsels that can be used as animal feed. “I’m an engineer and I just lef

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Invitation: events for family offices, women in finance, and emerging managers

David Teten VC

We hope you will join us at three upcoming events, all complimentary for qualified attendees: NYC, April 27: the East Coast Family Office & High Net Worth Individuals Conference , organized by DC Finance. I’ll be leading a discussion among four single family offices on their investment strategy in tech companies. Virtual, May 11-13, the Womensphere Capital Forum (virtual).

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ImaliPay gets $3M to offer financial services to underserved gig workers across Africa

TechCrunch

The gig economy is experiencing profound growth in Africa. Yet, all that growth hasn’t changed the status of workers who are seen as contractors rather than employees. Because many of them, particularly in the two-wheeler space, lack access to some financial services, being contractors is disadvantageous. Some gig platforms have tried to embed financial services into their systems, but they are limited.

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What We Got Wrong About General Management And How I Infused Entrepreneurial Spirit Into My 9–6

Entrepreneur's Handbook

For starters: We will know what to do when we take a big picture view of our company and business. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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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Jüsto grabs new capital as it expands grocery delivery in Brazil, Peru

TechCrunch

Jüsto , the Mexico City-based online grocer, continues to run on all cylinders with a goal of saturating the Latin American market. The company claims to be the first supermarket in Mexico with no physical store that enables customers to buy groceries directly from its website, or an app, and Jüsto will deliver the order to the customer’s location of choice.

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[DailyPay in PR Newswire] Leading Grocer Coborn’s Inc. Joins Forces With DailyPay to Provide a Critical Financial Wellness Benefit to Its Employees?

OurCrowd

NEW YORK, April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Coborn’s Inc. (Coborn’s), a leading independent grocer in the Midwest, today announced its partnership with DailyPay, the leading provider of on-demand pay. Coborn’s employees now have access to their pay as they earn it and are able to pay bills, spend, save, or invest on their own schedule.

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Landed tackles hospitality employee turnover with end-to-end recruitment matching tool

TechCrunch

If “The Great Resignation” taught us anything, it is that people want to be appreciated, respected and well paid for their work. Staff turnover in restaurants and hospitality has always been an issue, with people leaving at an average rate of 30%. That’s where Landed comes in. The company touts itself as the “first end-to-end recruitment engine for the restaurant and hospitality industries,” by automating the process of candidate sourcing, engagement and interviewing.

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Sometimes your gut is the best you’ve got.

Berkonomics

How I didn’t follow my own advice. Years ago, I led a deal and invested in a company that looked like it had lots of promise to disrupt the women’s clothing industry with special algorithms and an online store. But something had bothered me from the very start – unsalable inventory. An entrepreneur makes a claim that stretches comfort. You see, women’s clothing is subject to fashion changes so frequently that inventory becomes obsolete quickly.

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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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U.S. Xpress pilots 24/7 autonomous freight with Kodiak Robotics

TechCrunch

Self-driving trucking company Kodiak Robotics and U.S. Xpress, an American truckload carrier with a large footprint, have completed a pilot that tested autonomous freight service between Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia, using one of Kodiak’s autonomous trucks. During the pilot, which occurred in late March, the Kodiak truck and pre-loaded U.S.

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Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How

Andreessen Horowitz

The promise of decentralization has been heavily discussed and debated, from why it matters to the bigger question of who will control the software that powers the internet. These questions are critical, because as we have seen, when control is held in the hands of a very few, encroachments on personal freedom, choice, and privacy. Read More. The post Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How appeared first on Future.

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Peeba raises $4.2M to digitize Asia’s B2B wholesale market  

TechCrunch

Over the past two years, Asia’s retailers were forced to do virtual meetings instead of visiting in-person trade shows or conferences to source new brands and products due to the pandemic lockdowns. A startup called Peeba has built a B2B wholesale online platform that connects independent retailers across Asia with unique brands around the world. Peeba says the lack of B2B-focused online wholesale solutions and tech infrastructure hampered Asia’s antiquated B2B retail, wholesale market in busin

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Sky Mavis announces global early access release of Axie Infinity: Origin

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Sky Mavis , the creator of the category-defining NFT title Axie Infinity , announced the global Early Access release of Axie Infinity: Origin (Battles v3) via Mavis Hub, Sky Mavis’ distribution platform. With over 1.5 million daily active users, Axie Infinity is an NFT game where players battle, collect, and trade digital pets called Axies.

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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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Vontive wants to be the Palantir of real estate investing

TechCrunch

The U.S. residential real estate market has been booming because of the pandemic. Although the rise in home prices has shut many people out of the market, it’s been highly lucrative for those who own property. The attractive returns in this sector have lured more investors into the market, but the processes associated with buying an investment property are still costly and fairly antiquated.

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[Superpedestrian in CBS News] Chicago to launch permanent shared electric scooter program in May

OurCrowd

CHICAGO (CBS) — Shared electric scooters will return to Chicago in May, following two test runs in 2019 and 2020. Read more here. The post [Superpedestrian in CBS News] Chicago to launch permanent shared electric scooter program in May appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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The fundraising market is losing some of its founder-friendly shine

TechCrunch

The venture capital market could be seeing a shift in power dynamics away from founders and more toward investors, data indicates. The information, collected by DocSend , a service that founders often use to send information about their startups to investors, indicates that after a hot start in the year, investor interest is declining, leading to what could be the start of a sea change in private-market dynamics.

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[ADvantage in FinSMEs] TAPPP raises $10M in Series B funding

OurCrowd

TAPPP, a New York-based technology and marketing company enabling customer engagement and retention, raised $10M in Series B funding. Read more here. The post [ADvantage in FinSMEs] TAPPP raises $10M in Series B funding appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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.