TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Filevine , a startup offering a software-as-a-service product for legal case management, today announced that it closed a $108 million series D round led by StepStone Group with participation from Golub Capital and existing investors Signal Peak Ventures and Meritech Capital. CEO Ryan Anderson said that the proceeds will be put toward pursuing new market opportunities, specifically in the nonprofit, insurance, and public sectors, and “further evolv[ing] the [Filevine platform] to meet chan

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 14, 2022

Learn from VP of Marketing and Growth at 8fig and founder of Brainye and Oribi [link] Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today’s guest is Avishai Sam Bitton, the current VP of Marketing and Growth at 8fig , a company that helps eCommerce sellers to scale up to 8 figures. They recently closed a Series A for $50m.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

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 14, 2022! As we put this together, we are listening to TED’s Chris Anderson interview with Elon Musk about his attempt to buy Twitter. There will be many viewpoints on this coming fast and furious.

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Campaign Monitor

APRIL 14, 2022

Despite being VP of marketing at SparkToro , a classically trained chef, and the past host of the Growth Machine Marketing podcast , Amanda Natividad had trouble growing her newsletter following. When she started The Menu , she had more enthusiasm and ambition than subscribers. Her following didn’t grow as fast as she’d hoped. Six months into the endeavor, she only had 400 subscribers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

The founders of Speckle , an early-stage startup based in London, are both trained architects and engineers, probably a rare combination. It enabled them to see and understand firsthand the issues associated with exchanging large proprietary 3D files from vendors like Autodesk and Trimble. They wanted to make it easier by building an open source platform to exchange and collaborate on these files.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

For the bulk of the past two years, the pandemic has put the kibosh on corporate travel of nearly any kind. This has dampened investors’ enthusiasm in travel and expense (T&E) startups, predictably, whose expertise lies in creating software for travel and other forms of expensing. But as the appetite for in-person events and interactions returns to what it once was, T&E is again becoming a category of interest.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 14, 2022

Save years of wasted effort and failure. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Beam Impact , a company that enables consumers to turn their spending into a way to support social causes, has raised $13.3 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures. The company’s B2B2C model connects consumers with brands that are supporting social causes and allows them to donate a portion of their purchases to a nonprofit of their choice, at no cost to them.

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Deskmag

APRIL 14, 2022

At physical conferences, people can interact and learn with all their senses and are not chained to small screens with their ears and eyes. The following coworking events are places where you can have unexpected learning experiences, make new friends and hug your old ones. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Could African tech be immune to the global funding slowdown ? It sounds like a counterintuitive question to ask. “Africa, being home to several economies largely based on the export of natural resources, has historically been the opposite of immune to global shocks,” Briter Bridges director Dario Giuliani pointed out. And yet, the data are here: African startups had a very solid Q1 2022 in terms of VC investment, both in dollars and in deal volume.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 14, 2022

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

What if you could buy a Peloton with pre-tax dollars? How about vitamins and supplements? Skincare products? Or even mattresses and massages? All of those may likely qualify as purchases you could make through a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) or Health Savings Account (HSA). Both types of accounts allow people to contribute pre-tax dollars that they can spend on medical expenses, and in some cases, the funds in these accounts can grow through investments while they sit unused.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 14, 2022

The founder of Guild Education explains that her team is rethinking how they spend their working hours before figuring out where it happens. Read more here. The post [Guild Education in Fast Company] Our office will never be the same. This is how to rethink the future of work appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 14, 2022

2022 marks our third year releasing the Marketplace 100, a ranking of the largest consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies. When we started this series in early 2020 (based on data from 2019), we had no way of knowing how volatile the next few years would be. Many businesses were temporarily shuttered by covid, especially. Read More.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Deel’s timeline is impressive: Founded in 2018, entered YC and raised its seed round in 2019. In 2020, the company raised a Series A and Series B. In 2021, Deel raised its Series C and Series D for a total amount raised of $629 million since its founding. And on April 20, co-founder and CEO Alex Bouaziz is speaking on TechCrunch Live. While studying at MIT, Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang started Deel to help companies hire remote workers.

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Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category

APRIL 14, 2022

An inspiring chat with Tiffany Mason, founder of Harlem Pilates, about launching and growing your dream.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

With white collar workers settling into hybrid work arrangements — a legacy of the pandemic — companies are rethinking how they deliver corporate perks like transportation, cafeterias, and gyms (much to the chagrin of some ). As the concept of “the office” evolves, employers are being urged to offer flexible perks that can be tailored to the needs of individual employees.

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Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category

APRIL 14, 2022

An inspiring chat with Tiffany Mason, founder of Harlem Pilates, about launching and growing your dream.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

As we found during the pandemic, food and beverage distribution is critical, but most food wholesalers’ sales remain manually operated. Post-COVID, food wholesalers are fast digitizing their operations, but many still rely on legacy backend systems. Addressing this, Cerve , a Sweden-based food tech startup, has raised a $2 million seed round for its infrastructure platform that claims to automate wholesalers’ sales operations.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 14, 2022

SimplyBiz has partnered with group risk provider YuLife. YuLife work with SimplyBiz to deliver relevant messages on market trends, product development, evolving technology in the protection space and delivering good outcomes for clients to member firms providing protection advice. Read more here. The post [yulife in Health & Protection] SimplyBiz partners with YuLife appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Consumers want their packages faster, but not every business has the kind of supply chain technology as Amazon or Walmart. This is, until now. Shipium was founded in 2019 by a group of former Amazon Prime and Zulily supply chain builders. In particular, Jason Murray, co-founder and CEO, was with Amazon for nearly 20 years, and during his last decade, was automating and using machine learning around solving for the “Prime problem” as he called it — how to make fast shipping affordable.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 14, 2022

No-code platforms are a key tool for organizations to better secure their own mobile apps. Mobile software is frighteningly insecure, warns Tom Tovar, CEO and co-creator of Appdome. This is not a tenable situation for mobile app publishers. Read more here. The post [Appdome in E-Commerce Times] Appdome CEO on mobile app security: No developer, no code, no problem appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Immigrants to the United States face myriad challenges besides having to learn a new language. In many cases, they are dealing with a foreign and complex financial system, may struggle with finding adequate housing and health care and just generally feeling lost. Welcome Tech , a startup aiming to build “an operating system” for immigrant families in the U.S., has raised $ 30 million in new capital to help these individuals not only adjust to – but feel comfortable and “thrive” in – their new en

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OurCrowd

APRIL 14, 2022

Today is World Quantum Day. It is celebrated on April 14, a reference to 4.14, the rounded first digits of Planck’s constant which describes the behavior of particles and waves on the atomic scale, including the particle aspect of light. Read more here. The post [Quantum Machines in Forbes] The state of quantum computing: future, present, past appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Forecasting, also known as demand variability, has long been a hurdle for businesses reliant on the global supply chain. In a survey conducted long before the pandemic began (in 2015), large companies — those with revenues in the range of $500 to more than $1 billion — pegged variability as the top challenge that they faced. Predicting supply chain volatility has only grown more difficult as pandemic-related shocks, including elevated ecommerce volume, impact shipping and raw materia

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