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AUGUST 29, 2022
Andrew Chan. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Andrew Chan is a senior associate at Builders VC , investing in early-stage companies that are transforming pen and paper industries. In the eternal words of Kanye Omari West: “Scoop-diddy-whoop, Whoop-di-scoop-di-poop, Poop-di-scoopty.”. Now that we have that out of the way, let’s get to the meat. Objectively speaking, and much to my chagrin, I’m a Gen Z.
AsiaTechDaily
AUGUST 29, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register GoTo Gojek Tokopedia (GoTo), the biggest tech firm in Indonesia, is acquiring local crypto exchange Crypto Maksima Coin for about $8.4 million, GoTo said in a statement. The move further diversifies GoTo’s services to now include crypto exchange.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
StarTree , a company building what it describes as an “analytics-as-a-service” platform, today announced that it raised $47 million in a Series B round led by GGV Capital with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and CRV. In an email interview, co-founder and CEO Kishore Gopalakrishna said that the proceeds will be put toward doubling the size of StarTree’s staff (from 70 to 150 people by the end of 2023), expanding overseas by breaking ground on an offi
Entrepreneur's Handbook
AUGUST 29, 2022
Why was I so blinded by his money? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
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AUGUST 29, 2022
Tahem Verma. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Tahem Verma is the co-founder and CEO of Mesha , a smart management tool for web3 startups and DAOs. The crypto bear market shows no signs of letting up, and it has already taken its pound of flesh from more than a few emerging web3 and crypto projects, not counting the ones it has killed altogether. With no clear indication of a meaningful rebound on the horizon just yet, web3 companies that have managed to make it this far need to prioritize not only
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
Dubai-based startup Stake is offering retail investors from across the globe to buy fractions of rental property in UAE’s marquee city and earn regular income. The startup, found in 2020, claims that because of Dubai’s real-estate rules it has managed to attract investing users on the platform from over 80 countries in the world. The company, founded by Manar Mahmassani, Rami Tabbara, and Ricardo Brizido in 2020, has raised $8 million in a pre-Series A round from investors like BY Ventures, MEV
AsiaTechDaily
AUGUST 29, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The Lightnet Group announced today it has secured a $50 million capital commitment from LDA Capital Ltd to grow its infrastructure, operations, and expand its technological partner’s (Velo Labs Technology) blockchain technology. Lightnet will have the option to increase the $50 million to a total commitment of up to $100 million over the next three years.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
The past few months have hit the startup community where it hurts — the balance sheet. With inflation rates at record highs, a recession on the horizon and threats of a long winter by venture capital giants like SoftBank , VC money is becoming harder to come by. So where does that leave startups relying on that cash to reach their next levels of operations?
AsiaTechDaily
AUGUST 29, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore-headquartered proptech start-up Propseller announced raising $12 million in Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India. The round saw participation from existing investors Hustle Fund, Iterative, and Rapzo Capital, and new investors Partech, ICCP SBI, Vulpes Ventures and Redbadge Pacific.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
African genomics startup 54gene has laid off 95 employees, or about 30% of its LinkedIn-sourced 290+ employees. A company’s spokesperson confirmed the news after several sources informed TechCrunch of the layoffs last week. Founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong, the three-year-old startup seeks to address the gap in the global genomics market where less than 3% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research is African.
GCUC
AUGUST 29, 2022
Here at GCUC we are immensely fortunate to cross paths and work with so many amazing people. Through our work, we’ve cultivated a global. The post Community of Cultivators: Edition 65 appeared first on GCUC Community.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011. Ralston did not say what’s next for him, only writing: “I am leaving YC, but I’m not actually the retiring type and am looking forward to some to-be-discovered adventures.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
AUGUST 29, 2022
How not to pitch, market, or sell your startup Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
Initialized Capital was venture capitalist Garry Tan’s answer to a need first highlighted by Y Combinator. As a partner at the accelerator from 2010 to 2015, Tan spent time working with companies to better understand what they needed from investors after they graduated. “I literally built the seed fund that I wanted to exist for those companies,” he said in an interview over Zoom with TechCrunch.
Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 29, 2022
This chart shows the relationship between the top 100 public projects’ revenue and their trailing revenue multiple. There’s none. The correlation asymptotes to zero. At least when looking at the ecosystem as a whole. But let’s break the data down by category into the top 5 by revenue: L1s (blockchains), DEXs (decentralized exchanges), Credit (lenders), NFT Marketplaces (buy & sell Bored Apes), & Yield Aggregators (systems to maximize interest rates on deposits).
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
Pakistani fintech PostEx has acquired logistics service provider Call Courier , creating what it describes as the largest e-commerce service provider in the country. PostEx will now serve 1.3 million users with over 8,000 merchants across 500 cities in Pakistan, and is on track to having a monthly loan book of more than $12 million. The acquisition means that Call Courier will become a wholly-owned subsidiary under the group name.
Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 29, 2022
The summer of 2021 marked an influx of dollars & interest into web3. Since then, the fourth crypto winter has dropped snow atop web3, but the revenue decline isn’t equal across web3 software. NFT marketplace revenue collapsed 62% since the beginning of this year. This chart shows the decline in monthly revenue from January to August. L1s’ monthly revenue has followed NFT marketplaces downward, falling 57%.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
Millions around the world suffer strokes every year, and millions more are in recovery from one they’ve suffered. Regaining the use of affected limbs and capabilities is a long road, but one that can be shortened by intensive rehabilitation efforts — which Neurofenix has shown can take place in the home rather than during frequent trips to the hospital.
Andreessen Horowitz
AUGUST 29, 2022
Compared with many startups, 37signals cofounder Jason Fried’s views around workplace culture, structure, and strategy could be considered subversive. He’d call them “honest,” a word he uses often when describing his leadership style. The outspoken maker of Basecamp and HEY has cultivated a reputation as a tech industry contrarian over the past two decades with.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
A Pakistani startup, which has taken inspiration from China’s JD.com and India’s Flipkart to build a managed marketplace of electronics products, said on Tuesday it has raised seed funding from scores of investors including PayPal founder Peter Thiel. Launched in March 2020 — just two weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the world — the Islamabad-based startup PriceOye offers a range of electronics products, including smartphones, TVs and home appliances.
Founder Bounty
AUGUST 29, 2022
Lately we have seen mailchimp one of the world's biggest crypto cut down and suspend accounts related to cryptocurrencies, bitcoin, Ethereum and other coins. Lots of people have been asking themselves what are email marketing alternatives they can use and so we have put a list together. See this artice about the blocking and suspending the crypto accounts: Mailchimp suspends accounts of several crypto-focused users | The Financial Express On August 10, Messari’s creator Ryan Selkis d
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
The provision of virtual foreign bank accounts has become a common strategy for fintechs to enable Nigerians and Africans to facilitate international transfers. In the latest development, Grey , a fintech in this category that provides virtual international bank accounts to African freelancers and remote workers, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding.
AsiaTechDaily
AUGUST 29, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Glints , an active end-to-end regional talent ecosystem in Southeast Asia for career development and recruitment, announced raising $50 million in a Series D oversubscribed round co-led by DCM Ventures , Lavender Hill Capital, and returning investor PERSOL Holdings.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
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. Good morning, you crunchy ol’ pirates. Good to see you again, and hope you had a swell weekend. On Wednesday, we’re hosting a healthcare-focused TechCrunch Live. It’ll be fun! Tune in here , and if you want to be part of the 2-minute pitch practice , Haje will be on the lookout for your applications.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
In 2015, the emergence of fintechs such as Flutterwave and Paystack changed the game for online businesses in Africa by making it easier to integrate payments into customer interfaces without building those features from the ground up or merging with tacky foreign software. Amplify was another payment platform that launched during that period. However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquir
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