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Helion raises $2.2B to commercialize fusion energy

TechCrunch

Helion Energy , a clean energy company committed to creating a new era of plentiful, zero-carbon electricity from fusion, today announced the close of its $0.5 billion Series E, with an additional $1.7 billion of commitments tied to specific milestones. The round was led by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and former president of Y Combinator. Existing investors, including co-founder of Facebook Dustin Moskovitz, Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and notable sustainable tech investor Capricorn Invest

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How to Find the Right Business Mentor for You and Why It Matters

StartupNation

Throughout life, mentors provide support and valuable lessons. Nowhere is this truer than in the business world. . Having someone to guide you through your career — or part of it, at least — can be the key to success. A mentor can be anyone from a senior colleague to a boss to a highly regarded professional in your field. But if you’ve not had a mentor before, finding the right one can feel daunting, not to mention it might feel formal or strange approaching someone and asking them

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How Small and Medium-sized Businesses Can Transition Into a Hybrid Workforce with Ease

Smart Hustle Magazine

By Eric Yu, Lenovo’s Senior Vice President and General Manager. Remote work is becoming a prevalent norm for the future. In fact, according to a recent Lenovo study , 60 percent of small to medium-sized business (SMB) employees prefer working from home some of the time. The study also says, 70 percent of employees think work flexibility makes them more satisfied with their job.

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It’s hard work building a technology business from ground up

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. As Dirk Spiers knows, it’s really hard work building a technology business from the ground up. From 50,000 feet and the hindsight of 20/20, building a startup can look smooth with just a few blips. But down on the ground, the reality is always something else. Spiers New Technologies (SNT) — an exemplary success story — has been in the news these last few weeks as the firm, which literally created an industry, was acquired by Cox Enterprises, a billion dollar privately help glob

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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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Chipper Cash gets $2B valuation with $150M extension round led by FTX

TechCrunch

Chipper Cash , an African cross-border payments company, has raised $150 million in a Series C extension round led by Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX. The investment comes barely six months after Chipper Cash closed its first Series C round of $100 million, led by SVB Capital , the corporate venture capital arm of SVB Financial Group.

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Building sustainable marketing skills with a Colombian YLAI Fellow

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Building sustainable marketing skills with a Colombian YLAI Fellow. By Shannon Courtney. As an entrepreneur who aims to build sustainable success, you must always be ready to shift focus and be flexible — flexible not only in your professional career but also with the direction of your company branding, team and digital marketing strategies, which is something that 2017 Colombian YLAI Fellow Katherine Villa has recently come to understand.

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EO Canada Bridge chapter welcomes its youngest member

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Marina Byezhanova , an EO Canada Bridge member in Montreal and the founder of Brand of a Leader , a personal branding agency that builds and scales the personal brands of entrepreneurs who inspire and make an impact. Marina is delighted to introduce a new member of her chapter, Brandan Ranaldi—a former GSEA competitor and EO Accelerator—who is now one of the youngest members in EO.

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Egypt’s Breadfast wants to build ‘Gopuff for Africa and Middle East’, gets $26M backing

TechCrunch

The market for grocery delivery across Africa and the Middle East is worth over $50 billion. And Egypt, buoyed by a young and growing population, is a big market across both regions. Investors are beginning to back their picks to capture a large chunk of the nascent but fast-growing sector, mirroring how things have played out in Europe and the U.S. this past year.

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Summon Your Inner Alpha: 7 Ways Business Leaders Can Outwit the Competition

StartupNation

Alpha traits are key to leadership success. Business leaders can learn from these top predators how to outsmart the competition and never cede ground. In recent years, coyotes have made themselves at home across the United States, Canada and Central America. In the community and neighborhoods near Boston where I live, people see them almost daily. Unlike the classic cartoon character Wile E.

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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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The Worst Fundraising Advice I Ever Received Came from a Venture Capitalist

Entrepreneur's Handbook

People who know how to invest money aren’t always the people who know how to raise it Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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[Classiq in Digital Journal] Software will become the final key to unlocking quantum computing power

OurCrowd

A new report suggests China might be winning the race to build the most powerful quantum computers, based on the development of a 66-qubit programmable superconducting quantum computing system. This feat was performed at Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale of the University of Science and Technology of China. Whether the accelerating pace is truly in the hands of China is fact or hyperbole, this is something that will be borne out through future tests.

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Why we rebuilt our equity plan for flexibility (and how you can, too)

TechCrunch

Colin Turner. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Colin Turner is co-founder and COO of Postscript , an SMS marketing platform leveraged by thousands of Shopify businesses. Mailchimp made headlines last month when it sold to Intuit for $12 billion, but many of the stories surrounding the news were far from glowing. Its 1,200 employees didn’t get any equity in the company and missed out on the life-changing financial upside that would typically come from a deal of this magnitude.

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All You Need To Know About Cross-Channel Marketing

StartupNation

As a brand, are you already interacting and engaging with your customers via multiple marketing channels? Great, then you’re already ahead of the curve. Now, tell us this: Have you also ensured that all of these channels are working in tandem to deliver an integrated and seamless experience to your customers? No? Well, then it is about time you embraced a cross-channel marketing approach.

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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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How to Ensure Your Product Stand Outs and Captures Clients

Entrepreneur's Handbook

In a world full of pink piggybanks, be a gold one Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Program Director – Durham | SBA Community Navigator Pilot

Forward Cities

Overview. The Program Director will serve as the lead project manager for Forward Cities’ SBA Community Navigator Pilot Program, a ‘hub and spoke’ network designed to increase connectivity, counseling services, and capital access for underrepresented entrepreneurs in Durham/Durham County, NC. This role reports to the Senior Director of Learning Networks.

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Bypa-ss raises $1M pre-seed to expand health tech product across Egypt

TechCrunch

Digital healthcare continues to thrive globally following the effects of the pandemic last year, but venture capital inflows differ regionally with Africa lagging behind the rest of the world. H owever, investors have paid attention to a few innovative health tech startups, putting over $77 million across 56 deals last year. Egypt is one of the continent’s bright spots and an integral contributor to health tech market value in MENA, which is expected to reach up to $2 billion by 2024.

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6 Ways to Create News that Attracts Media Coverage

StartupNation

A steady stream of media coverage is one of the best ways to ensure that you are keeping your business visible and relevant. While product launches, mergers and multimillion dollar-acquisitions grab attention and often take the spotlight in news, they aren’t always going to be available to share from your company. So when your company’s well of announcements runs dry, what can you do?

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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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The Founders Dilemma?—?Do You Want to Be Rich or the King?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Why most founders can only choose one of the above Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Late Comers Need to Stand Out

The Seraf Compass

Before investing in a startup company, early stage investors constantly ask a key question, “Are enough customers ready and willing to try this new product or service?” Ken Rainin, an inspiring serial entrepreneur, successfully confronted this “Is our customer ready?” question time and time again. This story demonstrates one of those times.

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Female founders are making a buzzing, venture-backed comeback

TechCrunch

The coronavirus pandemic disproportionately reduced venture capital funding for female founders last year, despite a greater boom in fundraising thanks to megafunds and the advent of Zoom investing. The result was an uneven landscape in which capital flowed more toward men than was normal historically. But the gender gap in startup fundraising is closing slightly, new PitchBook data shows.

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Hiring for Strengths-Awareness in the Great Reimagination of Work

StartupNation

This is the third blog in a three-part series on strengths-awareness from Purpose Jobs. Check out the first post on bringing your best self to work in an age of uncertainty and the second post on optimizing strengths for better work/life fulfillment. It’s everywhere these days: the message that we are undergoing “ The Great Resignation.” Hiring today poses even more challenges as the future of work gets written and rewritten every week. “Of the roughly 50% of employed

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Your Fractional Finance and Accounting Team

Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.

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The 100x ARR Multiple

Tomasz Tunguz

The 100x ARR multiple might be the fundraising meme of 2021. Before, most investors used forward ARR multiples to value companies, but recently, the 100x multiple seems to be a benchmark for SaaS companies raising rounds. Where did this figure originate? How does it compare to the public markets' valuation of companies? Let’s look at the data.

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upcycling plastic pollution using microorganisms: a Q&A with Alec Brewer of Transfoam

Venture Well

Alec Brewer of Transfoam is protecting the environment by using microorganisms to transform plastic pollution into a biodegradable plastic alternative. The post upcycling plastic pollution using microorganisms: a Q&A with Alec Brewer of Transfoam appeared first on VentureWell.

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Apollo.io taps $32M to make the process of B2B sales more intelligent

TechCrunch

Apollo.io , which is developing sales intelligence and engagement software for business-to-business companies, brought in $32 million in Series B funding to continue with its go-to-market acceleration approach. Tribe Capital led the round and was joined by NewView Capital and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners. The latest funding gives the San Francisco-based company $40 million in total funding since it was founded in 2015, co-founder and CEO Tim Zheng told TechCrunch.

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What Every Business Needs to Know About Intellectual Property Rights

StartupNation

Intellectual property (IP) – intangible creations such as inventions, ideas and processes – covers some of the most valuable aspects of a business, yet many treat it as an afterthought. While IP law can be complex, confusing and overwhelming, it’s important to have an understanding of your rights, and luckily, the basics are fairly simple. Let’s take a look at the four types of intellectual property – trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and patents – and what you need to know about each of the

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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!