TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

There is a shift in the air, and it feels like companies need to be thinking about how to put large language models to work, but as with any new advanced technology, it’s often easier said than done, especially for less-technical organizations. Last fall they really shifted their focus to that approach.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Pipedrive is an EU-based CRM company with offices in eight countries, but it has a Czech co-founder in VP of Product Martin Henk, one of several founders to emerge from the ecosystem. billion crowns ($114 million), making its seven Czech founders into multimillionaires. What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Los Angeles – September 19, 2023 – Afterparty , the platform empowering thousands of creators with the tools and technology for personal fan connections and monetization, announced today that it has secured $5 million in funding. Creators retain control over their content, revenue, and fan relationships.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The video-game industry has always been on the bleeding edge, but blockchain gaming is still widely viewed as emerging technology. Beryl Li , co-founder, Yield Guild Games. Rajul Garg , founder and managing partner, Leo Capital. We typically act as a sparring partner for founders in strategy-related matters.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Typically , African financial institutions rely on using foreign technology solutions to solve their problems. One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. “ Obi Emetarom, co-founder and CEO, Appzone. Image Credits: Appzone.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

What are some overlooked opportunities right now? What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders? How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city? What are the biggest worries of the founders in your portfolio? E-commerce.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

They are joined by base case capital, The Cannon Project, Data Community Fund, Essence VC, FOG Ventures, Scribble Ventures, South Park Commons, and SV Angel, as well as founders and executives from leading companies such as Asana, Datadog, HubSpot, Braze, Notion, Plaid, Replit, and Vercel. I wish we had Orb to accelerate our revenue goals.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The API-based tool, dubbed Grow, has so far been integrated with 22 tech entities across Africa including Topship, Barter by Flutterwave, Float, Fingo and Payhippo, enabling them to either bundle their main products with insurance packages or offer insurance as a standalone service. The opportunity is massive. Image Credits: Curacel.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

And today, the Santa Rosa, California-based startup is announcing it has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures toward its efforts to help address those inventory shortages with its technology. Nikki and Jack are terrific founders we are pleased to back,” he wrote via email.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 13, 2024

The company’s AI cloud platform enables developers to seamlessly deploy custom full-stack AI applications. The two companies’ funding arms, I ntel Capital and Dell Technologies Capital , co-led RunPod’s timely $20M seed round. Both CEO Zhen Lu and co-founder CTO Pardeep Singh worked at Comcast.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 28, 2023

First in-person finals conclude Delaware’s annual funding contest for technology and tech-enabled startups led by members of underfunded groups WILMINGTON, Del. Steering committee members include representatives from Big Idea Ventures, First Founders Inc.,

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

For Health2Sync Founder Ed Deng, keeping diabetes patients with other chronic diseases alive is not enough. Another significant benefit is that users can review historical data, enabling them to communicate more clearly with their doctors during follow-up visits. Action is data-driven,” he says.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. Right here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Worldfavor co-founder and CEO, Andreas Liljendahl, says he welcomes the thickening pack of sustainability reporting players — envisaging a future of rich collaboration and startup opportunity to cater to increasingly comprehensive and intertwined reporting requirements.

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Meet Qaiser — Founder of BAE INTERNET & GO ONLINE who is Pioneering Change in Tech In the dynamic world of technology and startups, few entrepreneurs stand out with their innovative approaches and compelling vision. If you had to share “words of wisdom” with a Founder who’s about to start their own startup, what would they be?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It is also licensed by Indonesia’s central bank, enabling it to offer more services. Ayoconnect’s new funding will be used for leadership hiring, and on its Ayoconnect’s product and technology, including new solutions for payments, data and banking and new APIs for account opening and card issuing.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2021

Key enables doctors to optimize treatment decisions by using the patient’s own immune system to quickly and accurately determine whether an infection is bacterial or viral. Although by no means a direct competitor to Launchpad, Xometry has developed an AI-enabled marketplace for on-demand manufacturing. is an important emerging sector.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For Black founders, who have rarely received more than 1% of total venture capital invested in startups, 2022 wasn’t kind, and 2023 doesn’t look promising given how things are going. To find out how Black founders are planning to manage their time, money, and expectations for the upcoming months, TechCrunch+ surveyed three founders.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Amitruck , a Kenyan tech-enabled logistics platform, is one such provider of solutions that streamline the shipping market. We are also improving our technology as we start our expansion into other countries in Africa,” Amitruck founder and chief executive officer Mark Mwangi told TechCrunch. The opportunity is massive.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley). One event held by a few investors focused on Black founders is clearly not enough.

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Jason Malki

JULY 10, 2023

The Co-founder/CEO of Axioned. Libby, leads a renowned technology services firm specializing in transforming the visions of Founders and Innovators into lucrative revenue streams by bringing their tech-product ideas to fruition. In 2009, I made the decision to join forces with my co-founder, Dev Jhala.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Zego , the insurtech that got its start by offering flexible motorbike insurance for gig economy workers but has since expanded with a range of tech-enabled commercial motor insurance products, has raised $150 million. Other new backers include General Catalyst, whose founder and MD, Joel Cutler, joins Zego’s board.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Alex Song is the CEO and founder of Proxima , a data science company that helps brands better reach consumers across all major platforms. Every day, the advertising world faces new challenges and opportunities. Most recently, media technology stocks have become highly volatile for a host of reasons. Contributor.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 24, 2022

YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with Mutiny co-founder and CEO Jaleh Rezaei to talk about their recent acquisition of Intellipse, an AI marketing platform, as well as how AI will impact the next era of growth. Jaleh and her co-founder decided to create a no code platform and serve as the world’s growth team.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sanjay Aggarwal Contributor Share on Twitter Sanjay Aggarwal is a venture partner at F-Prime Capital focused on frontier technology investment opportunities. AI is making hardware much smarter, which is enabling companies to generate the kind of high-margin recurring revenues typically associated with software businesses.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Register When starting a company, founders often underestimate the amount of time and energy required to fundraise. In an interview with AsiaTechDaily, Koh emphasises the importance of founders taking an active role in the fundraising process. Another common mistake founders make when raising capital is mishandling equity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

LeafLink is today announcing it raised a $40 million Series C financing round, led by Founders Fund with participation from Thrive Capital, Nosara Capital and Lerer Hippeau. This financing round is Founder Fund’s largest technology investment in the cannabis space. “The U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

Now, Lok is bringing his expertise and passion to the forefront with Awesome Ventures, aiming to provide invaluable support and resources to startup founders during the critical early stages of their companies. We believe that for every shift in technology, new markets and opportunities are created.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 1, 2023

Contributed to EO by Abeer Qumsieh, a seven-year EO Jordan member who is the founder of Better Business , the leading organization for management consulting and human capital development in Jordan, and Khibraty , an intelligent digital matchmaking marketplace for expertise seekers and providers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. As a Black fintech founder, I believe that venture investors are making safe bets and investing in late-stage founders instead of early or even pre-seed stages. Sesie Bonsi. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

“We focus on enabling smart data solutions, which means any direct end user device whether it’s a smartphone or tablet, or a drone, anything that can use computer vision,” said CEO and co-founder Samuel Mueller in an interview. That, in turn, is driving a faster pace of innovation to speed things up even more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Kenyan edtech startup Craydel , a platform for comparing colleges, course options and tuition fees, has secured $1 million in a pre-seed round that will go toward improving its search and recommendation technology and enhancing its online resources. . This paradox of choice is sometimes not a good thing,” Premji said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Google has selected 30 startups to receive a share of its $2 million Black Founders Fund in Europe, providing these companies with a spot of cash, some valuable cloud services and a bit of good old-fashioned networking among the Google crew. All the startups are led by Black founders, and 40% by women of color.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Advice for non-technical founders for finding a serious CTO for your startup Finding a co-founder is hard work. Finding a technical co-founder is even harder. Yet, the benefits of having a technical co-founder make it all worthwhile. A good co-founder will serve as a powerful force multiplier.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

With this technology, these light switches could be a hundredth of the size and a fraction of what they cost today. “It will enable us to expand our manufacturing in the U.S. “It will enable us to expand our manufacturing in the U.S. Menlo Micro is one of the biggest technology disruptors of our generation.”

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This investment enhances our ability to drive healthcare improvements and provides CareSource with unique access to our strategic network and game-changing technologies,” said Oscar Moralez, founder & managing partner of Boomerang Ventures. The partnership brings significant benefits to both organizations. Overall, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

TheCut , a technology platform designed to handle back-end operations for barbers, raised $4.5 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2016, founder Obi Omile Jr. TheCut will also focus on enabling barbers to have more personal relationships with their customers. “We million in new funding. told TechCrunch.

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