June, 2023

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Lifeforce’s Series A Funding Advances Innovative Health Optimization Platform

American Entrepreneurship

Health and wellness startup’s support draws from prominent celebrities, top medical experts and prominent investor backing Healthcare consumers continue to seek alternative ways to manage their health, according to a Gallup study conducted in late 2022. Consumer frustration with their existing healthcare has spurred innovation, in particular, emerging health focused digital platforms such as Lifeforce that have received investor funding.

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Malaysia’s Bayo Pay bags $2.4m in Series A round led by VentureTECH SBI

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register VentureTECH SBI and VentureTECH have jointly invested 10 million Malaysian ringgit ($2.4 million) in Bayo Pay , a licensed Mastercard Non-Bank E-Money Issuer. The funding round, led by VentureTECH SBI, aims to accelerate the growth of Bayo Pay’s core business and bolster its B2B2X white label Digital Payment-as-a-Service solutions, supporting the rise of fintech startups in Malay

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Blumira Raises $15 Million Series B Round

HPA

HPA is excited to announce our participation in Blumira’s $15M Series B Round , which was led by Ten Eleven Ventures, and joined by Mercury Fund, RPS Ventures, and Duo Security co-founder Jon Oberheide. Blumira has seen tremendous momentum over the past year with 100% year-over-year customer growth , including an 8x growth in the MSP channel , with customers in every vertical, including manufacturing and healthcare industries, as well as credit unions, colleges, universities, and municipalities.

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How Can I Make Sure My Startup is Environmentally Sustainable?

Startup Blogpost

How Can I Make Sure My Startup is Environmentally Sustainable? To help you ensure your startup is environmentally sustainable, we reached out to CEOs, founders, and other business leaders for their best advice. From integrating sustainability into company culture to hiring a sustainability consultant, here are the top nine tips shared by these experts on making your startup eco-friendly.

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The B2B Sales Leader's Guide for Any Economic Environment

When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course. Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. To thrive in a challenging environment, sales teams need a rock-solid grasp of the fundamentals and the biggest force-multipliers they can get their hands on.

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Investing in Pomelo Care

Andreessen Horowitz

“In the United States of America, in the 21st century, being pregnant and giving birth should not carry such great risk. But the truth is…before, during, and after childbirth, women in our nation are dying at a higher rate than … The post Investing in Pomelo Care appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Fewer words, greater effect.

Berkonomics

I have a good business friend, an experienced manager and teacher with a Harvard MBA, whose creativity and intelligence are admired by many. But he dilutes his effectiveness with wordy PowerPoint presentations. It has become a long running joke between us, as I often remind him that most of us have a very limited attention span and ability to recall important points from a presentation.

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Antler Elevate Fund Raises $285M to Propel Growth-Stage Startups

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Antler , a business incubator and startup accelerator based in Singapore, has successfully raised $285 million for its emerging growth fund, Antler Elevate. The fund targets companies with ambitious mindsets, strong product-market fit, and remarkable growth potential, offering scale-up capital from Series A and beyond.

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7 Key Takeaways on Startup Funding from a Big Angel Group Report

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The 2022 Annual Report from Tech Coast Angels contains valuable insights for founders and investors Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Winners Announced in PA Wilds $50,000 BIG IDEA Contest!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Winners Announced in PA Wilds $50,000 BIG IDEA Contest! In partnership with the PA WILDS Center for Entrepreneurship, and with funding support provided by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ recent $50,000 BIG IDEA Contest targeted the counties of Cameron, Elk, McKean, Warren located in the PA WILDS. Ben Franklin’s BIG IDEA Contest has given entrepreneurs and small manufacturers a risk-free funding opportunity for nearly 20 years.

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Statement of Cash Flows vs. Cash Flow Statement

Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l

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Juno Legal

NZ Entrepreneur

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and innovators working on our next generation of new business startups, social enterprises and small businesses. At a glance Founder: Helen Mackay Business: Juno Legal Founded: 3 April 2017 HQ: Wellington Can you tell us a bit about your business? Juno Legal provides on-demand in-house legal services to businesses and public sector entities in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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From Overwhelm to Inspiration: Balancing Work and Creativity for CEOs: Part 1

Mark MacLeod

Do you wish you were more creative? That new ideas and inspiration flowed more freely? Perhaps they did back in the early days of your company and now that spark is gone? What happened?

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Could you be the next Ford, Jobs or Musk?

Berkonomics

Well, it’s a fair question. Note that none of these three famous innovators were inventors like Thomas Edison, but visionaries who see a new marketplace or niche or how to reach the mass market in ways not previously attempted. Innovation does not always equal invention. Leaders and companies that innovate new products, services and methods of delivery are the ones that stand out in a crowded business world, especially when attempting to gain recognition among the throngs of competitors visible

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Blockchain startup Oxalus raises $1.1m for NFT social commerce expansion

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Vietnamese blockchain startup Oxalus announced raising $1.1 million in a Seed funding round anchored by IDG Capital Venture Beta (IDGCVB) and Kyber Ventures. The two investors have previously invested in notable blockchain ventures, including Centic, Next Vision Capital (NVC), Coin98, Airstack, and Aura Network, according to the announcement.

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How to Avoid the Pain and Cost of PCI Compliance While Optimizing Payments

Speaker: P. Andrew Sjogren, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Very Good Security, Matt Doka, Co-Founder and CTO of Fivestars, and Steve Andrews, President & CEO of the Western Bankers Association 

PCI compliance can feel challenging and sometimes the result feels like you are optimizing more for security and compliance than you are for business outcomes. The key is to take the right strategy to PCI compliance that gets you both. In this webinar, we have a great set of panelists who will take you through how Zero Data strategies can be used as part of a well-rounded compliance and security approach, and get you to market much sooner by also allowing for payment optimization.

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The Best Notion Templates for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur's Handbook

And business owners Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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How to Utilize Employees to Improve Your Employer Brand

Startup Blogpost

How to Utilize Employees to Improve Your Employer Brand To help you leverage your employees as brand ambassadors and attract top talent, we’ve gathered insights from professionals ranging from Junior Content Writers to CEOs. In this article, we present seven valuable tips, starting with nurturing a positive company culture and ending with supporting employee-led meaningful projects, to help you boost your employer brand.

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Misconceptions in Tech: Career Insights from VP of Sales at Venture-backed Startup.

Jason Malki

I had the pleasure of interviewing Riley Juliar, an enterprise sales leader with over a decade of tech sales experience whose work helped contribute to two liquidity events, first an IPO and acquisition at HomeAway, and later an IPO at SurveyMonkey. He’s since led sales at a number of venture-backed startups and is currently Vice President of Sales at Dray Alliance , a technology platform for containerized cargo in the supply chain.

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Achieving Net Zero: Facts vs Fiction

Impact Hub

The term “net zero” has gained significant attention in the battle against climate change. It represents the stage where greenhouse gas emissions are offset by removing an equal amount from the atmosphere, achieving a state of balanced atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Despite the growing momentum behind the concept of net zero, it is not immune to misconceptions and falsehoods.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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GCUC is headed to Canada

GCUC

GCUC is headed to Canada We are thrilled to announce a new partnership between GCUC and IQ Offices for an upcoming conference focused on the future of work and.

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Lok Yek Soon, Founder of Awesome Ventures: Empowering Impactful Startups for Lasting Change  

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Led by an eminent team of investors and industry captains from around the world, Awesome Ventures brings together a wealth of experience in strategy planning and diverse sectors. At the helm of Awesome Ventures is Lok Yek Soon, a visionary entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience within the startup ecosystem.

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Our Newsletter Is Moving Home

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Join us for an exciting new dose of entrepreneurial goodness Some of you may have received our newsletter today and noticed it looks a little different… well, we’re excited to announce that the weekly EH newsletter has moved to Beehiiv. If you didn’t, you can sign up right here. Why the change? There are two main reasons. The first is that we want to build a community of entrepreneurs — looking at you — and to do that, we want access to cutting-edge features, like more visually appealing layouts

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Why a Seed VC Should Care More About Ownership Than Valuation on Each New Investment, But Understand the Fund Impact of Paying Too Much Too Often

Hunter Walk

My friends at Weekend Fund recently put out a round-up newsletter of some investor responses to the question “ Do Valuations Matter? ” It’s all worth reading but I’ll excerpt my thoughts here since it’s a discussion Satya and I have often with new VCs. scales of justice statue with dollar bills on each scale, cartoon art How Hunter Walk @ Homebrew approaches valuations Homebrew is an evergreen fund investing primarily in pre-seed, seed and Series A rounds.

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The Startup Funding Gap

This resource discusses the gap between early funding from friends/family and the more substantial rounds from angel groups and VCs. Why does this gap exist and what can be done about it?

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Why Most Startup Events Suck for Both Investors and Founders

This is going to be BIG.

Recently, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures hosted our Pre-Series A Offsite —a one day single track conference that matched 60 top startups planning their Series A round within the next 12 months or so with 15 Series A check-writers for a day of panels, networking and small group working sessions. The feedback from the conference, our fourth in person and sixth overall, was fantastic on both sides—and while we learn new things each time we do it, I wanted to take a step back to talk about some of the eve

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[Liquid Instruments in Globe Newswire] Liquid Instruments oroducts now available from TestEquity

OurCrowd

NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas, June 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TestEquity, one of the world’s largest electronics test and measurement distributor, has teamed up with Liquid Instruments to bring you a new innovative collaboration. Get ready to experience Moku, a revolutionary software-defined instrumentation platform for developing, testing, and controlling new technology and designs.

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How to raise an angel round in 10 simple steps

Gust

Number one, understand your business. It sounds obvious, but the majority of entrepreneurs who pitch me have obviously never thought through many of the major issues surrounding their companies. You should know EVERYTHING about your business, product, customers and competition. You should know every metric regarding customer acquisition, conversion and retention.

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Indonesia’s Digital Mortgage Startup Ringkas Secures $3.5M in Seed Funding Round

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indonesia’s digital mortgage startup, Ringkas, has secured $3.5 million in seed funding. The funding round was co-led by East Ventures and Crestone Venture Capital, with participation from 500 Global, Teja Ventures, Orvel Ventures, Hustle Fund, and others.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. In a recent survey with Demand Gen Report, we found 59% of experienced practitioners (those with ABM programs more than a year old) indicated their ABM programs are meeting or greatly exceeding their expectations, while only 45% of novices (those with ABM programs less than one year old) could say the same.