A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 14, 2022

There is a lot of criticism of venture capital in web3. Bitcoin did not have or need venture capital. Ethereum did not have or need venture capital. So why would any web3 project need venture capital? It is a good question. In the age of community-funded projects, why would a web3 project want to take funding from venture capitalists? Well buried deep in a 66 page blog post on the Flow blockchain by Packy McCormick lies the answer.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2022

Debbie Goodman is an EO Los Angeles member and Global CEO of Jack Hammer , an executive search resource that helps organizations find great leaders. As a global talent acquisition leadership guru and expert on hiring diverse leadership teams, Debbie shares her insights on how to drive real change within your organization. The fallout from the pandemic has left companies needing to re-strategize their recruitment policies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Cybercrime is on the rise, and today an insurance startup that’s built an artificial intelligence-based platform to help manage the risks from that is announcing a big round of funding to meet the opportunity. Cowbell Cyber, a full-stack insurance company that provides cyber insurance to SMEs, has closed a Series B of $100 million, which it will be using to continue investing in its data science and “risk engineering”, as well as underwriting tech, claims management, its reinsu

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 16, 2022

STATE COLLEGE, PA – Every year dozens of PA startups get their start with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. The largest early-stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin provides investment capital, business support services, BIG IDEA Contests, and Tech Startup Boot Camps to emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers located in central and northern Pennsylvania.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 17, 2022

Unqork founder and CEO Gary Hoberman took an unusual path to entrepreneurship, spending decades writing code and managing massive budgets on Wall Street (his prior role was executive vice president and global CIO for MetLife) before starting his own company. By his estimation, it was the best thing he could have done to set him. Read More. The post The Key to Enterprise Sales Is Understanding Enterprises appeared first on Future.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Tel Aviv-based Run:ai , a startup that makes it easier for developers and operations teams to manage and optimize their AI infrastructure, today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series C funding round led by Tiger Global Management and Insight Partners, which also led the company’s $30 million Series B round in 2021. Previous investors TLV Partners and S Capital VC also participated in this round, which brings Run:ai’s total funding to $118 million.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 13, 2022

Thanks to the many readers who wrote in to Guess the Startup on Friday. There were a torrent of ideas: Mongo, Twilio, Snowflake, Databricks, Niantic, Klayvio, Microsoft, DataStax, Zoom, and Peloton. Here’s the early revenue chart again. Blue Company is none other than MongoDB, one of the most successful standalone database companies. Red Company is Ethereum.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 15, 2022

“An office without books is like a body without a soul” Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Gust

MARCH 18, 2022

A number of years ago I worked in product for Gust Launch. As a disclaimer, I am a staunch believe in the mission of Gust Launch and—more generally—decreasing the barriers to entrepreneurialism and innovation. One of the things we did during my time at Gust Launch was form the Startup Legal Counsel network that is […]. The post The Importance Of Being Connected To The Right Lawyer appeared first on Gust.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 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. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, March 15, 2022! Well, we’ve done it. We made it through earnings season and nearly all of Q1. Now it’s just the final two weeks until we rock into the second real period of 2022.

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HPA

MARCH 15, 2022

We’re excited to share that metaMe Health , a prescription digital therapeutics (PDT) company, today announced raising $2.2M in funding. HPA led the round , which will help metaMe continue its preparations for Regulora’s market launch and the build out of metaMe’s commercial infrastructure. metaMe Health is the developer of Regulora®, the first FDA-authorized PDT specifically for abdominal pain associated with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) in adults.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

Your first investors are usually taking the biggest risks. Are you giving them what they deserve? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 15, 2022

The ecommerce market is on fire, and the growth of online commerce and ecommerce merchants is staggering. In 2022, 21% of sales are expected to be online, up 17.9% in just 2 years. And it’s still early days. . The ecommerce … The post Investing in Rutter appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

“Where’s my flying car?” is a staple of Gen X humor, since it reaffirms the cynical viewpoint that technology frequently fails to deliver on its lofty promises. Until recently, electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles were largely consigned to our imaginations. I can name more movies that feature flying cars than I can eVTOL companies, but that’s changing.

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Red Rocket

MARCH 16, 2022

You would be surprised how many entrepreneurs don't truly understand the financials of their business. Yes they are creating them out of Fresh Books or Xero, and they most likely focus on high level numbers like total revenues and total profits. But, they don't dissect everything in between. And, more often than not, when it comes to managing the finances of your business, the devil is in the details.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 15, 2022

Tip #3: Don’t waste a lot of time on the least important part of a business Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 18, 2022

This is an edited and abridged version of a post that originally ran on the Anduril blog. It would be difficult to find a more prophetic blog post in the history of technology commentary than Marc Andreessen’s 2011 “Why Software is Eating the World.” Over the past decade, software companies have driven the lion’s share. Read More. The post How Data Rights Stifle Innovation in the DoD (and How to Fix Them) appeared first on Future.

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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Wagely , an earned wage access (EWA) platform based in Jakarta and Dhaka, has raised $8.3 million in pre-Series A funding, just seven months after announcing its seed round. The new funds will be used to fuel wagely’s expansion in Bangladesh, where it recently launched, and build other features to become a “holistic financial wellness platform,” including savings, insurance, long-term installment loans and financial education.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 14, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Shenzhen-based 3D user-generated content platform , XVERSE has raised US$120 million funding in its Series A and A+ round led by Sequoia Capital China along with participation from new investors Temasek Holdings and CPE. The funding round was also joined by existing investors 5Y Capital, Gaorong Capital, and GL Ventures.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

And how to take full advantage. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 13, 2022

The rising tide of innovation raises all our boats. By Scott Meacham. Our state is proactively seeking new ways to boost scalable entrepreneurship. One sure path is to increase innovation. Innovation is a long game. The path begins with educating more young people in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). For 30 years, that’s been the mission of Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics (OSSM).

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The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Maybell Quantum , a Denver-based startup that plans to build hardware for the budding quantum computing ecosystem, is coming out of stealth today and launching Icebox. As the name implies, Icebox is a cryogenic platform to cool quantum processors down to the very low temperatures it takes to run a stable quantum system. Traditionally, these are extremely large systems but Maybell says its Icebox is able to support three times as many qubits in one-tenth the space of currently used setups. “

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 18, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Licious is a direct-to-consumer (D2C) meat firm that has raised $150 million in finance. The funding round comes 6 months after the firm received the status of being a unicorn. Amansa Capital , together with Kotak PE and Axis Growth Avenues AIF-I, led this fundraising round.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

Source: Courtney Klimak Do you remember where you were on March 13, 2020? I do. On that ominous Friday the 13th, the President of the United States declared a National Emergency concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease Outbreak. Most of us all left work (or school) early that day. His order would soon shutter retailers, close classrooms, turn away parishioners and even stop the NYC Subway for the first time in 115 years.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 14, 2022

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: Kicksnation: Free personalized sneaker shopper D-ID launches talking photos tech with MyHeritage 3D printing gets bigger, faster, tastier Taranis drones weed out crop pests and diseases Payoneer picks ThetaRay to secure global transactions FDA approves two Insightec acoustic energy cancer treatments American Airlines joins Freightos’ WebCargo US Energy Dept field tests validate enVerid’s HVAC system Ravin brings AI digital vehicle inspections to

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