Launched in 2014, StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, with remarkable quotes in our articles over the past week (see previous post here). Share these 40 gems and insights from the week of February 22-28 with your colleagues and networks, and look back at the original articles for more insight. […]
500 Startups and Sanabil Investments, a subsidiary of Saudi Public Investment Fund, has launched a new fund and accelerator program to invest in start-up start-up and seed stages in the Middle East and North Africa. The fund will be led by Amal Dokhan who joins as a partner and 500 Startups […]
Ask any entrepreneur and they will tell you that the first step to success is to start. Yet so many people still feel trapped in the rat of life and dream of a life in which they are responsible. But if so many dream of it, why do so few really […]
Headlines about big values and big funding rounds hide the fact that a huge number of venture-backed startups are failing. And yet, it’s part of the game plan: most VCs expect three out of ten of their investments to fail completely. This leads to VCs securing their investments in one or […]
On Tuesday, seven Israeli startups were chosen as 2021’s most promising company in Fintech. With more than 750 start-ups today in the Fintech sector alone, Israel has been a global pioneer in the field for more than a decade. A number of different categories were on the top list, including payments […]
The following letters refer to the events reported here: “Leasehold dispute threatens proposed expansion of Syracuse’s Tech Garden at $ 16 million” (March 2, 2021): TCGplayer: Startups are our lifeblood To the editor: TCGplayer has been fortunate to be part of a growing technology scene in central Syracuse, led and nurtured […]
Many of the start-ups that raise capital in Mexico are focused on economic inclusion and aim to compare the conditions in a country that is largely unbanked and has a growing middle class. Such a company, minu, a Mexico City-based, pay-on-demand startup, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $ 14 […]
Bloomberg Wall Street Poaching Season warms up with Fintech and Funds on the Hunt (Bloomberg) – To the outside world, Wall Street banks looked like good places to be last year, as they posted profits during the pandemic. For those who are in, they now look like good places to leave […]
TAMPA, Fla., March 3, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Startup Space, the leading innovative platform for building entrepreneurship, announces the appointment of Reneida Leon as product manager and Molly King as Deputy Head of Client Experience. They come during a rapid growth phase as the company expands its reach and diversifies […]
TAMPA, Fla., March 3, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Startup Space, the leading innovative platform for building entrepreneurship, announces the appointment of Reneida Leon as product manager and Molly King as Deputy Head of Client Experience. They come during a rapid growth phase as the company expands its reach and diversifies […]
The Israeli start of anti-fraud Identiq has raised $ 47 million in Series A as the company sees international growth, largely driven by the rise in online spending during the pandemic. The round was led by Insight Partners and Entrée Capital, with participation from Amdocs, Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, as […]
The special report for the Central Coast Innovation Awards 2021 was published and was published last week – Friday, February 26, 2021 – in print. Subscribers can also view the special report here (just click on the cover). To celebrate this year’s awards, the Business Times – in partnership with the […]
Healthcare FinTech start-up, PayGround, raises $ 4 million to enable patients to pay for all of their providers across an interface Tweet this To lead the round was Triventures, a venture capital fund that invests in data-driven healthcare startups that are ready to transform the industry by converging the best healthcare […]
Issued on: 03/03/2021 – 03:50Modified: 03/03/2021 – 03:48 Cairo (AFP) In grid-locked and heavily polluted Cairo, start-ups are looking for technical solutions to solve transport headaches for a growing size that is already struggling with over 20 million people. With only three metro lines and overcrowded, disused buses serving the capital, […]
Outplay team members on a video call Sales Engagement Platforms (SEPs) help sales teams automate and track the large number of tasks they need to do each day as they contact leads and access potential offers. Focused on small to medium-sized companies, SEP startup Play announced today that they have raised […]
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In China’s cosmetics world, where foreign brands have historically been revered, domestic start-ups are increasingly winning over Gen-Z consumers with cheaper, more localized alternatives. One of the emerging stars is the perfect brand Perfect Diary, which is owned by the five-year-old startup Yatsen. Yatsen impressed the capital market with one $ […]
Philly Startup Leaders (PSL) found its new CEO in HR and talent acquisition Isabelle Kent. Kent provides experience in growth strategy and ecosystem development to the non-profit idea of entrepreneurship. The former VP of growth for Toronto-based talent acquisition platform JobAdX also runs its own strategy company, Dedicova Consulting, through which […]
Innovaccer and Infra.Market joined the unicorn club, after Tiger Global led its financing round Former Paytm Money CEO Pravin Jadhav unveiled his latest fintech venture, Raise Financial, this week In total, $ 440 million was invested in Indian start-ups in 19 businesses this week We bring you the latest edition of […]
Being a woman in the overwhelmingly masculine world of venture capital was still an obstacle – but like many other female entrepreneurs, she only worked harder to succeed. “In some cases, before I even spoke, they asked me if I would leave as CEO,” Foundos said of meetings with venture capitalists. […]
Lithuanian payment start kevin. has released a new product for merchants that switch customers from card payments to account-to-account payments at checkout. Customers who start paying with their card can stop using their bank account, a method that is up to 90% cheaper for sellers. Pavel Sokolovas, founder and COO of […]
Fuzzy – The Pet Parent Company, a subscription-based start-up for animal health care, received new support as it aims to exploit $ 100 billion spent on pets only 2020, as well as democratizing access to pet care through the education of pet parents and virtual care options. Subscribe to Crunchbase Daily […]
In July last year, we introduced you to Nada, a fairly new digital start on the scene that planned to disrupt the residential property model. The Dallas-based team was launched at the end of 2018 after raising $ 500,000 in pre-seeded capital from a private investor and quickly gaining a foothold […]
I have had the incredible opportunity to work with New Stack Ventures as a venture colleague, and after buying investment opportunities, shadowing conversations with founders and even leading a couple of my own conversations, I have learned some lessons that can resonate with starting founders. which raises capital. Responsive founders make […]
Jack Abraham has a lot of confidence in what he is building. Again, you can not be unfair or insecure about yourself if you only invest in your own startups as an investor, which is exactly the model that Abrahams San Francisco-based venture studio, Atom, has followed since its launch nine […]
During a year where mass transit on planes, trains and buses has reduced the number of passengers in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the startups hoping to be groundbreaking in a whole new way to get individuals from A to B – flying taxis – – have collected […]
By Stuart McDill TOWCESTER, England (Reuters) – A British startup has developed a glove with a built-in spinning gyroscope that it says can help people with Parkinson’s disease and Essential tremor (ET) overcome their often debilitating tremors and regain control of their hands. Both conditions affect over 200 million people worldwide […]
B2B SaaS start-ups have been a money-making bonanza for many VCs over the years. Now many of them are looking up quantum processing-as-a-service to enter this still evolving deep-tech sector. Quantum processing is still full of unanswered questions – based on what type of underlying physics will ultimately dominate. But the […]
A handful of companies are challenging Chinese control of a core material in the production of lithium-ion batteries before electrification of transportation really launches the global battery boom. International Graphite, a Perth-based startup at the forefront of this work, recently spoke with pv magazine australia about the surprising collaborative race to […]
In a year where mass transit on planes, trains and buses has had fewer passenger numbers in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the startups has hoped to be groundbreaking in a whole new way to get individuals from A to B – flying taxis – collected significant financing. […]