How Indian Startups Are Changing The Global Market - A Revolution in the Making
When I first started tracking the Indian startup scene back in 2015, it was just beginning to bubble with excitement. Today, I'm amazed at how these companies have transformed from…
The Ultimate Guide to Bookkeeping for Startups: Tips for Success
Starting a enterprise is a dream come authentic for lots marketers. However, with high-quality strength comes splendid obligation. One of the most crucial obligations of strolling a Bookkeeping for Startups. It…
The Future of AI Startups in Latin America: A 2025 Outlook
Unquestionably, one of the most significant and pertinent technologies of 2024 has been artificial intelligence (AI), whose potential uses are expanding rapidly. Intelligent solutions are driving a wave of digital innovation…
Modular Homes Tech Startup With Their Own Os
The core sectors that support our cities and enable us to move people, goods, and ideas more rapidly and widely—from electricity grids to transportation networks—are experiencing profound disruptions, sometimes by…
Non-medical Home Health Startup Business Package: Marketing Strategies
Non-medical Home Health Startup Business Package. One of the safest professional decisions you can make is to launch a non-medical home care company. The need for home care providers will…
Startup Valuations Are Quietly Rebounding To All-time Highs, Some Investors Say
Generative AI organizations to the side, the most recent few years have been somewhat hard for adventure upheld organizations. Not many new businesses had the option to raise financing at…
Grants For Small Business Startups
New companies might fit the bill for grants for small business startups, however those hoping to send off a shiny new organization will probably require other subsidizing. New company grants give free financing to…
DEI backlash: Stay up-to-date on the latest legal and corporate challenges
The Incomparable Rollback is here. The expression alludes to Huge Tech beginning to slice a portion of the variety, value and consideration (DEI) programs that were executed not long after…
Investors won’t give you the real reason they are passing on your startup
Y Combinator's Tom Blomfield says it's normally on the grounds that your group isn't adequately great "At the point when a financial backer passes on you, they won't let you know…
Investors won’t give you the real reason they are passing on your startup
Y Combinator's Tom Blomfield says it's normally on the grounds that your group isn't adequately great "At the point when a financial backer passes on you, they won't let you know…
Cambium is building a recycled wood supply chain
The worldwide interest for wood could develop by 54% somewhere in the range of 2010 and 2050, as per a concentrate by the World Assets Organization. While some structure materials…
OpenAI-backed Ghost Autonomy shuts down
Ghost Autonomy, a startup dealing with independent driving programming for automaker accomplices, has closed down, TechCrunch has learned. The startup, which had raised almost $220 million, posted a note on its…
StealthMole raises $7M Series A for its AI-powered dark web intelligence platform
StealthMole, an artificial intelligence fueled dim web knowledge startup that has practical experience in checking digital dangers and identifying cybercrime, reported Thursday that it has raised a $7 million Series…
Accounting For Startups: Everything You Need To Know In 2024
Representing new companies includes keeping exact records of monetary exchanges and inspecting your funds to recognize amazing open doors for development and improvement. New companies need to fabricate a strong bookkeeping…
Why does every startup want to help you get paid?
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (previously The Trade)! This week, we're taking a gander at the steaming hot worldwide finance space, neobank Dave's monetary outcomes and related stock lift, and that's…
12 Fastest Growing Companies & Startups In 2024
The startup world is evolving quick. Higher loan costs, absence of VC financing and a sluggish economy implies that numerous new companies need to change how they work. In spite of the…
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2022 Wrap Up
We just wrapped up the second year of our Technology, Innovation, and Unconfined Power Competition class – now part of our Stanford Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation.Joe Felter,…
11 Best Startup Marketing Campaigns And Performance Results 2024
Are you looking for the Best Startup Marketing Campaigns and better performance in 2024? if yes, then you need to read the each point which is mentioned right below. As…
A Winter Conference Heats Up Finland's Startups
The Slush Startup Conference takes place every year in mid-winter in Helsinki and is a large gathering of startups, investors and enthusiasts. Furthermore, it is a key factor in the…
Leaving Government for the Private Sector
Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops to a quantum technology visitor offered insightful career transition translating for those leaving…
Be Where Your Business Is
A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the municipality where their merchantry is – or else they’ll never scale. I was having breakfast with Erin, an ex-student,…
Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit
This vendible previously appeared in War on the Rocks. In the past, headlines well-nigh the Pentagon lightweight its financial audit then would never have unprotected my attention. But having been in…
Education and Innovation in the Age of Chaos and Disruption
This virtual gathering will bring together entrepreneurship educators from virtually the world who are putting Lean Innovation to work in their classrooms, accelerators, venture studios, and student-driven ventures. The summit topic…
Profound Beliefs
This post previously appeared in EIX.In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses well-nigh all the parts of your business model are your profound beliefs. Think of profound beliefs…
Lean Meets Wicked Problems
This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants.I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. In this specimen Wicked doesn’t midpoint…
Startups that Have Employees In Offices Grow 3½ Times Faster
This vendible previously appeared in EIX – Entreprenuers and Innovators Exchange. Data shows that pre-seed and seed startups with employees showing up in a physical office have 3½ times higher revenue…
Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
This post previously appeared in the Harvard Merchantry Review. Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by…
Where Are Your Biggest Business Deals?
This post previously appeared on the readwrite blog. A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the municipality where their merchantry is – or else they’ll never scale. I…
Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush
I just saw the movie Oppenheimer. A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Two-bit Flop story that starts at Los Alamos with Oppenheimer and General Grove misses the fact that…
Reorganizing the DoD to Deter China and Win in the Ukraine – A Road Map for Congress
This vendible previously appeared in Defense News. It was co-written with Joe Felter, and Pete Newell. Today, the U.S. is supporting a proxy war with Russia while simultaneously attempting to deter…
Playing With Fire – ChatGPT
The world is very variegated now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to unmarry all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. John F. Kennedy Humans…
How To Improve Your Team's Efficiency and Productivity
I have seen people cry because it increases the productivity of team and team members. Are you experiencing these issues in your organization and teams? Why? Have you ever wondered why…
The 10 Biggest Fintech Companies In USA 2023
Recently , the financial technology (FinTech) industry has seen tremendous growth and development, with companies offering innovative solutions to transform the way we manage our finances. In 2023, the FinTech…
Startups Weekly: Which investor wrote the first check?
Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7am PT). Subscribe here. Which startups investors are actually first to backing the…
How to Start a Business in the USA as a Foreigner
If you want to start a business In the USA as a foreigner. Initial a U.S.-based corporate as a foreigner can be an extended road, but the country types it…
ChatGPT: CHATBOT BASED ON OPEN AI
ChatGPT is a chatbot based on open AI that was released on November 30, 2022. The acronym GPT stands for Generative Pre-Training Transformer. It has become popular for generating dialogues.…
A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale
An edited version of this vendible previously appeared in the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy think tank website. I spent last week at a global Fortune 50 visitor offsite watching them grapple…
Finding and Growing the Islands of Innovation inside a large company – Action Plan for A New CTO
This post previously appeared in Fast Company. How does a newly hired Senior Technology Officer (CTO) find and grow the islands of innovation inside a large company? How not to waste your…
Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China
Portions of this post previously appeared in War On the Rocks. Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for…
Cram Down – A Test of Character for VCs and Founders
This vendible previously appeared in TechCrunch. Cram downs are when – and I’m keeping a list. At the turn of the century without the dotcom crash, startup valuations plummeted, shrivel rates were…
The Quantum Technology Ecosystem – Explained
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics Richard Feynman IBM Quantum Computer Tens of billions of public and private wanted are stuff invested in Quantum technologies. Countries wideness the…
The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained
The last year has seen a ton written well-nigh the semiconductor industry: tweedle shortages, the CHIPS Act, our dependence on Taiwan and TSMC, China, etc. But despite all this talk well-nigh…
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained
Artificial Intelligence is a once-in-a lifetime commercial and defense game changer (download a PDF of…
The Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford
penitus cogitare, cito agere – think deeply, act quickly …
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber
This vendible first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just completed the eighth week of…
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space
This vendible first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just completed the seventh week of…
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 6 – Unmanned Systems and Autonomy
This vendible first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just completed the sixth week of our new national security matriculation at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Unconfined Power Competition. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I…
Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China
Portions of this post previously appeared in War On the Rocks. Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for…
Cram Down – A Test of Character for VCs and Founders
This vendible previously appeared in TechCrunch. Cram downs are when – and I’m keeping a list. At the turn of the century without the dotcom crash, startup valuations plummeted, shrivel rates were…
Here’s What Happened When Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks visited Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation
It was an honor to host US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks at Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. (Think of the Deputy Secretary of Defense…
The Quantum Technology Ecosystem – Explained
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics Richard Feynman IBM Quantum Computer Tens of billions of public and private wanted are stuff invested in Quantum technologies. Countries wideness the…
The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained
The last year has seen a ton written well-nigh the semiconductor industry: tweedle shortages, the CHIPS Act, our dependence on Taiwan and TSMC, China, etc. But despite all this talk well-nigh…
Save the Date! the 5th Lean Innovation Educators Summit
SAVE THE DATE for the 5th Lean Innovation Educators Summit on The Role of Educators and the University in Building Sustainable and Innovative Ecosystems February 3rd, 2022 from 1 to 4pm EST, 10…
What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many
This post previously appeared in the Proceedings of the Naval Institute. One of the most upstage and unvigilant manifestos for the future of Naval innovation has just been posted by the…
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Wrap Up
This vendible first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just had our final session of our Technology, Innovation, and Unconfined Power Competition class. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the matriculation to requite our…
Year End Review – What You Might Have Missed
“It was the weightier of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief,…
I Can’t See You but I’m Not Blind
If I ask you to think of an elephant do you see an elephant in your throne when you tropical your eyes? I don’t. Regardless of how descriptive the imagery, story…
When There Seems to Be No Way Out – Customer Discovery for Your Head
As an entrepreneur at times you forget that stuff in tuition doesn’t midpoint you have to know everything. When it feels like you’re trapped facing an unsolvable dilemma, and wrestling with…
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 2 – China
This vendible first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just had our second week of our new national security matriculation at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Unconfined Power Competition. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and…
If we let the US Postal Service die, we’ll be killing small businesses with it
Laura Behrens Wu Contributor Laura Behrens Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Shippo, which is building a shipping platform for 21st century e-commerce. Since moving to the United States, I’ve come…
How freight master Flexport’s Ryan Petersen learned to CEO
“I didn’t know what the term ‘freight forwarder’ meant until a year into starting the business.” Considering his shipping logistics startup Flexport was last valued at $3.2 billion, that…
Indie.vc founder Bryce Roberts: Profitability is ‘more achievable than a Series A round’
Despite all evidence to the contrary, there’s more to building a startup than raising venture capital. Founders are finding success without overly relying on VC dollars; some are even sharing profits…
Dear Sophie: Will a PPP loan affect my visa renewal or green card?
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.”…
Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E on $4.5B valuation
The pandemic may feel all-encompassing at the moment, but Confluent announced a $250 million Series E today, showing that major investment continues in spite of the dire economic situation at…
Digging for dollar signs amid edtech’s current momentum
Edtech was long defined by stodgy sales cycles, sluggish adoption and splashy pitches to K-12 districts with tight budgets, but the COVID-19 pandemic turned that reputation on its head in…
Smart home startup Josh.ai raises $11 million to offer a home assistant alternative to Alexa
Directly taking on Google and Amazon generally seems to be an ill-advised strategy for a young startup. It’s even more complicated when you’re competing on the home assistants front, a…
As COVID-19 dries up funding, only drought-resistant cannabis startups will survive
The COVID-19 crisis is creating an untold amount of uncertainty through every business sector, but for cannabis startups, it’s exacerbating a critical market that was already in decline. TechCrunch spoke to…
Otonomo raises $46 million to expand its automotive data marketplace
New vehicles today can produce a treasure trove of data. Without the proper tools, that data will sit undisturbed, rendering it worthless. A number of companies have sprung up to help…
Superpeer raises $2M to help influencers and experts make money with one-on-one video calls
Superpeer is giving YouTube creators and other experts a new way to make money. The startup announced today that it has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding led by Eniac Ventures,…
Introducing the term-sheet grader
Jamie Goldstein Contributor Jamie is the founding partner of Pillar VC, a Boston-based seed-stage venture capital firm. He has spent the last 22 years investing in early-stage startups. When we launched in 2016,…
Why COVID-19 could delay Interswitch, Africa’s next big IPO
The economic effects of COVID-19 could delay Africa’s next big IPO — that of Nigerian fintech unicorn Interswitch. If so, it wouldn’t be the first time the Lagos-based payments company’s plans…
Le Wagon raises $19 million to build a global coding bootcamp
French startup Le Wagon has raised its first round of funding after many years of bootstrapping. The company closed a $19 million funding round (€17 million) a few months ago.…
Creatively helps designers and other creative talent showcase their work
Creatively was supposed to launch this summer, according to CEO Greg Gittrich. And then COVID-19 happened. “We made the decision to fast-track the launch when the pandemic hit, because we felt…
How will digital media survive the ad crash?
When I first met Bustle Digital Group’s Jason Wagenheim, it was right as New York City was beginning to go into lockdown. The BDG offices were empty thanks to the…
Workstream, a platform for deskless work, raises $10 million to serve local businesses
Deskless workers make up 80% of the global workforce, but to Desmond Lim, that job title is his entire world. Lim grew up in Singapore and saw his father wake up…
SendBird adds voice and video to popular chat API
SendBird has built a highly successful business with a chat API, but the company never intended to stop there, and today it announced it was adding voice and video capabilities…
As funding slows in Boston, its early-stage market could shine
Chris Lynch, a founder and former general partner at Boston-based seed-stage fund Accomplice, remembers “VC Mountain in Waltham.” Back then, entrepreneurs on funding quests would visit a building overlooking the Waltham…
Startups Weekly: SEC temporarily loosens crowdfunding regulations on small companies
Editor’s note: Get this weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use every Saturday morning by email (7am PT). Subscribe here. A specific type of small startup has a…
Lucid Lane has developed a service to get patients off of pain meds and avoid dependence
Four years ago, Adnan Asar, the founder of the new addiction prevention service Lucid Lane, was enjoying a successful career working as the founding chief technology officer at Livongo…
4 edtech CEOs peer into the industry’s future
When Zach Sims first started pitching his coding startup, Codecademy, he framed it to investors as a corporate tutoring company. That was intentional, despite the fact that edtech is a…
Sonantic is ready to convince listeners that synthetic voices can cry
When you think of voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri, the words “emotional” and “expressive” probably don’t come to mind. Instead, there’s that recognizably flat and polite voice,…
Taika is building a better coffee through natural chemistry and adaptogens
So, an eight-year product veteran from Facebook and an internationally renowned barista walk into a coffee bar… It’s not a joke. It’s the origin story for Taika, a new startup…
Forerunner Ventures’ Kirsten Green demystifies the COVID-19 consumer era
“In general, the consumer has proven to be more resilient than I would have thought,” said Kirsten Green, founder of Forerunner Ventures, which has investments in breakout D2C stars like…
Some investors turn to cutting fully remote checks while sheltering in place
By March 16, founder Janine Yancey was tired of playing the waiting game. After watching the stock market take yet another unprecedented nosedive due to coronavirus, she called up a…
Startups Weekly: How will we build the city of the future?
Editor’s note: Get this weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7am PT), just subscribe here. Commercial real estate, the traditional heart of…
Where top VCs are investing in remote events
The novel coronavirus pandemic has rapidly moved companies into a remote-first world. Nearly all of the world’s largest events have been canceled, put on pause or pivoted to online-only. In the…
Is the e-commerce shift going to last?
Ashwin Ramasamy Contributor Ashwin Ramasamy is the co-founder of PipeCandy, an online merchant graph company that discovers and analyzes business and consumer perception metrics about D2C brands and e-commerce companies. More posts by…
What SoftBank’s Vision Fund results tell us about troubled startup sectors
A famous investor published notes today concerning its startup investments, detailing where they excelled and where they struggled. To understand why we care about this particular investor’s results, a little…
India’s Khatabook raises $60 million to help merchants digitize bookkeeping and accept payments online
Khatabook, a startup that is helping small businesses in India record financial transactions digitally and accept payments online with an app, has raised $60 million in a new financing…
Dear Sophie: How is COVID-19 affecting immigration?
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.”…
Scribd announces a perks program, giving its subscribers access to Pandora Plus, TuneIn Premium and more
E-book and audiobook subscription service Scribd has been actively embracing and experimenting with bundling over the past couple of years, creating joint offers with The New York Times and with…
Virtual events startup Run The World just nabbed $10.8 million from a16z and Founders Fund
Run The World, a year-old startup that’s based in Mountain View, Calif., and has small teams both in China and Taiwan, just nabbed $10.8 million in Series A funding co-led…
3 views on the life and death of college towns, remote work and the future of startup hubs
The global pandemic has halted travel, shunted schools online and shut down many cities, but the future of college-town America is an area of deep concern for the startup world. College…
Startup Battlefield is going virtual with TechCrunch Disrupt 2020
You read that right. The big announcement came yesterday — TechCrunch Disrupt is now fully virtual. What does this mean for Startup Battlefield? More opportunity. The best companies from across…
R&D Roundup: ‘Twisted light’ lasers, prosthetic vision advances and robot-trained dogs
I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most interesting of those papers and advances, along with notes on why they may…
Steve Case and Clara Sieg on how the COVID-19 crisis differs from the dot-com bust
Steve Case and Clara Sieg of Revolution recently spoke on TechCrunch’s new series, Extra Crunch Live. Throughout the hour-long chat, we touched on numerous subjects, including how diverse founders can…
Edtech startups prepare to become ‘not just a teaching tool but a necessity’
As Stanford, Princeton, Columbia and others shutter classrooms to limit the coronavirus outbreak, college educators around the country are clambering to move their classes online. At the same time, tech companies…
GoBear raises $17 million to expand its consumer financial services for Asian markets
Singapore-based fintech startup GoBear has raised $17 million from returning investors Walvis Participaties, a Dutch venture capital firm, and Aegon N.V., a life insurance and asset management provider. The…
Fintech regulations in Latin America could fuel growth or freeze out startups
Ximena Aleman Contributor Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo, an open banking platform that serves Latin America. It may have entered the game later than other leading regions…
3 bearish takes on the current edtech boom
Edtech is booming, but a short while ago, many companies in the category were struggling to break through as mainstream offerings. Now, it seems like everyone is clamoring to get…
The best investment every digital brand can make during the COVID-19 pandemic
Steve Tan Contributor Steve Tan is a Singapore-based serial entrepreneur and full-stack digital marketer with over 14 years of hands-on experience who is also the CEO and founder of Super Tan Brothers…
Startups Weekly: Remote-first work will mean ‘globally fair compensation’
Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7am PT). Subscribe here. Most tech companies base compensation on an employee’s…
6 VCs share their bets on the future of work
As tech companies like Twitter and Facebook gear up for longer-term remote work solutions, the future of work is becoming one of the more exciting opportunities in venture capital, Charles…
Should SaaS founders be raising capital now?
Roger Hurwitz Contributor Roger Hurwitz is a founding partner at Volition Capital. He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. More posts by this contributor The don’ts of debt for fast-growing…
RiskIQ adds National Grid Partners as securing data becomes a strategic priority for utilities
RiskIQ, a startup providing application security, risk assessment and vulnerability management services, has added National Grid Partners as a strategic investor. The funding from the investment arm of National Grid, a…
Ethena raises $2 million in seed funding for smarter anti-harassment software
Corporate harassment training is often defined by mandatory annual workshops, stock photo-ridden curricula and, often, outdated scenarios. Harvard graduates Roxanne Petraeus and Anne Solmssen think there’s a business in doing…
Five, the self-driving startup, raises $41M and pivots into B2B, away from building its own fleet
We are still years away from a time when fully-autonomous cars will be able to drive us from A to B, and the complexity of getting to that point is…
TaxProper raises $2M to automate getting your property taxes lowered
If you own your home, how much do you pay for property taxes? Too much? Sounds about right. If you disagree with how much you’re paying in property taxes, you can…
Minute Media raises $40M more for its user-generated, syndication-based sports publishing platform
When it comes to the internet, content may be king, but in many cases, the emperor has no clothes. That is to say, the masses may click on interesting stories,…
Startups Weekly: The George Floyd protests come home to the tech industry
The tech industry has generally wished that structural discrimination would go away, while pretending that it already has. But technology can be used by anyone for anything. And so, the…
