Apple Is No Longer the Top Phonemaker in the World as AI Pressure and Competition Intensifies
Apple’s iPhone shipments declined 10% from January through March.
74% of Entrepreneurs Complain the Sales Cycle Is Getting Longer. I Took These 3 Steps to Shorten It and Accelerate My Company’s Growth.
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Betaworks bets on AI agents in latest ‘Camp’ cohort
Betaworks is embracing the AI trend not with yet another LLM, but instead a clutch of agent-type models automating everyday tasks that nevertheless aren’t so simple to define. The investor’s latest “Camp” incubator trained up and funded 9 AI agent startups they hope will take on today’s more tedious tasks. The use cases for many […]
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Apple opens web distribution option for iOS devs targeting EU
Apple is opening up web distribution for iOS apps targeting users in the European Union from today. Developers who opt in — and who meet Apple’s criteria, including app notarization requirements — will be able to offer iPhone apps for direct download to EU users from their own websites. It’s a massive change for a […]
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Bay Bridge Ventures is raising $200M for a new climate fund, filings show
Bay Bridge Ventures’ fundraising efforts come at a time when venture investors appear to be increasingly bullish on climate tech.
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Evolution Equity Partners raises $1.1B for new cybersecurity and AI fund
Cybersecurity has had a rough go of it lately, with investment in the sector dropping a precipitous 40% compared to the year prior. But there are promising early, even preliminary, signs of a recovery. The vast majority of chief information security officers reported higher budgets for 2024, according to the cybersecurity-focused VC firm NightDragon. And, […]
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Save 10% on This Portable Charging Dock for Nintendo Switch
Make the most of your gaming experience from anywhere.
These Are the 6 Personality Traits That Set Women Leaders Apart
I have the honor of working with many thriving women entrepreneurs. Here’s what I’ve noticed about their leadership styles.
Her College Side Hustle Led to an Immediately Profitable Product That Sells for Up to $450 — and She Didn’t Even Consider Herself ‘a Business Person’
Dr. Amareen Dhaliwal’s STEM tutoring gig in undergrad set her on the path to entrepreneurship.
Investors and founders can meet their match with Cherub, the ‘Raya of angel investing’
Jaclyn Johnson and Angeline Vuong were on a hike deliberating how hard it can be for people to get started in angel investing when they realized they had stumbled upon a startup idea. Today they are the co-founders of Cherub, a marketplace that pairs angel investors with entrepreneurs. Vuong spent nearly five years working in […]
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Consumer tech investing is still hot for Maven Ventures, securing $60M for Fund IV
Overall, 16% of Maven’s portfolio companies have reached a minimum $500 million exit or valuation, which is 10x industry average, the firm said.
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